StringJunky

I found this method: The clear coat is thicker, so it wont bleed under the vinyl, then when the vinyl's removed, the clear coat won't allow the chloride to bleed passed the clear coat. You just might have to reverse how you make your stencil, whether it's a positive or a negative of your design. Seems like a workable solution. A rubber-faced roller might be useful to make sure the stencil edges are stuck firmly before clear coating

Response by Sanofi on Roseanne Barr's recent racist comment that tickled me:

It's a good thing that you thought about that because flatsawn will move more than quartersawn,

Couldn't you dremel it in? That's really nice. Well done.

Nearly everything is affected by the potential job losses/profit losses of a restrictive directive. The trouble with overt capitalism is that it encourages people to think they are little islands of autonomy with no collective sense of responsibility.

This comes to mind;

Say 'Hi' to your back from me. LOL!

Nice. Are you now going to wish for a Fields Medal and Nobel? Sadolin is a pretty good one coat finish. It gives a nice sheen and good weatherproofing.

Not at all. I'd rather be wise than naive, although world does look simpler and less complicated.

Yep. That's groovy. I must be getting younger in my old age.

I think this is up your street: This is America - Childish Gambino

Then you are seeing blurred in that section. The bringing into focus in such games is happening in the brain, not in the eye. Depth perception is a mental construct where information is taken from both eyes and processed in the brain to create 3D. You are probably doing this processing for that aspect there i'e it's not a raw ability of the eye.

If Trump turned sideways he'd disappear. He's like a spaghetti western film set: all front. A quote from Aesop seems pertinent:

I think the periphery is probably more 'black and white' i.e higher contrast, which might make signs of movement more apparent.... just guessing.

Yeah. I 've thought of another one: if you concentrate - not focus - on the periphery, you can apparently see dimmer stars at night than with the central portion.

Put something close up to your eye when you do that... is it sharp?

Cheers.

How do you do that, They are only about 5-6mm wide? Do you use carbide blades?

Kudos to you for sticking it out on pretty hard stuff like that. I've hand sanded quite a few miles of oak hand rails and doors. I've just got one for sizing. I still like manual planing for finishing.

No electric hand planer?

You've convinced me. It seems the best way to go.

I'm thinking about that. I don't know whether to go for waterstones or adhesive-backed sheets on glass.The advantage of the latter is it's always flat. I've got a diamond plate but it's only a cheap one.

Can you shave your arm hairs with them?

Have you got the first inch of the back of your chisels to a high polish; a chisel is only as sharp as the back is smooth because that is the edge.

The only time it's useful is in those magic eye pictures.