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I can't figure out how to do this without allowing access to my whole album on Photobucket, looks like.

Since I can't get it to work right without everyone getting access to my acct, here's my 800 pixel photo of yesterday's work.

Haans that back is stunning!

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Bobby Masten

Nothing like quercus alba!

And the photo is just fine!

...except for the blue cast...

I've got six sets of white oak that I'm looking forward to using. Your work has inspired me!

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Expectation is the source of all misery; comparison the thief of joy.
http://redrivercanoe.ca/

My only thoughts are that if you feel you have something to offer that you are willing to 'share' with others, then you should commit fully and do so without reservation.

Off topic material such as those images associated with general banter etc are fine to link to off site or host at the bucket and the likes. But if you have 'real' input to a topic, and an integral part of that input is based around referred images, then I think you owe it to all members, those of today, and those that will come tomorrow, to upload those images to the OLF server so they remain part of this forums data base.

Speaking from experience I think there is little that is more frustrating than to believe you have finally stumbled across 'the' answer to 'that' question, only to find the key images upon which that moment of gold had been structured are now nothing more than a series of the dreaded red x. None of us know what our future will hold and despite our best intentions, many things can happened that will result in users no longer maintained their off site storage accounts such as photbucket...anything can happen, from simply loosing interest in the craft (curse the thought ), to falling ill, dropping dead, winning lottery, or being abducted by aliens and placed into an intensive breeding program with a bevvy of beautiful women and forced to survive on nothing more than icy cold beer, p_i_z_z_a and the sports channel...anything.....Anyhow the red x really does spoil an awful lot of great threads for no good reason IMHO.

Cheers

Kim

I want on that list ASAP!

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Bobby Masten

Yeah well that my point, you wouldn't be finding time to keep any photobuquette account active now would ya??

When I started posting my first build here, back in 07, I asked about uploading and or linked posts, and was told to upload to the forum for the sake of the archival value of the threads. Maybe it's an unwritten policy. Or, maybe it's not a policy at all, but a preference. I defer to the preference.

Many forums do not host photos on the server. Admittedly, it is easier to post that way, particularly if you do it first in a Word doc, and just <alt-tab> back and forth between the document and the album. My point was that lots of folks have gotten used to posting from 3rd party hosts on other forums, and continue to do it here.

As to getting knocked off line, I don't know why, and I'm not a techie, but it happens, so far, every time I hit a thread with a bunch of large photos in one thread. It probably is a network problem. I said I couldn't get a handle on it. What happens is that the modem looses connection with the cable, somehow. I have called tech support to no avail, which is the standard around here. Probably a modem problem. Probably shouldn't have included it as a reason.

First, I never mentioned you, specifically, Filippo, nor do I think your pictures are over sized. Pictures at 1024 width and larger pose a problem from a right to left scrolling standpoint. What I don't understand is why some 800 width pictures cause scrolling when others do not. My point was, if you are going to post through a 3rd party, control the size to some limit, preferably to max out at the 800 width to keep it, usually, within the width of the forum's standard page.

As to your preferences, you may continue to do whatever you wish, as far as I'm concerned. Sorry I confused you. I'm confused too, obviously!

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Waddy

Photobucket Build Album Library

Sound Clips of most of my guitars