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Comment on I Guess I Might Be Green Too by Stevie G

Stevie G — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:05:34 +0000

Your ammonia concentration was FAR, FAR, FAR FAR FAR too weak if you got it off the shelf.

At most, store bought ammonia is at %5-%10.

To properly fume oak, or any highly tannic wood, you need to use industrial strength ammonia, which is usually about %25 to %30.

However, you have to be very careful; at those percentages, the fumes can be quite lethal.

A very well known furniture builder, and teacher of mine, recently fumed a piece with ammonia with a percentage in the %80s. He doesn’t even know why they sold it to him so easily. But he managed to turn an entire large, assembled piece of furniture almost black in a couple of hours.

Don’t give up on fuming. Just call a local chemical supply place. I personally much prefer the look to that of “ebonized” wood, AND you get zero grain raising from the process.

Comment on 32 Bits of Pain by mja

mja — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:14:15 +0000

Thanks a ton mate!

Comment on I Don’t Want To Ignore It, I Want It To Stop! by vinny

vinny — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:42:01 +0000

Nelson,

Same result if you add to the font-dirs file in the Xming program folder? How ’bout if you launch Xming from the console using the ‘-fp’ switch to manually set the font path? Same result? This drove me batty until I got it sorted.

Comment on I Don’t Want To Ignore It, I Want It To Stop! by Nelson

Nelson — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:26:53 +0000

This looks exactly like the solution to my problem, but- it doesn’t seem to solve it! The TTF directory already existed, I copied in the font, I did the mkfontscale commands, looked in fonts.scale and fonts.dir and the info is there. I added the line you suggested, and it looks like this:
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GohaTibebZemen.ttf -misc-goha tibeb zemen-medium-r-normal–0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
arial.ttf -monotype-arial-regular-r-normal–0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
arial.ttf -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal–0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1

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Restarted xming. Still gives the same message. Any ideas? TIA for any help!
Nelson

Comment on 32 Bits of Pain by ziphy

ziphy — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:48:29 +0000

Thank you!

Comment on Yeah. So. Sorry ‘Bout That. by troy

troy — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:06:11 +0000

Anchower is my favorite!!!

Comment on Aye, Karamba! by vinny

vinny — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:35:47 +0000

Señor Kowitz, As they say, "If you have to ask, the answer will be totally uninteresting." No. Wait. It's only interesting if you're running the nixmon theme under superkaramba. And then only if you're running Linux (or *BSD). *ducks in anticipation of another "What in the World are you talking about?" comment*