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Morning Ylee:
Though I have been known to touch up small paint or varnish jobs I much prefer to let the owner manage that part or hire someone who has a good reputation. The logger (owner) asked me what I would recommend for a clear coat and I showed him my wood floors with "Diamond Coat" looking not too bad after about 6 years of rough trade.
I was impressed with how a guy who fells trees and measures them for sale to mills really sees and appreciates the beauty of the wood itself. He had seen the original log in the "chip/reject" pile and hauled it to a small mill for milling, planing and kiln drying.
An incredible volume of good wood is chipped or burned here if it does not run easily through a standard mill set up. Once a log gets on to the feed chain at the mill it is a commodity and the product will mainly be determined by a computer scan with a human operator overseeing. The mills have been re designed over the year to handle smaller wood because we have taken most of the big stuff long ago so if a log too large for the mill gets on the chain it will be shunted for chipping or burning even though the larger log will sometimes be better wood.

Today: Tloml is home today and gardening so I took the Mantle pieces over to the big shop. My "Main Man" R. who runs the shop, builds the goofy machines he sends me out to test and generally enjoys life is pretty handy when you have a "sticky wicket" which is all I do these days.
What I wanted was "blind mortices". That means you can not simply run something through a table saw and walk away. The "blind" part refers to not cutting all the way through the work. It also deals with corners in your cut away so we took an hour or so setting up the morticing chisles on the drill press and then moved to the "Hammer" table saw to rip as much offcut as we could. Eventually I will try to post a final product photo here. That is assuming I measured and envisioned all this correctly. If I screwed up you don't need to watch.
Pulled in for gas at the corner store and the guy pumping beside me came over to say: "Where did you get that wood?"
"Guy I'm working for pulled the log out of the scrap pile."
He bowed his head and said: "I love old fir."

Gonna need to set this story up:
Daughter and SIL bought the local Tattoo shop a few months ago. SIL is a good artist and produces some amazing tats. I've got a standing offer if I can imagine what I want semi permanently displayed somewhere on my body.
This whole community (people who get tats and those who inflict them) live in a world I only visit but today I met four young men who are covered with tattoos. They are the artists who drop in to each other's business.
Except for the murals on the arms and legs they are as normal as you and I (possibly more so in my case)

Morning Ylee:
I have to defer to R when I'm in his space - especially on finicky stuff. For one thing he knows the set up (and where the bits and blades and change-out tools reside) of the various tools and for another he has done much more "fine fitment" than I have. He gets me to do the other stuff like site layout, concrete forms and framing.
We worked together under his company name for a few years and built some dwellings I'm still proud to have worked on.
Initially there were four of us arrogant carpenters working together under R's company name. One (now departed) walked in to the building we were working on one morning and complained that he had to "shoehorn" his
ego through the door because the whole space was already taken up by the other three.

.yo Pat:
"Too many Days" I've left un NOLA'd.

Mornin' Todd:
Tloml just lumbered out of her cave so I'd best go have a coffee with her and see what she dreamed last night.

Here is a link to the latest thang on my wish list:
http://petersonsawmills.com/products/asm/

Calpoppy:
That's a good looking project!
Hayrake,eh.
I'll take a picture of the house here and maybe the owl 'cause I can hear the other birds excited about something

Manana de la manana: I did read incoming and I'll dream up something. Trust me, I was a geologist

Morning Ylee:
For a carpenter that fellow had a way with words - he had one poem published which I still don't understand.
The control interface is quite simple but it takes a while to develop the connection to the brain. I have operated various pieces of heavy equipment and initially created more problems that were solved but using the same machine for an extended time eventually one can forget the instructions and the bucket moves the way you wish it to. Then you learn that that was the simple part of earth moving and you still have a lot of learning ahead.
Good morning Shore:
We had SIL, daughter, grand son and one of the tattoo artists over for the evening. That may have had something to do with why I could not respond till this morning. The artists I've met are interesting and interested folks. Maybe because they are artists?
By the way: I'm now using Sandi's advice to you about use of CTRL and the words are much easier to read.
I'm trying to think of anything I have that a grand parent made - maybe I'll ask my mother and aunt. I do have the old Hawaiian Guitar that my father made while with the RCAF in Britain. I'll try to upload a photo of it. I'm trying to finish another Schatzcammer for my grand daughter who is coming home on Sunday - they phoned from Paris yesterday.
I live from project to project. If you get your carpenter started on the table he will live longer, I think.
GeorgiaStormz:
Good morning to you. To me function enhances beauty and vice versa. An useful piece of furniture will be cared for if it is also attractive.

Shore:
Here's the guitar picture. I'll be away for a couple of days - going to the Island cabin with no internet connection.
"Keep everything on the farm goin'"
("If You See My Red Rooster" Rolling Stones)