creative design

[khaos]

This has me looking at my entryway:
http://www.talkshopbot.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=25903&stc=1

[scottp55]

Nah Joe,
Too complex.
Couple a sheets of CDX, few 2X4's and a circular saw is all ya need for a simple door like these I whipped off yesterday:D

[mikeacg]

Wow Scott! How many tiles did you have to do on your desktop machine?

Mike :rolleyes:

[scottp55]

No Tiling.
Used my interdimensional wood shrinker and used 1/8" bits.
Then simply used my wood stretcher to bring them to back to exact size;)
Highly recommend sanding AFTER those come off the stretcher...those 400G sanding marks are killer to get out if you do it before. :) :)
Oh, In the market for a used stone softener also...Don't need the deluxe model, just something to soften granite to soapstone and back.
Still looking for aftermarket "Post Holes" also...not sure if Joe is still in production:)

[gc3]

SLWestwood Designs and Vector Studio 22 for http://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/las-ventanas-los-cabos

[barrowj]

Scott,

That really made my day, you almost had me in tears from laughing so hard.

Joe B

[mikeacg]

Wish I could help you out Scott! I had some extra post holes in my backyard but the city made me fill them in! Now I can't find them...

Mike

[scottp55]

Turnabout is fair play Joe....You and Mike made me smile.
I was just thinking of my very first day working high steel when the crew boss sent this newbie down to the job boss(aircraft hangar-52' eaves) when the bolts weren't aligning. I was told to ask him to send the "bolt hole stretcher" up in the "360 degree attitude adjusting skyhook".
I thought it might be some kind of powered tapered reamer to be sent up with the crane.
But in a half hour, I was up in an articulated manlift with an acetylene torch trying to set my Carhartt's on fire:)
But I'll loan my stone softener to Joe J. so he can change his Marble to blue foam hardness and then slice his Aspire model:)
Thanks for looking Mike. Need to make a new hole for my mailbox and the Old Way with the wheelchair is a PITA. Don't know if somebody "borrowed" some, or if I ignored Joe C's clearly printed instructions NOT to stack them in decreasing diameter order:)

Seriously Joe J. , That mason thought outside the box and put a lot of himself into something that would last longer than he did!
Love his keystone pillar,"elbow rest?",and how he did the whole bottom step arrangement!!
"By his Work...Know the Man" springs to mind, and I spent a few hours looking at inspiring pieces due to this post.
Thanks,
scott

[khaos]

Yes it is art!

I remember sending some boot camp sailors to female chiefs to get 18" of fallopian tubing and to the fight deck for a bucket of prop wash. BT Punches, gig line etc small joys in the drudgery of the day. lol

A more complete image is here (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Xl_Delune_1904.JPG/515px-Xl_Delune_1904.JPG):

The building across the street (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rue+du+Lac+6,+1000+Bruxelles,+Belgium/@50.8244077,4.3706028,3a,90y,291.76h,107.18t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgxcnq8H6g67MZbkoyht54w!2e0!6s% 2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3Dgxcnq8H6g67MZ bkoyht54w%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_ sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26y aw%3D135.12173%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1! 1s0x47c3c4ed02159505:0xfa9ff51116b91ec4) is plain ugly, better live there so you have view at the Art Nouveau architecture rather than vice versa . . .

[scottp55]

Thanks for the complete pic Joe!
Really helps to see the whole thing, and can only imagine what the interior must look like!:)
I have a little sympathy for the crews that built it now that I know it was driven by an architect. He must have had the cream of the crop for his Craftsmen, but even then I can imagine the first words out of the out of the Boss's mouths were "but..But...BUT....I CAN'T quote that! Time and materials!!!" :)

When I helped restore a Victorian(little things) we used to live in. I was constantly finding little things scribbled on the backside of the trim...everything from the weather,names,and events like children being born and ships arriving in the 'Port. When I designed/generaled my house, I encouraged the 3 man crew to do similar in the 2 and a half years they were here for anybody that had to tear apart my "Chinese Puzzle" joinery...Still laugh about when I climbed a ladder they didn't expect me to climb to scope out a closet top before it was capped, and found written on the top " F*****G PERFECTIONISTS!"
So I have a clue what crews think of designers with an idea:)
Oh, The old Victorian (1875) is up for auction this month if anybody has a couple bucks. It's about 60% of it's highest value(we bought for $180K in '76) and can't say I love what they've done to it to "modernize" it. Got to admit I wasn't wonderfully fond of horsehair plaster on lathe, but did like the "widow's walk" and how you could drive your buggy into the barn/unhitch/walk the horse's down the ramp/toss hay through 2 trap doors to basement/and walk underground to the barn during Northeasters.
Definitely not on par with your masterpiece, but did give me an appreciation of old time Craftsmen.
scott
Oh, what IS the best cleaner for propellers? :)
http://www.berkshirehathawayhs.com/michael-dubois-real-estate-agent/homes-for-sale/38-Summer-St-Kennebunk-ME-4043-144330560#listingphoto-gallery-large