I love my new shirt, thanks to my wife and Granddaughter. It fits me perfectly in more ways than one 8)
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OH, that is perfect!
I WANT ONE!!!!
Luvit!
I am sitting in front of the fire, no one else is awake, watching the news... made me literally laugh out loud. yes how do I get to the WOC store? 8) 8) 8) :D :D :D :) :) :)
You are really embracing this WOC designation.
Per our discussion at Jake's, there are millions and millions under the bell curve, but out there on the far far left end of the distribution, there is only one WOC :D.
I would toast you, the WOC, with some of those good spirits that you and Andries so graciously gave me, but alas, it has departed this Earth.
I'm happy for you. Everybody should have what they want and deserve. My folks gave me my Grinch stocking which I have already hung.
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My wife would say :(
My wife does the books and runs the office and tells me that I can shovel anything I want---just keep shoveling WOC
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That is perfect. You definitely have earned the title.
with all the ideas for small stuff, there may be a firewood shortage just around the corner. :)
There are a large number of people stuck at home trying to make a buck...
What's a WOC?
I'm sheltered.
His words, "Wizard Of Crap"
got it thanks ;D
Today the wizards crew at work. Tony and Anthony milling some cedar beams for a new building.
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Colleen runs the office,schedules the customer flow, tax stuff etc, and is busy from dawn to dusk.
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AJ is numbering some the thousands of boards in the NNRH project . This is part of a cedar zone that was certified two days ago in a "virtual committee" meeting via Google Meet.Lots of cooks in the kitchen!
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Sean and Evan are building shipping crates today. An indispensable team that can do anything !
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And finally the Wizard of Crap himself! Today I am making "brown" yet again. I started making brown crap over 2 years ago and it has evolved into a steady business of different custom shades of translucent brown. That's a lot of crap and a lot of brown! Thought you might enjoy a spin around the site today, December 2, 2020.
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@WOC .......just checking to see if it would work. ;)
VERY impressive.
I agree, I think Tule's handle should be changed or at least given an alias to WOC. :D
Last night AJ and Tony were moving a long end jointed countertop and they became concerned about flex stress on the joint. The joint itself is a large deep spline with a tight fit but I agreed that during handling later during installation the surface finish might hairline crack. Normally we would subset a plywood panel into the bottom for stiffness but routeing out the pocket takes time that we don't have. A quicker solution is to kerf the bottom , insert carbon fiber tow and wet it out with a little epoxy. I will check the results this morning. WOC
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can we add WOC to the dictionary? @Jeff (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=1) :) :) :)
where do you get the carbon fiber?
If you are in even more of a hurry you can use cyanoacrylate (super glue) in matrix with carbon fibers. Just use the good stuff
This tow came from
Fibre Glast Developments Corp.
Several company's online sell various fibers, just watch for their sales.
beav,,,spot on , another tool in the arsenal but it does not have much shelf life. That said I have lots of bottles of accelerate and matching "crusty" bottles of the glue. At the end of every workday I have the guys stop and do any epoxying necessary on any of the projects taking advantage of the night time to set. We never epoxy in the morning because of the lost time to set.In some joinery I will use a dot of cyano in the center surrounded by another glue like PUR, press the joint and walk away while the PUR expands and seals the deal. Cheers WOC
Carbon fiber buried in epoxy to bolster a wooden something. Just never considered it. Hope I'm not the only one. ;) Today is not wasted, I learned something.
Been schooled again by the WOC. :) :)
Sunday morning and I'm still doing "brown", now down to 2% increments. I've tried to explain to my clients on this job (there are 15 to whom I answer) that fine tuning a tinted finish, taking a photo of it and how it will be applied to different reclaimed boards is like apples and oranges. But still, it is an exercise I go through non-stop. The last photo is some of the sequenced wall panel, jammed up in the mouth of the shop waiting for the OK to start finishing.The building next door is starting to fill up. This building is jammed up and sometimes I get fed up; today being one of those times. LOL
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After the first of the year I'll detail my new "whisker" machine build . Just pulling the parts together now for an improvement over whisker 001.
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does it clean and or distress and or bring out the grain in wood?
I'm trying for an alligator shoe look. I definitely don't want a "distressed look", but a worn 3-D surface that will"bounce " a finish . Bent saw blades, no kerf, skip sanding ,,, 3-d. WOC
AJ coating a hollow mantle and a desk top today.
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I had a strong start with a 200 log sale out of the yard this morning. WOC
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well neat-o. what is the finish? is that a sanding sealer? or brush able lacquer. is brushing better for the rustic? is the end edges nibbles with something?
so you sold 200 logs, for a project you will be doing, or sold as is?
The finish is General Finishes Water Based Poly. We will brush on 5-6 coats and abrade it back with 2000 grit later. This leaves a real washed out, pickled look (pure crap), but that is what the customer wanted!
The mantel is a hollow form from a single board and the light distress hides my glue joints. One expensive piece of 8/4 walnut divided into 3 thin boards.
The logs were labeled yesterday and are sold as is for the Tijuana River Park Build. They are select as far as size, but the contractor was here this morning and sealed the deal (nice$$$).
This afternoon we're doing one of the bartop bottoms for the Mingei Museum job with a penetrating epoxy.
:snowball: WOC
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One last bark inlay to do , then it is off to mill for some live oaks.
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is there a way to get a satin sheen from bar top epoxy (total boat)? tying to decide on epoxy for the bar top vs a satin urethane.
Yes by wet sanding with a hard wax oil.
i assume that is a liquid. any brand or does total boat carry that? I have paste wax. I will search, thank you, DOC. my new sig. to keep up with WOC!
1,000 grit? 6K? osmo, fiddes, briwax, interbuild? i assume to dull the bar top epoxy, not as a stand alone finish.
We use UnEarthed Hardwax Oil. I have a pallet coming in next week. A small amount on a piece of 3-MScotchbrite fine grade will do the job . Stick the Scotchbrite to the bottom of your orbital sander on slow speed and wipe clean when done. Make sure to spread your rags out, or submerge them in water to prevent spontaneous combustion. Th UnEarthed oil is something I use a lot of because it is zero VOC's, child safe, food safe, but good enough to use on winery floors in a commercial application.Way cheaper than Rubio.......WOC
thanks for sharing your secrets! DOC
Merry Christmas to one and all.
Dear Santa; Looks like we are going to need a lot more ammo.
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👍👍
It's tongue in cheek, as opposed to tongue and groove. On a serious note I do want to wish everyone on the site health, prosperity and happiness along with a Merry Christmas. I am also deeply concerned about what is happening to my country. I took an oath and that hasn't changed.
Cheers, WOC :snowball:
god bless America! your granddaughter looks like a sure shot. makes me anxious to watch A Christmas Story. it is on in the theatres now, and on TV soon enough. with the pitchfork and gun, you might as well be from Ks.
usflag
One of the larger logs we shipped today. In the last two days we have loaded four trucks each day with outbound logs for a project in San Diego. Hundreds of logs, no sawing involved, ,,,,,,,I like this kind of work 8) WOC
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A view of the San Diego project on going.
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that is impressive so I am not surprised that you are involved. great. good forest fire mitigation too.! :D
I'm funneling fire killed material from the recent massive fires in Northern California into this job. Coordination of large amounts of material, helping the contractor and architect build a better product and finding uses for material that would normally go into the grinder and end up as mulch instead of functional art.
One thing I've learned in 2020 is it is not how much wood I am cutting or even selling, it's been the ability to work as coordinator or the nut behind the wheel between engineers, architects, designers, builders, procurement/supply folks, owners and politicians and produce a product between all of them that is on time and on budget. And yes, I still work in the shop 8-10 hrs./day, 7 days/week right now. That includes these last holiday weeks.
I think that if this project comes out well, there is already talk of another one right behind it. It is a big hole and I'm going to fill it with my special kind of crap!
Another job starting soon will be a select architectural trim package for this high end apartment complex in Los Angeles. This will involve my new "whisker" machine that I haven't built yet, custom finishes and a great deal of beetle kill pine :new_year:The Wizard of Crap !
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Well, it made national news this morning that there is a huge forest fire a couple of miles from my front yard and the wind is blowing steadily at 20-30 knots in my direction. It is so warm here even the rattlers have come out. This photo was taken yesterday.
Meanwhile, I managed to get fiber optic cable wired a corner of the shop and after waiting for months a high definition music server, along with all the amps and pre-amps etc. mounted in a filtered, pressured air box. I used to think that compact discs had the best sound available, but this new high def stuff, over fiber optic, is ABSOLUTELY unreal in sound quality.
It's Saturday and I am still plowing on the tail end of the big Sacramento job. I've gone 7 days/week, non-stop, since June I think.The total job has been over 2 years long ! I'm really looking forward to the end of Sacramento and the army of overhead people I have to answer to every week. WOC
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Could you not find some large woofers?
I understand vibration brings snakes out of holes. Don't crank it to loud :laugh:.
be careful what kinds rock music you play, those woofers may fan the flames. good luck.
Quote from: tule peak timber on January 11, 2021, 10:29:06 PMThis will involve my new "whisker" machine that I haven't built yet,
I wonder what that machine will do??
It is spitting snow today ---so no rattlesnakes. The new sound system is a BIG hit with the crew and a happy crew is a productive crew. There is a bit of self indulgence, for sure, in putting that level of sound in the workshop but like I said, I'm not stupid. The guys beebop along all day long and are happy to come into work. Win, win.
On the whisker machine; I've been trying to develop over the last year a wood surface texture to go with my brown on brown. People really like the wall panel that we are cranking out and it accounted for most 2020's income. The picture below shows where the machine is at this morning and I am due to produce samples in the next 2 weeks for the new Rise Korea apt. complex. Gross construction cost on Rise Korea alone is $155mil. These same people keep coming back to me for the odd, the weird and my special kind of crap.
At 2 AM this morning I came up with an idea on how to smoke my bacon differently. Hope it works out. I told my wife if the whole contraption catches fire, we'll eat the bacon anyway!
WOC
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The bacon maker worked great and I will post pics of the results tomorrow morning. Our first moisture in about 9 months 8)
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I could sit back, look out a window at that scene and eat bacon!
I thought about you and your whiskers machine this week. I was using a belt sander to know old saw dust and grime off some wood before running them through the jointer and planer. I thought I need a tool with a wire wheel, 'whiskers', to run this stuff through to clean it up. It made me smile and think of this thread and the WOC needing a whiskers machine to manage his beard..... or was it manage his beard near the whiskers machine.
So here is breakfast-fresh no preservatives alder smoked, salt/sugar cured. I've got an early start in the shop today starting the big gates from hell. I'm 1 year behind on this project and the client is getting anxious, and rightly so. It's a fact I have been going at this pretty much 7 days a week over the last year, so no time for his gates. But I've also been struggling for months with the construction re-build method I want to use, which needs to be vastly better than the original build.
I have a resaw customer customer today that will be my only distraction so I hope to get a lot of work done. Cheers! WOC
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Gates on skates today while Tony welds acme nuts to the articulating arms.One of the metal gate frames has a massive 5/8 warp in the center which is going to present a challenge for cladding.
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Looks fantastic 👍
The redwood gates shaping up this morning.
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The shop dog taking a nap. :) My shop dog does nothing but nap, usually in my comfy chair. :D
Gate looks good!
Well how about that!! No metal to be seen now.
Impressive work once again
Nice job. You look pretty small in the picture. Either you are a real wizard that can shrink itself or you are building really really big gates :o.
We shipped the NNRH wall yesterday and this is a pic of the job site in Sacramento this morning.198 feet wide 37 feet tall, curved, end matched,grain matched , color matched walnut and cedar. Custom brown .555 million dollar total construction cost
This afternoon the next "brown" project utilizing my new "whisker"machine started ramping up.This job is in Seattle. Not enough floor space...... ;D
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heck, even the crates are fantastic! cannot wait to see it done. i assume you install it as well? Good luck.
Hi Doc, No install for me. My business model focuses strictly on design, engineering , fabrication and finish.I never ever ,leave the property here for any reason and only infrequently to fish. My wife and I have had dinner or lunch out only a couple of times in the last quarter century. She is NOT happy !!!!
well if they are too happy, they think they are in charge! :o :o :o That is good. looks like a big job. congrats and glad you are checking in again, we all missed you! ;) :)
On wives; The first one left because all I wanted to do was work.
The second one married me because all I do is work.
On big jobs; Too many.
On fishing; I'm headed to Kodiak in a couple of weeks for a much needed break. Pics to follow!
I sincerely hope you post lots of pictures of that trip. What an amazing project.
This is a pic of where I am actually going. It's called Cliff Point, just south of Kodiak. I've spent the last month planning this Kodiak trip, like a military mission. Given that they have fresh water stream, river, surf and salt water fishing, I'll be taking a lot of different gear, rods, lures etc. I am going just ahead of their tourist/salmon season when it's much easier to secure charter boats, hotels etc.
I commercially fished SE Alaska decades ago and I think I am trying to relive my youth! LOL 8)
I've never been to Kodiak and they say it is the Emerald Isle. If it's anything like the pictures, and the fishing mecca it is supposed to be, there may be a return in the fall.
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It is an amazingly beautiful area! Great saltwater fishing for halibut in May along with Kings later in the month. The hunting for Sitka Blacktail Deer is also an incredible experience. During a typical hunt you will see Kodiak Brown Bears, and Red and Cross foxes up close and personal. If your hunting near the coast which is typical then seals and whales are also a possibility. You can take up to 3 bucks and Sitka venision is very very good! What you don't see on a typical Kodiak hunt is people... It's just you and the beauty of the island. I suspect you'll want to go back in the fall the fishing for silvers, lingcod, Dollies and rainbows is amazing in the fall... ;D Enjoy!
Hi AK, I have memories of whacking deer at low tide from the pilot house in SE.We would swim in a survival suit clad guy with a tether to drag them out of the kelp and back to the boat and crew.Parts by seaplane, crazy hours , no sleep, and 25000 hooks per 24 hour day, day after day. The weather........ :)
Fast forward 35 years, need the beauty, need a few fish, need to finish out where my passion always was.These things are fleeting.
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I am deathly afraid of falling in love with Kodiak and my VERY forgiving wife knows this.
Just finished machining up a curved walnut mantel with slightly receding corbels. This is another hollow mantel, but this time I simply machined out the inside rather than box beam construction. I spent a lot of time balancing the curves and grain and I think the customer will be happy. This is going to get an oil finish with a little pigment here and there.
Also, some close ups of the final rub out of the Mingei Museum centerpiece. There are bowties and inlays of different woods, brass, bronze, stainless and titanium. It took several weeks and many customer inspections to get the lustre just where they wanted it. It's leaving here in a day or so, will be put together in a full continuous 30' length and mounted on some custom cabinets in the museum. This is the top that will have George Nakishima tables to the left and right and serve as the centerpoint for new construction in the museum. I will be doing some kind of interview Thursday that will be posted on the internet later this year with the museum folks and when I get a link, I will share it. Evidently the museum liked the work as they ordered 13 more walnut tables and a possible follow up with some more pieces to be displayed in New York. We shall see. :) 8)
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Great pics from yesteryear... I think you'll find that not much has changed since your commercial days. The beauty of Alaska is still incredible and the fishing well maybe not as good as it was 30 years ago but still pretty dang good. The beauty of this upcoming trip is you'll have the time to savor the moment unlike your previous time in Alaska. Your right time is fleeting...Carpe Diem...
Beautiful pics AK ! What a nice fish, do you guys eat the cheeks? How about crab butts? We used to say these two items never left the state.....
Thanks! You bet we eat the cheeks! In fact after a day of fishing on the boat we will fry up all the cheeks even from 15lb fish and have them as an appetizer! We then make the best fish tacos with lime and cilantro and fresh salsa! It's kind of a tradition especially on the first trip of the year. Which will be coming up soon! We also smoke salmon bellies and collars as well as black cod collars when I can get them. Probably some of the best parts of the fish as they are full of oil, and simply delicious. As far as crab butts I'm not familiar with them. In most parts of south central Alaska there is no longer a sport fishing crab season due to low stocks.
Crab butts refer to the fatty storage area in the apron flap under a King crab. They are pure flavour and nothing else! LOL
Black cod AKA sable fish is probably my favourite fish of all time. I long lined in deep water from AK to Mexico for these delicious fish and targeted them to develop quota for a limited entry permit.
The other fish I targeted was a rockfish called black gill and these I also pursued relentlessly until I hung up my hooks. These guys typically were found in 250-350 fathoms and the black cod down here 250-500 fathoms. There is a lot about fishing that I miss.
AK you live in a fish rich area and I hope it treats you well.
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In the first pic Tony and his son are feeding the Whisker machine with White Oak blanks. This is the first job on this machine and you might notice the cardboard dust collecting cover; we still have a little ways to go but the texture on the output is really nice and it doesn't look like a machine did it! This first job is going to Seattle Center after finishing next week with my famous brown on brown.
In the second pic I am laying out burl sections for a circular table. I refer to this as mining for nuggets to get the best figure out of each piece of wood that I will then stitch back together and form up the table. Burl is funny; it's not evenly distributed throughout any given burl section and since I don't work with veneers, I just hack out the better pieces and put the tree back together the way I want it to look. It is going to take maybe 20 of these burl cookies to get enough quality for the table I am trying to execute.
Just finished the mantel mid day and on to the next project.
After you spend all the time to take the tree apart, then you put it back together. Or,,,,, how to make burl do what you want it to do.
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And that will be........
You could make a pile of manure look good. ;D Well maybe not, it's not wood. :D
Inspirational.
This going to be a 54" diameter breakfast nook table. It will be mounted on a hollowed out walnut stump and sell for a pretty penny. As far as inspiring people, I certainly hope I do. I truly work with crap and turn it into green manure of sorts, which I then plow back into my business. The better looking burl pieces sell themselves, but the off cut, second rate, crap burl I cut up and stitch into some sort of useful design, in this case a table. When people call me the wizard of crap, they aren't kidding, LOL!
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Thanks for showing your work WOC... Can't wait to see them finished.
How to square a cant without opening the log. ;D
Yes, I look at that 100 pound hunk of walnut heartwood and just shake my head. It will find a home with TAV ( turn around for vets program), or any other person that needs it. ;D
that is a neat way to get two major projects out of one chunk-o-wood. ;)
Doc,
A couple of years ago I morphed into a business philosophy of making a profit from what I bring in the door, log wise and the rest can go at great discount or for free. I know as a dyed in the wool capitalist that I should squeeze every last drop from every last penny, but I just don't do that. If the money has been made, the church groups, boy scouts, veterans groups, schools and guys trying hard to get started in the woodworking business get to shop at a 100% discount. It sounds crazy, but it works out.
There is a method to my madness; after doing this for a couple of years, untold hours 365 days/year, I am going to start cleaning the slate to load my inventory with walnut, redwood and cedar, which is wood per lift, per cut, per storage sq. ft. makes a lot more $ than perhaps other woods. The trucks are lining up.
Cheers!
I am all in with helping out the next generation, and glad that you well enough with you day job, to help others when you can or it is needed. God bless sir... or should I say, Wizard of Crap! :)
I also hate to waste good wood. You have seen my shop, I waste very little as well.
Good on Ya' Doc...
A magazine article from a couple years back... :)
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The second gate goes vertical today. Next week the metal work starts.
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Just got a progress pic from Sacramento on the install.198 feet wide, curved walnut, NNRH job.Mingei museum shipped today and there will be pics to follow soon.Got back from Kodiak island on Monday and I'm going back in September----I want a piece of the "rock"..... :)
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Gotta ask... were they biting up there?
Wind and rain were very biting indeed.......Kodiak is having a very late Spring- so no fish in shallow water at all. I surf fished REALLY hard for 6 days and ended up with about 50 pounds of Yellow Fin Sole. ;D
Ok, that's just a fish story if there are no pictures.... ;)
Sorry no fish pics but there wasn't that much in fish anyways LOL. Mostly I took real estate videos because that was my other mission. Below is an example of the beautiful coastline along with a house I definitely could not afford. I'm already booked for another trip in September.
Cliff Point AK 4 27 2021 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/5aMmsGw3o7Q)
A view of Anton Larson Bay where I was able to hit 75ft of water depth from the shore. Quiet with only the sound of a thundering waterfall across the bay from me. I had a short period of sun then back to rain, I also noted the number of dead or sick bald eagles. Quite a large bird and up close the skeletal remains of the beak and skull are bigger than my outstretched hand. The poor guy in the photo just standing on the roadside waiting to die.
Anton Larson Bay AK 4 28 2021 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/6CMLR8TSU5M)
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Thanks for sharing WOC!
Do you know what was killing the Bald Eagles?
JJ
JJ, I have no idea, but it could be that there are so many of them on the island that the natural attrition just seems skewed to my observation.The other odd issue is PSP (paralytic shellfish poisoning) that has become prevalent ,more so , in recent years.Animals that eat PSP tissue suffer from mild to death symptoms within hours.Talk about "bad clams",,Yikes. >:(
Some pics passed along by my customer this morning of the Mingei Museum install, which began yesterday. This top was an "in the ground" growing walnut tree in 2019 and is now a 30' wide, 5' deep, 2-1/4" precision countertop. The design was by committee and we performed on time, on budget. There will be more pics of the museum library and a video celebrating their re-opening this fall. I was very honored to partake in this project, considering the other artists featured in this museum.
8)
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Great work 👍
Quote from: tule peak timber on May 06, 2021, 10:25:41 AM
A view of Anton Larson Bay where I was able to hit 75ft of water depth from the shore. Quiet with only the sound of a thundering waterfall across the bay from me. I had a short period of sun then back to rain, I also noted the number of dead or sick bald eagles. Quite a large bird and up close the skeletal remains of the beak and skull are bigger than my outstretched hand. The poor guy in the photo just standing on the roadside waiting to die.
Anton Larson Bay AK 4 28 2021 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/6CMLR8TSU5M)
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What's the problems with the Eagles
Nice countertop!!!
Quote from: Walnut Beast on May 06, 2021, 10:16:44 PM
Quote from: tule peak timber on May 06, 2021, 10:25:41 AM
A view of Anton Larson Bay where I was able to hit 75ft of water depth from the shore. Quiet with only the sound of a thundering waterfall across the bay from me. I had a short period of sun then back to rain, I also noted the number of dead or sick bald eagles. Quite a large bird and up close the skeletal remains of the beak and skull are bigger than my outstretched hand. The poor guy in the photo just standing on the roadside waiting to die.
Anton Larson Bay AK 4 28 2021 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/6CMLR8TSU5M)
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What's the problems with the Eagles
I wish I knew. Very sad to see such majestic birds sick and dead on the beach,,,,,, :'(
I totally agree. Each and every person needs to help conservation of nature and animals
Sanding and proof coating this morning. The proof coat is a thin layer of penetrating epoxy that pops the figure and allows any flaws to be detected and corrected before build up of the final coatings. Meanwhile AJ and Tony are sawing up some doug fir patio timbers.
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Wow. Amazing work. Hope it's going into a museum. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the pictures Wizard. It amazes me what you can create. Next trip up you'll get some good fish pictures... :)
That is some amazing figure in those pieces. Beautiful.
Thanks for the comments guys. The round table is going to a repeat customer that has been shopping here for years.I am awaiting some more museum pieces that should hit pretty soon.The wood is in the kiln- just waiting. We are crating up the big gates today for shipping and will get the second set of gates in later this week.
I'm talking to a realtor today about building a house 4000 highway miles away from where I live. Is it sanity check time ???
Quote from: tule peak timber on May 10, 2021, 09:41:41 AM4000 highway miles away from where I live. Is it sanity check time
I doubt that many of us could pass a sanity check..::)
That has to be the most artistic and beautiful table that has ever been built. :o
Nope, dream time!
Quote from: tule peak timber on May 10, 2021, 09:41:41 AMI'm talking to a realtor today about building a house 4000 highway miles away from where I live.
Where on Kodiak would that be??
It is 20 minutes West of the town proper. Not remote in any sense of the word. Views, end of the road,good access........Enough room for a trailer boat, garage, storage.I'm still very early in the process....
I still need a lot of questions answered before I pull the trigger and start a project like this.A view from the property.
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Well, that there is a pretty view!
Is that view down town?
JJ
The view is not downtown . Kodiak is up the left hand side of the bay in this view.The peninsula in the distance is called "Cliff Point" and has some extraordinarily beautiful real estate for sale. I had originally gone to Kodiak to look at a few acres on the point, but I am not able to handle the "nose bleed" prices, not to mention the yearly taxes.
So, this is going to be published on the internet on Friday and it's only befitting that FF members get to see the rough draft first. It is an article on the Mingei Museum upgrade. Link to article below:
https://mingei.org/stories/transformation/tule-peak-timber?x-craft-preview=vFSQBN4Vq6&token=X6yzAD0zV0j8jqXP-diPPHP5axuqYMV0 (https://mingei.org/stories/transformation/tule-peak-timber?x-craft-preview=vFSQBN4Vq6&token=X6yzAD0zV0j8jqXP-diPPHP5axuqYMV0)
that is a nice write up Rob. great work. WOC! hope more projects like that get you a place on the other side of the country.
Thanks
doc henderson, I'm wanting to get into NYC...
I made an offer on the Kodiak piece today,,,,Lots of big trout for you to tangle with if things work out.Thanks for the kind words :)
Nice article Rob, very nice. You speak for a lot of us with your philosophy, 'respect the tree, use it all, continue the cycle' and most importantly explain to others why we do that. The art you create is far beyond anything I could even conceive and it blows my mind every dang time.
I have no idea why you would ever want to get to NYC (ok, they do have some good museums and art places, and music and 'some other stuff'), but if you ever do come to NY, give me a holler. We have some nice trout fishing here in the Catskills. I am 2 hours drive north of the city and there are no mountain passes where you could get snowed in. (Of course if you drive and hour north-northwest from my place to Barges, no promises on that issue. ;D)
You do amazing work.
Very nice ! You need to be recognized for the amazing projects you do. Great work.
A mighty fine write up!!!
Great write up. You should be very proud of your achievements and being showcased with other master craftsmen of the world. Somehow they left out the WOC we all think of you as though. ???
Thanks for sharing the link. That was a fantastic article 👍👍👍
Rob your work is intricate, focused and incredibly inspiring! You showcase the natural beauty of trees in a way few have the ability to do. I hope I have an opportunity to see your work some day. Congratulations on a hugely successful project, I'm happy the museum took the time to recognize all your hard work!
Well, my friend, you are way out on the very end of that bell curve that we talked about, Sir.
Thanks guys, all of you, for the kind comments! Dealing with the wood is one thing; but dealing with all of the architects, designers, etc. actually is an even more challenging job. The museum work had half a dozen folks involved, whereas the NNRH build took place over literally years with 2 dozen people involved; inspections, reports, samples, more samples, more shades of brown etc. etc.
I like showing off my work to a group of peers of the caliber of FF.
Cheers
Thank You Sir for sharing this bit of your talent and even sweat as you created this work of art. 8)
Fantastic article! I enjoyed the write up, you are very articulate in your responses. Though the comment about love where the dogs were listed before the wife.... :o :D! I am really happy you take the time to share your skills here and help those that ask about your approaches or the products you use, some would hold those as trade secrets or not take the time our of their schedule to respond. You are a wonder WOC!
I hope things work out with your Kodiak dreams.
Yup, my beloved "wife-instein" caught that comment also and it will be changed in the final edit. There will also be more about the actual construction tech including the use of carbon fiber internally. WOC
Quote from: tule peak timber on May 13, 2021, 09:21:04 AM
Thanks guys, all of you, for the kind comments! Dealing with the wood is one thing; but dealing with all of the architects, designers, etc. actually is an even more challenging job. The museum work had half a dozen folks involved, whereas the NNRH build took place over literally years with 2 dozen people involved; inspections, reports, samples, more samples, more shades of brown etc. etc.
I like showing off my work to a group of peers of the caliber of FF.
Cheers
Dang, I think I have been elevated from .22rf up a ways. Have enjoyed your work, it gives a goal for my small projects. Well done, sir, well done.
You sure do know how to put a shine on that crap! ;)
Enjoyed seeing it!!!
Speaking of shirts, I was looking for a cap online that says I'm Vaccinated. While looking for that, a t-shirt I liked showed up. It said:
Even after this virus is over, I want some of you to stay away from me.
Crab butts are very hard to find,,,,but tomorrow night for dinner we will be celebrating with crab spaghetti.Our deal/offer in Kodiak was signed and accepted this afternoon. Time to start bringing the dream to reality. Yahoo!!!
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Congratulations on your deal going through !!
It'll feel different next time. It'll be home now when you are there.
8)Home is where the heart is. I just didn't find it in Idaho, Montana, or Wyoming. I had some really hard fought growth experiences in Alaska years ago long-line fishing .
The people that I met in Kodiak seemed to blend seamlessly with my rather different way of thinking. Kodiak is a fishing town. It will be a lot of fun planning what to do with raw land (again) and sort of the end of the trip for my wife and I. Can't wait!
Congratulations, on a fine article, awsome work and a new dream unfolding. Thanks for sharing it.
Congrats! Your gonna love this new chapter of life!
Living The Dream is the way to live!!!!!
Very impressive woodworking and artistry. Enjoyed reading about the process .
And nice to be surrounded by so many people who
appreciate the beauty of wood grain !
Congratulations for sure on your new place 👍
Man, I am happy for you! That is exciting! Sounds like a good reason for another thread on your journey.... with pictures of course!
Thanks guys for the kind words. It's going to be a fun time planning something special on our little piece of the rock.
On another note I've attached a short video from my client, received this afternoon, of the NNRH curved wall as it is nearing completion.NNRH wall video May1821 - YouTube (https://youtu.be/rnvW85Bfd6Q) (https://youtu.be/IXkiSkLjueM)
Its set as private. Dont make me post one of mine as intermission ;)
Sorry about that.When I hit preview prior to posting the video ran just fine.Is it something I am doing here on FF ?
I am sure it feels good to finally get some of the big ones done, and revel in it for a few seconds, before starting the next big one. It all looks great.
Doc, I wish it was done! I am literally still working for these guys........
Meanwhile Tony and AJ are whacking up some fattys today as Lily catches some shade.
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Fattys is a very appropriate term for those. They would make all my equipment cringe in fear.
that dog has no trust issues. great. our German Shepard does not move as we step over and around. :D
The secret to big logs and small equipment is somebody younger and stronger pushing the equipment. I'm losing AJ next week as he goes off to become a fireman, so I wish him well and he is always welcome to return. As far as the trusting dog, we kind of sleep in a giant pile at night with me at the bottom and I'm not even sure if it's legal in 49 out of 50 states! We wait hand and foot on our kids and just love them to death. All 5 came to the ranch by their choice. We could start with the dog pics....but that will NEVER end!
In the oak log pic, Tony is standing in the background and you can barely see him after the opening cut. He is over 6'3 or 4. We had to trim everywhere to squeeze it into the mill. More pics tomorrow. Nice looking oak log inside.
if it is legal in California... :o :)
The inside of the big black oak log yielded two lifts of nice slabs, nothing special but still big slabs for table tops.There was a really nice collection of nails and bullets liberally sprinkled throughout. :D Did the NNRH wall video ever become viewable to members?
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Yes it was about 8 seconds. BIG wall! It is several shades of brown! Oh, it's crooked too!
That is a lotta wood glad you did not have to install.
Thanks , my wife and I spent ALL WEEK chasing loose ends on this job and are very happy to sit down tonight to a meal of Kodiak rock cod and not having choked each other out. We learned a very great deal about shipping hazardous material (stain) through FedEx and UPS; unbelievable, horrible customer service. Yes, the wall is crooked but it is supposed to be; LOL!
I showed those slab pictures to my mill and jr wet itself....Ok may be I forgot to shut off the lube valve. ;)
Those look pretty cool to me. More than 2 times wider than anything I would think of trying.
That particular oak log needed trimming on both sides to clear the Lucas slabber . Big wood sells very well, but is a pain to handle and you need to hang onto it for a long drying period. It really does not matter what species, everybody just wants "big" wood. There is a certain sadness to that statement....
The pic below is this mornings "Sunday Cedar". I'm cutting all of this into board and batt building siding to cover ongoing construction here at the ranch. Beautiful material and I really like dealing with this guy. I fed and fueled him and he will be 850 miles to the north by tomorrow morning. He offered me 60 loads of old growth Doug Fir, and with the price of 2X8's there is some money to be made for sure, just not by me,,,,,,,,I start a new museum job tomorrow.
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So the cedar is now siding and getting hung.
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I'm buried in the shop mass producing parts for the second sets of big gates. Lots of grain matching, glue ups, etc. I am also working on the next installment of Museum tables. These are from 3" thick rough cut walnut slabs that I have spent the last week rough dimensioning and doing basic layout. This jumbled mess will eventually be 15 more tables and real soon.
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With a steady work load last year, we haven't had a chance to saw much. Tony has a new helper and we're now sawing 5 days a week on many truckloads of mostly walnut that I just kept buying last year. There have been some cedars and firs but every time I get enough $ together, I put it right back into walnut: Claro, English, grafted, specimen crotches, you name it. I will try to keep 2 mills loaded and running all summer. After the slabs are cut, we are stock piling them (the guys, not me) into covered storage for use down the line. I know the dimensional market is hot right now and I am getting multiple calls per day for "beat the big box" prices and my intuition says to stay away from this. Monday I have a designer group coming in booking walnut into 2022 and beyond. Can't go wrong with walnut, redwood, cedar.
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very nice! take time for rest and family when you can. very productive, and hopefully profitable for you and yours!
Yep, may be time for a vacation in Kodiac! I like vacation pictures. :D
Right now it is all work and no play. The summer heat is hard on the log deck and I don't want to loose my investment.There will be plenty of pics later this fall, and I'm really looking forward to the smell of the ocean again.
Our property closes next week!
You are focused on the right things! I was just trying to temp you. smiley_devil
Well,,,, The temptation is certainly there . I ordered a fishing drone in prep for the next visit and spent some phone time with a couple of contacts today on fish counts starting up the rivers on Kodiak. I'm there at least in spirit...... :D
A bit of day dreaming and preparing for future makes the work days a bit easier.
Some tables that passed inspection this morning. These are Claro walnut museum pieces still in process.
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Beautiful natural colors.
I love your long "countertop room" was that by design, or just luck of the draw? what will these be setting atop? single post with a base? how thick are they? Nice production, very classy and beautiful.
Can't wait to see this one. How thick are the pieces? Did you cut them out with a pattern on a router or shaper?
The room itself is an insulated "wind tunnel" that we can loft , sand , and finish pieces with heated /filtered air. The 40 foot torsion box table is a great reference to keep things flat.
The tops are blind spline construction using Baltic birch plywood. A couple of years ago I switched to this style of internal joinery because it is fast to machine and has very consistent results that never fail. You can even dial in the amount of clearance in the joint depending on what type of glue you are using. Very consistent!
The corners of these tables are a flared radius called out in the specs by the designers. I had to draw, then build one corner, then mirror image it to the opposite side to keep things perfectly even. You'll notice that in the template I did not put the 2 corners together until I had batch cut all of the table blanks exactly identical, then I put stretchers on the 2 corners and glued them in place for the master end template. This ensures that everything is perfectly balanced and symmetrical to the actual blank.
I started with rough 3" thick slabs from the kiln and it took 3 weeks to creep up on the final blanks at 1-1/4" thick. The original specs were for 2-1/4" and mid stream in my building the customer switched to 1-1/4.
This weekend I am doing spot filling and getting ready to bullnose all of the edges at one time. Then the tedious finishing process begins.
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https://mingei.org/stories/transformation/tule-peak-timber
A link to how the museum turned out.
Well deserved praise, Sir.
Quote from: WDH on July 05, 2022, 05:04:20 PM
Well deserved praise, Sir.
Thanks Danny. Been thinking about your hand and I hope it is healing up well.
We were mentioned in some other articles in the big NNRH building we spent a few years working on/for, and we even caught a few lines recently in the New York Times on another project on which we had input.
I have spent the last 6 mos. working on a truck/camper project, along with all the usual doors, tables, millwork, etc. The camper project might be of some interest to guys who like to build stuff, although there is not really any wood in it. If there is some interest, I will start a thread on this thing I am building.
I'm interested in O' Grand WOC project!
popcorn_smiley popcorn_smiley
Rob, it is good to see you posting and sharing your various projects. The museum work and write up are something to be proud of.
Camper project! popcorn_smiley
A nice article and a nice job.
Yes on The Camper project.
Knowing you, it will be another fine job!!!
Interesting write up. Great work Rob! :)
Somehow I lost my subscription to this thread. But now I have it again and want to see the camper.
Yes Rob there is interest. Good to see you posting. :)
So glad to hear from you! 8) 8) 8)
Congratulations Rob on how everything turned out on the project! Very nice to see attention to detail, constantly having the wheels turning in the mind, being very saving on the wood and avoiding as much waste as possible, taking pride and loving what you do, having respect in in wood and nature. Blood, sweat and tears pays off!!!
Here is the deceptively simple project that got us in the NYTimes a few months back. The designer I was working for is on a boat off the Italian coast, skyping directions to me and the bronze sculpter in NYC. The sculpter is the architect for Obama's Presidential Library. The pieces are local
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cedar, bronze inlay and the pics show Nakashima furniture in the background. Quite an honour!
I will pull together some pics of this truck camper I am building and start a thread soon.
Great to see you back posting oh great WOC! I thought you might have run off to a place like Alaska for some peace and quiet. Rob your creations are magnificent in both the museum and the library! I look forward to more.
Good to see you back on the Forum as well! Began to wonder if you were leaving on a jet plane (loaded with Coors) on Flying Fish airlines... again. :D
Now it's not so much Coors but a fresh turkey, some oak smoking wood and Glenlivet! I am making a lot of friends in Alaska; good folks that take their hunting and fishing passionately. The people at TSA open up my bags, just shake their heads and pass me on through, LOL.
I like the benches and really happy that you got some great press on the job! 8) 8)
I don't quite understand the stumps that are setting on the benches. What am I missing?
Larry,
These are solid bronze castings of select roots. We also did bronze inlay in the benches themselves. The deal with the castings is that the artisan is also the architect of Obama's Presidential Library. Honk, honk, horn honk. Hey, I just build what they ask me to build. 8)
You're lucky those TSA guys don't want a fish dinner. :o
A series of white oak box beams that just went out of the shop. 3 feet by 32 feet grain matched, with all the twists and cutouts. More than a few weeks of oak stretching!
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When the Nyle is on another schedule, and you need a piece sterilized, I turn to the wolf!
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What is that bumpy looking piece?
Part of a table base for a piece that we are whacking out, Sycamore.
It seems like there are always tables on order at various price points. A couple pics of a high-end gaming table completed last month. Not everyone wants to spend $$ like water so I offer a variety of options for less thick wallets too!
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I like it!!!
May I shamefully steal that pedestal base design?
You bet-made it on the WoodMizer.
Today Tony and I are building one off designs for dining table bases. Tony is tuning up a white oak torsion box that will go under a massive oak slab that is in another part of the shop. This type of base I like for BIG, heavy loads. I am working on some solid mid-century design legs out of coastal live oak. Lots of shaping.
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Hey WOC, any chance we could see some closer photos on the joinery in those legs. (Please note I resisted the nearly overwhelming urge to say "hey man,. You,
Got NiCE legs!")
spline joints at the angles? nice way to reduce the weight of the legs in the first two pics, but make them massive.
Blind mortise and tenon at the angled joints careful to balance the dimensional look. Actually, a little tricky with high figure wood to get the look to flow. The torsion box legs are thick veneer scraps on Baltic birch jointed with rabbits at the corners and internal cross bracing. This design can be built with curves also. Everything tight........ ;D Still a lot more shaping to do.
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Looks awesome 💪💪
Quote from: tule peak timber on July 09, 2022, 10:57:47 AM
When the Nyle is on another schedule, and you need a piece sterilized, I turn to the wolf!
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How long and what temperature for 1" to thicker pieces
I ran the little air-dried log for a couple of hours at 250 degrees. Just want to simmer any powder post beetles to a nice well done. Will post pics tomorrow of the project near completion.
Cool! Always looking forward to your pictures and stories 👍
glad to have you back and sharing your "out of the torsion box" thinking and techniques! ;)
The little warty sycamore log on a sculpted oak base. I highlighted the nails in the top as part of design. This is one time that iron staining came in handy.
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you sure have a knack for making something beautiful out of nothing. I wish I had a fraction of your talent.
Rough shaping and dry fit this morning.
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Looks fantastic!!
Fabulous!
Quote from: Crusarius on August 17, 2022, 11:36:41 AM
you sure have a knack for making something beautiful out of nothing. I wish I had a fraction of your talent.
that is where the nickname "Wizard of Crap" came from. :) it is art.
:) Lemonade from lemons.
Somehow /sometimes it looks as though you have made lemonade from dirt...just saying some things look like they were beyond a lemon when you started with them.... :)
Your sigline should be wizard of crap :)
Finishing up a big oak mantle and some shelves that match an island we did a while back. Check out the grain on this Canyon Live Oak.
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I am checking!!!!!
Spectacular!
One of a kind. Once again beautiful work.
Beautiful. John and I were bragging about your work and methods to one of our customers on Saturday after he was inquiring about our live oak.
I sawed up a live oak log yesterday for an ag teacher friend of mine who has an old pull behind road grader that needs a tongue. I sawed him a few 4x4's, which should be several lifetime's supply. The grain in them looked a lot like yours, although they are different species and from opposite sides of the continent.
I saw some internet photos of work I did for a customer in his house, that is now up for sale. One is a 7' diameter walnut circular table and the other is his man cave bartop. The guy has a really nice house! LOL
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I would say so! All it would take is to write a check with seven figures to be behind that bar and enjoy it 😂
I don't think I could live in a place like that. Not enough of the lived in look for me.... :)
Nebraska,
You are spot on! They don't live in them.
These are snow bird homes for the East Coast and Canadian money folks. Lots of household names such as UPS, Arm and Hammer, Armour, FedEx, etc. etc. have these homes for use at Christmas time and occasionally during the year for business get aways. They don't live like the rest of us. The houses are stunning, sterile and have upkeep and taxes that I can't even comprehend!
Anyway, a couple of pics of birthing this bartop idea that may never, ever actually have a drink spilled on it!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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About how many hours labor (ballpark) went into that bar top? Definitely a "statement" showpiece. smiley_thumbsup
You know, that's a tough one to estimate. I tend to look at bidding jobs by the square foot or what the competition might charge. A bartop like this is one of a kind and took probably 6 months to build. The problem is, I run 10-30 jobs at any one time and only none to a few hours per day on any one job. I do work 7 days/week and it's a churning whirlpool that makes money on some jobs and jobs like this one are more for exposure. And this client has asked me for one of a kind pieces for years.
Way more profit in simply selling wood, by the hour anyway. Sadly, I build a lot of pieces that you don't really make much money on; I just make up for my losses with volume and wood sales. The word of mouth exposure beats any facebook or google advertising ANY day.
How many hours?-Too many.... :D
Sounds like building a mansion or restoring a collector car, more time = more attention to detail, and higher quality. Those hours may not be all added in the bill, but the best finish product is more important.
The best is what I aim for.
When your the best your spot on! And that you are! Fine fine beautiful legacy show pieces!!!!
Aiming is one thing.... achieving might be another. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back.
I seem to be in the position (some by choice, some by chance) of doing little gingerbread jobs for architects, builders and designers. The biggest thing with keeping these guys coming back is being on time and in budget. Reliability on a large job, (or any job), such as the NNRH project, is huge when you have so many cooks in the kitchen and budgets are half a billion dollars. Besides chopping wood, you need to keep a lot of people calm and have answers for them. Anyway, we keep trying. :)
Customer supplied pic of a dinner table and light bar we built for his home. Starting the wraparound bar top next week.
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Pheeew, thats obscenely beautiful TPT.
Not sure that it matches the rest of the house, but that's just me.
If I found myself having supper with sixteen people, I'd probably forget the food because I was drooling over the grain and finish on the table.
Good work buddy!
I take it that hanging beam light had a little magic done on it - not solid? Amazing stuff.
No , the customer did not want to pay for the hollow version, so it is solid. Extremely heavy! The customer is always right ............ :D
Nice! smiley_thumbsup
Did something like that light beam (though not nearly as big) in my best customers new house when they built it. Guess who was the youngest - most agile guy on site to crawl up through the trusses over the kitchen (after the sheetrock and insulation were in) and put in blocking to hang it by? ??? :D
Hey Resonator, you're still the youngest and most agile guy on the crew this month, right?
Well, ok, maybe just around these parts of the Forum? 😁
Youngest on here at least at this moment, though there's at least a few younger than me members in the forum. ;)
Amazing looking table. Resonator is a whippersnapper amongst the venerable fellows of the Forestry Forum.
:D :D
There's a joe cutting firewood on the logging page that's 35, compared to him I'm an old guy. ;D
smiley_old_guy
Thats one out of how many of da 474 pages of members? :D :D :D
That sure does look nice, I wonder how all wood chairs would look.
Friday, we start the matching countertops. Happy New Year to all ! 8)
I went to this topic and wow, just wow. you ability to create such marvels is just amazing, my hat's off.
I would really love to see your shop once and some of the work you and your crew creates!
Ramon
Thanks Ramon, the door is always open and the BBQ smokin!...
A pic of a couple of walnut doors I built for a friend a few weeks ago.
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A truck load of old barn beams going out today. One reference surface, kilned, heat treated, Biobored, cleaned and oiled. White oak from the heartland.Nice looking compared to what they looked liked when they got here. ;D
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A redwood bar top being installed by a customer today.
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Looks great!!
Load of Doug fir timbers going out today. Pic taken just before sunrise.
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I just received this E-mail a few minutes ago from a customer who took delivery today of her new island top. Holy crap Batman!! What an ego builder eh? Here is a copy of her email.
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That's what it's all about, isn't it? Nicely done. 8)
You made her happy!!!
That's worth more than money.
From the pictures of your work I suspect every one of your customers has the same response. Seriously, it always amazes me.
Time out to fire roast some chilis this morning. I freeze them up and put them on sandwiches with our pickled onions throughout the year.
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@tule peak timber (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=25190)
If I walked up to that house with the walnut door I wouldn't even ring the bell. They'd find me out there the next day still staring dumbly at their door!
Beautiful work