These are the afters. I dug the hole. And backfilled it. The plumber cut out the old sewer pipe and installed the new. The after. The hole is about three feet deep. The tunnel off to the left was hard to backfill. The backfill. That wasn’t enough to refill the hole (an old fence post footing...
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Last week I put the tabletop together. Yesterday I removed the clamps and sanded out the mill marks and glue splotches. I went up to 220 grit with the orbital sander. I’ll make another pass or two on the way up to 320 grit. Gluing up. The mahogany planks are 74 inches long and 16...
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The new dining room table is under way. Last night I clamped up the top. Last week I roughed out all the stock, and got the base glued up. Here are a couple of snapshots of last week’s action. The stock, rough cut and ready for milling. That’s 5/4 mahogany in the back and two...
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Here’s the first thing I made for the new house. The top is just a pre-finished maple butcher block I bought at the lumber yard. The base is cherry. I finished it with three coats of Tried and True Varnish Oil (boiled linseed oil and resin (tree sap)). In the past I’ve mixed my own...
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That’s the view facing west. Our place is on the right. It’s sunnier in there than I thought it was. I’d like to screen the windows, but I don’t want to build a nine foot wall all along the walkway. Any ideas?
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I counted to 1000 once. There was a stop watch and a tape recorder. It took about twenty minutes. A little less. Tension built all the way through the 900s, my “one thousand” looming larger with every passing numeral. I imagined how delicious it was going to taste as I said it and how discomfiting...
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