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Offline DeadNutz

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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2020, 08:40:25 AM »
Very nice work and looks great. Thanks also for all the tips included in the post as they will help if I have to cut glass.

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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2020, 09:45:48 AM »
Thanks guys!

DN - cutting glass can seem like a fussy way to waste a lot of glass but if you use good practice you can get predictable results. I was talking with a friend and we had a discussion about glass cutting earlier in the day before I wrote that so I guess it was on my mind.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2020, 11:17:25 AM »
 Very nice.  A bit of family history in a classy display.

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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #18 on: August 10, 2020, 11:52:24 AM »
Lotta work, but a great job, and makes a very nice display.
I don't have the patience to do all that these days.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2020, 02:25:27 PM »
Very nice finished project. You have honored him well.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2020, 02:54:18 PM »
Was this little project a warm up before the space patches?

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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2020, 03:03:24 PM »
I guess it was a warm up for the patches.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #22 on: August 10, 2020, 08:32:24 PM »
Great job. I see a paratrooper pin, any pins have extra significant sentimental value?

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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #23 on: August 10, 2020, 08:44:10 PM »
Very nice job Jaffa. Now I know where to send all my random pin finds.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #24 on: August 10, 2020, 11:25:52 PM »
Muddy the only one that has meaning is the wings. The rest are just stuff.

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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #25 on: August 10, 2020, 11:54:08 PM »
Very nice work.
It reminds me that I need a shadow box for my grandfather's 4th AD unit patch and memorabilia and the rest of the things from his deployment to Europe during the war.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #26 on: August 11, 2020, 12:59:37 AM »
You should do it and post some pix when you're done. It's a nice way to honor him, his service and keep it all together.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #27 on: August 11, 2020, 07:21:52 PM »
Be afraid.... be very afraid.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #28 on: August 11, 2020, 09:32:12 PM »
I am.
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Re: A Small Shadow Box Project
« Reply #29 on: August 11, 2020, 11:02:05 PM »
I remember reading about training a small group of US Marines in parachuting early in WW II.  It was discontinued for a number of reasons,  very likely your father was one of that small group?   I was taught glass cutting by an uncle long ago, (Thanks Riley), have cut down a lot of window glass, and broken some. A necessary thing when living in a house whose windows are no longer considered a standard size.   Something I do while cutting is to do it on the flattest surface available.