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The first piece was 42" long. We quickly learned that it is a long way from the far end of the board to the blade when you are cutting a 42"-long piece of wood on a scroll saw! It's hard to see, hard to hold the wood down next to the blade, and hard to know how far you need to swing the end of the board to get the blade to follow the cutting line. It's even harder when you are trying to saw through 3/4"-thick hard woods like yellowheart and bloodwood. "Hard" work seems to be putting it mildly!

We used l/2"-thick plywood for a backer. Along the top and left side, I attached two 3/4" x 3" pine boards. With the corners aligned perfectly square, I fastened the boards to the backer using drywall/multipurpose screws. This provided a square corner and two straight edges against which we could fit parts as we cul them. We let the ends of the pieces "run wild" along the right side. They would be trimmed flush later.

When we started cutting the parts, we chose to leave quite a bit of excess wood outside of the pattern lines. We thought it best to leave plenty of excess which we would trim away during fitting, rather than have the parts be too short with wide gaps between them. (Our wood stretcher has never worked very well!)

We later learned that removing all that excess was a real pain! It added lots of extra hours of work and made it more difficult to fit parts together. It wasn't until we were

far into the project that we decided we could saw right along the edge of the pattern line. (After all, we are both fairly good scroll sawyers!) This greatly reduced the amount of sanding needed to fit parts together, and made it much easier for us to continue living with each other!

We placed the plywood backer on a big table. As we cut out parts, we placed them in position on the backer. Because we had left so much excess wood around the pieces, they didn't fit very closely together, and they didn't fit inside openings. We put small parts in a box and set other parts roughly into place. We left the patterns on the parts for reference during fitting.

As we continued cutting, we knew we would definitely need to do a lot of work to fit those pieces together, and I was worrying about how we were going to do that. I was

History of the Lions Club

With utmost honor and respect, we offer this brief history and description of the Lions Club organization. We encourage everyone to support your local clubs, learn more about them, and consider joining them.

In 1925, Helen Keller asked members of the Lions Club International to become "Knights of the blind in the crusade against darkness." Since that time. Lions have been actively involved in service to those who are blind and visually impaired. Lions Clubs are also committed to providing services for youth, improving the environment, building homes for the disabled, supporting diabetes education, conducting hearing programs, and, through their foundation, providing disaster relief around the world. The call for unselfish service to others is one of the association's main principles. Today there are over 45,000 clubs in 200 countries or geographical areas, with over 1.3 million Lions worldwide.

The Lions of Wisconsin have a membership of over 20,000. They operate the Wisconsin Lions Foundation, which is a charitable, non-profit, Wisconsin corporation in charge of all statewide service and fundraising activities, a highlight of which is the Wisconsin Lions Camp. Located at the camp is the Eyeglass Recycling Center, one of only eleven centers worldwide. It processes over one-million pairs of glasses annually. The eyeglasses are sorted, cleaned, categorized, bagged, and boxed in preparation for shipment to developing countries.

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