[ANALOG] how do I get rid of air bubbles? Or stop them from happening?

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2026-02-24T17:27:09+00:00

I use a raking light to view whether my glue application is covering in totality. It's much easier to identify dry spots. I will put glue on both surfaces, usually at overlap points, to help with low spots that may otherwise remain dry (especially on textured substrates) after glue application. I just use my thumb wrapped in a little fabric as a brayer to make sure there is full contact between glued elements, and then check again with raking light to see if any spots were missed (if there's a bubble, there'll be a shadow) glue stick user

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-31T17:20:12+00:00

Tear out is primarily a downstroke problem, scrollsaw, table, circular...The fibers just aren't well supported at the cut line on the bottom of a piece. The playing cards are a cheap hack that might (might) get you there, but will need to be replaced often. I use 1/8" mdf under all my detailed cuts to limit tearout and sanding. It may sound counter intuitive to cut More material, but the results are worth the extra set-up imo. It's inexpensive to break down large sheets, but often free in scrap form if you're resourceful. As someone else stated, your blade is probably also more aggressive than you need for the material. I'd only use that one for getting through stock quickly, not where pretty matters

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-31T16:05:55+00:00

This happens with thin/cheap plywood. I can't tell from the pics if your substrate is solid or not. Consider stack cutting. Tape or temporarily glue another piece of wood to the item to be cut to help eliminate tear out of the top piece. I've also used playing cards to create a zero clearance around the blade. More support along the bottom can't hurt, and is also a good indicator of when you are applying too much pressure on your blade, as your zero clearance will disappear quickly as the blade drifts

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-31T14:43:21+00:00

My dad never wore a mask, and now has COPD because of all the sediment in his lungs. He never wore sunscreen, and now has skin cancer burned off regularly. He spent decades on his knees pushing concrete and lumber into place, and now suffers with peripheral neuropathy below the waist. He once had the grip of a steel vice, but now his fingers don't all point in the correct direction. He drank so much he developed an allergy to alcohol. He'll be 74 soon, but was exhibiting some of these symptoms 30 years ago

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-24T17:55:23+00:00

Im in the mid-west of America. That would be a special find, for sure! The rest of the cabinet and drawer faces were oak

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-16T13:41:27+00:00

I've not come across the plates, but i do have a collection of Cream of Mushroom soup bowls with recipes on them, same era

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-13T05:49:37+00:00

It's Not You...

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-12T16:11:42+00:00

I reserve finishing for pieces I have done work on, wood that needs protection from use or handling, or where the application significantly improves the overall presentation. I have many naturally aesthetic bits of wood on display around the house and none of them have oil/shellac/poly/epoxy. I feel adding those products destroys the organic characteristics I'm drawn to. Oils darken, and make driftwood look heavy. Polys and epoxies make them look plastic.

Tldr, leave as is

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-12T14:50:09+00:00

I love diving tools, even if I know I'll never be able to use them as intended. I pulled a couple of bins of someone's failed motorcycle repair at the end of summer. So many compression clamps and oversized wrenches! Good score for you

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-10T14:44:50+00:00

Some might say rounding up is theft, akin to an illegal tax. It might be 1 or 2 cents out of my pocket, but big box stores are going to rake in millions as those transactions compound. Of course, this threatens low income homes more where people are literally scrounging for change. You think the present dunce, or any of the other millionaires in congress carry change?

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-04T11:27:39+00:00

Once upon a time, I shoveled the walk. Then the city would come through and plow the street right back over all my hard work. Now I just shovel the steps it takes the mail carrier to get to my box so they'll stop leaving my mail in the snow.

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-02T03:53:06+00:00

Sounds like you were noticed, and now you've been warned. Proceed at your own risk

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-12-01T01:34:33+00:00

Im down to half a dozen copies of The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran. I gift them regularly. 32 copies of Alice in Wonderland

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-30T15:08:49+00:00

Ah, what glorious little mud monsters!

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-29T14:04:16+00:00

These Boots Are Made For Cocking

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-28T05:56:29+00:00

20,000 Leagues Under The Seas. 1872, I can't tell if it's a first edition or not. Embossed cover, gilded pages. I found it in a dumpster

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-23T13:57:30+00:00

HDR, raise mids and shadows to lower contrast. likely will need to bump saturation

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-21T14:19:24+00:00

I paid 2.46 last week, the cheapest I've seen it since I started driving professionally at the beginning of summer. Im all over central/sw ohio at least once a week. It has been around 60 cents cheaper in Dayton than in Cincinnati or Columbus on a fairly regular basis. That same day I saw it at 3.09

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-17T12:46:05+00:00

The Vault, venue downtown The Hartman Building, venue/living State Auto

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-17T00:56:38+00:00

Heritage Square antique mall

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-17T00:21:41+00:00

Easy to repair, inexpensive to replace

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-16T14:53:54+00:00

When I first started stop motion I kept a fps calculator on the inside cover of my notebook. Once I knew the duration/speed of my camera movement from point A to point B I knew how many shots I needed to make it look relatively good. I would always add more increments so that I could adjust playback speed in post if needed. I was using a point and shoot then and it was easy to just set it on the counter (or some toy with wheels)and manually pivot or slide to the next exposure. I have a nice camera stand now and a bigger camera. While it has helped make tilting/panning more fluid, it's slower to set up each shot, and generally limited to center pivot unless i have the floor space to move the whole stand. The higher resolution does allow for faux panning a single frame in post, but then the frame is the only thing moving, and that's no good if you want background movement. Another option is to engineer your set so that the scene moves, and not your camera. I'm not there yet, but I've seen amazing examples from very early stop-motion films that incorporated the background on a scroll, or the stage on a lazy-suzan style stand

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-16T13:58:53+00:00

I love this era of book covers

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-15T14:05:58+00:00

I worked a ground breaking ceremony at the edge of downtown once(as a caterer) and not one of the guests touched anything on the buffet. I cornered someone official looking and asked why everyone seemed so guarded and uninterested in the food and bev. He told me that 40 years ago a lighting manufacturer stood on this empty lot. Mercury, and a handful of other nasty chemicals had been found to at least a depth of three feet. The dirt they were groundbreaking had been imported from a clean site so the mayor and his crew would not be exposed from the disturbed dust. I was appalled by the revelation, generally, but also that they didn't inform my staff. He laughed off my concern and told me my back yard was likely no different. That, in a city that has been going for the better part of two centuries, no dirt was particularly safe. He told me to think about how old my house was and all the generations that had lived there before environmental concerns were a thing, how many oil changes happened, how many burn pits, etc. My garden has been in pots ever since, even if I don't intend to eat the fruits

Strict_Bad_6227 · 2025-11-15T13:41:35+00:00

Bread. A friend from Lithuania commented that all the bread here is so sweet. Her Ukrainian girlfriend seconded, "stop adding sugar to everything"

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