So as NASA lands another rover on Mars and begins to transmit pictures of the red planet back to earth, so too has my own means of sharing life, adventures, and much less expensive endeavors back here on our own blue-green orb to the ever present internet haze.
So it has been a bit as I have made this transition and unlike the seven minutes of breath holding
I imagine took place as the Phoenix lander entered Mars orbit at 14ooo mph..... I mean holy heat
shields batman. That thing must have been cooking! I on the other hand had little breath holding as I struggled to get my blog in place. Rather just had lots of delays around the timber frame class I have been taking. That's right folks, yet another resume buffer for an indecisive wanderer.
The plus is I really get this stuff. I mean it is like a giant puzzle, which you design yourself and then you get to construct. The problem is now I won't want to buy a house but instead buy some land with trees enough for a house. Which would first need a work barn for the tools and the timbers and that in itself would need some staging areas. So it seems kind of backwards that I would have to build all this exterior stuff before I could finish the living space. Why is it that I am single???.... oh yeah...shelter...desirable in a partner....I kind of get it?
But really if nothing else it was a great opportunity to play with some massive power tools. Now I know some folks (ahem...Matyas, Jimbo, and Nichols) who like tools and have a lots of pretty incredible stuff but I have some additions I would make to their shop so that I can come play timber framer there. #1. Deluxe, oversized, chop your leg off, blade the size of a cheese platter circular saw. (pic 1)
#2. Ready for the fat tire brewery festival Timber cart....For assistance with the giant beams your working on.
#3. Wide bit, cud chewing, eat the kitchen table hand planer.
#4. (My personal favorite for over the top specialty item) - Chain Mortiser!!!
So hopefully I will get some of the pictures of me with these toys from one of the other students
who had a camera in the class to post here too!
oooo I need a job so I can get me some of these.....
Until next time, don't forget your safety equipment and keep shooting sawdust.
charlie
So I got some more pics from the group which show me with the tools so here are some more pretty good sh
ots....
Me with the Chain Mortiser The plan for the new building
Tom Healy our Fearless leader Trimming a Tenon with a 1.5" Chisel
1 comment:
Charlie....I love the blog idea. That is until I read your workshop adventures and realized that my recent project of building a split rail fence doesn't stand up to the acts of creation that you are generating. I don't want to sell myself short, but pre-cut rails and fence posts are not very difficult to work with. All I actually did was dig a bunch of holes in the ground and then revert back to my childhood days of playing with Lincoln logs.
Sounds like you are enjoying it…..just make sure that you keep a field dressing, a one handed tourniquet, a cooler with ice, and a strip map to the local hospital with you at all times.
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