Nick would be proud
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NickfromWI
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Congrats! Blaze is a hard rope to learn on. What directions did you use?
Let's see some pictures!!!
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nick
Let's see some pictures!!!
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nick
- Location
- Baltimore, MD.
Very nice job. /forum/images/graemlins/applaudit.gif
What did you wrap the splice with?
How long did it take you?
Looking forward to seeing you at Arbor X's in a couple of weeks, Nick, so I can earn my blisters. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Thanks,
Jim
What did you wrap the splice with?
How long did it take you?
Looking forward to seeing you at Arbor X's in a couple of weeks, Nick, so I can earn my blisters. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Thanks,
Jim
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- Retired in Minneapolis
Glen,
Do you have a photo editing program? Paint should be in your Word suite but it is kind of clunky.
Crop off the extra stuff that aren't needed first. Then set the display to about 70 pixels. Last, set the dimensions to around 500 x 500 pixels. If you do all of these things those of us on dial-up can look at the pics.
Do you have a photo editing program? Paint should be in your Word suite but it is kind of clunky.
Crop off the extra stuff that aren't needed first. Then set the display to about 70 pixels. Last, set the dimensions to around 500 x 500 pixels. If you do all of these things those of us on dial-up can look at the pics.
Here they are resized to 30% of original (2048x1536!), profile data stripped (~10KB of camera identification, aperture, exposure, date, etc. information), sharpened, JPEG quality reduced from 90% to 75%, and the darker one gamma increased by a factor of 1.25.
First one (by image name) down from 666,957 bytes to 45,879.
First one (by image name) down from 666,957 bytes to 45,879.
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NickfromWI
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Splices look pretty darn good.
Are the cover and core balanced in the eye?
Is the wrapping (tape, I'm assuming) for friction saver retreival.
Did you stitch the splice using small stitches, as per Toss's video?
Keep it up, and congrats on figuring out the digi-cam. Copy photos into the cheapy microsoft paint program to quickly crop and resize them. It will keep glen happy!
Jim- see you there. You better be ready!
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nick
Are the cover and core balanced in the eye?
Is the wrapping (tape, I'm assuming) for friction saver retreival.
Did you stitch the splice using small stitches, as per Toss's video?
Keep it up, and congrats on figuring out the digi-cam. Copy photos into the cheapy microsoft paint program to quickly crop and resize them. It will keep glen happy!
Jim- see you there. You better be ready!
love
nick
Nick, I used one strand of the cover to stitch it, on previous splices I whipped it with splicing twine. Yes the tape is to retrieve friction saver. Do you think I should back it up with more stitching? Also the overlap appears to be well tapered, very smooth to the touch.
John, you replied to me as murse, which is true but you also should know me in person since we were shoulder to shoulder working on the mn tcc. Anyway I never thought of placing that tail inside the fixie, just plain stupid I guess! Man what an idiot, thanks a bunch I'll try it and get back to you, it sounds like a great idea.
Tom and Glen (always a pleasure meeting another Glen in the world) Thanks for the cropping input I'll give it a shot/forum/images/graemlins/spinrhead.gif. p.s. If I fail, Glen, don't you let me get away with it!
Glen P.
John, you replied to me as murse, which is true but you also should know me in person since we were shoulder to shoulder working on the mn tcc. Anyway I never thought of placing that tail inside the fixie, just plain stupid I guess! Man what an idiot, thanks a bunch I'll try it and get back to you, it sounds like a great idea.
Tom and Glen (always a pleasure meeting another Glen in the world) Thanks for the cropping input I'll give it a shot/forum/images/graemlins/spinrhead.gif. p.s. If I fail, Glen, don't you let me get away with it!
Glen P.
NickfromWI
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If you stitched it like shown on the toss video, ensuring the cover and core are locked together, I'd be content with that.
How do you install the rope into the rope guide, if the tape is big enough to not bit through the ring, how do you get it through in the first place?
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nick
How do you install the rope into the rope guide, if the tape is big enough to not bit through the ring, how do you get it through in the first place?
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nick
Nick, I use a sling with a cmi pulley on one side and a biner on the other, my line runs through the pulley(which is fastened to my line prior to entry) and biner, on retrieval my spliced end goes through biner and snags pulley and then done deal. Fresco calls them "dream sickles" or something like that. If I'm still trying to figure out this cropping deal you guys told me about, I don't have much time to work on it with a 1 1/2 yr old running around or I'd shoot you a picture. Maybe later.
Jim, the first splice took me hours!, the second about 45 min.
Jim, the first splice took me hours!, the second about 45 min.
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John, you replied to me as murse, which is true but you also should know me in person since we were shoulder to shoulder working on the mn tcc.
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You goof ball! I know who you are, you footlocking freak!
I was going to respond to you as Glen, but then I realized Glens was in on this thread too. Just trying not to confuse everyone.Ya know Glen/ Glens.
The tape on your splice? hockey tape?
John, you replied to me as murse, which is true but you also should know me in person since we were shoulder to shoulder working on the mn tcc.
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You goof ball! I know who you are, you footlocking freak!
I was going to respond to you as Glen, but then I realized Glens was in on this thread too. Just trying not to confuse everyone.Ya know Glen/ Glens.
The tape on your splice? hockey tape?
Hey namesake!
Glen (one n) is a relatively rare name in my experience. Aside from predecessors in my family, I'd only ever run across one other throughout my childhood. Then, when working out west, there were 5 or 6 of us on one shift. It was nice not having to answer pages on the assumption it must have been one of the others!
I'm not going to tell you it's easy to use overall, but the suite of free (as both in "free beer" and "free speech" 'cause you can have the source code and modify/distribute as you see fit) image manipulation software from http://imagemagick.org is nothing if not powerful. I only scratch the surface of its capabilities when I issue such commands as (should be one long line)
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>convert -resize 30% -strip -sharpen 0x1 -quality 75 original.jpg modified.jpg</pre><hr />or
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>convert -thumbnail 80x80 original.jpg modified.jpg</pre><hr />to first create Web-friendly images for attachments or secondly to create Web-friendly images for avatars.
In that (those) sense(s) it could not be easier to use, leaving the original ("original.jpg" in the examples) unmolested and providing a shiny new modified-as-directed copy ("modified.jpg" in the examples) alongside it.
There are several executables like "mogrify", "convert", "identify", and more, in the package. The one you'd be interested is "convert". I guess it's entirely possible to create web-graphics with fancy text entirely from the command line with the stuff. (see the tutor page for text at http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/fonts/ [don't try to learn it all or even really understand it, just flip through the page and see the commands issued in the boxes and the results of the commands below them {the "\" at the end of a line of command merely means the command continues on the next line -- it's effectively all one long line of text}])
I used "composite" to wedge three different avatars (from people who'd said they couldn't upload new ones) into the one I've got for the time being.
Enjoy.
GlenS
Glen (one n) is a relatively rare name in my experience. Aside from predecessors in my family, I'd only ever run across one other throughout my childhood. Then, when working out west, there were 5 or 6 of us on one shift. It was nice not having to answer pages on the assumption it must have been one of the others!
I'm not going to tell you it's easy to use overall, but the suite of free (as both in "free beer" and "free speech" 'cause you can have the source code and modify/distribute as you see fit) image manipulation software from http://imagemagick.org is nothing if not powerful. I only scratch the surface of its capabilities when I issue such commands as (should be one long line)
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>convert -resize 30% -strip -sharpen 0x1 -quality 75 original.jpg modified.jpg</pre><hr />or
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>convert -thumbnail 80x80 original.jpg modified.jpg</pre><hr />to first create Web-friendly images for attachments or secondly to create Web-friendly images for avatars.
In that (those) sense(s) it could not be easier to use, leaving the original ("original.jpg" in the examples) unmolested and providing a shiny new modified-as-directed copy ("modified.jpg" in the examples) alongside it.
There are several executables like "mogrify", "convert", "identify", and more, in the package. The one you'd be interested is "convert". I guess it's entirely possible to create web-graphics with fancy text entirely from the command line with the stuff. (see the tutor page for text at http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/fonts/ [don't try to learn it all or even really understand it, just flip through the page and see the commands issued in the boxes and the results of the commands below them {the "\" at the end of a line of command merely means the command continues on the next line -- it's effectively all one long line of text}])
I used "composite" to wedge three different avatars (from people who'd said they couldn't upload new ones) into the one I've got for the time being.
Enjoy.
GlenS
Okay, I changed the resolution on my camera, I think this may do the trick and would be far easier (for me) then glens method of madness/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif, so let me know if it is sutable for download.
Nick, this pic is what I was trying to describe earlier, and check out the 9.5lbs walley!/forum/images/graemlins/rock.gif
John, I was not sure you knew it was me /forum/images/graemlins/damnmate.gif
Nick, this pic is what I was trying to describe earlier, and check out the 9.5lbs walley!/forum/images/graemlins/rock.gif
John, I was not sure you knew it was me /forum/images/graemlins/damnmate.gif
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John, shouldn't you be out working right now? A little rain doesn't stop you does it!... lol It has been raining for weeks straight, enough to get a person depressed. Anyway john, I caught it 1 1/2 yrs ago, yes I fish as much as I can. It's hard to have the time working two jobs, when lorie (spouce) gets her practice rolling I'll back off on the hours and we will go fishing there "boots"
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