make junk , in a profesional way !

Hey David,
I bet “the bearded lady in the red dress” would consider being your companion… at least for a chance to spend a year in the Bahamas!
Ellen

-- Ellen on Cape Cod

Yeah David I m sure Grizz would be available and I hear he is a good cook.
Seriously though it looks like life is finally treating you good. Great gate BTW just love the top panel. If you do go say Hi to my mate Alan Bax at the Bahama Ferry Co.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

he would probably go the way of the rest of them ,
start by feeling lonely that i’m at work all the time ,
and not paying enough attention to her/him ?
and i’dd hate to be the first one on LJ’s
to have a family breakup .
we wouldn’t get to look at each others works anymore .
and you know how people take sides in a break-up .
and i’d have to grow a beard too !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Sounds like another chapter for your book. There is going to be a book, right? I’ll camp out at Barnes and Noble waiting.

Oh, beautiful door. I just stripped a bunch of cedar off a bathroom remodel and may use it to build something similar to yours for my workshop doors.

-- Please visit me at http://dustynewt.com

that’s some great looking junk…

-- /\/\/\ BarryW /\/\/\ Stay so busy you don't have time to die.

David: That a great door. You fall into all kinds of Do-Do Don’t you.

I had a freind try to buy a lighthouse on the Delaware Shore. He was outbid by a California developer who owns two other lighthouses.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Sounds like quite a challenge at the adobe site, trying to blend free thinking and form with “real world” construction applications and techniques, while keeping everybody “cool” with the changes. That’s a lot of criteria!! Are the doors going to be self closing? I dreamed up a weight and pulley system to my screen door that always gets people shaking their heads when they see it. It appeals, somehow, to have gravity working for you rather than against you…
And now they want you to rebuild a lighthouse!! On a deserted island!! It’s nice to be wanted and appreciated, but is there enough Patron to go around?! What does David want to do, in his heart of hearts?
The door(s) looks fantastic, by the way!! And if you decide to do the lighthouse work, all I can say is, you’d better like fish!!

-- Mike in Manchester, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

stick to your day jobs , guys !
as kent said , being a pro , only means you get paid for it .
it doesnt mean you get paid on time , or even all you bargained for .
it doesn’t mean that the client has a degree in architecture or design ,
mostly it means that they look at something that has 500 steps ,
and look at 10 random ones , and declare their idea doable ,
so whats your problem ?
when you explain , they say , ” i don’t understand you ,
just do it my way , it’s real simple ” .
so i’ve learned to politly say back ,
“if your way is so simple , why don’t you do it yourself ” ?
what most clients want from me ,
is to make their idea work ,
regardless of how unrealistic it may be .
so stick to cooking, mike .
you get to eat regularly ,
and the only choices for the customer are mashed or fries ,
soup or salad , raw or well done .
in my world anyone with ten bucks to spend ,
thinks they are a genius when it comes to bldg.

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Hey David have you been talking to some of my customers ? Boy do I know what your talking about.
Cool door Job I”m glad I don’t have to work on any adobe places.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Looks a little like some carriage doors I made for a friend a few years ago. He had left over timbers from when he bought an old RR trestle bridge. He built his house from most of them. They were old growth Doug Fir. Nice clear stuff. We used one of those chain saw rigs to make planks which I tongue and grooved and then used 3/8 carriage bolts and bits of redwood to frame out and hold the whole mess together… Instead of the beautiful balusters on the top, I put in windows made of safety glass. Yours is so much more refined than my effort (really beautiful) but my friend wanted to keep the medieval look of his house… ;0) He got what he wanted.

-- jack -- measure once, curse twice!

A very handsome door David. Maybe the fact that you made something in pine will raise my status in the LJ community what with my latest contribution also in pine. I’m glad to be riding on your creative coattails!

-- Mike, American in Norway

Beautiful door David. No matter where the matter came from.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

David, I rode a motorcycle from Seattle to Santa Fe when I was just 21. I looked up my favorite art teacher from high school there & got a job working on her husbands adobe spec house in the desert. I laughed when he told me to install the 2” styrofoam insulation panels to the exterior, why cover that beautiful adobe well I leared a lot on that job. Then back to Seattle was hired from the tool store while buying my first set of real tools, $80 the most I ever spent. He got me building barns & riding arenas, the rest is history but what a great time in Santa Fe!

-- $tudie