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Chair Troubles

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Design
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...ckley design from 1902. I built a full scale model and went through a long series of adjustments (I hinged the back so that I could get the optimal angle for comfort). I made adjustments to the plan in Sketchup and commenced building the final chair (shown at the top of this post) with some quatersawn white oak that I had laying around. Someone gave me a 3D printer and I used it to generate router templates for the curves in the back slats and to...

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Pomona Dispatch: A Great Cloud of Bees

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Animals, Bees
...back from a month in Pomona pet sitting for friends and I thought I’d do a series of short posts about what I was up to during my sojourn. Probably the most exciting moment was witnessing a cloud of miner bees on one of my walks. There are, apparently, over 1,500 different kinds of miner bees so I’m not sure which species I was witnessing. They are a solitary insect that only emerges once a year for a brief period. Look closely at the video and yo...

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A Cluttered Life: Middle-Class Abundance

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...rom the future excavated a 21st century home and reported the results. Why the photo shrines on the metal food storage units? The book is worth reading (ironically, I just sold my copy to reduce book clutter). While I no longer own the book I was happy to discover the short, three part video series on the project which I’ve embedded for your weekend enjoyment. Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyHS_-Umv4E Part III https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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How to Make a Bee Skep

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Animals, Bees
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...build your own. Looks like a fun project. How skeps are used The following series of videos show how skeps are used. Part 6 documents the steps leading up to the honey harvest. It’s a labor intensive process. To get at the honeycomb, skeps are “bounced” over an empty skep to remove the bees. These bees are then combined with weaker hives and overwintered. It’s easy to see, from the hard work and level of skill required, why the modern and much eas...

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