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my day off

Project by socalwood posted 62 days ago 764 views 0 times favorited 15 comments Add to Favorites Watch

What does a woodworker do on his day off?
Work on his own house.
Urban lumber ash, t&g wall panel in our kitchen area. I started this little cabin 3 years ago and have not had a single day away from my business to do any work on my own home. I do a wide variety of custom millwork for everyone else and their homes and my wife has finally laid down the law to start finishing ours.
We are doing an all wood on wood house, like several other LJ members have in progress.


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TopamaxSurvivor

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posted 62 days ago

I hate it when the LAW gets laid down :-(( It happens :-)) Loks like you’re doing a great job!!

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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Andraxia

134 posts in 407 days


posted 62 days ago

Looks like a pantry is the next order of business.

Looks great hun.

Hugs
Belinda

-- The wood slayer - Yes dear I did plan to make more kindling out of that wood I have been drying for the last year - honest!

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NBeener

386 posts in 72 days


posted 62 days ago

Nice.

-- -- Neil

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Bureaucrat

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posted 62 days ago

It seems only fair that you get some help with the finish work! Looks nice.

-- Gary, South Central Wisconsin. So much to learn, so little time!

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woodworm

8310 posts in 489 days


posted 62 days ago

Clients’ first and ours last or business then leisure, that is mormal.
Who want to be a woodworker without being able to have wood? .....ha ha ha…!

Very nice all wood home!

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

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a1Jim

17049 posts in 475 days


posted 62 days ago

Hey Rob
Been there the last 40 years. looks great.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, heirloomwoodshop.com

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Kindlingmaker

1477 posts in 425 days


posted 62 days ago

Yup! I ain’t gon’a say no more. My wife is a LumberJock too… and she can read a lot faster than I can type!

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

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navyman

96 posts in 304 days


posted 62 days ago

tell the wife its real nice, thanks to you.. it looks great.

-- Michael . USN ( Ret ) Batesville,AR

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drfisherman

27 posts in 68 days


posted 62 days ago

Very nice indeed…

-- "The worst day fishing is better than the best day working!"

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ken90712

352 posts in 87 days


posted 62 days ago

We all live in your world! Mine is great at driving me to finish projects when there is only 4% left. I like to do big projects and move on. She’ll say, “no, you just did all that nice work on the oak crown molding. Were filling in the small nail holes with wood putty and finishing today.” Yes dear….. in the end, we all know it needs to be done to make the project pop. The good thing is most of us here have wives that understand we need to buy tools, because were productive and not sitting on the couch all day!
Nice job.
Ken

-- Ken, "Everyday above ground is a good day!"

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spanky46

737 posts in 289 days


posted 62 days ago

44 years for me! nice work

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

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socalwood

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posted 62 days ago

Thanks for comments ! The real thanks needs to go to my wife though for her support and many , many planned sacrifices since we started our wood and woodworking business a scant couple of years ago .Life is about choices and without her commitment to see these choices through I would not have the ability to be as focused as I am .

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Thos. Angle

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posted 60 days ago

Really looks good, Rob. I’ve had that law laid down once in a while as well.

-- Thos. Angle

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Scott Bryan

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posted 60 days ago

Rob, this looks really good. I have always said that you cannot put too much wood into a home. Good luck on keeping up with your wife’s “requests”. If she is anything like mine projects get added to the list at a faster rate than I can complete them! :)

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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RexMcKinnon

722 posts in 94 days


posted 59 days ago

I would love to have a place like that. Beautiful

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

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