i'll try to upload my last projects

[amazingkevin]

Done in 3/4 plywood ,#7 scroll reverse donated blades from hotshot ,not many left of his but others have donated different blades to me too.thank you friends.the boxes my Thailand friend made for his temple with monks in it.he had me scroll the bottom pieces (40) in 3/4 teak on his ryobe band saw.it would not do it so i had to take all to my shop and cut on the dewalt .piece of cake.now he texts me that he has an order for 40 to 50 more boxes .so that's 40 x4 pieces for me to scroll in mahogany this time or 50 x 4 pieces.Because it was for his temple i don't get payed .you would have thought he would have told me that before hand .Oh well water over the dam.I do have alot of fancy scrolled cut out pieces .i guess i could make key chains with them,lol well 4 picture are in my picture file but they will not load???

[lawson56]

Kevin they are just Down Right Beautiful boxes.Excellent job my Friend.Sorry about the not getting paid bit,Bummer.

But like ya said you do have some Nice lumber you still make some nice change  off of.

[Gordster]

They look great Kevin....no pay sucks though.

You will find a use for them..

I have bunches of names I have made for people that didn't come back

for them..some of them are odd names,but I put them on display and

sure enough,someone else with that name will come by.

[ike]

That's one reasonnot to take special orders. When I do ( very seldom do) I get a % of the price before I start, at least enough to buy the materials. But I just don't like special orders.

IKE

[oldhudson]

34 minutes ago, ike said:

That's one reasonnot to take special orders. When I do ( very seldom do) I get a % of the price before I start, at least enough to buy the materials. But I just don't like special orders.

IKE

We are all different. The only woodworking I take are special orders. After design approval (I'm out on a limb with those) I get 1/2 up front and the balance on delivery. I've never been hurt with this, other than my poor estimating skills.

[oldhudson]

11 hours ago, amazingkevin said:

he had me scroll the bottom pieces (40) in 3/4 teak on his ryobe band saw.it would not do it

I don't understand, why didn't the band saw work? This looks like an ideal project to stack cut on a band saw. You can probably even make a template to follow.

[oldhudson]

11 hours ago, amazingkevin said:

.Because it was for his temple i don't get payed

I don't get this either. Churches, temples, synagogues all have members who contribute to the organization. If they want the place painted or whatever, and no member volunteers to provide the service, either they should pay or it doesn't happen. And this person is a friend? And they want 40 or 50 more? Are you sure they're not selling them on Ebay? Sorry Kevin, but I'm a cynic. 

[Scrappile]

I guess I do not understand, did you make the whole box or just the bottom piece for each box?  Nice boxes, but Buddha Monks survive off of gifts and money from their followers.   Surely they can get some of their flock to donate some to you. 

[amazingkevin]

6 hours ago, lawson56 said:

Kevin they are just Down Right Beautiful boxes.Excellent job my Friend.Sorry about the not getting paid bit,Bummer.

But like ya said you do have some Nice lumber you still make some nice change  off of.

thanks Bobby ,Yeah i scrolled the bottom pieces .I had nothing to do with the box part .The wood i got was the scrolled cut out ,just about worthless but maybe.

[amazingkevin]

5 hours ago, Gordster said:

They look great Kevin....no pay sucks though.

You will find a use for them..

I have bunches of names I have made for people that didn't come back

for them..some of them are odd names,but I put them on display and

sure enough,someone else with that name will come by.

Nothing goes like expected ,could be worse though,lol Thanks Gordie!

[amazingkevin]

2 hours ago, oldhudson said:

We are all different. The only woodworking I take are special orders. After design approval (I'm out on a limb with those) I get 1/2 up front and the balance on delivery. I've never been hurt with this, other than my poor estimating skills.

Eh! i need the practice sessions,lol

[amazingkevin]

2 hours ago, oldhudson said:

I don't get this either. Churches, temples, synagogues all have members who contribute to the organization. If they want the place painted or whatever, and no member volunteers to provide the service, either they should pay or it doesn't happen. And this person is a friend? And they want 40 or 50 more? Are you sure they're not selling them on Ebay? Sorry Kevin, but I'm a cynic. 

 

[amazingkevin]

Just now, amazingkevin said:

 

Last church i went to the secretary was clipping big time and finally got caught

[amazingkevin]

2 hours ago, Scrappile said:

I guess I do not understand, did you make the whole box or just the bottom piece for each box?  Nice boxes, but Buddha Monks survive off of gifts and money from their followers.   Surely they can get some of their flock to donate some to you. 

No just the bottoms i did.this is the second job he had me do for them .Last time he had me ssscroll letters out of cement board.I could cut about an inch and the blade was shot.,no pay either.

[Scrappile]

Kevin, Kevin, Keven..... ever hear this quote?

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"

 

[blights69]

Lovely boxes Kevin and the bonus of having lots of left over wood to make bits with happy days I say 

[rjR]

I would inform him that enough freebies-- I have to support my bad habits == like eating and electricity to make things.

 

Well Kevin; with friends like that guy; Enemies are an unnecessary luxury!

 

Nice work though.

[amazingkevin]

8 hours ago, Scrappile said:

Kevin, Kevin, Keven..... ever hear this quote?

"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me"

 

Don't remind me,lol that's funny,lol

[amazingkevin]

6 hours ago, blights69 said:

Lovely boxes Kevin and the bonus of having lots of left over wood to make bits with happy days I say 

i only have scraps of the bottom pieces,i guess i could make hugs or hearts or something very small out of them,i dodn'y make the boxes only the bottom brown scroll work

 

[amazingkevin]

4 hours ago, rjR said:

I would inform him that enough freebies-- I have to support my bad habits == like eating and electricity to make things.

 

Well Kevin; with friends like that guy; Enemies are an unnecessary luxury!

 

Nice work though.

I get this alot even when i was a handyman for over 3 years.

[Dave Monk]

They look great Kevin. I think that you have the reputation in town that you work for free. Since they are donation boxes maybe you could negotiate a working on a percentage.

[wombatie]

Great looking boxes Kevin.  Well done.  Hopefully he will feel guilty and give you some money.

 

Marg

[amazingkevin]

On 4/29/2017 at 9:43 PM, Dave Monk said:

They look great Kevin. I think that you have the reputation in town that you work for free. Since they are donation boxes maybe you could negotiate a working on a percentage.

good idea but i know him .He loves his beer money everyday the Thailand people drink like fishes .unbelievable

[amazingkevin]

On 4/30/2017 at 1:25 AM, wombatie said:

Great looking boxes Kevin.  Well done.  Hopefully he will feel guilty and give you some money.

 

Marg

Maybe when hell freezes over ,not him very cheap.

[newfie]

Nice work thanks for sharing