I moved on to the Old Mill in the last couple of days.
Framed out the right side. As you can see in the top photo the Blackberry is never far away. I hate the thing but my job requires I be in constant contact.
I veered from the manual with the siding. Brett calls for solvent […]
Posted on September 27th, 2007 by quinn
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I made the sorting platform this afternoon. Now it’s time to move on and begin work on the Old Mill. I like to clean my bench and lay out the new template when I finish for the day so next time I sit down I’m ready to begin immediately on the new section.
Posted on September 24th, 2007 by quinn
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I made the foolish mistake of adding the legs to the main floor before I cut out the holes for the pulleys that will be installed later. Even though the directions clearly stated to cut the holes first. I lucked out though and was able to cut the three holes without knocking any of the […]
Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by quinn
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The next step in the project is the main floor of the New Mill. It was pretty straightforward.
Below is the floor flipped over. You can see some of the dots of glue from where it was tacked to the plan. They’ll all be scraped off.
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by quinn
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I got quite a bit done today. The left wall of the New Mill went very easily and quickly. Not so for the trusses.
Here is the Left wall of the New Mill, two of the posts are longer because the floor in that area is lower. I think.
Then I moved on to the roof trusses. […]
Posted on September 17th, 2007 by quinn
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I got a bottle of the paint which I ran out of and was able to finish staining all the wood. Today I did the siding on the loft. It took a lot longer than I anticipated it would. Partly because I was fairly meticulous about choosing the various pieces of wood to get a […]
Posted on September 15th, 2007 by quinn
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I wasn’t able to get much done today. I need some of the wood that I wasn’t able to stain. It’s going well so far though. I’ve got wax paper over the plan and I’m working on that. I got a scratch brush from Micro-Mark and I like it better than the brass brush for […]
Posted on September 4th, 2007 by quinn
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Kind of a frustrating day. I ran out of one of the paints so I wasn’t able to finish staining the wood. I did get most of it done though. I try to avoid solvent based paints but given the cost of this kit I decided to follow the directions to the letter. Now […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2007 by quinn
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I spent a good part of today getting the wood stained. About every 90 minutes starting at 8:00am and ending at about 6:00pm I removed some of the wood from each bin. It looks good, I got a good variety. I also started using the brush with solvent based stain to work on the rest […]
Posted on September 1st, 2007 by quinn
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