Random Picture Thread

[day_trippr]

That's spectacular

 

[corkybstewart]

Store brand Special K cereal in France. Just like the name brand cereal here it's made with oats, rice, barley, and dark chocolate flakes. Also available with milk chocolate.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

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The Eye of Mrs Sauron

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Bad Pic, through a screen door, backyard piebald PA whitetail, fawn last year, grown up a little now.

 

[GrogNerd]

Putting a LIQUID ASS advert right there as you walk in the door is just shameless pandering.
These are my people. They KNOW me. They UNDERSTAND.
How can it not be my new favorite store?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Putting a LIQUID ASS advert right there as you walk in the door is just shameless pandering.
These are my people. They KNOW me. They UNDERSTAND.
How can it not be my new favorite store?

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I threatened the idiot who sprayed that into the intake for the building AC with spraying the entire bottle up his left nostril if he ever did that again. That stuff is vile.

 

[GrogNerd]

oh, I wouldn't use it for evil.

trust me!

 

[Sailingeric]

Spotted at my local Safeway this morning. It is not even October!..

 

[balrog]

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because you're further North.
And closer to the international date line.
maybe

 

[Broken Crow]

because you're further North.
And closer to the international date line.
maybe

No excuse!!! I'm in Canada and breathlessly counting down the next 9 days before I'm willing to see the first Jack-O-Lanterns!!
[...as it is I'm still fearful to look around the world or online because of the 'Pumpkin Spice' everything that I already have to tolerate around my favourite holiday!]

(skip the first 25 seconds)

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

 

[corkybstewart]

The Vienne River at Riviere.

 

[GrogNerd]

our local Wally World has Halloween, Christmas, BBQ, lawn & pool stuff all within reach of each other

 

[GrogNerd]

this one guards the entrance to the Weeping Radish, a restaurant brewery on the way to OBX

 

[balrog]

Put yer thinking caps on a name this wood. Kinda red/orange, dense like walnut. From my late FIL’s stash. He was going to use to make knife handles I think

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Mahogany or California redwood?

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Not a clue, but maybe https://woodidentification.net/about/ might be useful.

 

[balrog]

Mahogany or California redwood?

Much too heavy for mahogany, and the pores are not as prominent, at least on the mahogany samples I also have at hand. But that's a really good thought and I can see your point in picking mahogany.

Not a clue, but maybe https://woodidentification.net/about/ might be useful.

that led me to diff places online and I'm now thinking it is Paduak, which means I should have used a damned mask when sanding.

Warning for others, the toxicity is allergy related more than anything.
https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?106789-Toxic-Woods-Padauk-amp-Others

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Much too heavy for mahogany, and the pores are not as prominent, at least on the mahogany samples I also have at hand. But that's a really good thought and I can see your point in picking mahogany.

that led me to diff places online and I'm now thinking it is Paduak, which means I should have used a damned mask when sanding.

Warning for others, the toxicity is allergy related more than anything.
https://sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?106789-Toxic-Woods-Padauk-amp-Others

Well if you didn't have a reaction that isn't uncommon.. but if you do react to it then you likely have figured out that it is indeed padauk

 

[balrog]

It also helps if I don't mispell it. Luckily, no reaction, but my FIL did buy these chunks of weird stuff, purple heart, wenge, etc so I'm betting it was padauk.

 

[ehall]

maybe acacia or teak?

 

[Broken Crow]

My deepest apologies for nagging but I thought I might have had it and so came back for another look but the server seems to be under a bit of a load and it took forever for the image to load after 3 fails. Maybe some of that is on my fibre-service providers side, maybe some of that is on my aging hardware side.
To be clear: I Love you Lot! I Love to look at the pics...BUT: Could you PLEASE shrink the image size? It doesn't take 5MB to show the detail that can be shown for most of these images in 50kB or less.
Sorry to nag. ...maybe it's just me.

 

[balrog]

My deepest apologies for nagging but I thought I might have had it and so came back for another look but the server seems to be under a bit of a load and it took forever for the image to load after 3 fails. Maybe some of that is on my fibre-service providers side, maybe some of that is on my aging hardware side.
To be clear: I Love you Lot! I Love to look at the pics...BUT: Could you PLEASE shrink the image size? It doesn't take 5MB to show the detail that can be shown for most of these images in 50kB or less.
Sorry to nag. ...maybe it's just me.

is this any better?

 

[Broken Crow]

is this any better?
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Thanks! ...though, not to point fingers but your original image was 1.5mb.....on my previous attempts it was the far larger images in earlier posts that plugged the plumbing.. it never made it down to yours!
I hate being a nag, but I also don't talk behind people's backs and thought that the membership in general might find this to be useful input.

EDIT: Oh I forgot!!! I thought it might be Cherry, but now I don't think so. (I'm still relearning stuff)

 

[GrogNerd]

red oak would be my guess, but most of the sawdust I create is of the maple variety

 

[pvpeacock]

 

[Skeeter686]

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You'd think you could at least see Superman's red cape fluttering underneath!

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Hover barges, the new way to travel the Panama canal.

 

[Sailingeric]

is this any better

I am 85% sure it is bubinga... I do enjoy wood working have used it before.

 

[scrap iron]

I'm gonna steal this idea for taco Tuesday next week.

 

[balrog]

I am 85% sure it is bubinga... I do enjoy wood working have used it before.

Hm.
You may be onto something.
Given the images Google shows me, it's hard for me to tell bubinga from padauk.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

 

[Sailingeric]

Hm.
You may be onto something.
Given the images Google shows me, it's hard for me to tell bubinga from padauk.

Padauk is very red and has a sweet smell when cut, almost like playdough and the dust is very very powdery.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

Now that's privacy

 

[day_trippr]

"Honey, we're all out of milk! Go get some please!"

 

[pvtpublic]

Now that's privacy


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It's not privacy if someone took a picture of it...

 

[BongoYodeler]

When I lived in NY we had a cottage in the Thousand Islands region. There were quite a few cottages/summer homes like the one above, where you better not be a sleepwalker.

 

[Skeeter686]

When I lived in NY we had a cottage in the Thousand Islands region. There were quite a few cottages/summer homes like the one above, where you better not be a sleepwalker.


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This impresses me as something that sounds amazing and beautiful and tranquil and lovely... right up until you actually have to deal with the reality of living on a rock that's scarcely bigger than your house. To each, his own.

 

[BongoYodeler]

This impresses me as something that sounds amazing and beautiful and tranquil and lovely... right up until you actually have to deal with the reality of living on a rock that's scarcely bigger than your house. To each, his own.

Yeah, I couldn’t do it either. Our cottage was on an island, nearly 10 miles long though, with a bridge connecting it to the mainland and room to roam.

 

[balrog]

When I lived in NY we had a cottage in the Thousand Islands region. There were quite a few cottages/summer homes like the one above, where you better not be a sleepwalker.


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This impresses me as something that sounds amazing and beautiful and tranquil and lovely... right up until you actually have to deal with the reality of living on a rock that's scarcely bigger than your house. To each, his own.

Agree completely. There's no place to play Kubb.