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I know in the last post, I mentioned that the door was awaiting hardware. Well, after some discussion with Melissa, I decided it will be awaiting hardware for the near future. While it would be great to have it on a slide track to also cover the bedroom door, it does a great job of [...]
Perhaps you remember this little post. Perhaps you don’t. Either way, I finally began working on a barn-style sliding door made out of an awesome, hand painted vintage sign. The plywood sign is wrapped with old pine headers that were ripped out of a building somewhere. They have a great patina and worn paint. By [...]
I turned this bat the other day out of the last billet I have in the studio (there’s a new batch coming in tomorrow!). I had a bad feeling about it from the get go, there were a few areas of discoloration on the outside, and the end grain had some well. As it turned [...]
So, the winter has been a bit ho-hum. I’m sure you could tell by the lack of posts. And if you considered that maybe I was done with this here blog, you were wrong. Not that I gave much of a reason for you to think otherwise!
There was a bit of a winter void this year for a few reasons.
1) Snow. There was too damn much of it. When you drive a two wheel, rear wheel drive truck, everything is terrifying until you park. So I didn’t get out to the studes too much.
2) Lack of heat. The furnace at the studio blew, and at one point all of my glue bottles had a thin layer of ice.
But, like baseball, I always tend to come back in the spring.
A few weeks ago I got around to making a hard effort in cleaning up and organizing everything. The studio was shining, ready for me to make a mess. So I did.
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