Ripping

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Joel

>Did you watch him cut the spoon out of the log with that hand saw, I could not figure that out.

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Jack Guzman from Maine

>If that's the same one I'm thinking of,he makes fitting logs look real easy.I got a bit of that on tape accidentally. I was recording some music on PBS and it ran shorter than I expected.I'd like to see the whole thing.---Jack

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Yeah, I think he sawed it squared off, then used a spokeshave to refine the shape. It was neat the way he left the handle attached to the log until the last thing, gave him a great handle for working.

Pam

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>It appears to be a pledge week (oops, a month these days) show. There is a dvd/vhs available. The Austin library has it.

Pam

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Alan Hamilton

>I know Saint Roy of Underhill showed us step by step how to build a log cabin in one of his Woodwright's Shop books, but I seem to recall that he built another on a television program. My dim memory (meaning it was either twenty or thirty years ago, or last week) is that it was yet another PBS beg-a-thon special, and was shown only once (at least I've not seen it since).

Another senior moment? Am I hallucinating again? (Many of us children of the sixties have that trouble quite a bit. Better living through chemicals!) Was it perhaps done by someone else (Bob and Nahm?)? Or does this stir some long ago memory in someone else?

Alan

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Jeff Schmidt (KY)

>Yes, our state PBS station has shown this in the last 3 pledge drives. Fascinating story.

Did you see him (Dick Proenneke) rip those logs that were at least 8 inches thick? He made many planks to frame in the door and windows.

And how about those door hinges and lock/latch? Beautiful work.

He planned on staying there a year and stayed for several decades.


Dick Proenneke

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Mike Rubes, Apex, NC

>Hi Pam,

I saw that show on our local PBS station last week and it was really neat. The most amazing thing to me was how fast he was working with the tools. It's a really good show.

To me, it's even more amazing when you realize he was filming it mostly by himself, so he'd have to set up the camera and then take a shot of himself ripping a log, framing the roof, etc. He was really a neat guy.

If anyone hasn't seen the show, I can highly recommend it.

Mike

Slow, slow, slow in Apex, NC :)

"Rip it good"

Chad Boehlke

>Creack that rip, rib it good. Sorry for the pun, It was "phuny"

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Todd Hughes

>My girlfriend doesn't have cable so I've seen that show now I guess 3 times while down at her place, pretty neat what the guy could do with minimal tools. Though after a while I started to notice little things.Like where he said he made his chisel handles so they would be easier to pack in. A bit later it shows him using a big chisel that sure looks like to me a factory handle on it complete with a leather bumper. He was suposed to be all alone but who took the photos? Couldn't be just a tripod because the camara tracks him..... I bet he had a chainsaw under a tarp somwhere..Still an interesting show and I'll probably watch it again this week end!.....Todd , who would rather be watching Deadwood though

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I haven't seen anything like this; but then 30 years ago I was living in downtown DC and never saw PBS due to the hill on Connecticut north of Dupont Circle which blocked my reception. In fact, I never even bought a color TV until the late-80's, the photographer in me hated the quality of color in the sets that went before.

Pam

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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Thanks for the link to the dvd/video.

Yes, the hinges were most impressive. He was impressed, too, just couldn't stop touching them, moving them about.

Pam

Todd! You've got cable?

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>I'm surprised. Oh, well. I agree with the odd little discrepencies, but will have to watch it several more times to catch them all. So far I've simply enjoyed the adventure.

I suppose you watch the Sopranos, too?

Pam

Actually.....

Todd Hughes

>I live to far out in the boonies to have cable so I have satelite TV. Kind of expensive but I get a gazillion channels most of which I have never seen. One of the reasons I got it was the Sopranos and have to confess I've seen every eposode. Miss Jazz even taped all of them for me....now I have to get a VCR !.....Todd , who likes that Carnival too

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Never Twice the Same Color

:)

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

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