I did, I painted three of the chairs black, and three dark blue..

The two chairs closest to the camera are blue....They only appear blue in natural light, so its very hard to tell that they are blue..

pivot...

Every time I pick up one or two of my guitars I am amazed by the inlays.. especially on my'78 Ibanez Artist


Also Ii have seen probably a dozen of these guitars and every one is slightly different (different luthiers)

Ibanez


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My PRS

9 different birds inlayed


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Was at the shop earlier and had my latest piece flattened prior to applying finish coats..

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This piece of maple has some really cool things going on with decay and figuring in the wood

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Pretty cool to see

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Lots of cool old tools!

https://shop.vintagevials.com/shop/

I got my Great Grandfather’s tool box open, lots of penetrating oil, move a little bit at a time, soak some more. Finally, very carefully opened it, making sure not to damage the fragile wood. Mostly old glass bottles wrapped in paper, at least so far.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1732646155.jpg
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It's very cool to have his toolbox even if it doesn't hold any tools!

$35,000 live edge epoxy table for a yacht, 11' x 4'7" in months from quote to delivery.

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I’m framing out a window in my kitchen, which means I get to use one of my favorite tools for accuracy.

It’s a set of dovetail interlocking bars with tips on the end that you can fit together to make expandable measurements.

You simply put together the amount of sections needed, expand it to fill the opening you need to fit something into and then take the bars to your saw, set the stop and cut the board to fit. No taking a numerical reading from a tape and then trying to set your saw to it or remembering it correctly.

This version was made by Bridge City Tools in 1999. They did one run and never made it again. Interestingly an error was made in the length of one or more sets and there is a 4” gap that the set won’t measure in the 40” region!

Several companies make fittings that can go on your shop cut boards to make them expandable.

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Cool!

There are some of the old style folding rulers that have an extendable piece in the first end piece that enables you to do the same thing. I've got an old Craftsman version. It looks like they are still available new too. I see Lufkin, Klein, and Wiha on Amazon.

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Veritas makes 2 small tools that once installed on your homemade sticks they allow you to extend the sticks to inside corners and then transfer that measurement to a board or tape.

https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/veritasbargaugeheads.aspx

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Sounds/looks like trammel points without the points.

I've been wanting to get a cnc router for a while now.. for reasons...

Cost of entry put me off... lead times, and impending tariff scares were a concern.. So Facebook Marketplace....

I found a fellow with a machine I was interested in.. for about a third of cost of entry.... He sold it with spare servos, a spare spindle, clamps and hold downs, and a bunch of bits (end mill, ball head cutters, flattening bits....) extra spoil board etc..

And... basically a spare extra machine.. (extrusions, lead screws, etc)

First piece I cranked out... relearning and dusting off my computer drafting skills... I learned AutoCad in the 90's



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Very cool!

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Had a good size Oak die. The inside was totally rotted out so I made use. I used 3' of the big butt to hide an ugly gas meter and made some mirrors out of the smaller diameter hollow "log" further up the tree. Routered the back to recess the glass. I use a diamond blade on my 4½" grinder to make curved cuts in the mirror

Greg and Tim, nice!

I just took down a Black Cherry tree in my yard, that was a small tree when I was a kid..

The pieces are 18-15in dia, 5-7 ft long... If you squint you can see a guitar, and other projects happening after I get the wood milled... Just need to put a new starter in my pickup first..

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Then Ill use my new CNC router to make sawdust...



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Very nice!

The guitar requires some serious squinting, but it's in there!

I've had some stuff come down on my property, and wish I'd cut it up to save. I had a large pin oak branch that would have been a nice new handle for my billhook. And I had a big pecan tree come down that I could/should have cut up and had drying.

Science fiction writers (or even the Popular Science future-gazers) couldn't even dream of the day that CNC routers (and the attendant software) would be accessible to the common man. They missed the boat. (Still waiting for my jet-pack, but this is awesome technology)

I look forward to watching you create beautiful furniture and other art with your new device.