Thread: We Have Skills Too !!

Great looking sheath. And the colour works very well with that blade handle and patina.
Looks super John.

Outstanding workmanship Hirlau.
You should be doing strops. Popular round here and I reckon you be damn good at it too...

I've posted before about how my Dork Ass Landlord always does things Mickey Mouse. Here's the pictures of my 'gate' here at the boars nest. As you can see the guy who he had build it did top quality work/also reused the old boards.

Notice how evenly the gap at the bottom of the gate is/also the 'Wheelie Effect' at the top




Seems that great care was used mounting the hinges


While I'm sure that folks like Andrew who work in construction for a living might have a good giggle or two at what my buddy and I came up with but I'm very pleased with not only how it looks--but how it works.

Here's about 7 hours of DIY effort:



The first pic has an optical illusion that makes it look like the top of the boards aren't level but they are!


I reused the hinges and the handle/everything else was new. And NO the Landlord didn't pay for materials/it was well worth the investment as it gave Great Personal Satisfaction. The Dork Ass gets to see it on Tuesday when his 'handyman' puts in a new wall mounted air conditioner in the Boars Nest/that should be a real joke!

Looks like you and your friend did a mighty fine job Roy.
And I'm hoping for the best with the new AC being put in the wall

Originally Posted by Dieseld

Looks like you and your friend did a mighty fine job Roy.
And I'm hoping for the best with the new AC being put in the wall

Thanks! My buddy is a retired mechanical engineer so the planning and layout was all his.

The original gate was mounted on a 4X4 pressure treated post that wasn't set in concrete or mounted on a fixture set in concrete just in the ground and so it wobbled around. Even with being careful (the meter reader for my electric company has to go in and out through the gate) here's what the newly painted trim looked like;



Here's how the gate was fastened yet another fine example of 'craftsmanship/as you can see you couldn't open it from the back which was a Beach!

The angled board from top to bottom helps hold it square. I always do this when building a fence. It not a secrete and I would think anyone that know much about wood would have done this the first time. Yep, your landlord sounds like a real winner.

Originally Posted by Gasman

The angled board from top to bottom helps hold it square. I always do this when building a fence. It not a secrete and I would think anyone that know much about wood would have done this the first time. Yep, your landlord sounds like a real winner.

That is correct/as it is installed--------------However 'IF' it had been installed in the opposite corners, it would have had the tendency to 'push' the bottom out of square. You want it to 'push' the gate upward to keep it from sagging.

We marked the support and then made the cuts with a skill saw and while with some force would fit it made the frame out of square to the point of the frame hitting the fence post so we removed it and took about 1/8 of an inch off of the TOP cut closest to the building then it was a gently tap-tap-tap and in it went and the frame stayed square.

Then we installed the boards while the frame was in place with an old cedar board for our gap at the bottom. The boards will shrink, we use a framing square as a spacer both top and bottom .

My buddy and I have been friends for 52 years and while he's not only my oldest friend, he's my best friend. I'm closer to him than I am my biological brothers.

Originally Posted by cudarunner

My buddy and I have been friends for 52 years and while he's not only my oldest friend, he's my best friend. I'm closer to him than I am my biological brothers.

I think many of us have friends like that Roy. It is a great thing and a blessing to have friends like that in my opinion

Gives me an excuse to go fishing !

Mike

Let us know how they work!