Monthly Archives: April 2008

Photo lighting

Posted on April 16, 2008 Filed Under Photography

In wood turning we often need to take photo of our end products. I found this photo lighting video on Utube very useful. 2 Days in Paris psp Prophotolife.com Horrible full -zARqGgHjNc Donnie

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SketchUp Recognizes Woodturning

Posted on April 14, 2008 Filed Under Site

The Devil’s Rejects the movie This week we got an awesome mention in the SketchUp blog. This is great exposure toward the advancement of “3D Woodturning Modeling”. “I was just alerted to the presence of a really neat blog about using SketchUp for woodturning. It’s called Turnedoutright, and it’s worth a look — even [...]

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NAF flute is complete

Posted on April 11, 2008 Filed Under Flutes

The flute I started many moons ago is finally complete. More technical details are at The Pied Piper Visits the Shop! This flute is unique in the following ways: It is made almost totally on the lathe! It has a +30 inch drilled cylinder. It is not assembled from two halves like most flutes It is a “D” flute so [...]

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Tax returns? Stubby gets an extension

Posted on April 1, 2008 Filed Under Tools

Seems like this was timely. Just as all of us are thinking about taxes and some of us are getting extensions I did the same to my stubby . The Haunting in Connecticut full My Canadian turning cohort found us a couple of used stubby beds. Since the stubby beds are short they can be connected [...]

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