RON's A ROUND TUIT THREAD

[wthorson]

.View attachment 165004My Cannas bulbs are sending up leaves and I am hopeful of blossoms yet this year.

Your Cannas look really great, nice and green. Mine are just peaking out of the ground. I am watching them closely, and excited to see the growth.

 

[wthorson]

Playing with the IPhone again! Bad boy, bad boy!View attachment 163679

It's amazing what you can get with your iphone. good job.

 

[wthorson]

Woodworking projects seem to be consuming all my time recently. This is a porch being built with a new product called Boral which is composed of coal ash residue and is supposedly


View attachment 163400a green product. This porch is now ready for paint, which i understand will be Cherokee Red, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's favorite colors. beforeView attachment 163399

This is very nice. woodworking. When are you free to come and do a porch for me? LOL Is this a Frank Lloyd Wright house?

 

[RON_RIP]

Your Cannas look really great, nice and green. Mine are just peaking out of the ground. I am watching them closely, and excited to see the growth.

We have been fortunate this year to have a lot of rain and I haven't even had to water them so far. When we get blossoms we shall both photograph them and have a little friendly competition to see who can post the nicest photo. Are you in?

 

[RON_RIP]

This is very nice. woodworking. When are you free to come and do a porch for me? LOL Is this a Frank Lloyd Wright house?

Tell me when! The house is a very typical unassuming American four-square. At one time it had wooden posts and balustrades which probably fell into disrepair and were replaced by the ugly fake wrought iron posts and rails. The homeowner wanted it restored to it's more original look and that is what we attempted to do. Watch my post this evening and you will see the before and after front porch which we completed just today.

 

[RON_RIP]

As promised, the front porch of the same house
before

and afterThis one taken with my IPhone. I threw in the finger just for comic relief.

 

[Marilynne]

Great job on the porch Ron.

 

[RON_RIP]

Thanks Marilynne. These things seem to come in waves. I have one more porch to repair and will possibly bid on another soon. They are suppose to start painting this porch soon and I will post more photos when it is completed. Will probably do ad posters for the lumber yard to help promote this new product.

 

[RON_RIP]

Off to the David Lawrence Convention Center today for an International Woodturning symposium. Awesome pieces on display

and bowls



of all shapes and sizes and how about a hat buckaroos.

or something more artful

Or one of my favorites




The whole show was amazing and is rekindling my desire to start turning again; It is bad enough to suffer from NAS but i also suffer from the desire to own and operate expensive woodworking equipment and tools and I see a new mini-lathe on the horizon.

 

[Marilynne]

Funny you should mention wanting to turn again Ron. I told Chris the other day, he has to retrain me so I can make some more pens.

 

[RON_RIP]

It's just like riding a bicycle @Marilynne, you can pick it back up in no time. Good rainy day hobby for you. My problem is my lathe is gigantic and only suitable for large projects. I need a mini or midi lathe to do smaller objects. Unfortunately they all seem to be made in the PRC today and I will not buy products from there. Have to hunt around for an older small lathe that I can convert.

 

[Marilynne]

My Jet mini lathe is ten years old. It's been over five years since I turned anything.

Chris has three lathes. He refurbished and converted a Logan (1960's vintage). He also has a South Bend (1950's vintage) and a metal turning lathe which have never been used. They take up lots of space!!!

 

[RON_RIP]

What I admire about lathes is that they do not ctake up nearly much floor space as other woodworking tools and you can often take a project from start to finish on a lathe without resorting to other tools.

 

[wthorson]

We have been fortunate this year to have a lot of rain and I haven't even had to water them so far. When we get blossoms we shall both photograph them and have a little friendly competition to see who can post the nicest photo. Are you in?

Yep, I'm in. Mine are looking good they have leaves on them now. They are such a pretty green. I can't wait for the blossoms.

 

[RON_RIP]

Visited 3 Shaker Villages on the way to New Hampshire. Of course the Shakers are well known for their furniture and with good reason. Their unique and simple style may well be the only truly American furniture style. And the building of their furniture was only another form of worship to them as was all the works of their hand. A few examples

A Shaker bed





a Shaker bedstead

A Cobbler's bench

Baskets

And a cupboard/chest that I call pure Shaker

 

[RON_RIP]

A few more Shaker buildingsThis building is located at Lebanon New York

this building is located at Canterbury Village in New Hampshire and is in fact, a schoolhouse

 

[RON_RIP]

Amongst my favorite Shakers buildings are the Meetinghouses. Since their design was proscribed by the Central Ministry they all tend to be more or less the same. The overall design is very well balanced and their interiors served the needs of Shaker worship exactly. This one is located at Hancock.

 

[RON_RIP]

Got to spend an hour at Phipps Conservatory yesterday and was able to continue testing my 60mm micro. I have come to conclude that it does better if shot in manual focus,

White Lily

Of course everybody likes to hang out at the Phipps. You just never know who you'll run into

and finally this curiosity. I only can guess that the shape and color of this leaf is meant to attract butterflies.

 

[wthorson]

Got to spend an hour at Phipps Conservatory yesterday and was able to continue testing my 60mm micro. I have come to conclude that it does better if shot in manual focus,View attachment 169352

White LilyView attachment 169353

Of course everybody likes to hang out at the Phipps. You just never know who you'll run intoView attachment 169354

and finally this curiosity. I only can guess that the shape and color of this leaf is meant to attract butterflies.View attachment 169355

Ron, Superb job with the 60mm macro

 

[RON_RIP]

Thanks Wendy. You have to have the focus exactly where you want it to be before you press the shutter. This lens is a little unforgiving in that regard.