BTW: Wood Flour… It is actually used a lot in food processes. They rarely call it that though. Unless they are marketing to beavers. If you read the ingredient label, it is referred to often as “Non nutritive crude vegetable fiber”. Breads and muffins even use a courser version for “Ruffage” and texture. Yum…
Eric excellent work. The stone look awese
Dave, so maybe my taste buds weren’t lying to me when I thought I tasted sawdust in the meatloaf of a local restaurant chain.
David Maynard said:
Dave, so maybe my taste buds weren’t lying to me when I thought I tasted sawdust in the meatloaf of a local restaurant chain.
A 50s trip to a Weyerhauser mill across the river, revealed many ways we eat trees!(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif) Like soft ice cream? yep …
Maybe, but I cant stand the meatloaf at the restaurant in question.
John Caughey said:
David Maynard said:
Dave, so maybe my taste buds weren’t lying to me when I thought I tasted sawdust in the meatloaf of a local restaurant chain.
A 50s trip to a Weyerhauser mill across the river, revealed many ways we eat trees!(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-surprised.gif) Like soft ice cream? yep …
http://www.creativesustenance.com/stumpjack/2015/1/2/ever-eat-a-pine-tree
Euell Gibbons died from his secret addiction to Big Macs (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Very Nice work Eric…
We’ve had a Euell Gibbons sighting??? I love you guys !
Your build is coming along well, Eric.
Some more progress over the week…you know between other jobs(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-embarassed.gif)
Marion the librarian should be pleased with the mason’s work this week. The foundation is big heavy cut granite followed by three courses of Taylor stone with a topping of fancy cut granite.
here one of the masons was surprised by the camera man
the bump out around the chimney was a little (Mik’s) challenge.
I seated the stone in white latex caulk. some oozed out between the stones as you would expect. I then took a cheap- disposable 2" paint brush dipped in water and smoothed out the oozes and worked the extra caulk into the remaining seams…looks like mortar.
a little detail at the chimney top just for fun!
I think Miss Marion is pleased enough!
You’ve captured her likeness beautifully. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Eric, the coloring on the stonework is absolutely convincing.
I have been working on the roof today. The eaves have that cool swoop to them. I spent some brain power figuring out how to make this work without killing myself. I ended up sawing some plywood strips with a slight angled cut to them. when glued back just right I get a little curve.
I then made some trim to cover the plywood edges. I have some strips of Teak wood that I got from Mystic Seaport which was scrap from building the schooner “Amistad” It is kinda random thickness which works out OK for this. I used thicker peices on the gable ends because I thought they could stick out a little more. I sawed them out with my band saw. there are two layers, the big wide pieces next to the plywood and a narrow strip just under the roofing. I could go fancier but this looks just fine to me.
The round roofed bit over the door was sawn out of a block of pine on the band saw with added bits and trimmed out like the rest of the roof. I made two Corbels to support the roof out of some of the same teak. I chose teak so I do not have to paint it, should look pretty cool just as is and stand up to the weather pretty well
Wow wow wow! Love the roof and canopy!
I like that!!!
That roof line really sets the build off. Great work Eric (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Very nice looking roofing.
Eric your attention to detail is always a joy. The extra stone embellishments and that curved roof are very cool
The trim works is awesome, Eric. I like the way you made the curve in the roof line. Its amazing how you can get such intricate detail at such a small scale. I would have already cut my fingers, hand, arm, leg and probably my head off if I had tried that.
If I missed it sorry, but how did you make the cap stones on top of the stones??