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I just finished a small side project. I had a cedar round that kept speaking to me ‘make a small table’. I finally got around to it. A slice of cedar log sanded flat and finished with spar varnish. The slice is from a western red cedar trunk turned to
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A blog repost from - July 16, 2020
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A wood working project...
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What I think is my final major project for the darkroom furnishing is a set of shelves. (I say final but I am having fun building stuff!) These shelves are a variation of what I called my Cascade Shelves I built during the pandemic in the UK. I wrote about
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When I decided to get my first enlarger I bought an old Meopta enlarger for next to nothing on eBay. After trying to get it to work I figured out it did not have a condenser and I enquired with the seller who said he couldn’t find it amongst
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Occasionally I will need some desk space for work in the darkroom. A place to cut and mount photos for instance. I can also bring a laptop. Because space remains a premium I thought I could try and make a folding ‘Murphy’ desktop. I used some birch finish plywood, I
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This post is some means of explaining what I have been up to the last few months. Moving to the US has meant we have a much smaller house and the consequence is that there is not enough room for a dedicated darkroom. I decided last year that it would
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I was at Home Depot the other day to pick up some supplies for my project. A young man was leaving with a couple of sticks of tongue and groove boards for his project and I was reminded of Hank Hoag. To be clear I am building a shed but
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Our family first met the Browne’s (Norm and Pam) in 1969 at the futuristically named Telstar Apartments in Flagstaff Arizona. My family had just moved there from Dallas Texas and I was just out of first grade. Ourselves and the Browne’s were at these apartment for the same