A Hobbit's Birthday Party at Zongkers Custom Furniture #1: Second trip to Dennis Zongker's Wood Lair

Suweeet!

-- There's no tool like an old tool...

“chocolaty goodness from Delicé a European bakery ”
you sure know how to shop Doug!
Nice haul too.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Happy Birthday!!!! Nice Hobbit tradition

Douglas: I completely understand about stealing this wood away from the potential woodworkers of tomorrow. Let them find their own wood. (just humour, my friends, just humour). I’m sure that they will have enough wood to work with this year without these few pieces.

Looking forward to seeing what this turns into! :)

oh.. and “oooooooooooooooooh (drool) ... chocolate…”

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Man, Douglas, that was some good chocolate!!! I ate it on my drive home. I also accidentally gave some to my shirt and pants. It mixed well with the dried up glue and saw dust. I think we have a pretty good barter system here in Nebraska. Thanks Douglas.

-- Dennis Zongker

(I had to look up the word punctiliousness.)
Nice haul!

-- JC - Central PA - www.affyx.com

Hi Douglas;

I’d say you did good!

I know little of Dennis, but that post speaks volumes about his work ethic and character.

Apparently he is as good a person, as he is a wood worker. Simply put: ”One of the very best”.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

My editor/wife/soulmate wanted to make sure that I pointed out that the punky, moldy log section that has been riding in the bed of my truck since the big storms of this summer wasn’t part of the Zongker inventory.

Deb, my ulterior goal was to educate the woodworkers of tomorrow to a.) Toughen up kids! I’m afraid you are gonna need it… and b.) Start learning to forage for wood early. As soon as you get your learner’s permit, start driving the neighborhood on the night before trash pickup. Drive out to the tree dump and make withdrawals (I have some beauties waiting to be chainsawn into bowl blanks in the garden. some are beginning to spalt). Haunt the free section of Craig’s List… and get a metal detector.

Dennis, we dress alike. My clothes retain the memory of countless glue-ups and finishing schedules as well as the occasional meal. I even ate the piece I bought myself on the way home with similar results.

And Robert, if Dennis allows me to hit the jackpot (in future days, when there is a stitch of room in the wood storage area of the garage/hovel) again there will be a world famous Napoleonas Torte in it for the Brothers Zongker. The Lithuanian Bakery here in town makes a mean signature item that features 12 layers of thin Phyllo type dough, each spread with apricot jam with a rich custard center. Each one takes days to prepare.

On a side note, Omaha is second only to San Francisco for the number of restaurants per capita, with an incredible ethnic mix of Germans, Poles, Czechs, Lithuanians, Italians, Thais, Chinese, Somalis and Hispanics plying the food trade. The Orsi Bakery run by Frank Orsi is blocks from Zongkers and features rolls offered by many of the town’s restaurants, bread and sheet pizzas too big to fit through a car window. Sign me fat, happy and wood stocked in Omaha, Nebraska.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

you are sneaky Douglas… slipping a little bribe in there (the Torte for FUTURE scrounging!) Way to go

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Good on ya, Douglas! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Oh, and you get a triple word scrabble bonus for using
“punctiliousness”.

I also talk very more wordlier-ness…er, wordlierish? wordtastic? .....{sobs quietly into a thesaurus}

-- When my wife ask's what I have to show for my wood working hobby, I just show her the splinters.

You are a shameless Wood Hussy…..except for the gender you’re just my type.

Famous indiane line from Dances with Wolves: Good trade.

-- DocK, WV

How sweet it is Douglas. That’s one envious trade.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Chardt, you’ve gotten the LOL award of my day.

DocK, your comment reminded me of a slightly off-color joke.

A guy sidles up to a gorgeous woman at the bar.
He asks her if she would sleep with Brad Pitt for a million dollars. After a brief moment of careful consideration, she answers in the affirmative.
Without losing a beat he says, ”So would you sleep with me for 20 bucks?”
The beauty is outraged. ”What kind of a girl do you take me for?”
To which he rejoins ”We’ve already established that. Now were just haggling over the price.”

Yup. When it comes to scrap acquisition, I’m every bit the cheap wood floozie.
Happy is he who knoweth what he is. Thus endeth the lesson for the day. Selah.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.