Mesquite Vase

Re: Beautiful Mesquite Vase

Brad Vietje

>NICE !

I always knew you fellas down in Georgia were a little crooked, though ... ;)

Safe spinning,

Brad Vietje

Thetford, VT

Either the vase or you have a list.

Dave Smith, Longview, WA

>Hi Glenn,

Nice looking vase. Is that an added collar on the top? It appears to be too abrupt in the shape. The lines of the collar are too different from the rest of the beautiful vessel. I love the grain in this piece. As always I am impressed with your work.

Were there voids in the wood? The dark areas look to be some kind of filler. If so, what filler did you use.

For my information, how thick were the roughed out vessel walls? My experience with mesquite is that it dries very quickly with little distortion.

Dave Smith

Got a date this morning with a vampire in Longview, WA.

Re: Either the vase or you have a list.

Glenn Hodges

>Dave, forgot to mention the cocobolo collar, walls are 1/8 in thick. This piece was a small burl, and had a big void which I filled with coffee grounds and saturated with thin CA. Preciate the nice comment.

straightening pictures

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>living in earth-quake country, i'm always straightening pictures -- it's an addiction. hope it's ok.

nice work ... the collar might be a bit shorter but i might just be the perspective of the photo.

Re: straightening pictures

John K Jordan

>On the subject of straightening, there's a little trick in Photoshop that takes the guesswork out of straighting. Even the pro graphics people I've told hadn't heard of it.

I don't know how many people use Photoshop here so this tip may not be very useful. I'm used to the 3D graphics world where EVERYONE uses it! Photoshop, BTW, is hands-down the most widely used software for editing and adjusting digital images by professional graphic artists and photographers.

Select the Measure tool (under the eyedropper) and draw a line either along some horizontal or some vertical feature in the photo. For the photo here, I drew from the center of the top to the center of the bottom of the vase.

Then choose Image/Rotate Canvas/Arbitrary. The precise angle needed to straighten the photo will be calculated and already entered for you. In this case it gave me 4.18 degrees. Click OK and the image will be rotated by that amount.

I find this much quicker and more precise than rotating the image or selection by dragging a corner of the rotate transform. In addition, the Measure/Rotate Arbitrary method automatically increases the canvas size to avoid cutting off any of the corners.

If you need the original image size, crop with Fixed Size marquee and touch up the corners with the clone tool.

JKJ in East TN

Neat!

Jorge Castaneda ~ Downeast Maine

>Thanks for the tips John, very useful.

Jorge

Re: straightening pictures

Glenn Hodges

>Thanks for help on straighting the picture. My bad leg makes me lean sometimes. It looks so much better.

Nashville, Ga