You fellas would have had a ball taking apart our old garage, too bad you
were too far away.  Happily we found a man to take it down and he is going
to rebuild it in another place.  One jerk wanted to take it down and pile
the lumber for US to burn and charge us $1500.00.  This man took it down
for the having of it.  It was clearly built of used materials from several
different eras and probably different sources.  I'm quite sure that part of
it was the original barn as it had whitewash on the back wall.  The beams
upstairs were put together with those wooden pegs instead of nails.

The BIG find though, for me, was my gggrandfather's wooden chest full of
his woodworking tools, along with all the other woodworking tools in the
old chest of drawers that he probably built himself, AND his thick plank
workbench.  I still have those things.  Ruth

PS:  Anyone know what happened to my favorite woodworker, '"The
Woodwright," who used to be on PBS on Sunday morning?




At 8:20 AM -0400 7/11/07, Leland Torrence wrote:
>CP,
>It sure sounds like it would be fun to be on one of your projects. "Art of
>intuition", "a knack", as the Huron scouts joke, "He is lost because he
>didn't listen to the trees."  One of the greatest losses in the trades is
>that so few are properly apprenticed.  Ten years of no talking and just
>working, 2500 hours a year, watching and imitating a craftsman is not
>replaced with a few hours in a classroom, a seminar or a one week "training"
>session. I feel guilty when anyone calls me a master carpenter because I can
>make a good joint or have sharp,old tools.  In reality, I haven't done a
>full weeks carpentry for almost ten years and my apprenticeship amounts to a
>mere three years with a traditional carpenter and two years with a stair
>builder.  I wish I had been documenting all the wonderful notes and drawings
>I have seen while pulling apart old buildings.  What a great book it would
>be.
>Best,
>Leland
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