AWGB Woodturning Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: turningoakwood on December 30, 2020, 10:44:16 PM
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I thought I should introduce myself as a new member of this forum.
I live in Suffolk and have been turning for about 5 years. I currently use a Hegner lathe although retirement beckons in 2021 and I have my eyes on something more powerful - perhaps a Vicmarc or Oneway. I mainly turn bowls from locally sourced wood and use a Logosol kiln dryer/chamber to quick steam dry rough turned bowls. I give away most of what I produce although I have occasionally sold at charity events and auctions.
I look forward to contributing to your forum.
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Hi there
Welcome to the woody madhouse. I'm based just over the border in Norfick. Perhaps our paths will cross at some point.
All the best and a happy New Ear.
Brian
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Welcome to the forum. :)
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Hello,
I;m on the Norfolk / Suffolk I also use a Hegner Lathe I Have had it for 16 years.
I am a member of Diss and district Woodturning club.
John
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If you ae any where near Bury St Edmunds, let me have your email address and I will put you on the newsletter list and keep you informed of that wonderful day we reopen!
Or failing that look for clubs near you on the AWGB website
Ron
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Hello ( ??????? ) , is your name a secret :D
Welcome to the forum , Keep posting and please don't turn ( Like the pun ) into a one post wonder and gone :o
Can you post some photos of your work , We all like photos ;D
Have fun ??????
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Apologies for the anonymity, but until I retire (later this year) I will be nameless. No offence meant to anyone. It is simply for personal security.
I tried to post some pictures of my turning, but can’t work out how to get them small enough. However, if you would like to see some, I have an Instagram page “turningoakwood” which I keep up to date.
If anyone can tell me how to reduce the size of photos/videos so as to be compatible with this forum, I will gladly give it another try.
I certainly don’t intend being a one post member and will be starting a post about my Logosol kiln in the near future.
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You can just use your first name but only if you want to.
As to resizing photos it depends if you are using a Mac or a PC. On a Mac iResize is good. Photoscape works on both Mac and PC and is more of an image editor but does include a resize function. Both are free. Photos in jpg format about 80% compression / quality and 800px to 1000px on the long edge should get you to a suitable size for here. There are other image resize apps these are just a couple I have used.
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Re photo size I set my camera to 640 x 480 pixels , Ideal size for forum use , Then no need to re size , Hope this helps mystery man :D
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Thank you very much for the photo hints. I shall try one of the Apps on my iPad and see how that works.
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For an iPad you will have to look in the app store for an image resizer.
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For an iPad you will have to look in the app store for an image resizer.
I’ve found it quite rare to need an image resizer on an iPad. When you upload pictures you are given four options: Actual size, Large, Medium and Small. These built in options are all you need most of the time. On the rare cases I have needed anything else I’ve used an online resizer such as:
https://resizeimage.net/