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[Dileon]

Depends on your environment...deck finish on a deck will last a year due to sun, heavy rain and high moisture in the air. Here nothing last without yearly maintenance....

[Dileon]

Carve exotic hardwood, some of it has to be fresh wood from a just-cut tree that is not dried out, easy to carve if wet, but dry forget it. I keep it in trash bags to keep it wet until work is finished. The worst thing about this method is cracking in work...which means a slow dry out after carved....

[Dileon]

love the natural finish, love seeing the real wood....great job....

[Dileon]

After carving lots of deep color grain, I learned to test the color against the carving, meaning take a wet towel and wipe to make the color pop. The issue was at times that the grain was bolder than the carving making the carve almost disappear. If that happens you either have to go deeper or slightly...

[Dileon]

yes that fox....darn thing could never find it...I gave up to....

[Dileon]

To the new guy I am not picking on you,...so sorry. Just see those fingers...mine looked just like that one time. Nothing worst then sitting in ER and saying gee I would sew it up myself but this one I do not know how. I got myself stupid with receptacle saw when I was to tired out to be working...

[Dileon]

It is amazing how a storm can turn your life into chaos. Glad your returning back to normal....sounds like your going to get some rain from this one. Soon winter will be here ...and the hurricane chaos will mellow down. Clean up is always time consuming. As for your wife I would have a plan b...

[Dileon]

The best one I saw was doc MD another neighbor, owned a saw mill. At seventy up in the tree with the chainsaw and the thing bucked... hit him in the neck. He is a pro cutting trees but...sometimes we get stupid. He called my neighbor to fix him up...because he was not going to be seen dead in the ER...

[Dileon]

my buddy up the street cut his neck with this tool and another one got his hands. Use the right tools and the correct attachments for the job ...sorry guys but I worked ER for awhile...you see tons of this kind of stupid usages of power tools. image widget...

[Dileon]

Get a miter saw and circular saw, it will save you from half cutting off your head when she bucks plus an ER bill today cost thousands. Get the right tools and the right blades for the job. Die Grinders I have five of them and angle grinders I have three of them....understand they are dangerous, especially...

[Dileon]

I can see from you photo you going to have some awesome pattern wood, she seems to have all colors plus a great pattern on it. A lot of the exotic I work on have extreme pattern woods like that, they are beauty when they are finished and all the color pops.... always a pleasure to work on....

[Dileon]

I do not have to be an engineer to do art,.....math is not apart of the tools I use. I look at it before I buy it, use it and if the sucker gives me the cuts that I need and creates the bigger picture I want....., that is all the information I need. I know some people know their tools on here and...

[Dileon]

Had studio in the mainland all windows but was not attached to house. I used a wood stove to heat it, although super cold in winter if was bad it did get below zero at times in the winter..., had a small space heater near me to keep warm. In the summer too expensive to use AC...so used a very big shop...

[Dileon]

He looks just like someone I know! LOL ... great job.

[Dileon]

I had to quit some other forums lately....one of them was good information and some great science. But it was full of trolls, I complain it often was like going into a star wars bar ,... you know the one with the bar full of monsters waiting to kill you off. I had to get ready for battle every...

[Dileon]

I started with Lora Irish relief books. The projects are great for learning the how to do it part. Highly recommend her books are more of a class room kind of teaching. If you want more classical work and harder then Chris Pye as good books and learning skills although he does not often use power...

[Dileon]

It sound wonderfully fun project,...these are the ones that tons of thought and process goes into making them. Using a historical wood is also special ...sure this will be a winner....

[Dileon]

What a happy tree that is going to make. What a nice collection!

[Dileon]

unless the snowmen are invisible ....there is no photo....smile.

[Dileon]

I do not use knives for chip carving, get a Flexcut chip carving set....