Derek?..
Mark...? Gabel?...
Daiku..?

Hello? Anyone??....

Maybe I didn't throw my axes well? :rolleyes:

I'm here. The others must be sleeping off their turkey...

Saturday morning (but not 2:37am!), so I've got the shop to myself. Classical music cranked on the stereo. Catching up on email, payroll, and whatnot. One of the joys of being a small business owner, I guess. CB.

Yay! Life!
Hi, CB!
Right, I forgot this was ya'lls long weekend.
Happy Thanksgiving!
And, no I wasn't up til 2:37, the forum clock is 3 hrs ahead of me...but still, 11:37 is pretty late for me, too.

Everyone but me left our shop early yesterday, so I did the same, cranked the tunes. Not classical, though I do like that in the morning. No, the afternoons are reserved for heavy techno/rave when I'm alone in the shop. The whole place turns into a big night club (I think the closest one to us is 6 hrs away...) and I turn into Funky Disco Dancer Extrordinarie!
That is until the designers upstairs, who always stay later on Fridays, get pissed that the bass is disturbing them. One day they'll learn. (Funny thing is that they're mostly younger than me...! )
Take it easy at work, don't forget to shake it a bit -
*K

I think that having some non-work time in the shop is one of the best parts of timber framing. the timbers can be pushed together to make a picnic table or drawing table, the sound of a guitar, or, in my case, a saxophone transforms the space. There is something about those big peices of wood, eh?

We did an order last year for a hotel that wanted a custom made bar, cut length wise from big DF logs, and fit on top of the butts. The afternoon before it was to be shipped out, we happened to be having a retirement party for one of the guys, and what a handy thing to be testfitting at that time!
Picture this big L shaped bar in the middle of a shop, covered with beer bottles and bags of munchies and people all sitting around it like a scene out of Cheers, except for the two guys on one end still testfitting it with chainsaws !
Good times!