Jim, your sunburst is the all time winner. amazing. Still on Rusty’s wall?
Jim, if I’m not asking too much, how do you make the cuts? Router with an extra-long bit?
the triple criss cross was routed, the client only wanted it on the deck, all the others are cut blanks, the sun part of the Rising Sun board was routed and the foam piece to drop in it was center pinned and diameter cut on my band saw. All of the figure 8’s until recently were completely free handed with a handsaw that I reduced the blade width so it could easily follow the arc’s, but this year I made a set of templates that I clamp on the blank and let the saw blade follow them. In the freehand method, it was a half dozen strokes, look under the blank to see if I was still on the pencil lines on the underside, do another half dozen strokes, repeat, repeat, sawing at an acute angle through the center stick was always the hardest part, off a hair and it looks like dog shit and I hate doing work that looks like dog shit
Also Jim, how do you keep the saw blade from wandering on the bottom as you follow the line on the top?
my best attempt was, constantly checking the underside and I still got off course, what is the old saying, a craftsman is one who can fix his mistakes.
After cleaning up the saw kerf and wiggles, dips, bumps, woopsees, I would dry fit the halves back together, see where there were gaps that would not pull back together, tape the true line like I was laying a pinline and dress those areas.
Not for the faint of heart, my old man used to tell me, “the devil hates a coward”
Sorry to interfere but, Greg, you have a new message…