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I like Moontoad’s suggestion about the neon paint! Another thing that I do — call me paranoid if you like — is to clamp a special jig to my drill press table that consists of a piece of 3/4″ MDF about the same size as the table, with a 6 inch high board glued and screwed to the edge closest to my belly. This way, if the cutter does fly off, it doesn’t embed itself in my gut. I also wear the full face shield that I use for lathe work, rather than my smaller safety glasses.
I’ve used mine a number of times…and it always scares me to death. But it works.
Just stay back about three feet.
You can get stringing to fit a curve by heating it on a hot iron pipe. You wouldn’t be as elegant as the method you chosen because it would have taken multiple pieces. I never have done it with ebony and it may be too brittle to take the curve. How do they do it on guitars?
1. What did you use to glue the pieces to the substrate?
2. I use my fly cutter occasionally, and it always makes me nervous. One simple tip I tried that helps a little is to paint the ends of the horizontal shaft with a bright-colored paint (I used neon fingernail polish.) This makes it easy to see the circumference traced by the shaft when it is spinning. This is especially important when cutting smaller radii and the shaft projects significantly beyond the bit location.
What about using the lathe and the Circle Cutter together? If you have a drill chuck for your lathe, you could chuck the Circle Cutter in the lathe. The Circle Cutter could be stationary and the wood could spin. You could have the best of both worlds, without having the circle cutter spinning around!
I tried one of these a long time ago…and it caused the chuck to fall off my drill press.
I am not a morning person. I really am a night owl. But every Thursday morning, at 6:30 a.m., a group of about 50 committed men meet in Showker Hall to study the scriptures together with Jon Heeringa as our Bible scholar. It is excellent.
Paul reminds us in Romans 10:17 that “Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ” and again in Romans 15:4 “that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.” Each of us should study our Bible daily and pray regularly on our own. Something does happen when saints gather together to study God’s Word and walk away to apply it in our individual lives. That is a major goal of the Thursday morning men’s Bible study.
The doors open between 6:15 and 6:30. Faithful men prepare good breakfast fare for $2 a person. Men fellowship together sitting together. Jon starts at 7 a.m. and teaches until 7:30 when we are given time to discuss the lesson and answer some pointed questions. The study ends at 8 a.m. to give us time to get to work or meet our various schedules.
Since September, we’ve been studying the life of David from First Samuel. As we’ve been working through David’s life, it has been a constant challenge from Jon to have our group look intently into a man after God’s own heart and compare where we are in our own lives to King David. We are constantly encouraged to answer questions like: What’s God saying about Himself and us, his creation? What does God require of us to live a Godly life in Christ? What are God’s promises to us? Finally, what action is God calling us to in our relationship with Him and others? We are a long way from finishing the life of David.
In years past we’ve studied the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, the Lord’s Prayer and other in-depth scripture studies worth the time and effort. Jon has been helpful to provide us with a single page study guide each week, full of questions to ponder and the scriptures we will cover. Probably half of the men attending aren’t even members of First Presbyterian.
Psalm 119:105 reminds us: ”Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” Get up early, bring your Bible, $2, something to write with and an open heart to hear God’s Word. It is worth every bit of the effort.
Crimson Flower Maddening NG run complete! Unit ratings.

Byleth – Wyvern Lord.  10/10.  First time I avoided the Falcon Knight trap, moved on to Axes after starting with Lances and an early experiment with Luin.  Axes are definitely better.  All my physical units also used an Iron Bow+ with Curved Shot equipped.  Even in late game a lot of my units needed a bit of help with chip damage.

Edelgard – Wyvern Lord.  9/10.  Surprisingly squishy but effective with axe and bow.  I gave myself a wee challenge to not use Amyr until the final chapter.  Finished off the Immaculate One with a final crit.

Ferdinand – Wyvern Lord.  10/10, ready for anything.  Who needs lancefaire when you have Swift Strikes.  Perhaps the most frequent MVP of the run.

Bernadetta – Bow Knight.  10/10.  I can’t believe it took me so long to figure out the joy that is Vengeance.  Boss killer extraordinaire.  (Also dealt 264 crit damage to some hapless mage on the final map, just amazing.)  Encloser is also a great bit of late game utility.

Linhardt – Bishop.  7/10.  Snoozy boy just heals.  I find his warp range underwhelming compared to Lysithea’s but with his Crest he does a simple job very well.

Petra – Assassin.  10/10.  Taught her flying to get Alert Stance and cheekily traded some renown for a Rapier in Abyss.  On reflection, I think that Wyvern Lord would have been an even better choice on CF NG because it would be easier to get to Alert Stance+, which I ran out of time to do.  But Assassin was definitely a solid choice, over triple digit Avo by the end, and AS+ could have been doable if I was more organised.

Jeritza – Wyvern Rider.  8/10.  Disappointingly he isn’t the outright murderer on Maddening that he is on other difficulties, but still a great tank.  Can recommend making him airborne for the final two maps (after getting Counterattack mastery, of course).

Sylvain – Paladin.  7/10.  Had to plan carefully to keep him relevant as the game went on and I had slightly too many units for most maps, but Swift Strikes be swift and he is satisfying tanky early game.  Making him adjutant to Felix helped keep his levels up.

Shamir – Sniper.  7/10.  Struggled to keep her place in the roster, surprisingly.  This is my fault for getting complacent and not putting her through Death Blow etc.  Possibly also a bit unlucky with RNG?  The low point was doing 0 damage to Seteth in chapter 14.

Constance – Dark Flier.  8/10.  Rescue is incredibly useful, especially maps where you trigger reinforcements.  Her accuracy mostly sucked – I had an ambitious plan to put her through Valkyrie for Uncanny Blow but I ran out of time.  Hit +20 would have been a better goal on CF.

Felix – War Master.  11/10.    Brawl Avo +20, Quick Riposte, Brawl Prowess 5, Hit +20, Death Blow.  Gave him the Chalice of Beginnings and he just laughed at the Bow Knights in the Derdriu chapter (before killing them).  Chef’s kiss.  

Ingrid – adjutant.  Recruited her for the battalion and for Luin and promptly benched.  Even with OOH enemy Pegasus growths she was just a bit underwhelming when she joined.

Caspar – adjutant.  Never saw combat on his own but I appreciated his energy in the cut scenes.  His ending with Bernadetta is amazing.

Mercedes – adjutant.  Recruited solely for the Jeritza supports.

Alois.  Recruited solely to train Byleth in axes in Part 2.  I had mixed feelings about not having to face him in chapter 14.  He never seemed overly happy to have chosen my side.

Hubert – MIA.  I made an early decision to bench Hubert because I like to leave the Part 1 paralogues as late as possible, and he disappears for all of that month, so I replaced him with Constance to make sure I had an offensive mage at my disposal.  I was unimpressed when he was force deployed in chapter 12 but he survived. 

Chose Jeritza for the S in the end, purely because he likes ice cream and so do I.  His S support scene brought pleasure.The thread size and caliber are specified when ordering. Detailed specifications are listed in the table below.
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