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Forgot to add this pic yesterday

5/16" maple dowels in the spindles

 

Aren't you in CA? Isn't that illegal now? Lol...

 

Just left after a week in Sac, whole area looks like a freakin desert.

 

One more job checked off the list

I had to make and install a handrail to go down to my dining room that wraps around the 14" DFir post at the bottom of the stairs

Any one with a keen eye might pick out that we ran a couple dark travertine strips in each stone stair nosing here to mimic the black walnut nosings on my curved DFir / Black Walnut stairs

 

There are 5 of them in the house

They are posts in my post and beam system . The posts are 14" turned , and the beams are 8x14" . I decided to go with turned posts because my house is a bit of an odd shape believe it or not , it's basically an L shape but instead of the L having a single 90 degree bend , it goes 30 / 60 , so where the timbers meet at these points there was no way to have the timbers land on a square or even rectangular post without some post hanging out here or beam not flush there . I came up with the round post idea , with the posts going all the way to the ceiling and the timber ends are housed in notches , therefore as the post is round , the beams can terminate at the centre of the post and even though they arrive and depart at different angles it doesn't matter , the round post houses the whole connection

 

Like mya

 

Pergola and deck per wife's specs

 

7 1/4" circular saw , 16" electric chain saw and a 7" grinder with a concrete grinding pad

 

I like my Makita

I've run heavy mineral oil instead of chain oil in it since new as well because it doesn't stain the wood . You should see the looks I get from the cashiers at the Pharmacy when I come up to the counter with a couple litres of it . It's other use is as a laxative , lol

 

Ok you are an artist/magician/Jedi. That stuff is gorgeous man!

 

Happy wife , no divorce

or sumthin like that

 

Thanks

The hardest part was finding the bent tree

 

Ok, I'll bite.... OZ, we need some garage photos please!

 

Totally filled with dead relative crap. Had both our cars in it 1 time in 2 years. Shop side is filled with projects including a 200 year old hope chest that smell like moth balls. I use my shop at work mostly now . So sad. Wife is a pack rat, although I did run across a set of lotus 7 rims on the mezzanine recently.... I have never owned a lotus, so have no idea how they got there....

 

Maybe if I do it reeeaalllly late at night so pack rat doesn't know... Hmmmmmm..... Cuz this is how it is now.

 

That looks like my room mates side of the garage. My side neat and tidy.

 

that's neater than mine, but I get the truck in there

 

Master bath remodel. Total gut with complete plumbing rearrangement. Stalled now that I'm at the point where I need to pour my shower pan...

 

Tell them you make cutting boards. It's a foodsafe wood finish.

I'm debating tearing out the walls between my kitchen and living room. They are load bearing so I have to make a header. Or I could put the header above the trusses and hang the trusses from it for a completely open look..... maybe it's time to just move. I'm also looking for a new shop space due to some issues with the current location.