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ted
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| steverino wrote: | Boy OS, I'd sure love to relieve you of that old lumber that's in your way. I'd near about drive to Missouri to do it, too.
It is just crazy that I live in a town that used to be one of the furniture-making capitals of the world and I cannot buy one stick of hardwood lumber anywhere nearby. Except for Lowe's of course, but only if I want oak or poplar and want to pay top dollar x 4 for it. |
Steve, took a few minutes to find this and finally got around to asking a sawmill friend what he had in lumber. Larry Delp ran a logging operation and sawmill near my house for about 40 years. He closed the doors early this year because of his furniture customers not manufacturing in the USA.
He has some random length, 4", 6", and 8" hemlock boards. Hemlock looks a lot like Pine, but not as pretty.
He also has 6', 8', and 12' hard and soft Maple that has been kiln dried. He said it was beautiful. Boards are 4" to 8". 1 1/8" thick I think he said.
I play golf with Larry twice a week, so if you are interested, I'll ask more questions.......ted
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LokoMac8
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Location: Heidenheimer, Texas
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| BWThomas wrote: | | Holy crap!.... 10 racks, each holding 36 pipes! I want to see a pic. No...I want to go to Texas! |
Well, I was going to do this anyway, but only send the photo personally to Tom. Somewhere on this Forum, there is an earlier shot of some of my pipes while I was building my new office/study. Well, long story short, I think it was all a part of a deviously well thought out plan by my wife, as now I have a different office/study in an existing room, with half of my "new" office/sturdy becoming a smoking room and work shop area. What happened to the other half of my "new" office, you might ask? Well, it just so happens that became a walk-in closet for my wife, complete with wainscotting and a tin ceiling. A little fancy if you ask me. Had I KNOWN this was to be the plan, I would have done things a bit differently!
Anyway, I am having time tending to all the matters I am trying to tend to, so here is just a very hasty couple of shots -- one of the pipe racks and one of the messy top part of my desk, where several concurrent projects lay askew in various stages of unfinishedness . . . --RJ--
THE RACKS ARE REAL, THE PIPES ARE REAL, THE LICENSE PLATES ARE REAL, THE RAILROAD LANTERN IS REAL, BUT MARILYN MONROE ISN'T. I DON'T THINK SHE WAS EVER QUITE THAT SKINNY IN REAL LIFE.
THE DISPLAY ON THE LEFT IS TWO-SIDED AND SPINS ON A WIRE FRAME HOLDER. I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT ALL THE PIPES ARE STILL UNSMOKED, BUT THEY WERE. BESIDES THE PRE-SMOKING MACHINE, I SMOKED EACH ONE OF THEM ONE TIME MYSELF. JUST COULDN'T HELP MYSELF!!! |
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ted
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GREAT SCOTT!!!!!! I mean great shot.
Now what do you have in the barn?
I really like the paneling also. You'll know that. Knotty pine?......ted |
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BWThomas
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Surely there's a law about having that many pipes in one spot. You should start boxin' em up and shippin' em out before you get arrested..... I'll hold some for you.
very impressive RJ
BW
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ozark southpaw
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| BWThomas wrote: | Surely there's a law about having that many pipes in one spot. You should start boxin' em up and shippin' em out before you get arrested..... I'll hold some for you.
very impressive RJ
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Won't work Barry! It has been tried before!! At one time there was discussion of a commando raid ,but satelite photos showed that security could not be breached !! 
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BWThomas
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Well...I guess I'll just have to pay a visit...in the winter time. It does get cold there, don't it
...now where did I put that coat, the one with the big and many pockets?
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drbridges
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There are more empty spaces in that photos than I expected to see. Happy to see you still have room for a few more acquisitions.
Teri must be a saint to put up with all that. |
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steverino
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| Awesome. And I don't use that word. |
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BWThomas
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Teri must be a saint to put up with all that. |
Amen
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steverino
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| ted wrote: | | steverino wrote: | Boy OS, I'd sure love to relieve you of that old lumber that's in your way. I'd near about drive to Missouri to do it, too.
It is just crazy that I live in a town that used to be one of the furniture-making capitals of the world and I cannot buy one stick of hardwood lumber anywhere nearby. Except for Lowe's of course, but only if I want oak or poplar and want to pay top dollar x 4 for it. |
Steve, took a few minutes to find this and finally got around to asking a sawmill friend what he had in lumber. Larry Delp ran a logging operation and sawmill near my house for about 40 years. He closed the doors early this year because of his furniture customers not manufacturing in the USA.
He has some random length, 4", 6", and 8" hemlock boards. Hemlock looks a lot like Pine, but not as pretty.
He also has 6', 8', and 12' hard and soft Maple that has been kiln dried. He said it was beautiful. Boards are 4" to 8". 1 1/8" thick I think he said.
I play golf with Larry twice a week, so if you are interested, I'll ask more questions.......ted |
Wow ted, that was really good of you to inquire. I do use hard maple from time to time but I am really needing some cherry right now. I started a desk in cherry for my daughter before we moved to Lexington and I need to finish it. She doesn't think I ever will, but maybe by the time she gets married - which I hope is a while yet.
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