I got that from a friend of mine.

I love the Longcat / Tacgnol pics!

My fave part is the guitar solo cat. I could hear the solo in my head the first time I read through that! :p

Cool and funny pics Aqua!!



I was sent this today.........

Form Booger? ...................... Of Booger? :confused:

A shot from one of my favorite places to run away to:

After the rain

and is my current desktop background.

As I walk along Razberry Creek I enjoy the feel of the sun on my face and the bubbling and gurgling of the water as it rushes over the rocks.

And, the Great Pumpkin rose out of the pumpkin patch on Halloween ...

(A pumpkin patch just a short distance from our little town. Not bright orange Halloween pumpkins, these are used for pie filling and are canned by Libby's here in our town.)

old age
 

bent out of shape

Cheezus, that's scary...

This one's not so much to show off my photog skills (good thing, too), but to show off my latest woodcrafting project. It's a purpose-built corner cabinet for our tv & related items I built to fit exactly in this corner of our den. The project began nearly two years ago, after the demolition of our leaning chimney & install of a wall, patio doors & patio cover in its place. It was built just outside under the carport (the only place I had room to work on such a monster), leading to many complaints from mrs zoid about her lack of space to park her cruiser, & one semi-anonymous letter from the neighborhood assn about the mess on our property :mad: I modified some plans from Norm (New Yankee Workshop) to suit my own needs, & I must confess it's not completely done yet...still need knobs for the doors & some baseboard trim at the base, but it's close enough to finished that I can sit back & bask in the glow for a little while...

You built that yourself, Scotz? WOW! I am seriously impressed :faint:

I could see Lilith enjoying herself as the woman in this picture...

Scotz
 

as a fellow wood worker...... all you that read that the other way shut your face Some day I'll post pics of my walking sticks and fishing lures anyway scotz looks good

Aqua- that was awesome.

I immediately thought of you when I saw it. ;)

Nah, Lil's stockings sit lower on her thighs.

NP themi01, I'm not ashamed to say I've spent a goodly portion of my life working my wood :sperm: seriousness aside, I've made many small projects before such as spinners & wooden boxes, but apart from some crude shelf units, this was my first ever major free-standing real furniture project. My contractor/guitar-player buddy has already expressed his admiration for the mitered corners; I say they're all the more amazing in that I've never mitered a corner before in my life!

:hippy: Lava Lite :hippy:
:wink:





:thumbs: How kool, Zoid. Anybody that can make something out of wood has my highest respect. For me, it's like carving jello with a hammer and chisel.

Now don't you wish you had Norm's "....after we finish here at the micrometer set, central vacuum chip/dust collector system, plainer, (and before going to the flame suppression, static neutralized finishing room) we'll take this to the laser-aligning dovetail joiner and then to the self-centering biscuit cutter to do the next operation......", or is that why it took you more than two days to do your project? ;)

Actually PF all my work and I take pride in this is done the old fashioned way knife and by eye I even sometimes use antique finishes but your right Norms shop is over the top

And wait Zoid you never mitered a corner before ? even by eye ?

I would love to see these if you wouldn't mind sharing. My dad used to make the same when he was alive :nod:

FWM here Ya go

And this

excellent!

Well Lil thanks for the brain / PC / software tease or test as it were...... and Aqua I thought that it was Lil in the picture....LOL

Thanks for sharing, themi01, they're great :thumb:

I was wondering who would be the 1st to notice that...

or maybe who would be the 1st one rude enough to rag my ass about it

The Lava Lamp was mrs zoid's idea...I got rid of my strobe/black light years ago (& I've been kicking my own ass for it ever since)

And just to prove how things always come around in cycles, #2 son insisted on having one of his own after seeing his mom's....


EXACT-A-MONDO!!!

Actually, I find the most disturbing thing about NYWS is not that he has all the great expensive tools (can you say product placement?), but how un-naturally CLEAN Norm's shop is...I wouldn't know how to work in an environment where I don't have to watch every step, or worry that my pounding one item on the bench might cause another object to crash to the floor...


Never had a reason to...I've done nearly all kinds of other joinery but as I said, I never did a furniture type project or trimmed out a door/window myself...

But I do know that mitering a corner by eye means you'll be doing it again real soon...

How on earth did I miss the Lava Lamp when I first looked? Did you change the pic? I never even noticed it was there! Now of course it's the first thing I see when I look at the pic :rolleyes:

Well, no, I didn't change the pic, but I'll take it as a compliment that my brilliant craftsmanship outshone the 60's kitsch (at least in your eyes)...

:nod: I'm still seriously impressed with the cabinet :thumb:

A few pics from my new camera
 

Random pics of a frozen lake and a visitor I spotted in a tree just outside the house. Haven't seen a squirrel in these parts for a couple of years so I was glad to catch it on camera :)

The first squirrel pic is slightly blurry, but I was using the zoom at full stretch (10.7x) with no tripod so in that respect I guess it's not too bad as a snapshot pic. The second squirrel pic is less blurry, again taken with full zoom and no tripod. It was a bloody cold day, too, so I was rushing to get back inside as I was out there with not many clothes on :p

:wave:

I'm still seriously impressed that you have that lava lamp.:rockon:



(Does that have my initials scratched on the bottom? :confused: )

Your pics are great FWM :) ..... and the red squirrel with the winter ear tuffs is most interesting to us across the pond. :thanks:

Thanks PF :)

I spotted a new place on the marginal today that recently opened. HAD to circle back to take a pic. I may go back in the daylight to get a better pic. ;)

Wait, how did they get bears to make cabinets? Or are they bears in cabinets? Or are they cabinets with bears on them? And if that's the case are they real bears sitting on the cabinets or are they pictures of bears painted (or otherwise) on the cabinets? And while I'm at it, what do bears have to do with cabinets anyway?

I can't bear not knowing, either.

And I wonder if they use Behr wood finishes exclusively?

Just spent the day taking/editing random pics of LOUD.

Don't try to distract and polarize our members with your grizzly comments. I did make a daytime trip back and at great peril I parked on the edge of the shore way while it wasn't busy and clawed my way over the fence to the marginal to get a pic of the kodiak carpenters. I guess they don't work on Saturday. :shrug:

We flew over the Franklin and Gordon Rivers today, where a massive environmental battle was fought with the Government who wanted to dam this significant wilderness area.

The colour in the picture of Sir John falls is true, the water is Coke coloured from all the tannin from the forest.

Great pictures, OF!