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haven't posted here in a while, things have been insane. So, so far my boss has left, and his boss (who reported to our president) also left. So, not so good. Then a guy that worked for perhaps our biggest rival got hired and is now my boss.. Who knows what else is about to go down. People will get letters this week with an offer from HP. If you don't get a letter, well you're gone. So, with that wonderful news in hand, I had to present at what we call our Customer Advisory Board, where we bring all our customers in and wine and dine them and tell them how great we are, etc. I figured that this would be the perfect time to get shit faced and relaxed, as this is basically a three day party. So, we went to Maria Maria, Carlos Santana's joint here in town and had a big dinner... well, things were going well (I was buzzed and avoiding all the right people) when our current president sits across from me, and two of the big wigs from HP.. yeah, sorta annoying. Things went well (from what I remember at least, heh) and ended up hitting a hookah bar with one of the HP guys and my former bosses and my new boss afterwards and having a good time. Anyways, it will be an interesting next month or so. I feel like I'm starting a new job in a sense, with the new manager and company, etc. Going from a company of around 300 people to being part of a company of 300,000 people is a huge change... wish I had a bed full of money to ease my pain like a good number of people do from the sale

I'm nearly finished with first attempt at a four layer board. I've never really needed the extra layers until now. This particular board contains all through-hole parts. I managed to route everything in two layers except for power and ground. This is a 100% digital design. The idea was to create one solid plane for ground and stick this in its own layer, and another for Vcc and put it in its own layer as well. So, I did this. I was thinking of putting the ground layer as the top layer, and the Vcc layer as the bottom layer. Anything I should keep in mind, when setting up these two new layers as GND and Vcc? Seems to work fine, with both as planes, but this is my first four layer project and just didn't know if there were anything common things to look out for.

maybe you can sell some of the mystery wood to these geeks: Wood Collecting with IWCS

I think the PanaVise Model 201 "Junior" might suffice.

ooooh, exciting!

The reason I'd never consider a super tweeter in the traditional application as an "add-on" would be the problems that it would add in the time/phase domain. My ears say that this is important. I'd consider one if the speaker was designed for one, depending on the design decisions. It's very difficult to integrate multiple drivers and my experience designing crossovers says the higher the frequency that you have to integrate, the harder it is, so I'd expect it to be a very hard nut to crack.

Good choice!

I have one Savinelli, it's a Churchwarden. Nice smoke.

yeah, that's what I was confused about as well.. anyways, I've probably already tempted the fates enough making a smart ass comment, so I'll go and burn lesser woods in a sacrifice to make amends.

Well, I have a funny story about this "African Palisander". If you Google it, you'll find that no one sells it, and you'll see that many high end game boards use it. So, I called one of the big importer and chatted them about it, and they said that this wood comes from Congo and is also known as "Palisander du Congo". Anyways, according to the person I talked to, it's the same as Wenge. I sent them a few pics as well and they confirmed. So, that begs the question, what sayeth Dr. Wood about these same pics of "African Palisander"?

win Nate. Does it come cryoed?

I'm planning on doing DIY videos in a bit and posting them... I figured if I loose a digit, perhaps I can enlist royalties from Faces of Death Part 25. I'd love to see you have a go at the metal cups. How do you plan to remove the center material out?

I believe that's African Palisander

I hope it works out. I got a really good deal on it. The JET fence has a hook that grabs a rail on the opposite side of the saw, that seemed to be a really good idea as well. I like the fact that this fence can be layed down in the other dimension as well for working with thinner materials... I need to run power out to the saw and my drill press, so I bought a 4' power strip to mount somewhere on my bench... the lame thing is that the socket I'll be running the extension cord too is a GFCI, so I might have to change that out at some point... or just turn everything on at once and see what happens Still lots of knobs and dials I haven't figured out here and there on the saw... seems like an amazing piece of equipment. The only thing I'd like to maybe do, that I probably don't have tools to do is bolt the thing to the floor... once I get things layed out, I'll probably revisit this.

I guess I shouldn't also add this to the list then.... eh?

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I finally found a light that I'm excited about. Not cheap, but hey... I'll be using outside mounted to various tools, as well as indoors: It's an Electrix 7305: Model 7305 [ halogen ] MR-16 halogen, dichronic reflector, 700 footcandles (~ 150W incandescent), 4000 hr. life bulb, 25" gooseneck, 90 lbs pull magnetic base, 12v transformer located in magnetic base, etc.

what "them" I had Mye stands on both my pairs, they're definitely the way to go.

I had the MMG and MG12s. I liked them a lot. The key with the trees was not as much absorption as dispersion.

I think it's nice, but to really get the most out of the L75 you need to replace the top, not just replinth. That being said, I'm sure it will be an upgrade and allow you to use another arm, which is rather nice.

Cool. I ordered a few of the Columbia, Savoy and LRC samplers

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any more "label" recommendations Torpedo? I really like the label grouping, it's working for me. Ripping now...

Tapatalk really makes the pics small..... gr.

Mmmmmm.....