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    very nice.
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    Spray glue guy here all the way. they secret is to use just a very very fine spray. Let it be almost dry before pressing it to the wood. It will stay in place for as long as you want for the most part. By that I mean i might have had a little bit pull up in 12 plus years of scrolling. Too much and you will be sanding and scraping so there is a very fine line learning curve to this but once you get it down, you wont have to sweat it again. Slso what pulls patterns off is turning your saw into a buzz saw. back off on the big blades and speed and you will get way better results. For me the biggest blade I will use is a #3 or maybe a #5 and thats for 3/4 pine. I usually use 1/8: bb and for that the very biggest I use is a #1 and thats just for the major outline parts and even with that the speed is slow. Keep the patterns right where i put them and allow me to do very intricate work.
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    go to 1001 fonts or any other site similar to that. Say for example you are doing a wild west project and want that sort of font. you can type that in and it will give you a bunch of suggestions that have been tagged as such. Mid century modern, retro, western, victorian, race track., they are all there, just have to sort through them but its fun to do.
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    I use excel.. open blank workbook. insert picture. drag to size you want. Switch to page layout view and you can see how many pages it will take and adjust accordingly. It will print across multiple pages just fine, just trim and tape together. Also works with the free version of excel or whatever it is called.
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    I use old pill bottles. I cut out some holes in a piece of 1" scrap and the bottles fight just right. They dont close as that are short but it does the job just fine. My trouble is everything is close t a window and i live close to the ocean so the blades get rusty, not then end of the world but just makes them ugly. i suppose i could address it but its never been an issue.
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    That sounds great. let me ask you something about it. Do you like mass producing items? I personally dont as it seems like work to me and I want it to be fun and not work. Do you just do the ones you like to do? Just curious
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    If you leave the dust where it is, your workshop will always smell like fresh cut wood. Imagine your front yard always smelling like fresh cut grass.
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    I spin the wood in a counter clockwise way so the blade goes around the pattern clockwise. funny, never thought about it like that.
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    I dont do anything with them right now, just trying to figure them out for the most part. Obviously they would be nice personalized so thats what I am working towards but still in the playing stages with that. For now I have walls covered with loads of this stuff. getting sort of out of hand but you know how it is, once you catch the bug you cant un catch it.
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    I just use spray paint. I first paint the pieces white as sort of a primer. not actually primer, just cheapo white. Once the pieces are cut out i tape them to a piece of card stock. basically by color. one sheet for white, one for blue and so on. i take them to the garage and spray paint them with the colors they need to be. Once dry, bring it all back in and reassemble it and glue to the backing with wood glue.
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    Here is a fun item i just finished.
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    Letters are not easy and take some time to get good at. For me it has always been letters and stars that get me every time. if I do a start right its like a party that day!! Adjust the tension, slow down and keep at it.
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    I have a couple drill i use. The first is a hand drill, the old gear kind. bought it on ebay for like $6 oiled it up and it should last me forever. For smaller holes which I usually use I use a jewelers drill. Its got like a spiral thing and you pump it up and down and it spins. I have 2 versions of this, a real small one about 4 inches and a large one about 8 inches. It depends on the bit i am using. If its like a #72 bit the weight of the drill will snap it so thats why the small drills.
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    I have been going to laughlin a lot lately so I figured a sign is needed.
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    here is my latest shop sign. fun to do these.
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    I seem to have won 2 prizes at the fair. A donated memorial one which is the big place card thing and second place in fretwork. Thats the one that really means something as there seemed to be some pretty stiff competition. When i dropped it off there was a ton of really nice pieces being dropped off so i didnt expect much. really glad to have pros looking at my stuff and liking it, good feeling.
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    I was a member of our local club and its very active, lots of members and good monthly meetings. I just cant make the meetings so didnt renew. They have lessons on different things like marquetry and stuff most people dont do. very cool. nice people as well.
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    Here is one I have been working on for a week or so, finally done.
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    I use the sawtooth hangers that have little spikes on them. Usually though the spikes are too long and will poke through the front of the piece so I pound them into a piece of this scrap and then glue that to the backer, i then can pound it in the rest of the way and the things wont poke out. Stays strong as its now nailed and glued down.
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    That is very cool. is the red in the middle pic just a trick of light or is that painted like that?
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    I was doing a big welcome to las vegas sign not too long ago. It has 2 uprights that hold the sign up and I painted the empty space between them white and it was supposed to be wood color. of course there is no way to sand all the white paint off back to bare wood so i was sort if stuck with it. That was alot of work with the lettering and such, real bummer. shelved it for a month or so, and finally figured that if I paint the entire background a sky blue it will work. looks fine now and you wouldn't know i screwed it up but it really got t me at the time.. I am sure we have been to that point where we are cruising along and sort of lose focus and cant recall which line we are cutting, is that the part i cut out or is that the part that stays? that sort of thing, i hate that.
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    Great work. I really like the clear coat.
  24. crupiea
    Man thats something, great job!!
  25. crupiea
    The sign this is based on is in downtown Las Vegas
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