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I mentioned in my recent Mere Minutes that I was working on a stomp box for this weeks video. I ran into a few complications and had to delay it until next Friday. Instead I decided to make a step stool using some more of that beetle-kill pine. I am really happy with the way this turned out, considering I didnt start to even design it until yesterday!

If youd like to make one, heres a PDF template you can download.

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The "Full Bore":















Now the only thing left is to see how fast it sands its way around our wood rack, and for that well hand it over to our tame racing sander.

Some say, he polishes his teeth with a Nagura stone; that he keeps his chisels sharp by storing them inside a crystal pyramid; and that he once claimed to have invented the "nib" on hand saws as a way to pick up girls. All we know, is hes called The Twig!

Umm....Sorry....got carried away there for a bit...

second post in a planned series ...

its hard to believe because snow now covers the bench seats in the photo above, but were only about two and a half months from this opening photo. at our house, its all about the sunshine, all the time .... this side faces due southeast, which lets the morning sun come into the bedroom and bathroom below on the right end, and the afternoon light shine in the left end living room, and opposite side of the house. our previous house, from 1974-1996 was on red mountain road, about 15 miles from where we live now... that house was in a beautiful spot with a nice valley view, but was tucked up fairly tightly against a sizable bump in the landscape called, fittingly, red mountain. we were on the wrong side of the mountain .... in the winter, the sun was gone by 2:30 or so.

this time, either by luck or a dogged persistence, or both, we ended up with a house and shop that get very early morning sun and some of the last sun in town ... in designing both the house and the shop, attention was paid to maximizing that sunlight .... it is vermont, and winters are long and in general, tend to cloudiness. so, when you, have some sun, you want to get as much of it as you can .... our garage, for instance, is close, but detached, so as to get that morning light into the bedroom and bathroom below .... personal, (but imho, worthy), obsession ... click the photos to enlarge them ...
but, at all times of a sunny day, its a delight ... lighting the spaces and the furniture ... yeah ... the cherry bureau was for our own house ... the first piece of real furniture i have made for us, intentionally, (not a prototype or mockup), in a long time. talk about a special spot ...
morning sun in all of these photos ... kitchen, dining and living room here ... like the shop, which we built and lived in first, we designed this house to be, wherever possible, one room deep, meaning you can look in the front window from outside in front, and out the back window on the other side ... a principal i think i picked up from a book i get from the library every once in a while, called a pattern language by christopher alexander. one of my favorite quotes from that book goes like this:

"At the core... is the idea that people should design for themselves their own houses, streets and communities. This idea... comes simply from the observation that most of the wonderful places of the world were not made by architects but by the people".

—Christopher Alexander, A Pattern Language, front bookflap

he also goes on to say inside that the patterns are regarded by the authors not as infallible, but as hypotheses. meaning to me ... read em, but do what you want with them as ideas ... we did ... great book, but expensive last time i looked ... and mirrors ... you cant say enough about them .... this one was born of a need to squeeze a full length mirror in somewhere handy. its tapered, and angled, slightly, so the out of verticalness of it lends interest but yet doesnt distort the reflection.... we have another of these in a small half bath by the front door ... they infallibly make the room seem bigger ..
amaryllis with prayer flags ... and for a really nice interior design effect, you cant beat a good houseplant .... this one kit picked up cheap at the local shaws grocery and this is its second four flower effort ... $5., well spent for about 3 weeks of flowering so far ...

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