Micro-Dosing

 Morning light on Robin and Ken.

 

 

We travel to Jerez de la Frontera, Spain for Sherry Week. 

See more photos here

 

 

 

A stunning house concert here with The Crazy Dog

Photo courtesy of Bryant Kirchner

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving for 30 here.

You have to get Clean to get Dirty (snacks)

 

The Last Harvest of 2023 at 3003

 

 

 

It had been a long while since we had a house concert here.  A worldwide shut down due to a microscopic killer mainly but also floods and fires.  It's been quite an action packed last few years.

But it's over now so it was time to open the space up to a night of music.  Time to get The Dirty Snacks and Shimscheimler Family in here.

Dirty Snacks

Shimscheimler

 

A house concert or not, the place needed a deep deep cleaning anyway so I took things down to bones, cleaned, waxed, polished and new coats of finish on just about everything.  Three weeks of cleaning.  Let me tell you, the dust from a couple years of wood working along with the industrial soot of West Oakland, the space absolutely had to be cleaned.

Glasses came off, bar got polished.

The LC back together.

 

Cleaned and tidied up the hand tool wall, scraped and washed windows.

Took some photos off the wall added new ones.

The world premier of Annie's graphite of the beginning of her family's great American Adventure.

Had been barreling 6 liters of tequila for a year,  stuck a spout in the barrel and made a premixed cocktail out of it.

The two premixes for the night

Beginning the load in and set up.

A full house.  Photo courtesy of Taylor Kirchner.

What's more beautiful then music?  It could be human's greatest discovery.

The morning after.  

 

Tip jar for those that didn't prepay. 

Feels so good to feel the magic of music and people together again.

300 Stools

 Where I make three stools for the kitchen and this is my 300th time the internet has published me.

Three bonus pics right out of the gate.

Our missing band member Jules came back from Washington for a brief visit and we jam.

And courtyard Kabocha resting on a plate from Morocco.

Anyway back to the stools.  Usual color palette of wood, metal and leather.  We had a discussion as to whether I was to make three or four stools.  So glad we arrived at three.  I guess I just don't saddle up very well to production type projects.

Legs having a compound cut.

 Differing arrangements of the aprons.

A discerning viewer would take note of seeing use of dowel joints for the first time in 300 blog posts.

Gluing the base and the cushion supports taking place.

To add some visual interest on the back of the seat backs I hand cut some compound angles.

A quick run to the Hide House in Napa for some veg tan 5oz leather.

Honing a Japanese leather knife that I bought from Yamasuke in Japan.

Rolled some steel on Ken's custom sized rolling machine.

Enough of this, onto the finished stools.

Since this is the 300th post, you'll get another Bonus Pic!

Shaft of light showing the feet of the Sycamore Cabinet.