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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Feb 20, 2013 - 11:55am PT
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vid to follow
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Hardly Visible
Social climber
Llatikcuf WA
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Feb 22, 2013 - 11:05am PT
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Just completed roof sheeting and tar paper on the roof, and now it is pouring.
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sempervirens
climber
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Feb 22, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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Wilbeer, why are you using those old 3-pin bindings on the Karhus? The skis look pretty new. Wouldn't cable bindings be an improvement? Just curious.
I'd like to try the terramarking. Are there brakes?
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rich sims
Social climber
co
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Feb 22, 2013 - 11:57am PT
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Always fun to see what's being done
Gudio
The gutter/down spout systems looks great, art and function.
I just stopped by a home theater I trimmed and the metal counter top guy had a bent (slightly) straight edge.
He was sanding to top plate of the half wall.
Every time he moved the straight edge more work was needed.
Told him he would be at it all day and never get it right.
I brought down a 8' level and showed him his straight edge was not straight.LOL
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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Feb 22, 2013 - 12:19pm PT
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Sempervirens,those are voile 3pin w/hardwire bindings, w/hardwire removed only need the hardwires on icy aspects,3 pin is plenty for lake effect yo yoing[soft snow].As for the tarramark boards those are paul components,moto v brakes with real designs levers,and yes they work amazingly.
The skis look new but they are about 6 seasons old and they only see bottomless days.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Feb 22, 2013 - 12:55pm PT
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built this Fender Princeton Reverb, wound the ultralinear output transformer,
the grill cloth is a climbing shirt that was too tight,
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Feb 22, 2013 - 01:00pm PT
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^^^^^^
Nice!!!! is that an SG or a Guild SG?
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Feb 22, 2013 - 01:02pm PT
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Epiphone, with a couple of chromebuckers, thanks for the props,
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Feb 22, 2013 - 01:06pm PT
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Ahhhh Epiphone, doesn't that have a narrower neck than the standard SG?
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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Not exactly "building," but I wired in some LEDs in my VW Westy yesterday. Major difference for the better.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Beautiful slabs, Warbler. I've never worked with gum before. Is the "moths wing" pattern in the last pic due to the grain, or just how the boards are drying after wetting to show the grain? Or likely a bit of both?
Last Fall I posted a pic of a Time Capsule that I made for my old town's sesquicentennial. It turned out that they couldn't pay me the $90 that I asked for to cover out of pocket expenses without using my name in their records, and I asked for it to be an anonymous donation, so the deal fell apart.
I just found a buyer through etsy.com who will be purchasing it at about 20% of what it should sell for, but I didn't want to have to pack it up in storage next month and ship it all the way to CO next summer with the rest of our belongings. He just wants me to replace the key behind glass with a marquetry shell of sand shaded maple and mahogany; pics to follow.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Dick, I have been self-employed as a furniture maker for the last 20 years. I had a one man shop in the Lakes Region of NH and have been president of the Guild of NH Woodworkers, VP of the NH Furniture Masters Association, and longtime State Juried member of the League of NH Craftsmen. Even with all of that, I largely worked alone in a bubble all day every day.
I am somewhat familiar with Dimes pieces, and they seem to be well made and nicely designed. My clients usually appreciated owning furniture that was bench made one at a time by a single craftsman, even though I generally had a year's worth of work ahead of any new commissions. I have sold pieces similar to this time capsule in the $3-3.5K range.
I have lived, worked, and climbed in NH my whole life. I have always enjoyed my numerous trips out West, and it was a long time goal to move west once our two kids graduated HS. After 3 years on the market, we finally sold our home and workshop last Sept and moved into a rental for the Winter. The shop space here is unheated, so I have put the furniture on hiatus and have been focusing on other interests until May when my youngest graduates from UMass. As soon as the ceremony is over we are loading ourselves and our two welsh corgis in a truck and a 24' RV and beginning a 3-4 month cross country road trip with eventual plans to relocate to the Front Range of CO.
We have no real schedule or agenda, just to pack up, see as many cool places as we can, climb some, hike some, and keep our eyes open for whatever new home calls out to us. I'm not even really sure I want to re-open my studio once we settle; I am just going to go with the flow and see what feels right.
I am truly cherishing this unique, new found freedom from the rat race, if only temporarily.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
the tip of god's middle finger
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edge im sad to see the key
have to go.
we talked previously about the
beautiful irony of pasting
the key right next to the lock.
any potential thieves might
be instantly converted to saints
(which actually are just sugar-coated thieves)
upon seeing the sideways situation
greeting their grief.
its alright, your intent
remains solid.
who cares if the client wants
to put someone else's lock
around his key.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Norwegian, with your okey-dokey I wrote your words of prose about the key on the top of one of the wooden cleats that screws against the underside of the box and holds it to the base. It will remain hidden there until such time as someone sees fit to separate the two, possibly never.
The intention of the original design lives on.
Norwegian wrote:
"give a fvck could i if
you steal all my treasure.
have it. my substance
is adaptable. my fame
is framed in the claim
that wellness is mine to create."
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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The Warbler wrote: There's both ends of the spectrum above - a cool juxtaposition of raw and refined.
Yeah, because this was a donation I just used what I had on hand. The legs were left over from a demonstration I did for a woodworkers fair, and the quilted birch boards had been in storage for about 10 years. The inlay at the top of the legs was resawn from a birch burl I saved from a firewood pile.
It looks much more harmonious with a veneered box.
The fully realized design that I had done previously was much more effective. It was an actual "Millennium Box" time capsule (sealed 2000 AD)for the State of NH and looked identical to this pic but with the key behind glass detail and a bit thinner aprons atop the legs.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Yo Edge, is your time capsule somewhere in Concord where I can check it out next time I'm in town?
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Warbler, I had misinterpreted you. Thanks for clarifying.
Brandon, I have no idea where the box is now. I think it was supposed to tour around for a while, but I imagine they got bored with that a d found a permanent display, I just don't know where.
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John M
climber
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You people on this thread shine.. Just plain shine. I love all the different sorts of craftsmanship.
And Brandon.. a good hardwood floor is to be cherished. And so is the workman who installs it.
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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Full scale drawing of the shell marquetry and the maple veneer, backed with a layer of masking tape so the thin cross-grain sections don't split. It's like taping together potato chips.
Into the frying pan for the sand shading.
Fortunately for me, the devil is in the details, and I still have him on speed dial.
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