tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post3689419751664104379..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: It's (Still) ComingSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-9784364376746354192008-10-06T13:34:00.000-04:002008-10-06T13:34:00.000-04:00Lolsippicans: I haz a color!Lolsippicans: I haz a color!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-52651229448098607972008-10-06T09:05:00.000-04:002008-10-06T09:05:00.000-04:00Hi ThudHi Anwyn- It is very physically and mentall...Hi Thud<BR/><BR/>Hi Anwyn- It is very physically and mentally demanding to paint with a brush. The mentally demanding part grew over the years because the solvents make you an idiot. <BR/><BR/>You can stop dreaming about the color of your table because it's already a color.<BR/><BR/>Hi Fatman-You're joshing, of course, but "On the other end of the line" is not the same as "On the line." <BR/><BR/>Golden West- How could I fail to like him if he is married to you?<BR/><BR/>Hi Travis- I am not particularly a craftsman. My business is first and foremost an intellectual exercise. <BR/><BR/>Hi Anybodyinpoulsbo- There is some variation regionally, I think. New England still has a (fading) tradition of small general contracting builders. The rest of the country has long since gone over to mass-produced housing by large builders. A decade ago six sheets of hand-drawn plans was enough to permit and build my house and another I built locally. You and Travis are correct in observing that few have very detailed knowledge of what they are doing any more. A series of subcontractors install pre-made goods into a poorly conceived box at great expense now. <BR/><BR/>Dick said: "This really brought back memories for me."<BR/><BR/>Then I am a success.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-89921810582335391522008-10-06T07:04:00.000-04:002008-10-06T07:04:00.000-04:00Travis...on the plaster floors in cathedral lofts ...Travis...on the plaster floors in cathedral lofts here you can still see the scribe marks that show archi details drawn in actual size by medieaval masons.when they filled up floor they simply screeded it again for a fresh surface.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-32032765723664710012008-10-05T20:37:00.000-04:002008-10-05T20:37:00.000-04:00This really brought back memories for me.I am from...This really brought back memories for me.<BR/><BR/>I am from a decidedly untypical family. My grandfather was born in 1838 in Wales. He married at the age of 62 in 1900 to a 21-year old girl. My mother was born 2 years later. I was born when she was 38 years old. So on that side of the family my great-grandfather was born in the 18th century, my grandfather in the 19th century and my mother in the 20th century. My grandfather fought in the Civil War and was a silver miner in Colorado when he married. Before that he had been a justice of the peace in Tombstone, a cowboy and a soldier.<BR/><BR/>My home town in Ohio was the home town of the Little Drummer Boy of Shiloh and he lived a block away from my mother when she was a little girl. She remembered him well as he used to sit on the front porch and talk to all the neighbors.<BR/><BR/>My cousins were farmers and they used to know all the things you are talking about. Many of them built their homes by building a basement, putting a roof on it and the next season they would build the first floor and then move in there while they planned how to buld the second floor. All done with hand tools because they didn't have electricity.<BR/><BR/>I knew a guy in New Hampshire who restored old homes, none newer than 1850. He would move in with the family and then renovate them using the same tools as the original builder. Very demanding and very high quality work he did too. Strange buy but entertaining to talk to and to know.dickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976498133597991337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-27236971052824758052008-10-05T20:13:00.000-04:002008-10-05T20:13:00.000-04:00anybodyinpoulsboIt isn't just 1965.For years archi...anybodyinpoulsbo<BR/><BR/>It isn't just 1965.<BR/><BR/>For years architectural historians have debatedthe state of architectural planning prior to the early modern period. They must have had plans, but where are they?<BR/><BR/>I think the truth is that the plans were all in the heads of the master masons and craftsmen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-86194161117190563562008-10-05T12:19:00.000-04:002008-10-05T12:19:00.000-04:00I live in a home that was designed in 1965 by a fa...I live in a home that was designed in 1965 by a fairly well regarded architect. I recently obtained a set of the original architectural drawings for the home from the firms archives. <BR/>Six pages total and these are the working drawings. Most contemporary builders would look upon this like you handed them a sketch on a napkin and said "well....get busy". Forty years ago builders and tradesmen knew stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-87411391952971755352008-10-05T09:20:00.000-04:002008-10-05T09:20:00.000-04:00two bit analysis here: Do you think that's why you...two bit analysis here:<BR/><BR/> Do you think that's why you ended up as a cabinetmaker?<BR/><BR/>Because it's one of the few places such craftsmanship persists?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-495461201430636622008-10-05T07:34:00.000-04:002008-10-05T07:34:00.000-04:00I am a member of a large and old society called SP...I am a member of a large and old society called SPAB.It has singlehandedly been responsible for the saving of all old crafts and buildings including training up younger people in thatching,pargetting etc....great stuff.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-77756670344852007522008-10-04T19:21:00.000-04:002008-10-04T19:21:00.000-04:00I brushed up against craftsmen like this as a chil...I brushed up against craftsmen like this as a child. Never long enough to learn from them.<BR/><BR/>I doubt any of our children or grandchildren will ever know these men. The pace of change in every line of work makes it hard to imagine someone learning a trade slowly and doing the same kind of work, with the same tools, and in the same way over a lifetime.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131725542763044493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-45465764483260372552008-10-04T09:34:00.000-04:002008-10-04T09:34:00.000-04:00My better half, Dennis, built his first home in 19...My better half, Dennis, built his first home in 1971 with a book on carpentry from the library, a hammer and a Skilsaw. He still does it all (albeit, with a much wider variety of tools) - foundation work, electrical, plumbing, drywall, finish carpentry, painting, flooring, tile work. You two would get along great.Golden Westhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04590087189810939432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-63369843389352585762008-10-03T23:14:00.000-04:002008-10-03T23:14:00.000-04:00And don't get me going about the service economy."...And don't get me going about the service economy.<BR/><BR/>"If someone brought them a phone while they were working (It's for you.) there was someone dead on the other end of the line."<BR/><BR/>So the dead could talk back then? What did they have to say for themselves?;-)Fat Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554029467445000453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-83743622700499525042008-10-03T19:27:00.000-04:002008-10-03T19:27:00.000-04:00Is it hard to paint the walls with a brush?I surmi...Is it hard to paint the walls with a brush?<BR/><BR/>I surmise that it's slower. But is it harder?<BR/><BR/>Mostly tangential: I bought a twin-bed headboard, the kind with a bookshelf in it, at a church rummage sale for $25 and used a small roller to primer it. It's still sitting in the garage coated in a thick, blobby layer of primer that I suspect is too thick and blobby. I can't put it in my son's room until his body learns to stop falling out of bed (his mattress and box spring are on the floor until that lesson is learned) so I haven't bothered to a) figure out what color to paint it and b) find out the hard way if the primer really is too thick and blobby. :P<BR/><BR/>And completely tangential: I actually dreamed the other night about the color combinations for the Mennonite table. No, I'm not kidding. Anxietize, indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-66708222569004709942008-10-03T12:39:00.000-04:002008-10-03T12:39:00.000-04:00Too many points of interest to go through individu...Too many points of interest to go through individualy but its nice to know time has passed me by.I just took some of the chaps who work for me to Italy to look at some building porn!...we saw stuff x hundred years old that we instantly recognised.....you are not alone.Mind you I only work for myself as doing it my way just doesn't add up for potential customers.Thudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18320037763190473684noreply@blogger.com