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Post by woodman on Sept 10, 2019 9:03:58 GMT -5
I am as amazed as the deer are. That is a huge chunk of wood. I got a bigger piece of Saddle Mountain bog that I may cut also. wife got them in an estate sale years ago.
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Post by woodman on Sept 9, 2019 21:44:19 GMT -5
Are you dripping a slurry in the kerf? It looks like you're running it dry? Diamond segments and lubing with diesel, it ran without diesel just before I took this photo.
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Post by woodman on Sept 9, 2019 18:37:27 GMT -5
a couple of months ago I was going to cut a piece of Saddle Mountain Pet wood and got carried away with tractor and damaged the blade guides. Had to made new one. Any way it back together and i am cutting on the Saddle mountain wood. couple deer standing in the rain mowing my yard!
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Post by woodman on Sept 9, 2019 16:23:38 GMT -5
Either soak in household bleach or lay them out in the sun. If the material will bleach out , either method will work. does not work on all material. a bit more depth of field would help the stinkingwater pieces. I don't do we well photographing white. I take three pictures; one on a dop, one on cab stand and one next to a quarter on a wooden box. On the stand is best for white. It can make the dome look higher but that isn't an issue for this cab. The cabs are in the freezer so I can get them off the stick and then will take a picture on a cab stand. I did a lot of B&W film photography and had a lot of wide angle lenses to get the depth pf field I wanted. I haven't done a very good job of figuring out how to use my digital camera. I use the macro setting using natural light and everything else is auto. Understand, I am still trying to learn. I got away from using the auto settings unless I don't a have enough light. natural light is always the best but i match the white balance setting with the light i am using. I do take a lot under fluorescent light where I am using a tripod and a long exposure. It is fun to play with and the nice thing about digital cameras is that we can delete a lot of mistakes. I could not afford to use a film camera. I like to use the "p" setting on my canon where I set the iso and the camera takes over from there for most of my outside shots. If I want to play with depth of field I use the Av stting and vary the appperture to what I think I need. Heavy on the I think part! My method is pretty much trial and error. Wife said ethe other day That i need to get back to making cabs for her to wear!
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Post by woodman on Sept 9, 2019 15:01:37 GMT -5
Either soak in household bleach or lay them out in the sun. If the material will bleach out , either method will work. does not work on all material. a bit more depth of field would help the stinkingwater pieces.
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Post by woodman on Sept 6, 2019 14:09:37 GMT -5
Another piece of Blue Forest.
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Post by woodman on Sept 6, 2019 13:22:56 GMT -5
This is a piece of Hampton Butte also, agate and wood, don't think I will try and do anything with it. Makes a good dust collector.
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Post by woodman on Sept 6, 2019 9:31:16 GMT -5
this is another slab of the Jasper. I believe I posted this on here awhile back. The name Sage Jasper and Desert Sunset jasper were tossed around. I really have no idea what it is. I bought the chunk at a garage sale in Prineville Oregon a few years ago.
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Post by woodman on Sept 5, 2019 17:46:50 GMT -5
Casey quit and decided to do something else with his life and John does not have the people to keep it open for digging. the office and rock yard is open. Hope thing get getting the near future!
yeah hopefully it sorts itself out. Hard to imagine a shop surviving way out there without the digging part but I suppose wholesale or such would work. Thanks, just hard to imagine Richardson's being closed permanently....
New hours, shop is open 7 days a week, 9 to 5.
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Post by woodman on Sept 5, 2019 17:26:40 GMT -5
Casey quit and decided to do something else with his life and John does not have the people to keep it open for digging. the office and rock yard is open. Hope things get better in the near future!
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Post by woodman on Sept 5, 2019 17:11:07 GMT -5
Got one half polished today. Not too bad!
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Post by woodman on Sept 5, 2019 17:08:44 GMT -5
Got it polished today. took a real good polish that the photo does not really show.
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Post by woodman on Sept 4, 2019 19:59:54 GMT -5
Got t his one cut today, now to get it polished!
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Post by woodman on Sept 2, 2019 15:52:53 GMT -5
Kind of late on hounding the Richardson Ranch now... Only the shop sales exist (Long story) ... No digging, probably for a long time! They do have a stock pile you can look through though.. It is a good possibility that the digging may never reopen, at least for a long time. One can only hope.
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Books
Sept 2, 2019 9:06:05 GMT -5
Post by woodman on Sept 2, 2019 9:06:05 GMT -5
fernwood got the box.
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Post by woodman on Sept 1, 2019 17:24:15 GMT -5
This one is fresh and oily off the saw. should polish up great.
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Post by woodman on Sept 1, 2019 12:43:06 GMT -5
Make me an offer for these two books, would ship in a medium flat rate box so add that to your offer. Heck i might even throw in some Obsidian slabs and what else is laying around to fill the box.
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Post by woodman on Aug 25, 2019 22:37:10 GMT -5
indoor photo!
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Post by woodman on Aug 25, 2019 22:04:57 GMT -5
Magnificent! Love the green bits. The green bits are reflections from the overhead fir trees.
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Post by woodman on Aug 25, 2019 19:01:04 GMT -5
I am in the process to contour polish the rough end but decided in the maeantime to polsih the face. Will get to the contour polish someday, maybe! 11 inches across the polished face.
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