Poplar Lumber from Hurricane Sandy

These are good guys. If you live in the greater New York City area, consider doing business with them.

 

RE-CO BKLYN is a Brooklyn based lumber mill dedicated to producing furniture grade lumber from locally sourced trees that have been felled by natural causes or saved from a tree service’s chipper. Some longer […]

WordPress bloggers take note

Last summer my website was hacked. One evening I noticed that I could not access my blog to write a post. By the next morning my site had a huge amount of material completely removed.

During the last week I have wondered why certain bloggers have not filed or approved my comments. Then I noticed […]

Woodworking from Housebuilding: Green Lumber.

April was the month to complete work on excavation, well-drilling, digging trenches, and installing the utility pole, as described in the previous post. The masonry work on the basement (which would eventually be my woodshop) followed.

We hired mason John DeRidder, another honorable tradesmen.

 

 

The good ones take the time to […]

Don’t drink the glue water.

There is an open plastic margarine container on a shelf in my shop filled with water. The head of a toothbrush floats, bristles down, the handle balancing on the rim. A PVA glue bottle stands next to it. This is my set up for glue spreading. Pull out the brush, shake off the water, and […]