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Decisions, decisions .... In the end I think your best solution would be to take a step back and redo ...
--Paul
Thinking, thinking , thinking
Terry
talk about a gut punch.
i had to stagger them a little to make them fit. what sucks about clapboard is, if this was just sheet ply you could lay them out next to each other one of them upside down, but you can't do that with clapboard, so any way,
next i covered the business side of the board with masking tape to prevent splits:
and i cut the suckers out:
since this is my third attempt at getting these damn gables right, i decided to take a little reading break:
it's a good book (so far), and keeping in mind it was written in 1984, the author laughingly states that scratchbuilding is a fraction of the cost of kits (high end craftsman kits went for $50-100 at that time). i could've bought the bar mills kit of the idaho hotel for $169.95. i'm betting I'll have way more into this scratchbuild.
i've got big plans don'tcha know....?
up next: grain, knothole, abuse, stain and paint 16 1x8s....
the struggle goes on.....
shoulders bucked. hut hut hike....
However, I am most impressed with your plumbing success !! I consider myself fairly handy (son of a carpenter) but plumbing always seems to be my kryptonite. Hats off to you and a well deserved beer !
All the best,
--Paul
we've been ordering our groceries and picking them up. we don't even get out of the car. we pop the trunk and they guy loads it. we bring it home and wash everything with clorox wipes before putting it away. we've also used an app called, "instacart". they shop the local stores for you. you order on line at their website and they tell you when you can expect delivery. if the store is out of something you ordered, they send you a text with a substitute. if you don't want it, you aren't charged for it. we think that once this horrible situation we're all in subsides, we may stick with instacart. it's a great service, and i absolutely despise grocery shopping.
i'll hit them with powders and a/i tonight and i'm gonna need to order some 1/16" plywood. that 1/8" plywood is too hard to cut. i do have an old micro mark table saw out in the garage but it needs a new blade and the the fence is a hot mess.
here's the final configuration of the gables on the north/south roof.
it's just sitting there because i have alot to do before i can glue it.
here's a shot with an 18" ruler set on top of the veranda gable and the ridge of the north south roof. it's close enough fer gubmint work....
i'm gonna go with it.
cuz the wife doesn't care.
i did get down there for about 45 minutes this afternoon and i replaced the 4th post on the balcony structure, so now there are 4 posts under the overhang from the north-south roof.
so that's done....
the front wall hasn't been weathered yet, but when i do it won't be as heavy as the weathering on the gable because the gable is more exposed to the elements....
the bad lighting in that part of the room is what's making the structure look so blue. in normal light there isn't blue.
Terry
Looks great Kevin.
Jerry