[ATTACH] OK. A few pictures from 2017 of the Threefathers table. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Not only pics, but the table survives as well. I brought it with in the move from CA 5 years ago. Life lately has been filled with coincidences...
Over 60 years ago, my maternal grandfather made cooking spatulas from maple and walnut, and I am lucky to still have a few of those in my kitchen....
I live north of the airport across the Rock River from MLI adjacent to I 74. I can hear and see planes taking off and landing.
I couldn't find a "new member" topic, so I thought I'd post where I was most active a few years ago. By way of introduction, I can best point you...
I see that it has been almost 4 years since I updated the Belvedere project. The good new is that it was completed 2 years ago. The not so good...
Goin' mobile, with apologies to The Who. Today we are picking up a new to us motorhome. Last December we gave our 1988 31' Suncruiser to a...
A while back, someone pointed out to me that a classic gazebo was either open sided, or perhaps screened against insects, and that what I'm...
I haven't given up on the gazebo. I've been thinking about the digging, forming, and laying the concrete foundation, and clearing a space in the...
Woo hoo! I just got all 8 top beams in place. Now that I'm getting pretty good at 2" square mortises, it's nice to be done with them. :) [IMG]...
Here are some stats. The dish roof is about 12' 4" diameter at the eave. The posts are ~8' tall from the bottom of the bottom tenon to the top of...
More progress. Yesterday I marked the top mortises and chiseled out an eighth of an inch or so. Then I temporarily screwed each top beam miter...
I will admit to a little diversion of thought for about a month recently regarding the design of the gazebo Back when I was in early junior high,...
Nope. Plain ol' Doug fir...
I made progress in the last week or 2. The tenons at the tops of the posts are all cut: [IMG] [IMG] The top eight 4x6 beams are all cut and...
I checked WxForum and the Guests box on the Chit Chat board wasn't checked. As you can see, it's fixed now.
Well, rats. Lemme check that out...
Tell you what, Woodwidow, rather that post everything from the beginning here, here's a link to a weather forum I'm a co-admin of, with everything...
Here is the assembled, inverted dish a few years ago, with me load testing it to see if I thought it would be strong enough. It didn't even wiggle...
A few years ago, I looked at my accumulation of stuff, and decided to see if I couldn't repurpose 7 46" x 76" tempered glass panes and a salvaged...
