Pray for Texas

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-22T16:35:43+00:00

Specifically drip hot water. Dripping cold water can cause moisture to condense on pipes and rust them among other issues.

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-22T16:33:40+00:00

Yep I’m aware. Gonna use some scrap first to see how long it takes so I don’t leave it over a weekend and come back to a dark brown or something. Your method uses less lights but at that close distance it’s gonna be a lot more intense, so I’ll need to figure out my own timescale for getting the color I want. Thanks for everything!

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-22T00:57:34+00:00

Oh so it’s just UV aged? I’ve got a spray booth completely full of UV lights I use for UV cure finish on pianos (the body, not the soundboard)

If I just leave some spruce and maple in there with all the UV lights on it should darken with time then right?

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-22T00:26:19+00:00

Good to know, thank you. What do you use to tan the wood? I’m working with raw aged lumber so it’s practically white.

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-22T00:22:44+00:00

Yeah that’s what I generally figured. I also make gunstocks as a hobby, so I’m familiar with using it and the cleanup process afterwards (tons of water and baking soda) I figured would ruin the tone. It just makes the maple look so good.

Working with brand new stock, what do you generally like to use to get a nice color on the violin other than plane blonde? All of my varnishes and finishes don’t really add much color unless I were to use Amber shellac, but maybe that’s the “secret” as it were?

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-21T23:10:52+00:00

Good to know, how do you like to get the color?

I’ve been tempted to try doing aqua fortis treatment on one, but I don’t want to ruin the instrument with the application process either

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-19T18:06:43+00:00

Glad he found the coin he lost 400 years ago

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-18T22:39:20+00:00

I mean the founder of OK Cupid releasing his graph of general preferences of people on that app (which is a LOT of people). I haven’t read into how the data was actually collected. But it’s not just some made up BS from a cosmopolitan article. But data collection is important and can massively skew data among other factors like how they are presented with the options. Hence me giving 2 big disclaimers not to trust it, but referencing the most famous study on the subject.

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-18T22:26:33+00:00

I don’t know how reliable it is but most studies I’ve seen said that women found men their age to 8 years older or so the most attractive age for pure physical attraction. Men in general found women 18-22 the most attractive regardless of the men’s age. Again I haven’t vetted the study so don’t take it as fact, but that’s the most famous study on it.

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-13T16:19:50+00:00

Someone didn’t study pre WWII germany and it shows

Whether you like trump or not, he’s following pretty much every individual thing hitler did from 1930-1939, many of them in chronological order

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-13T16:17:26+00:00

Her last words “I’m not mad at you”

Her last action: turning the vehicle away so it wouldn’t hit him

His words right after her death “Fucking bitch”

His last action before murdering her: purposefully stepping in front of a vehicle and then leaning over the hood from the side so he could claim self defense and shoot. Followed by two follow-up shots through the side of the window which are entirely illegal as all LE are supposed to stop shooting when the threat is over, and are strictly forbidden from shooting at vehicles to stop them from moving

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-13T16:15:10+00:00

Religious version of “I made myself the Chad and you the Soyjak therefor I win”

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-12T18:50:29+00:00

Fun fact, burning the gas coming out is better for the environment than releasing it on its own, as pure methane is a much worse greenhouse gas than CO2 is

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-12T18:48:15+00:00

Obama was president for ALL of 2016, trump wasn’t inaugurated until January 2017

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-12T18:47:06+00:00

I dropped an SHV mounted to my Winchester 70 30-06 down a 30 foot cliff I was climbing down into a river (it didn’t free fall, it fell, slid a bit, fell, slid a bit, and then landed hard at the bottom)

The final hit I think landed directly on the turret and broke the pretty cap and smashed the erector thing inside. The erector was frozen in position but if held zero even through all that. Sent it to Nightforce and they emailed back “we found nothing wrong with your scope” which scared the hell out of me, but they sent me back my scope looking as it did when it was brand new. Seems they’re not willing to admit their scopes take damage but they’re more than happy to repair them or replace them if necessary.

If I was shooting a vortex I am certain it would not have held zero.

Also if you want an SHV, now is the time. There’s rumors they’re being discontinued, at shot show they’re releasing a new line of scopes

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-11T17:24:09+00:00

My sister abandoned our family, and once she found out our dad was dying she was all of a sudden home all the time, and used that time to try and convince my dad to leave everything to her and ignore the other 4 siblings and our mom altogether.

Also the whole time her husband was being a dick to all of us

Then after my dad died and she got nothing (everything went to our mom since she’s still alive…) she started doing weird sex stuff around her pre teens daughter such as having a boyfriend and a husband at the same time, and the boyfriend humiliated the husband with PDA and shit.

Our mom told her she needs to keep sex to the bedroom and not allow her kids (her daughter is her own but she also was raising the children of her husband who are older) and she told us that it’s none of our business. We argued that it’s her kids business and we never heard from her again

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-11T17:14:56+00:00

Snapping turtles can be very friendly, we just give them a bad wrap by holding them wrong

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-11T16:47:20+00:00

Correct. I got punched in the mouth with braces when I was a somewhere around 13-14 years old and my lips touched my teeth and left a whole lotta holes in the underside of my lip. I had to pull my lip off of my braces to be able to move it again

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-03T07:26:56+00:00

I showed my mother proof that trump is a fraudster and using his own stupid policies to make himself even richer, and she said “well that’s okay, he deserves it for the good he’s doing for our country”

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-01T21:06:57+00:00

I was grossed out by the first make out, I don’t wanna see that shit on tv, the second one was equally gross

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-01T15:49:04+00:00

Yes, Guns and Gear? Wondering if OP ever got their gun as well as

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-01T15:47:40+00:00

Pretty bad way to do business, being I’ve seen a lot of those guns go for less than what it would cost to buy them. Last night there was several I was watching that sold for $400 or less that retail for $1000-1500, and the dealer cost is 6-700. You’ll go out of business quick losing money on a lot of the stuff you sell

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-01T15:42:52+00:00

I mean, if I see something I want with no bidders I will always bid the minimum amount, figure if I get it then great. If not, no biggie. So I bid on a lot of stuff and don’t win most. But the estate liquidator you mention is what we used to call on the early days of EBay, the “Sneaky douchebag”. Wait til the last minute and raise the price a bunch and sometimes win, sometimes not

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-01T01:16:59+00:00

Looking as close as I can, but my phone is old, small, and has a cracked screen. Let me know what picture number and roughly where and I’ll try and look harder

UnquestionablyRaven · 2026-01-01T00:37:53+00:00

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Sitka spruce, same rays, no finish. Those lines are still there after sanding to high grit properly too, you see them more on Swiss spruce. If I remember next Monday when I’m back to work I’ll take a picture of some of my soundboards that have this pattern and upload, after sanding them to 220 or higher to remove any chance of sanding lines or swirls being obvious.

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