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Here is some of stuff I did in March. The stacking puzzles were previously cut and I just painted them. I had tried to sell at a show last year as "paint your own" - didn't go over very well. I did two of the sunflower puzzles. I also cut & finished two guitar puzzles and a bass guitar. I have a sale coming up at the end of the month so was putting a push on to get product out. Nice to be retired and able to spend most of the day in the shop!

Wow, that would take a realllly long time to build but it sure is cool! I showed it too my husband and told him it would be really cool to make something like that and his response was, "If you make that I wouldn't see you again....you would be in your shop forever!"

You should have that knocked out in a couple days.

I finally completed this project. I took me the longest of any project I have tried in my years of scrolling. Took two tries. I wanted to make a picture of a modern diesel train engine for my nephew-in-law that is a conductor. I could not find a pattern of one. Talking to @munzieb one time I mentioned it to him, he told to send him a picture of what you want and he would make a pattern. And he did, a real detailed pattern. A beautiful pattern.. I worked on it, gave up once, then decided to try again. I worked on this over a period of 4 or 5 months. Bernd Would call every once in a while to see how I was doing. I told him I was about to give up. I just could not scroll like I use to. He said he would give it a try. Two weeks latter he sends me his completed scrolled picture of it! So the challenge was thrown down. I had to quit whining and keep cutting. Finally got there. Many, many thanks to Bernd for the coaching and encouragement. Would never have finished it without it. I still have to frame it. The first picture is mine, the second is the one he cut and sent to me. His was even more difficult than mine, his was a little smaller.

I really should not be posting this in Bragging Rights as it is nothing to brag about. I found this haunting image of a panther face and attempted to duplicate it just as it appeared...Bright Green and White against a solid Black background with a very faint grey-black shading. Although a relitively easy cutting, suffice to say things did not go smoothly as expected, and one ‘bugger’ led to another. I had many problems with the painting, especially the finish of the Black. And then, after deciding to make a Gallery style floating Frame for this piece it took three attempts to get the size correct and the mitered joints, tight. I used 5/32” solid core birch ply for the cut panel and 1/4” BB Ply for the backer. The panel size is really oddball at 11 1/8” by 19”. The cutting was done with Pegas # 1 MGT R blades for all the long-curved cut outs and Pegas #2/0 spiral blades elsewhere. The assembled panel was protected with multiple coats of Clear Closs Acrylic finish. The frame was finished with Black Lacquer. I’m most interested in comments about the image and If I should consider doing a remake as I think this first attempt will become fuel for my Firepit.

Frank, that came out great, Love the colors.

WoW Paul, you did a fantastic job on that. It was worth the wait.

If your saw is only 6 months old it should be under warranty. Check with the manufacturer before tearing it apart.

Us engineers can make things complicated. This one also mesmerizing. San Jose Airport has a ball contraption that I like to watch. The one posted above is more complicated. I like this one, it has a cam shaft. Think about how to time that top dead center. Pretty cool. The birds beak has a timing cam also. The disk that holds marbles has angled holes to hold the steel balls in. So Ray just let me know what to send you. Since I still work I won't have much time for team project. I won't mind helping when I can. Me.

What gets me is how somebody comes up with this stuff. I realize I have no imagination but even if I was to decide one day to create a marble machine, how does it get from one step to the next to the next, etc? I look at each of the different operations going on within that contraption and wonder what part of it came first and each step in it's order. I'd love to have that sort of mind and imagination. I feel the same way when I watch heavy equipment in operation and think about how each integral part has to be designed to work with all the other parts. I'm such a simple-minded person. Darn!

And he would be correct.

Paul your cooking isn't so awful. You made a great hamburger for Dick @heppnerguy and I when we were over last summer....I think you BBQ'd it and it was pretty darn good!

My, your March was very busy.

Barb. The banks still take them but some require them to be wrapped. The problem maybe is to where to get penny wrappers.

Maybe it can be a group project, each one does a section, then send to Ray to assemble, RJ