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[Steev]

I don't like being forced to do stuff by the actions of these jerks either, but if you have any information on computer or online that you would not share with someone else, then good password security is a must. To go the other way, have no online life at all, but that's getting harder to do by the...

[Steev]

There's lists of user name and password combinations floating around the shady parts of the internet that were taken from compromised websites. If you use the same one everywhere all the time then your password could be out there from the last time. That's why we're constantly being told to change them...

[Steev]

Is that a check in the wood going through her ear? That would be unfortunate. I hope you can fill it.
I've heard the advice to do the face first, but I can't seem to get the image of the face in my mind until I have the surrounding areas basically complete.

[Steev]

Nebraska made some nice comments on my carvings which reminded me that I never posted finished photos of this carving because I never could take some photos I liked. So I tried some more....

[Steev]

If you have a "page" rather than your personal profile, you will get all these notifications from Facebook advertising to "boost" posts and the like. I run the Facebook page for my carving club and my church and it's pretty constant but not too hard to mark as read and ignore....

[Steev]

I clamp the blade in the vice and pull on the handle until it comes off. With the blade upright in the vice the cutting edge is not damaged and when the bond lets go, the pointy bits are held stationary.

[Steev]

Now she's taking shape.

[Steev]

That looks like a great site for finding pictures for carving, thanks

[Steev]

This is exactly why I still come here instead of Facebook. Conversations are still here and can be found months/years later when you remember something that you saw and want to check again. With social media, it can be gone five minutes later....

[Steev]

With my glue up, all the pieces were cut from the same board. I took care to make arrow marks on the sides and top of the boards to maintain the same orientation for all boards. It's the side marks that were important because I had a neighbour joint the faces flat for a close glue-up...

[Steev]

Hi Rick,
In the top left corner, just beside the sender's avatar, there is a box you can check. Do this on each message you want to delete, then click the delete button along the top bar of the message pane.

[Steev]

I have some blocks of bass wood jointed flat to be glued up for a bust. I’ll be following this closely.

[Steev]

I think he might be a member on this forum under the user Clayton707
However, for insurance purposes, if something happened to the carving, all they could do is give cash according to some kind of evaluation, they couldn't replace the carving, perhaps neither could the original carver, so unless...

[Steev]

You will get widely varying opinions on this. Some will day it's hugely beneficial, some think it doesn't matter. My opinion, it can be useful, but you can carve just fine without being able to draw. It does depend quite a bit on carving style as well, for whittling I think it's not so important.

[Steev]

No idea if this is relevant but I saw a mention on another site this morning that Sassafras "Smells great when freshly cut"

[Steev]

I've never considered this before, but I would suggest for faces A and C as there would be less tendency for the nose to split off.