tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post8112359230841991113..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: And Then, When It Was All Done, He Made A Spice Rack, And Then MovedSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-78790966620066676162013-04-07T14:05:17.147-04:002013-04-07T14:05:17.147-04:00I think the shed was designed primarily with how i...I think the shed was designed primarily with how it would match someone's idea of how the back yard should look. As someone who is starting to get old in the knees, I'll add one more reason not to build below grade: you need to walk up and down steps to get in and out, thereby losing whatever you were supposed to gain by having the wood delivered at bench height. <br /><br />Anyhoo, I am in love with that thread p kerit recommended. <br /><br />On Monday, my son is going to try to get permission to shoot a documentary in a shop that I think most of you would enjoy seeing. Peter Hohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06916196998855947137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-63647515963119126862013-04-03T03:30:06.321-04:002013-04-03T03:30:06.321-04:00Portland, Ore. area
I had one of those those exac...Portland, Ore. area<br /><br />I had one of those those exact model De Walt radial arm saws once but I gave it to my neighbor<br /><br />A performance references its intended audience. Workshops, furniture, and music videos are performances.<br />And so are blog comments<br /><br />DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-51628781315603122452013-04-03T01:28:23.736-04:002013-04-03T01:28:23.736-04:00I don't get it. It's tons of concrete and ...I don't get it. It's tons of concrete and lots of slab and concrete and footer and concrete, and the rest of it is particle board crap. Maybe they should specialize in concrete work...<br /><br />My motto is: I'm not gonna build a structure to build a structure.<br /><br />Maybe if the spice rack was made of concrete?<br /><br />-GrayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-57428494311791572932013-04-03T01:00:21.781-04:002013-04-03T01:00:21.781-04:00Another benefit of an architect's involvement ...Another benefit of an architect's involvement -- you end up with a backyard shop that looks like an over-sized version of the one published int he Feb 2008 <i>Family Handyman</i> magazine.<br />http://www.familyhandyman.com/red-hot-workshop-illustrations-details-and-materials-list <br /><br />Funny thing is that there is plenty of room on that lawn to make a nice ADA-legal ramp down to a floor-level door in the position of the second sliding barn door.Douglas2https://www.blogger.com/profile/18142485990801143191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-5359437535563343992013-04-02T21:53:44.866-04:002013-04-02T21:53:44.866-04:00I'd love to read that essay, should you ever h...I'd love to read that essay, should you ever have occasion to post it. And I forgot to say earlier, I hope you are feeling much better!juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-90423581877154071242013-04-02T21:23:00.118-04:002013-04-02T21:23:00.118-04:00Hi Leon- Yes, the fellow demo'ed a swimming po...Hi Leon- Yes, the fellow demo'ed a swimming pool, and then built another one and stood in it. If you have a slab on grade, at least you can lump materials and goods in and out easily. <br /><br />Hi Julie- I went to architecture school for a few minutes in the 70s. I wanted to build traditional houses. They told me to buzz off. I started working on houses, and learned mot everything by observation and by hitting my thumb. Later on, I discovered Alexander's books, which so resembled my own thoughts on the subject that I thought I wrote them myself while I was drunk but didn't remember it. Those books were available when I was in school, but never mentioned. Grrrr. One of the first essays I ever wrote, even before I had a blog, maybe 2004 or so, was about A Pattern Language. Alexander's a dreadful hippie, of course, so he arrives at the right answer for the wrong reasons occasionally, but there's a ton of sense in his books. <br /><br />I adore Gagdad Bob. I have been ill and working a lot, and don't read a lot elsewhere. I must visit soon.<br /><br />Hi Sixty Grit- I put the dust collector one floor below my shop. Quiet! And the mess is in the basement. <br /><br />Hi anon- I used to work on very expensive houses. Many of them had heated garage floors. We sometimes set up shop in the garages and worked on the house from in there. We noticed one bad thing about it. We all got athlete's foot, real bad. Heated floors are nice if you're in socks, though, but the socks got soggy when we went outside. <br /><br />P kerit- Dear lord, that's <i>magnificent.</i> The fellow is to be commended. After all, it's totally original. As original as a scuba suit made from steaks.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-72448963190543112712013-04-02T19:54:12.664-04:002013-04-02T19:54:12.664-04:00Sippican, I think you will *appreciate* this mans ...Sippican, I think you will *appreciate* this mans wood work. :)<br /><br />http://www.bcsportbikes.com/forum/showthread.php/146566-Build-to-Fail-Fail-to-Build.-What-is-this-I-don-t-evenpkerothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00127397953188340327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-88999360230847874842013-04-02T16:13:11.996-04:002013-04-02T16:13:11.996-04:00If you want to put something in the floor PUT HEAT...If you want to put something in the floor PUT HEAT in the floor. I can not describe what it's like to come in from a foot of snow onto a floor that's 65 degrees. No air blowing around; no standing under a radiator soaking up heat for another dash across the cold shop to do something; just a constant feeling of warmth.<br /><br />Brad ErvinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-9644203438503203282013-04-02T13:35:49.103-04:002013-04-02T13:35:49.103-04:00Could not make it through the video - one of the p...Could not make it through the video - one of the people speaking (the woman, maybe?) sounded like Janis Joplin, only rougher. Learn to speak, woman - unless you have been punched in the larynx, there is no excuse for that growl.<br /><br />I am thinking of putting a small addition on my shop, specifically to hold the D/C system and give me a few more square feet of lead-in for my table saw. But that will have to wait for another day. Today, I better make some stuff. The Dudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05354536924604187137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-59062787182878153542013-04-02T10:28:15.454-04:002013-04-02T10:28:15.454-04:00Over at Gagdad's place, he's been reading ...Over at Gagdad's place, he's been reading a book by an architect, Christopher Alexander. Yesterday somebody brought up <a href="http://www.katarxis3.com/Alexander_Eisenman_Debate.htm" rel="nofollow">a debate</a> he did with another architect back in the 80s, and darn if this Alexander guy doesn't remind me of you, Sipp. Anyway, I thought you might appreciate this bit at the end:<br /><br />"I can't, as a maker of things, I just can't understand it. I do not have a concept of things in which I can even talk about making something in the frame of mind you [the postmodernist architect he's debating] are describing. I mean, to take a simple example, when I make a table I say to myself: "All right, I'm going to make a table, and I'm going to try to make a good table". And of course, then from there on I go to the ultimate resources I have and what I know, how well I can make it. But for me to then introduce some kind of little edge, which starts trying to be a literary comment, and then somehow the table is supposed to be at the same time a good table, but it also is supposed to be I don't know what; a comment on nuclear warfare, making a little joke, doing various other things ... I'm practically naive; it doesn't make sense to me."juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-53844532838133457162013-04-02T10:11:00.903-04:002013-04-02T10:11:00.903-04:00when i built my shop i didn't add a clerestory...when i built my shop i didn't add a clerestory (thanks for the new work btw) mostly out of concerns about security. and i did make it a solid cement slab but that was mainly so i could drive into it. which to me seems a design flaw as big or bigger than any you mentioned. maybe the way his lumber is delivered it always gets dumped on the ground but you would still have to lift out finished pieces. my shop is in many ways similar to his although that is coincidental as it seems since he was driven by aesthetics where as i was constrained by budget, my lot and zoning...which i even managed to bend somewhat to my will.Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02288771971363819090noreply@blogger.com