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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Maybe I am dead or not from earth

« on: November 24, 2011, 08:59:12 am »

It's not defeat Judy.  You tried it, and found you liked your other saw more.  Simple as that.  No fault anywhere around it.  Happy Thanksgiving!  You have proven your tenacity just by the fact that you don't let your injured hand waylay you and stop you from your craft.  You have nothing left to prove.  Just enjoy!

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Brag Forum / Re: Dragon Boxes

« on: November 23, 2011, 04:23:33 pm »

Gorgeous!  You did yourself proud with those.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Big order

« on: November 23, 2011, 10:26:53 am »

Sounds pretty high.  I also have a couple of purpleheart planks 2x6X48.  Not sure what I;ll use them for but one day the right project will come up.

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Brag Forum / Re: Razorback Bench

« on: November 22, 2011, 11:52:32 pm »

impressive!

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Black Friday deals from PeachTree!

« on: November 22, 2011, 02:21:50 pm »

Good tip GB!  I hadn't received that one yet.  Took advantage of the discount on a rabbet router bit set.

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Brag Forum / Re: Koalas....

« on: November 22, 2011, 09:50:15 am »

Good job.  That's a lot of interior cuts!

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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / Re: Need ideas for milling small wood

« on: November 21, 2011, 11:57:34 pm »

Different strokes for different folks!  The situation often determines the perspective.  I am as tight fisted as most.  I got the majority of my hardwood last year in a stroke of luck deal while buying the planer (also a steal).  I also hate to scrap anything, and that is why I have the tubs of shorts and pieces.  I just don't have any room to keep storing it.  Besides, when I put it out of sight in a tub, I forget about it and next thing you know there is another tub going into a shed I will forget about!  Still, I have to admit I have odd pieces piling in the corners of the shop which I know will wind up stored somewhere because I can't bear to let it just go.

How about a new reality tv show, "Wood scrap hoarders!"

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Shop quirks and rituals..

« on: November 21, 2011, 01:57:28 pm »

Yes,  I take them out where hardly anybody goes on base and release them.  Let them keep eating rats.  I hate rats.  I have killed rats in ways you don't want to know about.  Very few people are injured in the US by snakebites, but rats spread disease rampantly and cause a tremendous number of housefires also from chewing electrical lines.

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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / Re: Need ideas for milling small wood

« on: November 21, 2011, 01:54:01 pm »

I read you Dan, and I guess that's one of the places that the drum sander comes in so handy.  It can handle a much shorter piece than the planer, and a lot thinner as well.  I don't have a problem with using some sort of sled or carrier through the planer, but the image of those platters had me wondering.

Gabby I would send you a box, but I doubt it would be worthwhile with the cost of the postage.

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The Coffee Shop / Re: Signing your projects

« on: November 21, 2011, 02:00:45 am »

That's what I use Gabby.  Had one made up, and I use india ink on it.

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Tutorials, Techniques and Tips / Re: Need ideas for milling small wood

« on: November 21, 2011, 01:59:42 am »

I don't mean to sound insensitive or something, but is decent wood that dear to you guys?  I simply can't find enough scrollsaw projects I need to cut to even keep up with the offcuts I make doing other woodworking.  I've got about 3 plastic tubs of small pieces of poplar, oak, cherry, purpleheart, jatoba, monkeypod, maple,  all kinds of odds and ends.  If you can check with a local woodworker's guild and talk to some guys that make larger projects, you could probably find someone to donate a bunch of the off cuts like i am talking about.  I have a 15" spherical head floor planer, & I would be afraid to put something like the platters through it.  Not worth the risks to me.  Now I wouldn't hesitate to run them through the drum sander.  If they screwed up in there, no harm no foul.

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General Scroll Saw Talk / Re: Shop quirks and rituals..

« on: November 21, 2011, 01:52:08 am »

Good idea Gabby.  I use one commuting to Tampa every morning for coffee.  BTW I caught a nice 5 1/2 foot diamondback a couple of weeks ago if I didn't already brag about it!

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Brag Forum / Re: Senior Center Craft Show 11/19

« on: November 21, 2011, 01:33:33 am »

You really do a magnificent job with your projects!  Thanks for sharing.

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Brag Forum / Re: Knocking out Keychains..

« on: November 21, 2011, 01:30:50 am »

I made one from bloodwood for a receptionist @ my doctors office last year and her daughter managed to break it.  I made her a replacement slightly larger, and out of paduk.  Let's see her break that one!

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The Coffee Shop / Re: need to vent a bit.

« on: November 21, 2011, 01:26:28 am »

We all do it, and as long as all that is broken is a project, it's not that big a loss.  My tag line is "measure twice, cut once, count fingers" and as long as I still have all my limbs I will consider any other accidents within reason.