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I started milling up some walnut for the next urn.  This one will be for my husband, and he picked out the board from what I had stocked up (used t...
From my research, each 1 pound equates to 1 cubic inch.  I have decided to construct the urns I'm building to accommodate the typical plastic tempo...
Wouldn't it be nice to go back to the day before Weathervane 7, and give myself a dope slap. Edit 3/13/25  That would be the 2nd Weathervane 7 blo...
Well here goes another 52 weeks in the shop challenge for myself to get in the shop or even shops more often. I did one of these over on that other...
I should have added this pic to the last chapter, but I couldn't find it. My phone is a mess lately. [getting close 56.JPG] The wing and tail are n...

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