Creative Woodworks & crafts 2004-03, страница 38

No laser burns, and with a 1/32" router bit you can hardly tell Rounding the corner, you enter scroll saw alley, the area where that it was routed. The only difference between this and scroll Rick does his cutting and teaches scrolling, sawn work is that the router makes perfect cuts!

When you look back in this bay, you can see his office (which is behind glass) and a rack containing an assemblage of finished and partially finished projects along with scraps of aJl sorts, the essentials of teaching and demonstrating.

This is the same bench from a different, angle. Notice the lathe in front of his office window. He admits that he does not do a lot of turning.

As in most shops, no space is wasted in Rick's. lie has a number of finished sayings available for quick shipment and some of his original clockworks made from his patterns. No, they were not cut on the CNC" router! Rick got his nickname in part because of the amount of scroll sawing he has done for profit. He is a tireless cutter, becoming totally engrossed in his work to the point of not eating or sleeping. He has cut for more than 24 hours without stopping to fill an order, and his normal workday is a minimum of 12 hours, during which he lives on Pepsi and cigarettes. While we were at his shop photographing this series of articles, we worked under that regime; the only break 1 held out for was to cat lunch and dinner. I don't drink many carbonated beverages, but drinking a pop every hour does have its merits. Luckily 1 did not lake up smoking or return to chewing. We never did see Rick go to bed; I think he sleeps sitting up ill his shop. He may be an "animal," in terms of work e_thic, but as a person, you couldn't ask for a nicer guy. Rick gels as much pleasure from teaching a willing student as the student derives from the knowledge. continued on page 40

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