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Patterns from Sue Mey. I had a piece of Spruce laying around 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 so I decided to give it a shot.

I was asked to show my Bear Bryant, so here it is. As is some of my latest cuttings all of Steve Good patterns At least I'm pretty sure they are. My Tribute to Our Fallen Hero's is my newest cut. Finished it this morning. Loved doing the Locomotive.

This one turned out super good. I added a little epoxy part to it.

Do you all use spindle sanders? If you do, which one. I'm thinking it would be handy to use on inside curves. Bench or floor model? Spindle size? Thanks for your thoughts. Jim

This Portrait is the Best and Most Winning-est Alabama Coach Ever.... He is gone now, but Never Forgotten. People call him Bear Bryant.... I cut stack of two using 1/8" BB. Also has a Painted Black Backer. Great Man.............................Hope some fans out there.... Danny :+} P.S. For those who wonder. The Daisy Mae is a cut out of a Pattern Plaque I cut for his and his Wife's loss of their lil dog.... :+}

I had a Ryobi for a long time, it still worked fine when I sold it. It was just SCREAMING LOUD when in use, just exhausting to use for any length of time. I bought the Jet, after I jury rigged the dust collection it works fine and is very quiet.

Yes, the Pegas Super Skip will work. If you would like to try some samples. Send me a P M. We, ArtCrafters, sell Pegas.

Excellent work Bobby even on the Bear (from a TN fan who remembers him well. )

All I use is pegas super skip. I love the control with them

I was wondering what type of stuff you would listen to. Many years ago I followed a guy who was on radio every Saturday afternoon and answered computer/tech questions but I always forgot to tune in so I'd listen to his podcast.

very nice work

I've had the Grizzly for over 20 years, don't use it very often but when I need it I sure am glad I bought the machine. It has spindles from 1/4" to 4 inches.

I have the Rigid Oscillating/ Belt Spindle combo. It is great. It comes with a lifetime warranty. After about 8 years of use when I moved the top bolt got jammed on. I took it to the repair shop who couldn't get it to unloosen so Rigid replaced the whole machine even though I explained it was the movers who did it. Still use it all the time. I recently got a drum sander so I don't use the belt sander as much. One down side it the smallest drum is 1/2 inch. At our club we have a 1/4" which is good for some pieces. Don't know the brand.

I've got the Grizzly floor model. It's definitely overkill, but Amazon had it on sale a few years ago plus free shipping and I just couldn't resist. Prior to that I had a Delta which the motor burnt out, and the Grizzly replaced a Jet bench top model.

Time well spent Bobby. Great work. Marg

There is a thousand things on it. At the bottom there is a small podcast icon to select from. Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and others. There are so many.

Get the iHeartRadio app.

Have a jet. Got at auction an it hadn’t been used.

Just what I need is another hobby. Thanks! But, I'll put it on my bucket list,. We may be moving in the future and if I end up with a shop that permits more stuff, I'll add one of those to it.

Plus 1 for the Ridgid. Love it. I also have the little H/F 1" belt sander pictured along with the 4" x 36" belt sander. I use all 3 of them for many projects.

Don't you just hate it when you glue the backer to the wrong side? I won't say anything about... you know what!

I have not tried them but a skip tooth blade is always recommended for compound cutting. Depending on thickness of your blank, I would go with. #3, 5 or 7. There is no reason they wouldn’t do the job.

Same here. I have the Ridged too. Never a problem. I use it all the time.

I own a Craftsman Spindle sander. It is in storage along with a few of my other previous workshop large power tools that I can't fit/use in my little shop. The Craftsman spindle is very large, When I was doing large wood working projects, I used the spindle sander a lot. Would love to be able to use it but just don't have the room.

I have the Rigid.. I use it only for the spindle sander, that is the only reason I keep it... I have an older Craftsman belt/disk sander the I prefer much more... But the Rigid is well liked by lots of people and I have not had any problems with mine.

I also have the Triton spindle/belt sander. I've had it for about 2 years and have had no problems at all with it. I mostly use it as a spindle sander. I think I've only used the belt accessory for it once so far. I use my repurposed whole house central vacuum unit and Dust Deputy with it and it does a great job of keeping both me and the shop air clean, and it's much quieter than my shop vac/dust deputy. In fact, I had to add a light on the shop ceiling to tell me when the central vacuum was on, since it's located in the shop attic and I had left it on a few times. The orange light bulb on the shop ceiling has worked well to keep me from forgetting to turn the vacuum off. It isn't a true shop dust collector, but it works well for my fine saw dust producers like sanders and scroll saws. Before the Triton I had a Ryobi spindle sander. It kept having hiccups (did not go up and down smoothly). I complained to Ryobi and they sent me a new parts package for the transmission free, which I installed, and it still had hiccups. I continued to use it until I fell in love with the Triton and bought it. My son-in-law now has the Ryobi. He didn't have a spindle sander, so the Ryobi is slightly better than nothing. Charley

I have the Ridgid. Works great and have had no troubles with it over the past 7 - 8 years. If you buy it new, it comes with a lifetime warranty .

I have the Rigid. Love the large table and the ability to use belt sander if needed.

I have the Ridgid one, much like the Titon one shown above.. I use the belt sander attachment more than the spindles.. I think this model is a great one to get since as has been mentioned.. you tend to use the one you least thought you would, LOL.. I got mine used for $50 with a really heavy duty stand etc.. I figured the stand was well worth the money even if the sander didn't work..

My wife bought me triton version last week. The model she got me had both belt sander and spindle. I used the spindle sander for the "Mix and match hummers". I thought i would use the belt sander more than spindle but it was the other way around. My thoughts when buying more spindles is buy the smaller 3 sizes. Because the belt sander has 2 ends with big diameters. So just buy smaller size replacent spindles. Belts are about $2.30 each, spindles are $1.00 a piece. ok $10/bag of 10. So getting different grits of each size will add up. I also added a pic of harbor freight smaller belt sander with disk. This helps a lot with smaller pieces. Harbor frieght also sells a rubber stick that cleans sandpaper. Sandpaper eraser. Works excellent.

I have a WEN it takes and comes with several sizes of sanding tubes. The suction that removes dust is superb. I think the diameter of rolls runs from 1/2 to 1 -1/2. Since it is a WEN I probably got it on Amazon. Good machine use it all the time. Darryl

I have the ridgid model, don’t remember the model number but had it for 10 years and never a problem, RJ

very nice work

Those came out really awesome. You mastered cutting two completely different styles of patterns. Wonderful work sure to be appreciated by the recipients.

I have the cool blocks in mine as well. As far as I've gone, I can resaw to 1/4" without an issue. I haven't tried going any less than that.

Thank you all

The Delta 14 inch with the enclosed base. Does very well for me and easy to tune. The first thing I did was add Cool Blocks blade guides. I always take the time to retune and adjust the saw before resawing.

The Art Of Ink is a hold your breath one, very intricate. They are both great, well done. Marg

Congratulations on your retirement, I hope you enjoy this one. Marg

I have not had them long enough to find out. So far I've just plugged them in after I leave the shop. The description claims 30 hours per charge but I thing I read reviews that said it lasted longer. I just have chargers all over the house and shop, I can't give you a link but just search Amazon for VANKYO C750. That works as I've done so several times before ordering. Most headphones were much more expensive but there were so many 5 star reviews I just went with it. Very glad I did.

It is the time of the year when the outdoors calls for your attention in most of the states, but hear it runs me inside or in my air conditioned shop, most of the day as every day is in triple digits here in Southern Arizona. I walk at 6am and take a stab at the outdoor projects so as to try and have them done by 8 am before it gets too warm for me. Dick heppnerguy

Great Job on that. Im glad that someone used a pattern I made. I am tickled crimson.

I haven't done a lot of resawing, and I don't know what you have in mind, but I've done what I needed with my regular 1/2" 3 tpi skip tooth blade. I have several wider blades, but don't want to bother with the set up involved with blade changes. If you're going to do a lot of resawing, or only resawing then maybe a dedicated resaw blade would be better. Jim BTW, the 1/2" 3 tpi blade is the blade I use on my saw most of the time.

Regarding the fence, I'd make my own. Did that for my son in law's Rikon about 15 years ago, and it's worked well. I made it kind of like a little Beisemeyer. I welded mine, but you could build a bolt together unit without too much trouble. Jim

I can understand why. Down Right awesome job!!

I have never used plyboard before so I tried it on this project. After I finished scrolling and went to rip down some backer board, my head said "use the push stick". Well as I often do, I chose not to listen. As I was flicking the cut off piece away from the blade this happened. Finger VS. Table saw!!!! Table saw 1, finger 0. I knew better but figured "just this once is okay. I have also been waiting for something like this to happen. It's not "if" but when and how bad. Well She said that the specialist will be the one to decide the finger fate on Tuesday. She sewed it up the best she could. The bone is REALLY bad messed up. Then to top it all off I glued the backer to the wrong side!!!!! LOL, I guess you win some and then you lose some. I did rip a piece of wood when I got home at 3:30 this morning to overcome the "fear". I believe I might have learned something. At least this project will still end up fairly decent despite fingering it up!

Well, what can a person say....I've had a few battles with my table saw also.. One finger that is about 1/16" shorter,,,, that was a real lucky one. Pictured is my worst... from a kick back... Scraped the tendon on the middle finger... Doc said just a fraction deeper and I would not ever flip someone off with that hand again!... Hope you don't lose part of that finger... and hope you heal quickly...

Learning to use a small lathe is not rocket science and not really not prohibitively expensive. It is the tooling that really costs. A Taig lathe is small and capable of small precision. I don't have one but am very familiar with them. Google it. You will have the opportunity so start a whole new hobby.