obrian neck jig

[dave dickerson]

I just got the obrian neck jig... I have it all put together but haven't used it ye.. Does anyone have any experience with these??

[Mark Pollock]

Welcome! Do you have any links or pictures?

[Andrew]

A quick googling turned this up (and a number of youtube videos etc) https://www.lmii.com/products/tools-services/rout/shape/drill/neck-...

Is this the jig to you are referring to dave?

[dave dickerson]

Yes it is... I'll post pics as soon as I learn how...lol I'm very new to the whole internet thing... I guess I'm just old school

[Andrew]

I have difficulty with that too, and Im only 29 lol. Anyway if you click the 'upload files' button under the text box you can post them directly here. Sometimes its problematic for me, but I think thats just my device, or me. You can also link to pics posted on another page. But in this case lmii has provided pics and there is probably a tutorial there too.

As for me, I have no experience with this jig. I understand its for cutting neck joints with a router, but does it have a particular function or advantage? Lmii's descriptions are sometimes a bit lacking (but I didnt try very hard I must admit).

[Ned Knepp]

Dropping pictures in the text of your post is fairly easy IF you know where the picture is on your PC. THAT's usually the hard part. I like to place the pictures I want to use on my desktop before I post so I can find them pretty easily. 

You can start by typing in the text box for "replies" or place a picture first. Either way will work. Just use the second Icon from the left on the "Reply" box's tool bar. It's a small Icon that looks a bit like mountains in a picture. Using the context box that pops up, you can locate your picture by using the "Choose File" button. Once you have the picture selected, you can set the size and location of the picture within the post. You should probably have the picture on your local computer rather than trying to pull from an online source so that upload is clean.  Once it's done, you can just press the "return" key to get a cursor to add more text. The system here will allow you to upload up to 3 pictures per post.

I like embedding picture like this much better than linking to them because the picture's existence on the forum isn't dependent upon it's continued existence on another web site. Linking to a picture location off  site is the major reason that the Internet is littered with forum pages that have text with all the pictures missing. The pictures in the link may still be on the internet but they were moved for some reason which broke the link's path to their location.

If you should need more than three pictures, making another "replay" will give you another set of 3

If I'm talking down to you guys, I don't mean to. I use to work as a Computer Tech and I became aware of the fact that a lot of what we do with technology isn't as apparent to  everyone as it seems.  It was demonstrated to me clearly once by a retired volunteer in a hospital where I worked. She didn't know how to make a mouse move a cursor. Really, why would she know if no one showed  her?

[Andrew]

Hmmmm. When I use this forum there are no tool bars anywhere lol.

[Ned Knepp]

There is no tool bar on the "reply" window? The window I'm typing in right now has a tool bar directly above this sentence. It starts with a "link" button on the left and has 14 more icons which allow such thing as making text Bold or using Italic, scratch through or underlined text. It also allows for justification such as;

centered text

Right justified text    

or Left justified text. There is a quote's button which looks like this;

There is no tool bar on the "reply" window? 

 and bullet and numbering options. The last is to designate html links  embedded in the text you type.

 Oh yeah, I left out the one we are talking about. The first is a "link" button , the second is the "image" button that I was talking about, and the third is a "Paste as Plain Text" button. 

I'm using the updated version of Chrome as a browser so maybe it's something about the browser you are using.

BTW; the "upload files" button is separate from the "reply" window, being placed right below it on the page as I see it. 

[Andrew]

Im usiny my IPad (cant stand sitting at my browser and I do most of my foruming in the evening when Im on my lazy arse. Im pretty sure my IPad is the cause of my not having a tool bar, and difficulties posting more than one pic. It also takes cruddyish pics but its handy and i dont have to move images back and forth between devices to post them here. Yeah lazy lol. Also my laptop is oldish and still runs on XP so I dont go online with its not necessary. Mostly its just a file folder now.

Aaaaanyway I fear we may be hijacking this feller's thread lol.