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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 11:21:45 GMT -5
Connived with the wife to let me move her hoarded stuff and let me make a man cave in the basement close to where the wood stove is. I built the walls 25 years ago out of 7 fallen appalachian style chimneys i carried in from the 2500 acres behind the house. Got heat, peace and a refridge, heavenly. About to go medieval on those wood shelves and remove them into kindling. The Man Cave. ugggg  |
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Post by snuffy on Jan 20, 2014 12:32:13 GMT -5
Connived with the wife to let me move her hoarded stuff and let me make a man cave in the basement close to where the wood stove is. I built the walls 25 years ago out of 7 fallen appalachian style chimneys i carried in from the 2500 acres behind the house. Got heat, peace and a refridge, heavenly. About to go medieval on those wood shelves and remove them into kindling. The Man Cave. ugggg I need to go there and chisel out some bricks for my collection!!  snuffy |
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 13:32:03 GMT -5
Look up Bickerstaff Brick Co. some time Snuffy. They were a large brick maker and an old family.
The clay hills along the Chattahoochee River was sobout the best brick clay around.
They are still mining those hills.
Don't know why the clay is so good.
It has the right color!
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Post by Pat on Jan 20, 2014 13:36:32 GMT -5
That's going to be so relaxing! What are you going to use for shelving?
If this is a jewelry shop, are you going to sell jewelry in there? That means letting other people in.
Where's your wife's Woman Cave?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 13:55:35 GMT -5
Pat, I think he meant jewelry "workshop". Can't wait to see the progress on the WIP. This may be nearly as epic as Adrian's home in Romania!
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Post by adrian65 on Jan 20, 2014 14:58:54 GMT -5
Looking good! I'll be following this thread.
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 15:43:43 GMT -5
Pat, I think he meant jewelry "workshop". Can't wait to see the progress on the WIP. This may be nearly as epic as Adrian's home in Romania! NOT epic as Adrian's project. I did one of those 20 years ago and ain't doing it again. This is .00001 as big as Adrain's project. And also dwarfed. It's just a little man hole. Forced out of all the desirable areas by my dominate wife. |
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 15:50:59 GMT -5
Looking good! I'll be following this thread. Adrian I do work hard Adrian. This is 5 hours later and i cut the shelves into kindling and pressure washed the floor and the wall for coating preps. I am old and worn out and will be taking a pain pill and Ibuprofen shortly.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 16:01:43 GMT -5
It will be epic in the sense that you will make lots of pictures for your new "jewelry studio".
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 16:06:12 GMT -5
That's going to be so relaxing! What are you going to use for shelving? If this is a jewelry shop, are you going to sell jewelry in there? That means letting other people in. Where's your wife's Woman Cave? Dear Pat: On the subject of the 'Woman Cave'....This is what she has taken over by eminent domain Keep in mind that i built this thing about by myself and i think she painted a couple of walls. I have the front half of the silver over sea container on the left.(180 sq. ft.) She has the whole red oversea container. She has the 1200 sq. ft. front room. She has the 1000 sq. ft. back room. OH I forgot, we share the back half of my silver oversea container for maintenance materials. So, she has 1200 +1000+360 = 2560 sq. ft. I have 180 + my new Man Cave =330 sq. ft. I know you think us southern men keep or wives bare foot and pregnant. But she is some kind of stallion ()itch when it comes to taking over. I do have a nice dog house upstairs and due to devious nature i end up there quite often. And the dogs will not visit me up there. It's torture.  |
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 16:08:40 GMT -5
It will be epic in the sense that you will make lots of pictures for your new "jewelry studio". Si amigo. I hope it works out. Where do i start? ha |
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 20, 2014 16:20:40 GMT -5
I'm am green with envy. You have a lot of potential there. I'll be keeping an eye on this project, as well. I'm not telling my old man, he might get some ideas. He already has more room than I do for his hobby and his doesn't even make money with it. But, it keeps him home, so I don't complain.  (and I can borrow his tools) |
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 16:25:31 GMT -5
You sound like my wife Tela . But she conquers me in the space take over. But i may not always stay at home. ha ha
Hope it gives you some ideas. It will likely be different than a conventional jewelry shop.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 16:52:04 GMT -5
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 17:15:32 GMT -5
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 20, 2014 18:11:42 GMT -5
My wonderful husband is a model builder. He builds scratch models of anything sci fi. We both love sci fi. He gets pictures or screenshots off the web and converts them to scale and tries to copy them. He is forever inventing tools and using make shift stuff. We call him the glue guy because he has every glue or epoxy you can think of. The grandkids go running to him every time they break something. We all know to scrutinize everything that gets thrown away. It could easily be a part of a Firefly or Millennium Falcon. Unfortunately, he rarely finishes one. He likes the challenge of converting the image to a doable form and figuring out how to make it and with what, but he loses interest after he figures out how to do it. Not that he hasn't finished some, he has and they are good, but he has more half finished than finished. It makes him happy. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2014 18:31:55 GMT -5
I would like an R2D2. Maybe he will build me one!
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Post by Tom on Jan 20, 2014 18:48:53 GMT -5
That will be a hell of nice shop James
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 19:59:31 GMT -5
That will be a hell of nice shop James Well Tom. Lets see what tools go in it. I have a welder outlet down there. I may just weld up some benches outside and set them in there. Instead of welding them on site. If i had steel on the walls(posts etc) i would weld in the room direct. May use wood. It's quiet and warm. hmmmm |
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Post by jamesp on Jan 20, 2014 21:27:04 GMT -5
That's going to be so relaxing! What are you going to use for shelving? If this is a jewelry shop, are you going to sell jewelry in there? That means letting other people in. Where's your wife's Woman Cave? I wanted to say that my wife works hard in her cave Pat. I make money outside, she makes money in the studio. So she gets the studio. She makes hanging lights out of found/vintage stuff. Hard work  |
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