Rockin' Good Weekend *PICS*

A Rockin' Good Weekend ...

Scott Burr Ben Lomond,CA

>Sir William, YOUR DA MAN! Go! Everything looks great! Get 'em liquored up and park da cazz...;)

Just havin fun...throw some Bowling for Soup at 'em

They�ll be your life long casualty...

OctoberFest?

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>William,

Sounds like quite a ding-dang-do you're setting up to celebrate the completion of this light, which by the way looks absolutely magnificent! A very nice blending of styles. I like the slab O' Stone the best tho. ;~)

Sounds like a a mini Octoberfest party to me. gonna have any Apple Cider for the non-drinkers? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm Apple Cider, with cinammon sticks.

Have a good time and be safe.

Todd O.

Re: Very Nice!

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>I like the way it came out. I presume that the shoji are mahogany?

I dug up the weekend projects thread in which you first showed elements of the lamp. It was in December of 2003! Then I had to find the shoji completion thread. There is something very pleasing about the way they fit together. Did you ever get the Odate book?

P.S. Is that a colander in the bushes?

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

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Re: P.S. Is that a colander in the bushes?

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>It used to be a colander. After I got a much better one of stainless, from IKEA, I converted the old one into a pond cleaning tool. I use it to pick leaves, blossoms, seeds, bugs out of the pond, and sometimes to catch the fish and frogs. I had a scrap of cherry, that I cut to shape and attached with stainless screws. Then I whipped the handle and made a loop with some old rope I had laying around.

Re: OctoberFest?

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>Apple Cider is a good idea, a lot better than the sodas people usually serve. There's an orchard on the way into town. I'll suggest it to LOML.

I just hope it stops raining before this evening. This weather was not in the plans, nor in the forecast.

Re: OctoberFest?

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>It is too late, but next time start three days ahead, drop a packet of champagne yeast in the jug of cider (after removing a cup to leave room for bubbling), close it with an air lock, and let it ferment. :-)

No, No, Don

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>The point of the suggestion was to have NON-alcoholic drinks available.

When I lived in the Midwest, we used to be able to ferment the cider frozen on the front porch - something I still find hard to believe is possible, but it worked.

Re: Rockin' Good Weekend *PICS*

Paul in NJ

>The lantern looks wonderful amongst the flowers and plants. I would love to see a picture of the pond and I think everyone else would too. Thanks for sharing.

Paul Dzioba

Re: OctoberFest?

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Hot cider makes cold miserable weather a little more tolerable.(add a little cinnamon)---Jack

Re: No, No, Don

Don Thompson - South of Miami

>Well, it does not make a LOT of alcohol...

Works with cranberry juice cocktail, too.

On topic - trees

Don Thompson - South of Miami

>Wifey brought home an inkwood tree (Exothea paniculata), which I think I will plant in the swale.

We have contracted to have the Tree that Took Over The Yard (Royal Poinciana) removed. I could not find anything helpful on the web about the wood. Do you have any experience with it? Should I save some from the chipper?

Maybe Dennis knows...

Re: On topic - trees

Dennis

>I would save some of it, it turns ok, and for small box making maybe. Too light for tool handles and such but still fun wood to work with.

It makes great weed pots, i posted pic of that but about now, FEMA is paying for amount of wood removed so getting some cool wood is bit of problem but got tree guys looking for me.

One thing for sure, i will never work with that black olive again once i get this coat rack done,i hate that stuff for sure.

Dennis

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great job Sir William!

Ernie Miller Topeka

>I usualy post thet at work and well work got in the way. I hsd hoped to get the tredal lathe up and running today I needed a pully and a belt but guess what no one had a 1 1/2" 3/8" pully and no one stocks a 85" 3/8" V belt. I got side tracked looking for some Peral blue Granite tile. That is what my wife wants on her bar top and the only place that I can find it wants $20 a ft. I went boot scootin last night so it wasn't a Rockin good time. Hopefully things will go better tomarrow and somthing will get done. EVERY ONE PLAY SAFE & Rock ON!!! Hope your party is a great success

Re: great job Sir William!

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>�well work got in the way� Just don't let it happen again! :^)

The party was great. No one fell in the pond. The lantern turned on at dusk, on queue. It was damp, but very little rain in the evening. In fact the party went a lot better than I had ever hoped for. I even found some very important rust that I had been searching for for quite a while. However, it the reporting of it is not appropriate for Neanderthals who might have an emotional reaction to the brutal slaughter of massive numbers of electrons. I got another handtool sighting photo that I'll be sending to Ellis. 28 in attendance, not counting the sighting, and not counting Blackdawg, who rescued the one piece of chicken that was dropped off the BBQ onto the lawn.

Re: More Photos *PICS*

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>OK, here are a couple more photos of the newly renovated and improved Loxahatchee Tool Works Frog Pond with the new lantern.

The pondbird sculpture and fountain was created in copper by LOML's uncle.

The inspiration for the lantern was to hide the electrical outlet that sticks out of the middle of the garden and provides power to the submersible water pump that powers the fountain, the filter, the antique pitcher pump and the lantern.

Frog pond

Bob Hackett

>Those wouldn`t be low angle frogs you`re raising there would they?

You can tell them from regular bench type frogs by thier distinctive call,"bevelup,bevelup".You have to listen closely cause it`s hard to get any chatter out of them.;^)

Mainely,Bob

Re: Make a Belt 

Ed Thomas, Leaside (Toronto) Ontario

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Hey Ernie,

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>why don't you make a pulley? Dang shame that a treadle lathe should be held up for the lack of a simple store bought pulley. Come now Ernie, I know that you can fashion up a pulley.

Todd O.

Hey William,

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>I really like your Handpump water airatior idea.

Glad your party went well. Did ya' get and cider?

Todd O.

Re: No, No, Don

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>Sounds very intriquing Don. while not much of a drinker I like to try new things, and have always wanted to make wine from handpicked fruit, but probably never will for lack of a cool place to store it. Been thinking of making a small icehouse just to have a cool place to go in the summer time tho. Soooooooooooooo ya' never know.

Todd O.

Re: Hey William,

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>Naw, no cider :^(

LOML thought canned sodas were a better idea. They weren't. Now I have all these garish cans of soda laying around, taking up space, uglier than sin, with no way to get rid of the less-than-worthless stuff, and no left-over cider to drink, either.

Re: Hey William,

Todd O. Cronkhite Native of Maine

>when the cats get to fussing grab one o' them cans, give it a good shakin' and pull the top with it aimed at the cats. No cats? Ahhhhhhhhhh well, perhaps Ray W. will come by sometime. give on a good shakin' hand to Ray, stand clear.

Heh, heh, heh, Who Loves ya' Ray!! ;~)

Todd O.

Re: Hey William,

William Duffield on the Cohansey

>The black benchdawg keeps Catus catus mostly confined to the woods, briar patch, or under one or another of the neighbors' barns, well out of soda can range, and he really doesn't appreciate it when he catches it stalking his squirrels, frogs, goldfish or tweetybirds. If the feral feline were to get in range, I wouldn't bother to decant the carbonated sugar water. It would make a much better impression encased in a metal container. It's a shame they don't make them from steel, anymore.

...On the Cohansey, reflecting on The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress