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I get out there a few nights a week and usually 4-6 hours on a weekend. With a toddler running around I usually only get out there after 8 on a week night and turn 8-11ish. I feel like I'm in the...

maybe it's my computer, I'm viewing these photos on a cheap HP netbook, here is another photo taken with the same settings, there's a penny in the photo, it's a shiny new penny so that will give you...

ok after much experimentation i think we're getting somewhere!
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shutter priority mode
F/5.6
iso-100
1/4 sec. exposure

most of the...

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OK, some more experimentation, i'll double check the WB but I'm pretty sure I've got it set. anyways, i've changed a few things around so it wouldn't hurt to re check it.

this one was...

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so I got a new background, some white ragboard, and i adjusted my camera to a custom white balance, and moved the lights back, difusd them a bit more with some press-n-seal. i think this is...

Yup I've got some stuff to work on for sure. I do plan on getting a better background. I also figgured out how to do the custom whitebalance. So I think it may be a fey days before I get the stuff I...

Great comments guys! Scott I think I've got the white balance figured out. Don, If I move the lights too much more to the side I get a shadowy front, but I'll try your suggestions and play around a...

Hey guys, I haven't had much time to post lately but I'm still turning. I'm working at setting up an online gallery for my stuff and my wife's pottery. So, I setup a light tent, but I'm not sure I'm...

Hey Everybody, thanks for the comments, I've turned one other Kauri bowl and the grain looked nothing like this one, the other one was really straight grain but had a really great opalecent thing...

Hey everybody, I haven't posted in a while but I've been turning(and chasing my 2 year old around). I turned this out over the weekend, it's not really finished yet, still needs some more oil maybe...

There's a few rivers I fish in western wi for trout(mainly). Yesterday I was on the Rush River near el paso, wi. Yesterday was all about copper johns and pheasant tail nymphs. I can't wait to get...

Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it overall. The feet are clearly my weakness, I don't currently have a way to reverse them for full access to the foot. My current method is to reverse it on a jam...

I think this will end up as a utility bowl or maybe not. I'm not sure if i like the burned foot or not. I wish i had more blanks from this tree. Anyone know where i can get some more Birdseye? ...

yeah even though it's frustrating, it's still fun. I was just going to chuck it in the firewood bin, but in the end i learned something i think.

Well this has been a fun one. I was just messing around with a small scrap of boxelder, and turned this jar:
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While parting off I misjudged where the bottom was and snap... I found the...

Snowing pretty good here, I'm hoping it'll snow enough today/tonight that i get a snow day. I doubt it.

trying to get some calls done in time for spring, turkey pots up next. hopefully i'll...

I believe PSI has something like that in their catalog.

I regularly wear fingerless fleece gloves and crocs(in the summer). yeah it's messy!

congrats! what is this WoW? I google it but i get nothing. hmmm.

I hope to meet some fellow creekers at the symposium this summer, looks like it's going to be a cool event. just about 2 miles from my house, how can i not go?

awesome, great thing the quarter is in there for scale, they appear much larger than they actually are! i may have to mess around in the scrap bin. did you use a chuck of some kind to hold them?
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Last summer I added a few vents to my garage to help keep it dry. I've been using a propane style torpedo heater in the garage to keep it warm, it puts out 80,000 btu and runs of a standard bbq...

looks like i should maybe i should just pony up and order a monster rig. frickin Laser beams. in the mean time i'll play around with the sharpening on the sorby. as always thanks for the great...

So currently I'm using the Sorby hollowmaster and although it works, I don't enjoy using it(feels like I'm fighting the tool most of the time, even when I'm getting good cuts). I'm looking into an...

I bought some like that at craft supplies USA, I liked the stainless steel ones that they sell, it seemed to seal the bottle pretty well. Good luck!