The Slippery Slope #2: The arrival, and so much more.

Douglas -

That is way too cool! Awesome plane and a very neat story.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Excellent trade!

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

Douglas

One awesome blog !

DAN

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

David, I’m about teary and snot-nosed about it. Let’s hope I learn how to use it to the effect it’s capable of. Tom sent me the test board he planed with it. No edge beads or ridges, just smooth burnished wood. What a day!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Great Douglas, And great job Tom.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Douglas -

I am sure this will be a great journey . . . the photo of you with that plane was priceless! It was so neat to share your special friendship with Tom.

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Thanks for the great story Douglas. I am more impressed everyday with Thomas, seems like quite a guy. Oh, he also does some beautiful work. Now go make something nice Douglas.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

Does this change the definition of “Bordnerizing”?

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

Obi .. don’t look.. tears in the workshop :)

Beautiful

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Alright, enough. I won’t be able to get my hat on with all this BS floating around. Douglas forgot to tell you what a great job he did for me on the photos and what a great big pile of them there were. I actually think I got the better of him in this deal. It actually worked out pretty well; any a time 2 horse traders walk away both thinking they got the better deal it’s a red letter day. Thanks Douglas for your efforts, not only for me but on this site as well.

-- Thos. Angle

Tom, you got a whole plane’s worth of time dollars coming. Plus a hunk of alder. Better get ‘em posted on the sharing site. I’ll warm up a bucket of pixels…

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Thanks guys, I’m all chocked up.

Go Lumberjocks!
Steve

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

How does one respond to such a story but to say, Wow. Is the place great, or what? A better group of folks is not to be found.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Great story, Doug! But I can just picture your wife looking at that photo of you lovingly holding those two planes, looking like you’re about to cry, and thinking “Wow…and they think women get emotional over weird stuff!”

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Doug;

When I first contacted you about helping on the website photos, Tom had no idea I was going to do that. I didn’t tell him , just in case you didn’t have the time.

Plus I figured like all of us, we’re proud, and don’t like asking for help. Something I hate to do, but strangely, don’t mind asking for someone else.

Tom has sent several copies of the retouched photos, along with comments about how great they looked, and also how glad he was that he didn’t have to do it, since he never would have gotten them to look so good!

This post, and another, posted by Tom, of your requested buffalo, shows the great character you both have.

You are both FINE men!

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

This is just great. Both of you are lucky devils!

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

Nice story…some amazing workmanship on that plane! Just proves what a great bunch of people rattle these web pages!

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

Thomas and Doug, . . . Thank you. Thank you both so very much.

-- Making sawdust is what I do best

Now there are two gents running around with hats that won’t seal down. Thanks all. Tom posted the jointer fence today.

Here’s a sample of what I did for him.

I figure he’s got about thirty more coming.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Charlie, I am the designated tear specialist in this marriage. I have a quick recovery time. Her eyes swell up for days if she gets a leak forming. I’m back to a guffaw within minutes. It’s another of God’s wonders (to us at least) that we found each other. There is (of course) a story about that, but it’s not lumberjock fare. Read C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. There is a rough parallel there.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I understand, Doug. When my wife wants to go to the movies, I vote for the action flick and she votes for the chick flick. Naturally, her vote counts double, so we go to the chick flick. Then, by the time the sad ending rolls around, she is sitting there dry-eyed while I’m sniffling and wiping the tears off my cheeks.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Well Douglas, that just goes to prove the great advantage of having Buddies.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Douglas

How complicated is it to change the background in your example?

Is it easily explained or is there a book that covers the technique?

Regards
DAN

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Dan,
Someone suggested using the magnetic lasso tool to path out the things you want to stay, but I have always found it to be cumbersome, prone to error and uneditable if things go wrong.
I create separate paths around and within objects with the bezier pen tool. Since Adobe Photoshop 6 using the tool actually creates a shape which fills as you create the path, which gets in the way of seeing what you are doing. To combat this, I double-click on the backgound layer in the layer palette, which unlocks the background layer. Then you can copy the layer and when that layer is visible you go back down to the first layer (Now Layer 0, no longer the called the background layer), and start working the pen tool. It creates the new shape layer between the two layers, allowing you to see the path being created without the annoying shape fill interfering. Then you draw by placing bezier points and pulling bezier handles until you have drawn a completed path around the object that you are knocking out of it’s background. Then in the path palette, you can save the work path if you wish and convert the path to a selection, invert the selection and cut the backgound out to transparent. The path remains, you can undo if you wish and re-edit the path at will.
You can then put whatever background you wish behind the retained object.

I recommend the Classroom in a Book series for all the Adobe Products. And the internet is filled with Photoshop tutorials. Hot Photoshop Mama (yep, that’s her handle) has a great one about how to dye someone’s hair that needs to cover her black roots. It’s a mask layer technique based on a drawn selection, a solid color fill and brightness/contrast and opacity controls. It’s also a great way to remove flashbulb flare from over-exposed photos, or excessive glare off shiny objects like glass or a gloss finish. If you look at Schroeder's workshop pictures in image 3 there is a big reflection of florescent bulbs right across the pin-up girl’s er, ah bosom. I wanted to create a bit of humor in having Deb inspecting his shop while studiously avoiding noticing the bare-chested lass up on the wall. So the glare was removed in the shop tour photo using the technique for hair root re-dye and some other fancy footwork.

I would also recommend that a person have their own licensed software (Creative Suite 2, which I have was $2400 a seat for single user license with Macromedia Studio 8 bundled) rather than relying on demos or code-cracked downloads. In the same way you or I probably would avoid getting a deal on a tablesaw purchased out of the back of a truck if we thought it had been stolen from another man’s shop; it is my contention that as a professional I not work with borrowed or misappropriated tools. I don’t want to risk the fine or incur the karma.

Thus endeth the lesson for the day. As you might note Adobe Photoshop has it’s own slippery slope.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Ok, now do you see why Doug does the photos and I build planes?????

-- Thos. Angle

and I wouldn’t have it any other way…

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

Well sure it sounds easy when he explains it, Tom. LOL!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Like heck it does!! It all sounds like Greek ot me.

-- Thos. Angle

I’m with you Tom, I read that explanation and then had to get some aspirin for my headache.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

clear as mud..

but then why would Douglas make it sound easy when he can get such a beautiful payment for his work!!
(just teasing you Douglas—for you, it is easy, for others… well… “huh”?)

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I’ve been planeing pixels way longer than wood. I’ve had a registered copy of Photoshop since 1991 (v.3) and Illustrator (v.7) since 2000. And I still have to seek out advice when I get into a corner, just like here.

In my book you can put Thomas Knoll (head of Adobe software) right up there with Tom Lie-Niesen, Ron Hock and Robin Lee as purveyors of revolutionary and exquisite tools.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.