“‘Leave me to my repose,’ is the motto of the sleeping and the dead.”
— William Hazlitt, literary critic (1778-1830)
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“‘Leave me to my repose,’ is the motto of the sleeping and the dead.”
— William Hazlitt, literary critic (1778-1830)
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Nice looking seats, what type of wood are they? One piece?
White pine. One glue line.
Do you do all the lathe work for your chairs or do you get those kits?
I do my own turning. I’m terrible at it, but I might get better some day if I keep at it.
I’m a terrible turner. I do very little turning, and though I’m happy with the results, the process is ugly. I just haven’t cared enough so far to get better.
even as a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed
That is not exactly the way my wife phrases it!
“Honey, are you still in the bedroom?”
commonly translates to:
“Get the *bleep* out of bed!”
Those Chris Vesper Gauges are just sublime. Nice to know they are keeping good company.
Damn, now we have to wait until he gets back from Canada to see more about these chairs. I’m getting set to make my own welsh stick styled chairs and am very interested in following this set of posts.