323 days ago
by Dusty |
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After demolishing the basement and cleaning it out, I had a chance to assess the real condition of the plumbing, electrical, heating, and various other parts of the house.
Not good!
I confirmed pretty much what I expected and that for which I had planned, and budgeted.
This included breaking up the floor and replacing all the floor drains and pipe, the plumbing needed to be redone.
The electrical wiring was in dire shape.
The heating plant (hot water hea...
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363 days ago
by Dusty |
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Of course, hindsight is genius.
Duh.
Let me take a minute to gloat.
It was July 20 2006, when I first took a weekend and worked up plans, bids and did a comprehensive analysis of “This Old Mold House” and a possible offer.
After extensive work I met with the owner’s son-in-law to present my findings and conclusions.
I worked very hard to make the numbers work. That is, I really wanted to buy the house for remodeling and resale. However, because I didn’t have a ready buy...
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373 days ago
by DAN |
11 comments »
Spent this weekend pressing clay tiles.
Used up 100 pounds of p-clay or sculptors clay in about 25 different handmade molds made from my mahoagny carvings.
70 tiles. Esimate 3 or 4 kiln loads.
Largest tile is over twelve inches high.
Smallest is about 4 inches.
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400 days ago
by DAN |
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Forgot how messy a router is. Mahogany machines like butter.Photos are the project with one section roughed in … deepest section … about 3/8 depth using 1/2 router bit.A section with the poster glued on and the tools I’m using, less the dust collector.
As mentioned in Marc’s blog … Bought a 1/8 down spiral do some detail work.
One thing I didn’t plan for was the paper wants to lift up next to the router bit. My work around is scoring the drawing with ...
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405 days ago
by DAN |
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Inspired by Mark’s blog on his Sandzen inpired wood carving … thought might try one myself.
The idea for Haunted Forest TWO. Photo I digitally edited on my laptop. Layered a couple photos, grayscaled , rescaled, stretched, deformed, negative and pixelated ….
This is a challenge to myself. I have never made a carving this big, nor will I use the exact same methods that I have used in-the-past.
Hope to learn a few new tools and teach myself a few new tricks via ...
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