639 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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You may not know it, but my little wife, (”Bairbre”), that’s Irish for Barbara. She has a wee bit of Irish in her blood.
But I think her heart is 100% Irish. You all must have seen the, Click here> Irish Claddagh, I carved for her.
Now I’ve decided to make her a Shamrock shaped box, for this years St. Patrick’s day.
The finished dimensions are: 7 1/2” High x 7” Wide x 4” Deep.
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425 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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Debbie challenged me to a Video duel.
Pardon my stuttering, & stammering, because I’m just a Lumberjock, & I don’t care.
Notice the Lumberjocks T-shirt, my PC camera shows a mirror image, & I can’t figure it out.
Don’t forget to watch MsDebbieP’s happy dance.
Also Martin’s Happy Dance.
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205 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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This is a continuation of #5 in this series.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I have the slat wall paneling completed.
Now, how am I going to arrange my tools?
This is the last wall, I ripped my boards in half to 1 5/8”. I like it better this way. There’s more slots for arranging tools. The space between the slats is 5/16”. The furring is 1/4” x 1 1/8” ~~~~~~~~~~~~...
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16 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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We finally got some decent weather, so I rushed out, put some shingles around the window.
I couldn’t salvage enough old shingles for the job, but it didn’t turn out too bad.
The new ones will gradually blend in while aging.
Photos by Barb!
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27 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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I was going to cover over this window, I decided some extra natural light would be nice.
Thanks again to Barb on taking most of these pictures.
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27 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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My garage has only a 7’ ceiling, so I pulled out the rafters, & added 2 X 4s with 9” plywood gussets to
accommodate 9” R-30 insulation. I did this in my existing shop about 18 years ago.
Doing this took out about 2” of sag in the old rafters.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I had a small bubble type skylight leftover from the other shop that I hadn’t used, so I installed it in
this ceiling. For such a small opening, 14 1/...
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29 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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I’ve been way to crowded in my shop, especially since I went from a radial arm saw to a table saw.
A radial arm saw works fine in a narrow shop, because it’s against the wall
Plus adding a thickness planer.
I haven’t use the automobile side of my garage for years now.
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This is a rough sketch of my floor plan. I plan to keep the partition down the cent...
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48 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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While doing this remodeling job, every once in awhile we could smell a faint odor of Skunk.
When I was cleaning up the area, & picking up scrap chunks of wood, I discovered digging in an
area at the edge of the deck next to the shed entrance. I figured this must be from a Skunk.
So I dug out the Skunk trap I had made years ago, when we had a Skunk incident.
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First I had to repair the trap, because the tripping mech...
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50 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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I finally had some time today to post this. It’s been done a couple of weeks now.With the fresh snowfall, it’s a nice cool day to cuddle up to the computer.
I got the new roof section to blend in with the gazebo fairly well.
Some images:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I finished the facia with 1 X 4 Cedar Now it’ll have to age with the rest of the building.
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67 days ago
by Dick, & Barb Cain |
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I finally have some time to show off our contest prize.
As you may know, we won 3rd place in the contest
The prize was a CUSTOM BRANDING IRON, donated by Terry Desilets.
The prize was supposed to be a Stock Branding Iron, but I opted to have a custom one made.
I sent Terry a sample of my signature.
And he designed it to be compatible with a brand design.
He sent me 2 samples to choose from, & I chose AThe finished size of the brand is a 3/4” X 1” oval
The...
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