>I attended another class at Dogwood this w/e and these guys are really teaching me alot. I'm such a novice with hand tools so I thought what the heck, I'll take some classes. Craig Satterlee and Jim Stafford have really taught me alot in the 3 two day classes I've had so far. We built a small bench this w/e by hand planing all the boards. Hand cut the dovetail corner joints and the mortices and tenons for the stretcher, which I kept calling a stringer and made Craig correct me and laugh alot. Here's a shot of the one side of the school with the beautiful benches Ron purchased for the classes. I'll send the pic of the project in another post.
>Jeff - by the time I get it down to 40k it shrinks this much. My camera starts out at about a half meg. Do you know how to reduce the pixel without reducing size?
>Couple of things that you can do. Since this is a jpg, you can vary the compression level to change the byte size. Make it about 640 or so on the long dimension to start with, then change the compression a bit at a time until you get it below 40K. It also helps sometimes to change the color depth to 256 rather that tru color. If you have problems, e-mail me the picture as it was originally, and I will se what I can do with it. I will also tell you exactly what I did.
