This is a test....

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...of patience!  I am learning to post pics. I wonder if this will work?



This is Teensawyer and Dad at my place this summer.

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I can't believe I did it.... wait, how did I do it?

[Part_Timer]

You did a fine job  8)  8)  8)  8)  8)  8)


What ya sawing.  Looks like ya got plenty of help.

[etat]

Well it's a GREAt picture and look forward to seeing more!!!!!!!

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Here is one more for practice.



This is an ash that came out of the neighborhood.  The home owner couldn't believe I wouldn't charge anything to take the log away. ;D  The wood is now bunk beds for the boys.

Teensawyer is quartersawing a Pin oak.  That was one of five oaks that size he sawed that week. I'll get to more pics of those later.

[beenthere]

Glad you are getting some pics up. You must be grabbing the corners and moving them to 'size' your pic, as there appears to be a lot of distortion. What program are you using? Keep practicing, it will get to be perfect that way. 

[rbarshaw]

How did that Pin Oak turn out, I have several of them here and have heard that they'r not good for anything?

[TN_man]

Hey Chris,
You got the hang of it, almost. But whatever you are doing don't change it, it makes me look thinner and Teenswinger taller. So we like it. ;D

[metalspinner]

Rbarshaw,
The pin oak is beautiful!  The color and quartered figure is spectacular.  The other large oak  cut that week was a black oak I believe.  It didn't look as nice.  However that tree was dying a slow miserable death.  The lumber had plenty of staining and shake in it.



I know you cannot see things from this shot.  The wood is already in the kiln and I don't have pics of it. 




You can see the black oak in the upper right corner with it's dark staining.  The hollow log next to it was the second 8' log.   I'll leave your to imagination what the third log looked like.  The little one's up front were the spectacular one's.
BTW, the swing mill makes perfect lumber.  This was my second go-around with Teenswinger and TN-man and they did a terific job each time.

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Sorry...here's that second pic.

[Ernie]

You're comin along nicely.  Good to see that you got the basketball team involved in your first pic.

[Dan_Shade]

your pictures are distorted a bit because of a thing called "aspect ratio".

there is probably an option in your software to "maintain aspect ratio", or "preserve aspect ratio" or something like that

looks good, though!

[metalspinner]

Yes,
I was adjusting the vertical and horizontal independently to get each direction to 400 .  That was the mistake.  This was with XAT.com.  I stopped doing that after I shank my burl to much.  Maybe if I would have enlarged the burl I could have printed a larger one ! :D :D

[rbarshaw]

Thank's for the info about the pin oak. Does anyone know if that is different from water oak?