Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Call me nostalgic but I always like to use the kind of tools used when these were installed originally.

Some of these jobs are not big money makers...at least not to the tune of my usual $125/hr. labor rate because the market won't bear it but this extra attention to detail and care is not for the sake of the customer. It is for me. For the joy of it. If you can't love your trade then why are you in it?
Anyway here are some finished product shots.

Nice work, Paul

+1!
Beautiful installations, and love the twist drill..
Think I’ve still got a couple of plunge style mechanical drills in the shop that are great for woodworking to this day..

Those lock sets remind me of the ones on our first house we moved into up here.

I have the same locks installed in my house. Well 1/2 the doors, the upstairs are all mortise locks with glass knobs, and the lower floor is all cylindrical locks. My doors are all wood doors too. I always notice doors and locks.

Every interior door in my house has one of these locks. Even to lock the bathrooms from the inside you would need to use a key. The original builder must have been a lock freak. The few times I have used them they are more for childproofing than anything else. A swift kick would get you through the doors. As far as I know it has always been a single family house.



Last week I picked the lock of a cheap electronic safe for a coworker. Do not leave the backup key inside of the safe in case the batteries die.....

I have done this for more than one person!

Maybe not a skill but an ability. 3 more panels and the gate too go tomorrow.

Then all you need to do is paint them white.

Bob

28 to 30 years for the last one...............

I don't think that I am going to worry about it. LOL

Originally Posted by 32t

28 to 30 years for the last one...............

I don't think that I am going to worry about it. LOL

When I used to work out of town stocking new stores or resetting older ones, one of the guys who I worked with lived in one of those Homeowners Association run things and he said that his neighbor had installed a Very Expensive wooden fence and I asked what made it so expensive--he replied that it was just a wooden fence but the guy had painted it and the Homeowners Association rules said that only stain could be used so the guy had to remove the entire fence and rebuild it so it could be stained.

It's Apple Harvest Time here in the Walla Walla Valley so I decided to start canning a few things up.

I picked up a loose pack box of Golden Delicious 'seconds/small imperfections' for $10 from a local grower/packer and that box had to weigh at least 50 Lbs (tray pack boxes weigh 40 Lbs).

Today it was 6 quarts of apple pie filling. All ready to go--just make enough crust for the bottom and top then dump the filling in, put on the top crust and bake.

I've made it before but never for the 'Full Batch' recipe which is supposed to yield 7 quarts and I'm quite sure that I could add at least another 4 cups of sliced apples and end up not only with an additional quart but with enough 'gel' to make a great pie.

Anyway here's what I accomplished today: