I did a full redesign of the Cornebarrieu bench… As per my normal modus operandi, I was over designing/building it. With all the tweaks and gadgets and new parts, it was going to take me 6 months to build, some serious math to layout the interlocking joint angles and cost $1900 in material – I…
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I am about a month late in posting this – life and my J-O-B got in the way – but the Cornebarrieu Bench is done. Completely done! All bells and whistles added. It seems like it took me forever, but it fits perfectly in the shop and I started using the bench even before it…
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Progress on the Cornebarrieu Bench is coming along. It has been slow going – I have been swamped with work, travel, lack of allowance (I spent it on Christmas and a classic fiddle/violin…), more work, etc… Stamps-With-Foot gave me a gift card for our local Home Center/hardware big-box as a Christmas present that took care…
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My GROP (garage and shop combo) in Seattle was too small for a proper joiner’s bench. I made due with a slim, high, wall-mounted work counter, a bolted on machinist-vise, Quick Clamps, and the top of my table saw. It worked – mostly – but was a pain in the ass a good bit of…
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We sort of have a Wood-Craft/Bohemian/Bookworm thing going for our living room, den, and dining room decor at our place in France. Stamps-With-Foot just sort of let me go and only said no to the anvil for a sofa table idea. She hasn’t just sat on the chaise lounge and popping bon-bons in her mouth –…
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I did not mow the yard this weekend. It just didn’t happen. I meant to and I wanted to… I even took the mower and cord out, but it just didn’t happen. Instead I did this: 1. Redesigned the top of the workbench that I am building. 2. Threatened for 148th time to quit Facebook….
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About me: I am 50-ish, short-ish, sarcastic, oft tenderhearted, tattooed, and a serious skeptic. I…
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My partner in crime, my BFF, the one person on this earth that I could be marooned on a desert island with. My wife is amazing. I do not deserve her. She makes me a better version of myself.
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Below are the things that I find are present for me today: 1. More time with my children and my mom. 2. I want to stick to my diet and workout schedule and not fall off the wagon and back into the cookie/café Mocha/lethargic/big-belly/back-hurting abyss. 3. For my wife to finish some long ago promised sewing tasks for me –…
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We had a national holiday in France on Friday and I made the most of my 3-day weekend. Instead of the stuff I needed to do I did this: 1. Got up at 7:30 on a holiday 2. Went up into the mountains with a group of Expats for a hike and a picnic –…
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