VCarved buttons

[pappybaynes]

Scott, good to see you and meet your dad...good information at the camp...won't be long before you have your vacuum hold down up and running!!
Dick

[scottp55]

Same here Dick Got the Spalted back home safe and looks dry(Thank your better half for the great protective job!!) Tons of good info from AllStar !! Never even knew "Cover Gasket" existed and certainly didn't know it could work for tiny stuff like the buttons. Is cover Gasket the stuff you used on your 25,000 Coasters? Did you get through all those with the same Gasket Sheet? Too much info in one shot though--Trying to remember which gasket John said was still trying to be killed by one customer--and which material had to be Re-Z'd as the Z changed and it got more and more crushed.
Dad, Liked you a lot( though personally I can't think of a single redeeming feature between the Two of us! ).
Oh, Didn't shoot smoke alarm--DID have 1/2" Blue/White spark come from a furnace component when I threw main breaker back on Shut furnace down Totally. So no heat/domestic hot since Sat.---Don't DARE fire up the Desktop as this totally unsuperstitious person knows bad things come in 3's

[pappybaynes]

Glad you like the spalted...got to thinking about your smoke detectors...there is a good chance that they need to be vacuumed out...dust can set them off...as you know, I work in the fire protection industry and it is part of the annual ritual to clean them as well as "duct" detectors...hope you get warmed up in there soon.
Dick

[scottp55]

Who wouldn't like the Spalted Dick! Got to come up with something special for that to use it full length, maybe another Paperback bookshelf.
Thanks for smoke detector maintenance info, never done the vac thing. But will put the new ones in accessible high spots with velcro or snap-tabs instead of VHB so at least I can snag them off the ceiling from the wheelchair with a stick or something

[myxpykalix]

Who wouldn't like the Spalted Dick!

Scott, that sounds like something you'd have to go to the doctor to get cleared up! The spalting along with the finish/color looks beautiful,....Dick
(scott, punctuation is your friend!)

[pappybaynes]

Who wouldn't like the Spalted Dick!

Scott, that sounds like something you'd have to go to the doctor to get cleared up! The spalting along with the finish/color looks beautiful,....Dick
(scott, punctuation is your friend!)

I received an old Sugar Maple (about 30" diameter) in a grapple load of firewood back in the mid 80's...it had nearly a full twist in about 14'...we ran a chainsaw across it to reveal the spalting...pulled it aside and had a friend with a bandsaw mill slab it up for me along with some Cherry we had taken off our land. Unfortunately a lot of it has gotten punky, but we still have several nice pieces some with tap hole in them.
Dick

[scottp55]

My good Sir, Thank you for the back story of that wonderful specimen of Spalted Maple you so kindly graced me with, this Saturday past. I shall sincerely endeavor to use my poor Craft to do it Justice.

Yep, sounds better Jack (lucky if I can remember decimal points some days though!)

[pappybaynes]

I showed your inlays of the tree and zebra to my friend who is a master Luthier and his comment was simply, "that guy is good!"

[scottp55]

NOT me Richard, Like my Mom says "That Machine is SOO smart! How does it know how to do that?"
Just watched TJ's "Font" vid and ready to try a conventional inlay for large fonts and see if I can give Jonas a less expensive option to offer his customers who don't care about about the sharp corners and Teeny flourishes that Paul and Damien's Vinlay give.

[scottp55]

Just had a professional photographer here at the house with Dad Monday, tossed some ideas around. Put 1 coat wood butter on some sanded ones for her to take and play with.
She's GOOD
Should have given her some 4 coats Watco/hot dipped beeswax/Carnauba ones too!!
She makes my stuff look good