Rich, Thanks! I started using the "Japanese Pull stroke" almost FIVE years ago, but in May '24, I moved to this apartment, and I have NOT seen it for 14 months! In This last "week+" I found a branch about 15 feet long & brought it home on my Power Chair :-O I have Already Cut sections, First to replace an Excel 3 saw blade package, it is that "typical" Y branch in front, but I need to do a bunch Xacto cutting to really do the Ergnom thing! The "Finger Grooves" also help tremendously ! I am considering an Epoxy glue up of one of my MANY Xacto blade Handles; I think I probably have 5-6 handles, various colors for various blades • • • • • • but am finding them ~difficult~ to grasp for the Detail I desire!! OH, the *Wood Back ground* for those photo's IS my BENCH: 1. Cropped for editing, 2. It is *REALLY* a Lap Board, as I have NOT finished any of 3 Two×Four Foot Bench Tops started since I moved in ! ! ! Sorta like my Get up To GO, got up & Left .... philip

mind is gone too . . . The Biggest and Straightest part is for a New Cane! My old one, The THIRD that I have made CTF, (Cut To Fit) since Needing canes.... And I used to carry 300/500 pounds of wood oncet upon my life! pj

Being a RADIO operator, should Tune to AM, FM, SW/SSB U/D ! ! ! ! 😁 philip, from the GREAT Pacific NorthWET, Oregon USA • • • it wasn't done the hard way, I didn't do it. • • •

Oliver, Nice name ! philip from PNW, Oregon, USA

Rich, Sorry to here about the loss of blood, yet under the conditions, That is BETTER, as the flow generally removes any debris and is easier to stitchand Heal, philip, from the Great Pacific NorthWET, Oregon, USA "Truth spoken softly, is LOUDER than Lies SHOUTED". Paramedic, Class 3, 1974, Butte Junior College Butte County, CA

Rich, I can not remember if I shared this story: In 1974, I worked for an "Old Timey" CARPENTER, who then became Tacoma Washington's Largest Lumber Dealer: He had THREE locations, One Residential & small contractors everyone shopped there.> #Two was a LARGE contractor yard, closed to residential shopping, If you were buying a LARGE truck load, as a Contractor, you shopped THERE. The Third yard was COMPLETELY CLOSED, it only accepted DELIVERIES (#3 WAS for "Timber Sized lumber, "4×6 to 8×18 and larger beams" . . ) !!! So this old Coot, would have me on the down side of his Commercial sized DeWalt Table Saw: he collected "2×4 Stickers" off the 18 wheelers, FOR FREE, that delivered to Store ONE, and then make 2×2 & 2×4 Stakes, for concrete form work !!!! Well this guy would walk up to the saw, look at his fingers & COUNT THEM, OUT LOUD, 1,2,3 . . . After we finished, the Saw is OFF, he would look at his Fingers, and Count OUT >>>LOUD, TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN, SIX ... "I did OK<<< EVERY saw session Yes!!! One sweaty day, his Aluminum Hard Hat SLIPPED off his head, hit the Blade, became a Flying Hard Hat, (nearly HIT me), and traveled 25 feet hitting the wall, and then GRAVITY sucked it to the floor (# "ONE" RULE, Gravity SUCKS) . . . . Hal stopped the saw, a bit flustered, walked over, Picked up said Flying Device, and SMARTLY reInstalled it on his Brainium. Hal was Worth a Million PLUS DOLLARS, but got that, by George, by Working, so he WAS still WORKING. He wore that Saw Cut Aluminum Brain Cover, for well ... until I left, he was still WEARING it, The LESSON LEARNED was more important than BUYING a new one which he could afford . . . That "may be" A Trigger 😁 philip, from the Great Pacific NorthWET, Oregon, USA "Truth spoken softly, is LOUDER than Lies SHOUTED".

Hey there Rich, a better hobby than Working with Wood is hard to find! And the Memories of "I made this when" never leave you, Welcome to the Skool, philip, from the Great Pacific NorthWET, Oregon, USA "Truth spoken softly, is LOUDER than Lies SHOUTED".