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  • And we had to make a decision, keep the live-edge or not?
  • After sitting in storage for several years the wood got a bit warped and twisted, so I had to get it squared back up.
  • Bonfire night
  • Completely cooked on the grill. So damned tasty.
  • First grill out of the year
  • Thank you, Garth, for bringing me this dead bunny.
  • Clamps off
  • Clamps off
  • Glued up n clamped
  • Once everything was installed and clamped, we celebrated with pizza and a bit of Yamazaki whisky.
  • Fittin things together with Rico
  • Progress
  • When it was time for final assembly and glue-up, I asked my good buddy, Rico to give me a hand.
  • Things coming together
  • Curry night!
  • Dry fitting a cap and baseboard just to get a glimpse of what everything would look like
  • Removing the masking and plastic bubble was exciting, and gave us a glimpse of what the final product would look like.
  • After letting the alkyd ("oil") base stain dry for a few days, I tried my hand at spraying on a few layers of top coat... and now I want a larger air compressor.
  • Bunnies hide under this shed. This dickhead tries to dig them out
  • Top posts: stained!
  • Starting to stain the first couple posts
  • goth shirt details
  • Chop that egg up with a spoon and eat it.
  • Take the egg out of the microwave and add Tabasco, or salt and pepper, or Cholula, or whatever sounds good that day.
  • While the egg is microwaving, give some cheese to the dog
  • Add a bit of cheese and stick this thing in the microwave for ~45 seconds. Time depends on both microwave and dish type.
  • Start with 1 egg in a custard dish
  • This is all you need to make a little 1-egg omelette breakfast
  • My tent for finishing the newel posts in our already finished home.
  • Finishing the pre-installed newel posts required so much prep work
  • Got a lil nest sensor
  • Hangover food
  • Got some snow in April
  • Ragin with Tia and Craig
  • Beer here
  • Then I had to mask everything that I'd already installed in order to finish the newel posts
  • Finished banister caps and base boards.
  • I masked the glue points of all of the wooden banister pieces before finishing
  • Doolittle
  • Finishing all of the trim pieces in my shop
  • I am super excited to see this project become a real boy. Side note: I have no idea how or why a newspaper started being delivered to my house.
  • Fuck Boy
  • 62
  • Kari makes a good cake
  • Facetiming Vic
  • First time using a FastFerment
  • "Holy shit!"
  • 2 batches
  • Brew day. New setup.
  • Got this gold ring
  • I love cooking in a cast iron skillet... Especially when things come out looking this tasty
  • Setting everything in place before disassembling to finish.
  • Look at this fit.
  • Once my newel post hole jig was made, I used a combination of a multi-tool, Japanese pull saw and chisels to cut it out.
  • I made a jig in order to help me make a clean, square hole to inset the bottom newel post into the curb.
  • Then it was back to the tricky part... Getting the rest of the angled pieces fit and cut.
  • The Garth
  • Feels good, man
  • Really crammin it in there
  • Takin big boy out for a birthday cruise
  • Added some CRI 90 under cabinet lights to the shop. No more shadows on the work bench!
  • This thing is darling
  • Sunday Fun Day
  • Mark's back
  • Pros of working from home: having time to make a proper lunch.
  • This is my first time cooking with a purple sweet potato
  • The top of the banister set in place
  • For the top of the banister, I ripped and planed down some 6" boards and then cut the miters and scribes at the wall.
  • Starting on the top of the banister... oh yea. that's a tight miter
  • There was a lot of drilling, routing, and precise cuts to get everything to fit properly.
  • Th hidden spline on the banister cap
  • Hoping to keep hardware to a minimum, I joined the banister cap and base boards together with dowels and glue. I had one joint where it wasn't going to be possible to fit things together this way, so I made a little hidden spline.
  • Mornings in the Brooks house
  • That moment Mark wins Jeopardy, lol.
  • Watching Mark on Jeopardy
  • Made some stuffed fish
  • Supper tiiiiiiiime, and the livin's easy
  • Someone stole this from Mowan's last year and it ended up in my house. Excited to return it.
  • Surveying the land
  • February suddenly took a turn for the better.