We’re building this sales/checkout counter thingamabob for the Boss’ Wife’s shop.
It’s White Oak plywood and veneer over Birch plywood with oak laminated countertop edges. The blue tape is squeezing the inner laminations together while the glue sets up. The top will get four grain matched veneer panels in a sort of a pie shape arrangement. Finish [...]
One of Rolling Stone Magazine’s ”50 Moments that Changed Rock and Roll”, here’s U2 Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 1983.
Turn it up!
John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
Baden-Baden Germany, 1961
John Coltrane – soprano sax
Eric Dolphy – flute
McCoy Tyner – piano
Reggie Workman – bass
Elvin Jones – drums
Everybody likes a swingin’ waltz, right? And there was only one man in the history of the world that could make a soprano sax sound good, and his name ain’t Kenny G.
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We have to finish sand and shoot a couple of coats of poly, but our first piece for retail is virtually done.
It’s white oak with maple pegs, finished with a dark brown dye and a walnut stain (you should see my hands!). The top chamfer and edges are hand planed, and all the joints are [...]
Sorry for the crummy phone-cam pic. I’ll have good photos soon.
Making a tenon (the male part) is no big deal if you have a good table saw and a tenoning jig, which we do. Making a blind mortise (the female part) is no big deal if you have a dedicated mortiser, which we do. This machine [...]
Ok, I know I usually try to stick to rare live performance videos, but this one is too funny to pass up.
Here’s the premise: What would happen if American Idol was holding tryouts in 1978 and David Lee Roth walked in (without Van Halen) and sang “Runnin’ With The Devil”?
Here’s another phone-cam shot of the Tuckasegee valley, this time without the fog. The buildings just right of center are Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee. Sylva is just left of center, closer to the big ridge, which is known as the Plott Balsams. We live a few miles West (left) of Sylva, behind that ridge that [...]
Is OK for a while, but in the end the alligator still eats you.
