Nice work Dan....I made a big mistake the first big project I did was the kitten project, and I stacked two 1/2 inches pieces of barnwood to start off with and it was a 60 year old + board I cut it from,,and well,,that didnt work out so well with the grain and the hardness of the wood,,,I was smoking out blades faster than I could count,wouldnt cut straight as I wanted it to, so why I went to popular.