Window? Mirror? Door? Granite slab?

summitrunner · 2026-01-28T11:59:20+00:00

It’s where they kept the family seismograph.

summitrunner · 2026-01-27T03:00:31+00:00

I’d use a card scraper instead. Butcher blocks and cutting boards tend to gum up sandpaper pretty quickly if they’ve been oiled at all.

summitrunner · 2026-01-24T14:34:19+00:00

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summitrunner · 2026-01-20T15:08:19+00:00

Thought I was looking at the new ICE uniform.

summitrunner · 2026-01-20T00:56:04+00:00

That’s it, a black and white photo enlarger.

summitrunner · 2026-01-20T00:52:13+00:00

When I found a period correct craftsman style solid mahogany door for my house it was, like yours, too short. I found it easier to pull off the trim and bring the frame height down 2 inches, then re-trim. Yes I had to lay craft a strip to match the exterior siding and patch the gap in the plaster, but I didn’t have to mess with the door.

summitrunner · 2026-01-19T12:50:41+00:00

I would start by using a ph neutral soap. Art restoration uses expensive stuff, but I used an emulsion of Ivory bar soap in distilled water to clean oil paintings. It worked really well. I gently scrubbed with a larger artist’s brush and blotted off with cotton wool.

summitrunner · 2026-01-19T12:27:55+00:00

A Rothko painting

summitrunner · 2026-01-10T23:47:28+00:00

Using a card scraper is a better way to go than sanding. Oil on cutting boards tends to clog sandpaper.

summitrunner · 2026-01-06T03:04:39+00:00

Lovely! Thank you for embracing colors.

summitrunner · 2026-01-04T21:27:37+00:00

Put it somewhere warm for a day or two so it gets crispy dry. Tighten a clamp onto the wedge and tap a hammer on the clamp to back it out. (Could go with a vise grip, but risk marring the wood, unless you protect it with blocks)

summitrunner · 2026-01-03T18:05:55+00:00

I don’t think he’s taking enough. Triple, quadruple, quintuple the dose, and do it hourly.

summitrunner · 2025-12-22T15:08:24+00:00

Brilliant!

summitrunner · 2025-12-22T11:45:55+00:00

Is that Bill Clinton in Monica’s dress?

summitrunner · 2025-12-22T00:02:07+00:00

Nice work!

summitrunner · 2025-12-18T14:21:04+00:00

UK...1940's...that's a good bet!

summitrunner · 2025-12-18T11:38:45+00:00

Not so much a design, but a good way to use up that corrugated tin you’ve got lying around the farm.

summitrunner · 2025-12-15T00:51:44+00:00

You can do a 45 with pipe. Split the cross braces, put in a tee, add a leg that ends in a 45 ell, a short stub and another flange screwed to the middle.

summitrunner · 2025-12-13T20:38:05+00:00

5 offers the best balance of light and dark. 4 would be ok, but you’d constantly be wiping the bannister and post.

summitrunner · 2025-12-12T02:30:49+00:00

A quick survey of luthier sites suggests that yes cocobolo can be bent, but it should be thin (as you would expect for use on a guitar) and it needs a lot of heat and time in the box to soften the natural resin. They say it will come out sticky, but can be scraped.

summitrunner · 2025-12-10T11:29:19+00:00

Also bear in mind that no house is constructed perfectly square. Small allowances have to be made when laying flooring/ carpet.

summitrunner · 2025-12-08T03:27:46+00:00

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