leighton w wrote:
Very nice Chuong. Before I started farming, I used to make furniture. I inherited a whole shop of power tools from Barbara's Grandfather and loved working with wood. The cool thing about the tools is that they were all made in the 30's and still work fine.
My father was a carpenter / cabinet maker for all of his working life. I used to ‘help’ by cleaning up the shavings and sawdust in his workshop. I learnt a few skills too. Back in the day my father used to use some potent glues and chemicals. I often wonder if this played a part in his Parkinson’s disease. In his latter days he used modern chip board and MDF without a face mask in sight. Easy to use products but held together by glue. Nasty stuff. He had an employee who died from ALS.
cadman342001 wrote:
Welcome Elkins, you are in EXACTLY the right place.
The D700, D3, D3S are great bodies but for a little more up to date, much better DR, better high ISO but cheap these days, best bang for your buck you can't beat any of the D800 series (D800, D800E, D810) IMO.
And you're right, the viewfinder of an FX body is much nicer than any of the DX bodies.
Andy
I won a D300 on eBay for $81 last night. I figure that's a cheap way to play with my old lenses a bit. I can decide whether to pursue a better FX body after I see how these lenses look in digital. Since I'll be shooting thru the center with a DX body I expect they should be pretty sharp.
leighton w wrote:
Very nice Chuong. Before I started farming, I used to make furniture. I inherited a whole shop of power tools from Barbara's Grandfather and loved working with wood. The cool thing about the tools is that they were all made in the 30's and still work fine.
I know some of you are already masters of carpentry. I am relatively new. I finally established a small woodworking shop after a few years of searching for the right tools. Still need more tools but it's good for now.
Looks like I am following your path, Leighton. I am also picking up "farming" I grew up in a small village with a few thousand people working on the rice fields, I am rooted deep into the soil and the mud. No rice here but I am starting to plant tomatoes, green beans, snow peas, etc...
Talking about rice. I am intrigued to hear about the South Carolina golden rice. Not sure if anyone of us tasted it before but I hear that it's THE original rice.
It's lovely to hear that you got to play with the tools made in the 30's. I don't want my kids to inherit some of my 14.4K modems and rj45 cords
The quality of your work looks amazing.
Is this a door or a cabinet top?
Colin
raboof wrote:
Sharing another passion of mine. I haven't post much because I hate bringing my Df into a dusty environment. My ultimate goal is to be able to build a few badass telecasters because guitar is... another passion of mine. Been playing it since age 8. I am running out of time here
No, this is just a cutting board I am making for an old buddy from high school. He wants to cut sashimi with it . Can't go wrong withh black walnut and hard maple combo.
DeltaSigma wrote:
The quality of your work looks amazing.
Is this a door or a cabinet top?
DeltaSigma wrote:
My father was a carpenter / cabinet maker for all of his working life. I used to ‘help’ by cleaning up the shavings and sawdust in his workshop. I learnt a few skills too. Back in the day my father used to use some potent glues and chemicals. I often wonder if this played a part in his Parkinson’s disease. In his latter days he used modern chip board and MDF without a face mask in sight. Easy to use products but held together by glue. Nasty stuff. He had an employee who died from ALS.
I've often wondered about all the dust and what it did to the body. I had a dust collection and whole shop ambient air filtration system.
raboof wrote:
I know some of you are already masters of carpentry. I am relatively new. I finally established a small woodworking shop after a few years of searching for the right tools. Still need more tools but it's good for now.
Looks like I am following your path, Leighton. I am also picking up "farming" I grew up in a small village with a few thousand people working on the rice fields, I am rooted deep into the soil and the mud. No rice here but I am starting to plant tomatoes, green beans, snow peas, etc...
Talking about rice. I am intrigued to hear about the South Carolina golden rice. Not sure if anyone of us tasted it before but I hear that it's THE original rice.
It's lovely to hear that you got to play with the tools made in the 30's. I don't want my kids to inherit some of my 14.4K modems and rj45 cords
From what you have shared, it looks like you're off to a great start! When I started, I knew nothing. This was before the internet, so I watched hours of the New Yankee Workshop and read a lot. But the biggest help was just making something. I made a lot of mistakes, (still do) but eventually got fairly good at it. I will say it helps to have the right tools. In fact, when we moved here, the idea was for me to make furniture and sell it. But the County wouldn't let me because of zoning and it wasn't worth the fight.
I'm glad to hear you're you growing some yourself, more folks ought to, especially now. I love watching Youtube videos of farmers from around the world to see how they do things. The terraced rice paddies in some parts of the world amaze me.
cadman342001 wrote:
I've been admiring the twirl shots posted by Ani and Colin and thought I would investigate
Now normally, my processing is shall we say a little slap dash and frequently over done so I surprised my self by stopping the action a little short of where they did but I did kinda like how this shot of one of the holy men on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi
gbohannon wrote:
You have got to be kidding me. Smother the craftsmen, yep brilliant idea. I better stop now...
G
They told me it was because we lived in "Exclusive Agriculture" and thus could not have a retail outlet. The only exception was that if I built a heated breezeway connecting the house to the shop, then it would be permitted. But, we spent all the money we had to build this place and I didn't want to take out a loan to do it.
Maybe lessons learned from the Covid shutdown will shed light on politicians who live by the “do as I say and not as I do” philosophy. Every state has found useless regulations, some now waived, that served no useful purpose other than to impose fees on the public.
Elkins45 wrote:
I won a D300 on eBay for $81 last night. I figure that's a cheap way to play with my old lenses a bit. I can decide whether to pursue a better FX body after I see how these lenses look in digital. Since I'll be shooting thru the center with a DX body I expect they should be pretty sharp.
The D300 is a nice camera. I owned one when I first discovered this thread, and used it with manual focus lenses a lot.
I even installed a split prism focus screen in mine.
A friend of mine also still uses a D300 as his only digital camera. He is a hobby birder and the DX format certainly suits his type of photography.
Personally, chasing for as narrow a DoF as I could manage, I ended up stepping up to a D3. Prices have come down on those, and I consider them very good digital cameras, and would not have upgraded to a D800 had my D3 not quit on me.
If not good for BIF, then aircraft in the air are also probably not a good thing to try... ?
Chris Dees wrote:
You will be sold if you try. It’s not suitable for BIF, but better in everything else. IBIS, focus peaking, 100% enlargement while focussing and I can go on.
Dang, we only got two planes down here! We was robbed!
pbraymond wrote:
Something different, looking up to the sky.Way late challenge #5, but this was unusual. Scheduled salute for front-line workers from the Ohio 180th Fighter Wing. From my backyard, the 180mm was not quite long enough. Have closer shot but with the 70-300 AF-P.
leighton w wrote:
Very nice Chuong. Before I started farming, I used to make furniture. I inherited a whole shop of power tools from Barbara's Grandfather and loved working with wood. The cool thing about the tools is that they were all made in the 30's and still work fine.
I’m so very jealous. I love wood working. Did a lot when I was in school. My dad could have been either a master carpenter or, what he wanted, a high school shop teacher. Vietnam happened and he got pulled into the military. I have a few of his smaller pieces, mainly a chess set that he made by hand. I will try to photograph them this weekend.
kwoodard wrote:
I’m so very jealous. I love wood working. Did a lot when I was in school. My dad could have been either a master carpenter or, what he wanted, a high school shop teacher. Vietnam happened and he got pulled into the military. I have a few of his smaller pieces, mainly a chess set that he made by hand. I will try to photograph them this weekend.
Kevin, since you mentioned that it was your dad's dream...it was my dad's dream too. He fought under the South Vietnamese Army and you know the rest of the story. 13 years in concentration camp took a lot of dreams from him.
He never get to know me because I was 14 months old and he was gone for the next 13 years.
I picked up woodworking probably in the back of my mind, because I wanted to connect with him. I know his dreams. I wanted him to live through me (like most parents always say)...although he never mentioned it.
I hope your dad finds peace. I hope mine too. Such a painful history.... exactly 45 years ago.
the solitaire wrote:
The D300 is a nice camera. I owned one when I first discovered this thread, and used it with manual focus lenses a lot.
I even installed a split prism focus screen in mine.
A friend of mine also still uses a D300 as his only digital camera. He is a hobby birder and the DX format certainly suits his type of photography.
Personally, chasing for as narrow a DoF as I could manage, I ended up stepping up to a D3. Prices have come down on those, and I consider them very good digital cameras, and would not have upgraded to a D800 had my D3 not quit on me. ...Show more →
I’m giving some thought to a D610 if I decide to go FX. You can get a USA body with battery grip and a 50mm F1.8 for around $900 as part of a kit. I don’t have any use for the 50 but you can buy the kit for less than a bare body.
I grew up in a small village with a few thousand people working on the rice fields, I am rooted deep into the soil and the mud. No rice here but I am starting to plant tomatoes, green beans, snow peas, etc...
But, we spent all the money we had to build this place and I didn't want to take out a loan to do it. 