A picture here of my carved Walnut door panel with a few coats of clear varnish. Walnut is my favorite wood to work with.It has distinctive and strong grain patterns, yet does not splinter easily.It works well, hard but not too hard, it can be machined and carved easily and cleanly and finishes very nicely.Usually … Read more

The snow we had on Sunday night has mostly melted now.I think that was the first real storm we had this winter. We only got about 6″ but not to far to the west they got up to 11″ or so. Actually that was the first significant precipitation of any kind we have had in … Read more

This past week we started installing a reclaimed oak floor. It is very rough and that is the way it is supposed to be. We are not going to sand it smooth, we will just buff it lightly with sanders and then put about four coats of finish on it to fill in all the … Read more

It looks like the Northern Grounds Restaurant is coming under new ownership again.I heard they are going to change the name. I have to admit that saddened me a bit at first.At first I thought it a bit odd that someone would take a place that was already a landmark and change it into something … Read more

…on our other project things are progressing slowly as well…Here is a picture of the three season porch with the newly installed slate floor over the “in-floor” heating system:  The rest of the house will have an interesting floor covering. This is a pretty rough looking pile of boards but it is actually flooring milled … Read more

Over the past couple weeks the fireplace at this timber house has been completed and we have installed the mantel. Here are some other pictures of the timber work and ceiling. The Douglas Fir timbers have a natural finish on them, but the pine paneling of the ceiling has been stained slightly brown. It’s turning … Read more

At one project we are working on we have a fireplace going in. The rough construction has been done for some time but the rock veneer is going on now. It’s beginning to look good: …and on the other project we have going on, the remodel of the old log “kit” home, we are getting … Read more

A week didn’t make a lot of progress on the current door project in the shop, I am trying to keep up with my big projects and find time here and there for the shop stuff. This picture was taken last Friday: The door is an interesting one. The homeowner had made a stained glass … Read more

I am finally back to working on the door I have supposed to have been working on for the last two years.I have been working on it off and on so I am pretty far along with making all the parts, but I am just starting on the carving of the panel. Here is an … Read more

…well we made it.Another 150,000,000 miles or so, that long trip around our sun…This, of course, is not even a detectable blip in the 450 billion years or so that this has been going on.…but in our short lives here, if we are lucky, it represents a little more than one percent of our total … Read more