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This is Jim Blume's "Heading West" pattern that was designed to be 11X14. I decided to make it a little more challenging by cutting it into an 8X10. Baltic Birch stained Ipswich with a black backer and a Pine frame. Both cutting and frame were sprayed with several coats of Polyacrylic with light sanding between coats. This was a lot of fun to cut and surprisingly the reduced size didn't make it very difficult. Thanks, Jim, for another great pattern.

Finished this beautiful Russ Beard pattern, double stacked on 1/8” Baltic Birch Plywood, cut with Niqua #0 Pin Less Straight blades, needs to be Oiled and a framed. This will be my last cutting for a while I have run out of blades. It is what it is, circumstances.

Spent sometime in the shop before golf start. Made a charcuterie board out of roasted maple and a few bowls out of left over wood.

Steve Good Pattern, still need to clean up and fix the S and stain. Made for Hubby. He loves his coffee.

If it were for free you would try to get the to pay you for taking it off their hands.

I also have a Delta 40-694. Check to see if your table is square with the saw blade, a perfect 90 degrees. Don't feed too fast on that thick of wood. Hope that helps.

After seeing Ron Johnson's posting of toys I had to try my luck. Seeing his posing of the F-16 fighter jet I decided to make one for a nephew who is a pilot in this aircraft. Probably not the easiest pattern to choose for my first attempt, but I think it turned out OK. I am pleased with it, hopefully my nephew is and you are too. Jerry

David! You know me too well. I'd even ask for delivery.

Suffered an eye injury ~3 weeks ago. Debris blew up under my glasses when mulching on my 42" deck tractor mower deck. I have been pretty much blind in my left eye, due to corneal injury over the pupil area. It was like looking through a glass with thick petroleum jelly on it and darkened. The whole eye was bloody red. Quite a bit of pain came alongside that for well over a week. I was prescribed an ointment for my eye 3x/day and steroid drops 2x/day. I had my 3rd follow-up with my eye Doc today (went to urgent care when I was injured). My eye has finally superficially healed on the surface (that's good), and also improved 4 steps on the eye test this last week. Pressure also moved in the right direction. She was pleased that I turned the corner as she was concerned last week at the slow healing. Now comes the continued under-the-surface healing so we wait. Scheduled an appointment to be back in a month. No more steroids in the eye, however, the ointment is only 1x/day now... When I got home this morning after the appointment, I tried some scroll sawing I actually could see my lines! FINALLY!!! cut the remaining pieces and rattle can finished my 4-layer Memorial Day pieces, which I could not work on while I was blind. Gun, dog tags, boots, & helmet. When I tried working on it when I was first injured it was a major struggle and had to quit for a few weeks, did an hour on Sunday during my YT live stream, but that was a struggle... now it feels like I am almost back to normal. Not fun being blind in my eye, thankful, it was temporary. Ran out of black paint on one piece so I did not speckle it the way I wanted. Getting more tomorrow.

Very nicely done!

I used maple, yellow heart and blood wood, the only dark wood that you have to be careful of bleeding is Padauk

Very nice. I had to go look at it again to find the child peeking out of the wagon.

Yep, the family is taking on a great adventure. Extra challenging to head west. Oh your saying the cutting is extra challenging. Yes but it looks great. I had to look closely, i think the child is a girl peeking out of the covered wagon.

I still try to haggle even if it's a good buy. The Free Hegner I picked up is a example.. he was asking $50 for it.. I mentioned it didn't have any blade clamps and we looked for some in the shop. Guy said well I guess I don't have any and I need it gone so if you want it take it or it's going in the dumpster, LOL.. I said okay I'll take it then.. He even carried it up the steep hill and loaded it in my car. I planned to offer $30 be he didn't let me get to the punch line.. lucky for me I turned down the $60 one the year before at an estate sale and then I bought the box of blades which once I got home I found I had 4 Hegner clamps in the bottom. Box of blades was actually free too because they found it after the guy that bought the saw had already left so they said I could just take the blades and parts.

Beautiful piece, excellent craftsmanship, RJ

Very nicely done looks great.

That's cute. I don;t drink coffee anymore.

Nice job.. Your husband is a Marine, right? Coffee is a Marine's lifeblood!

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Wow! amazing work!

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!

Two excellent looking projects Frank, well done. Marg

I gave another try at epoxy filling the Tree of Life, put a bit more color in it this time. The previous time I did this one the colors were somewhat muted. I like it better this way, the colors show up even better in person than in the photos.

What a shame. That looks like some very nice wood.

I've replaced bearings on most of my G4, but not those. However, that entire saw is easy to work on, so I doubt you will have much of an issue replacing them. Being an owner of a G4, and a person who restores machinery, I can try to answer any questions, or even take my saw apart, should the need arise. Dan

**UPDATE** The saw was trashed and was missing several pieces. Bearings (turned by hand) sounded OK but the guy didn't even have a plug on it so I could turn it on!! Obviously I passed on it...imagine going to buy a car and it not having any gas! Trust me it works...REALLY?! That really is Buyer Beware...LOL Thanks all for your input. Scott