pics of my transom

[eastern270]

my first attempt at staining my transom failed. i had one spot that didn't match quite right and trying to fix it just made things worse. my attempts to fix just kept snowballing until i got to the point where it was so dark that it looked like very dark brown paint. next day i sanded it all off and was very surprised easily it came off. applied the stain again and got it to come out the way i wanted it and turned off the lights, locked the shop and left it to dry before i might have try to fix something small and ruin it again. i now have 2 coats of epoxy on and am happy with the results. the link for the picture is below.
http://s250.photobucket.com/albums/gg280/eastern270/?action=view&current=P1010132.jpg

[Lew Barrett]

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg280/eastern270/P1010132.jpg

Here you go!

[Jay Greer]

Lookin Good!
Jay

[S/V Laura Ellen]

Beautiful, I wish that the transom on Laura Ellen would look as good.

[Woxbox]

Wow. It's begging for a name in gold leaf.

[eastern270]

thanks for the compliments. i have my name picked out already and when the time comes i would like to do gold leaf lettering and need to read up on how to do it. before you ask the name but not etched in stone yet. "time and money". we all know why.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Beautiful job..:)

[Ted Ford]

Looks great. What kind of stain did you use under the epoxy?

[JimConlin]

Excellent, Sean!

[JimJ]

Great job - nothing like a varnished transom

JimJ

[Larks]

yes, nice arse mate!!!

[eastern270]

I experimented with a couple different stains from minwax on scraps and ended up using minwax water based rosewood stain. can someone give me directions on how to attach a picture directly to the forum like lew barrett did for me above instead of posting a link. i tried to search for it but the search function doesn't seem to work for me either.
Thanks.

[Woxbox]

You need to copy the URL for the photo, wherever it might be on the web. Then come back here, click on the little yellow icon that looks like a postcard, and a dialog box will open up, into which you paste the URL. And bingo, the photo appears in the "reply to thread" window.

[Thorne]

First - don't attach photos. Most web forums don't allow it, and space
limitations are the main reason why.

Second - Instead of attaching them to a thread, post the pics on the web
somewhere. You have a free website area with any paid ISP's email account,
or use www.picturetrail.com or other free hosting service. Once posted on
the web, right-click the image to copy the URL (web address). Always test
first by pasting the image URL into the window of a web browser and see if
the image displays.

Remember, the IMAGE URL will end in .jpg, not .htm or html. URLs ending in .htm are the page that the image is at, not the image location itself. If the image URL ends in other code, try deleting everything after the "xxxxxx.jpg" part of the URL to get it to display on web forums.

Third - once posted on the web, try this procedure while logged in to this
Forum:

1. Click the "User CP" link in the browser window in the top left of the
menu bar.
2. Click the "Edit Options" link about 1/4 of the way down the left column.
3. In the "Misc Options" at the bottom of the next page, select "Enhanced
Interface" from the pulldown list.
4. Once this interface has been selected, in any "Reply" window you can
click the "insert photo" icon --> a little yellow square icon with the stamp
in the upper right corner, the mountains in the lower center.
5. Once the little dialog box titled "Please enter the URL of your image"
comes up, paste the URL of the photo in the field.

If unsure of the procedure, test first by pasting the image URL into the
window of a web browser.