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On This Day in Sawyer History Apr 01
George Henning of Ithaca, New York, United States, claims an invention as it relates to the method of operating saw mills, specifically, new and useful improvements on the self setting saw mill dog blocks. File claimed April 01, 1842.
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Painting a Wooden Buoy
One of Jims saw milling buddies makes wooden buoys and on a visit last year he brought one for me. Not long after, I decided it needed some paint, so out came the paint brushes and here it was after my first round of painting.
Painted buoy. It was fine. It still looked kinda new and I wasn’t sure how it would take stain so thats how it stayed.
Unable to leave things alone, I decided to revisit the buoy. This time I decided to paint the whole thing. Before I could get to the fun stuff, I had to put a coat of white on.
Ready for color. Then I traced each side of the buoy onto white paper so I could map out what I wanted to paint. I planned on a continuous scene that would wrap all the way around. Talking to Jim, he mentioned how much he loved puffins. So…puffins it is.
Master plan. I wasn’t sure if I could pull this off but what’s the worst that could happen. Its only paint.
Once I was satisfied with the pattern, I got out a piece of tracing paper and traced the pattern onto the buoy.
Tracing the pattern. 
Here goes… It took a few days to paint. I’m not sure where it will end up but here it is…
Front And a close up…
So cute. Wrapping around to the second side…
Side 2 On to the third side…
Side 3 Close up of the boat.
Sailing anyone? The fourth side is just water and sky with a few birds.
Birds in the sky. So, that’s what I’ve been up to lately.
Hanging buoy. Later.
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On This Day in Sawyer History Mar 9th
James E. Emerson, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States, claims an invention as it relates to the method of operating band saw mills. File claimed March 9, 1886.
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On This Day in Sawyer History Mar 05th
George Henry Branson of Michigan City, Indiana, USA, claims an invention of a Firewood Drag Saw. File claimed March 05, 1888. No. 266,165.
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On This Day in Sawyer History Mar 3rd
Philander Eggleston of Mobile, Alabama, claims an invention as it relates to circular saw mills. File claimed March 03, 1857. No. US16725A. -
On This Day in Sawyer History Feb 23rd
Charles Strong of Hartford, Vermont, claims an invention a new and useful improvement in sawmills. File claimed February 23, 1858, No. 19,454.
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On This Day in Sawyer History Feb 21st
Frederick T. Andrews, of Georgetown, District of Columbia, claims an invention as it relates to the method of operating vertical saws. File claimed February 21, 1854.
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Before I show you how we made this map, any guesses where it is? I’ll give you a hint. It’s on the east coast of the US.
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On This Day in Sawyer History Feb 18th
Richard H. Crouch, Pulaski, VA, United States, assignor to the Automatic Machinery Corporation, Pulaski, Va, a corporation of Virginia, claims an invention as it relates to an improvement in straight line cut off saws. File claimed February 18, 1937.
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On This Day in Sawyer History Feb 17th
Fred W. Reitz, of Evansville, Indiana, United States, claim to have invented certain new and useful improvements in lumber jacks. Filing date Fenruary 17, 1900. Serial No. 5,593.
