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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Scrappy, JimT-dam we could almost turn this into a Wooden Boat forum if those climbers would vacate the site.
Nice projects, would love to know a little more history on both boats.
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Matt, is that your gym? Looks like a great place to warm up for South Seas ;) Looks fantastic!
Yup! Eldo Wall company just put in our new boulder 50ft long by 16ft tall.
Some really cool wooden boats in here!
One day I'd like to build a boat, and a guitar...
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JimT
climber
Munich
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That one was built by Rambeck in 1901 in Starnberg south of Munich, oak on oak Swedish iron fastened with a spruce deck and survived well until the 2nd war but went downhill after that, it got the fibergass treatment in the middle sixties and then rotted away inside like they do.
She is very much like an International 45m² class boat but too early for this rule, she´s a bit too big (10.4m long). Originally gaff rigged and converted in the 1930´s.
Owned by two guys who wanted to save her but there was no chance to restore her as original, nothing was worth saving so we went the conserve what we could and then wallpaper route.
We ripped out all the rotted stuff like the keel, deadwood, floors, deckbeams, 1/4 of the planking, 1/2 the frames and so on and all the metalwork. About 80% of the wood went in the fire.
Forced the hull back into shape which had hogged badly, she had about 9" of drop on the ends
Re-framed and floored with sawn-oak, re-fastened and replaced the missing planking and fitted a new laminated mahogany keel. Two diagonal layers of mahogany and one longitudinal following the original planking lines. New deck beams, ply deck and laid teak.
All custom metalwork including glued-in chainplates, NACA profile rudder and all the rest.
A lot of varnish and sanding! 2 years and about $45k.
Really fast in moderate winds, I´ve won regatta´s with her on the odd occasion I go sailing.
Not the biggest I´ve done but not the smallest either, it´s what I do when making climbing gear gets boring!
Jim
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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I'm still trying to figure out the upload software for my camera, but in the past three weeks we've gone from a foundation to an envelope on a 2k sf, two floor, walk out basement timberframe hybrid home. The hybrid is in the floor system. We platform framed all the exterior walls and added a timberframe for the floors so that the lumber is visible.All visible lumber was milled on site. It's really a cool idea even if it pisses off the dedicated timberframers. New construction is so much fun, everything fits, is square and plumb, and flows well.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Figured out the photo upload.
Foundation
First floor
Second floor (my Dad is the electrical contractor, awesome!)
Second floor timberframe
Timberframe detail
First floor layout with timberframe floor system above
Second floor subfloor
Rafters and second floor dormer in
Roof deck installed
That's where I'm at.
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MisterE
Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
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Really like the timberframe beams - it's a great look.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Thanks, I think so too. I didn't fabricate them, my co-worker did, but installing all the timberframe stuff was way fun. Brute strength to carry the timbers and then finesse to drop them into their receivers. I'm so glad that I chose carpentry as a profession.
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MisterE
Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
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Yep, I agree: carpentry can be a great profession with the right jobs. I am starting a pretty fun job myself tomorrow. A woman who does fused and blown glass needs an entire workshop built for her to house all of her tools and materials. I will be starting with display shelving for almost 200 3" wide X 5" tall containers of powdered glass - and she wants to see every one of them. I am going to do them in VG fir and put plexiglass doors on the units to keep the dust out.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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I'd be into seeing pictures of that, MrE.
The house I'm working on has a framing detail I've never seen. We're 'crosshatching' all the exterior studs with 2x3's to give more depth to the walls. Essentially, we're strapping all the walls, but with larger material. Apparently, it adds seven R points when we insulate. We're using a mix of foam and hard-pack cellulose. It's great to implement these energy efficient designs.
An aside, has anyone worked on earthship designs? I'm thinking about building a home in the next couple of years, and an earthship seems like a viable option. That or cob.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Lolli, the timberframe isn't dovetailed. It's square cut receivers and mortise and tenon.
Every joist is toenailed with big (20d) nails.
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Brandon, As a thirty five year veteran carpenter it is great to see something really cool getting built. I am really hoping for an exciting project to come my way real soon. Maui is still deeply depressed and doesn't show any signs of change. Here's an image of something I put together a while back.
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MisterE
Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
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Brandon, I have done earthship and straw-bale workshops in Washington and Oregon. Earth-ship is super labor-intensive to do a whole house with, but I saw one cool house that had an earthship foundation, and straw-bale construction on top. It worked well, because the straw bales sat nicely atop the foundation, both being rather wide.
The real issue with earthship, and the difficulty, lies in completely filling in the tires - because of the multiple rounded aspect, it becomes necessary to ram the dirt in at various angles all the way arsound to ensure the complete filling of the "side-walls" of the tires.
The cob looks like it would be a ton of work as well.
cool vault, o-man!
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Nothing anywhere near as cool as those beautiful boats and houses -
This is the frame I am working on at the moment, my summer project is to turn it into a fixie.
Hand chopped, sanded and polished. Have to get a few nicks filled with weld and then I will start building it back up.
The frame after a couple minutes of sanding to look at the metal:
This is how it looks now, still working on polishing but getting there:
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 6, 2011 - 01:14pm PT
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The humble compost bins.
Built from old pallets, lined with osb and feed bags.
Slats in the front to make them easier to work in.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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scrappy
Social climber
Floataledge on the S.F. bay
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I wish I could tell you guy's about Pinocchio, but she's build by GAINES and I never heard of the builders name and the designer is unknown, soo I don't really know about the boat. But some old timer in the yard say's she looks like the Golden Hind, Van de stadt-Black soo or even a replica of Joshua Slocom's Spray and maybe a Dickerson also. All I know is that she tracks very well, I acquired her last october the previous owner flodded her and messed up all the wirings. He told me that she got flodded 3' throu the head for not having anti-siphon loop. But that didn't bother but it's gamble and soo far I'm very happy the way she sails. Latitude 38 qouted her a mystery boat from last months issue on their boatyard tour.
Guido or maybe you can start a salty monkey furom, Lol. Or a Taco regatta.
WW
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Euroford
Trad climber
Louisville, CO
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rebuilding a 60 year old Borg Warner T90 Transmission.
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MisterE
Social climber
Cinderella Story, Outa Nowhere
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Jun 16, 2011 - 06:16pm PT
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Built a podium for the vitamin aisle in the store I work at. The unit holds the reference material for the Wellness Department. Here's the crappy old cardboard one they had that was taped together and desintegrating at the base (sorry for the phone pic):
I got the materials yesterday and just finished this morning, platform is hinged for additional storage.
I also put a 20# block of concrete (foamed in) inside of the base for additional stability, as well as two locking wheels:
And installed:
Fun little project!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 16, 2011 - 08:02pm PT
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Speech!
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