Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
new shop (before too long)
john jesseph
>Well, we just heard that we got a reasonable counter offer on our new house purchase. Sounds like I will have a new place to hang out starting May 15th. Here's my favorite view of the house, almost looks photoshopped, but there it is in all it's glory straight from the realtor's site. I think I'll like it.
"Here's my favorite view of the house"
Bill Houghton, sunny yahoo! in Sebastopol, CA
>What's that building behind the (six-bay!) shop, then? Somewhere to store clothes or something?
Very nice - the pond is right pretty.
wow, when is the party?!?
Gary B in Central NY
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I am bright red with ENVY!
HC Sakman @ Victoria, BC
>Congrats! Nice shop with an attached residence! (I am not joking! ;-)
Chico...
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Jim Shaver - Oakville, Ontario
>(jaw on floor)
Take care,
Jim
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Norman (Ottawa, Ont.)
>You'll have a garage bay for each day of the week!
Nice!
Norman
AND you get a pond for fish'n
Ian Neuhaus
>3 bays for power tools
3 for hand work and finishing
and a pond for fishing
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Dave Anderson Chester, NH
>Congratulations John!!!!! I sure hope you hire a landscaper to do the mowing, raking etc. Otherwise you won't have any time for the shop. So fill us in on your plans of what is allocated for where.
now I can comment...
john jesseph
>We have the paperwork in order so I can comment more comfortably. Yes, the building behind the garage is the support structure for the shop. My wife likes it, so that's great. The shop will be the three bays on the right of the picture. I would guess that it is around 1000+ square feet, because it is extra deep- (1.25 or so), and the total of the two garages is supposedly 1860 sf. Really it is excessive, but who am I to argue if my wife wanted the house? Heated and air conditioned seperate from the house, it has an entry door to the back yard. The "car" garage has a big sink for waterstone sharpening just steps from the "shop" garage. First thing I will need to do is get the electrical system up to snuff, and tear out the carpeting...
Re: now I can comment...
GolfSteve in Calgary
>Wow, your garage is 4.5 times bigger than the living area of my house!!! (I have a 900 sqft house - 450 ft2 upstairs and 450 ft2 in the basement).
Looks beautiful and it's hard not to be green.
Well if'in nobody is going to say it...
Scott Burr raining again in Ben Lomond CA
>I will...
YOU SUCK!
Bigtime...
Amen...
Scott in Douglassville, PA
>Preach it, Brother Scott!
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Todd Hughes
>... looks like a lot of grass to cut....Todd
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Terry Quiram
>John
Beautiful home. I wish you luck on your purchase. Where is it located?
Terry
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Greg B�tit, Crown Point
>Hi John,
Woo-woo! You induce vacuum, bucko. Actually, it looks like not only does one end suck, the the other end blows. At least you're not violating any laws of thermodynamics.
That parts bending steam vessel isn't going to run out of water any time soon, at least.
Congrats!
Greg
Shoot, Todd, it's easy
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>Just run a full box of ammo through your Maxim, and you can keep the grass down easy; almost as easy as pruning a tree.
Re: Shoot, Todd, it's easy
Todd Hughes
>But then I would hit all my concrete yard ornaments, creepy religious statues,tombstones, turned inside out tire flower planters and dead lawn mowers.....Todd
that's what pymie goats are for...
john jesseph
>Actually most of the grass in the picture is common area, four or five houses surround the pond. Only about 0.8 acres of land for us, much less mowing than we have now, but we plan on "reforesting" so we don't have as much to maitain. Never thought about creepy religious statues, might work better than big dogs and alarms to keep out intruders...
"pygmie goats" I mean
john jesseph
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john jesseph
>Bloomington IN. Go Hoosiers! I hope to have a WC/SAPFM/Galoot get together some day soon...
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john jesseph
>I am planning on parking a shaving horse permanently out on the deck, just outside the shop door. I am still thinking about where to part the split logs, not used to having neighbors to worry about...
But then...
Bob Hackett(Mainely,Bob)
>You`d have to get a pygmie pony to herd them around,not to mention all the cowboy stuff(not a problem for Todd who knows how to accessorize).
I owned a pygmie pony and hated it.Kept dragging the toes out of my $300 a pair cowboy boots after the spurs(which were always pointed straight up)kept hitting it in the chest causing it to break into a dead run at the most inopportune times.Maybe I shouldn`t have Scary Sharpened the spurs.Found out that herding salmon is best done from an ATV.Course you need high flotation tires,but that`s another story...
Mainely,Bob-Reporting from the Bucksnort Salmon Ranch on the sunny Damariscotta.
PS-I had heard that Pygmie ponies are just the thing for raising dental floss.
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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Yeah, but how do you plan to get all this past your McMansion association? :)
Pam
Moving to Montana soon?
Paul in NJ
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You'll also need....
Andy Halterman: Spring, eh?
>a pair of heavy duty zircon-encrusted tweezers. Just the thing to go along with the pygmie pony when it comes to raisin' up a crop of dental floss.
Andy Halterman
Wishing for some of St. Alfonzo's pancakes in Hendersonville, NC�