Saturday, September 28, 2019

$1 tool rescue

Had a moment last week, so we strolled the flea market. A woman had a pile of rusty tools "anything $1!" and so I dug through it and found those channel locks.  Then, in conversation, she seemed like she didn't want to pack the stuff back up, so I managed to get the 2 chisel heads for free.  So, 3 tools, $1. (scissors shown for color)

A bit of work later - like 20 minutes - and I've removed the rust and made a handle for the big 2" chisel head.  I love rescuing old tools.  

Granite in place

While I still need to glue and grout them, they don't look too bad.  

Here it is with the back splash. 


Wednesday, September 11, 2019

cleaning up the free granite

Got a good batch of free kitchen counter granite off of CL the other day.   First I had to pull off the 3/4 inch plywood that was glued onto it:

Then clean up the paint off the edges 

And *grind* off the old glue, after using a chisel to get the big chunks off.  In this shadowy photo, you can see some that I've done and a bunch that still need doing:


Design Mistakes in my cob house

So, I have long meant to create a list of mistakes I made when designing the finishings on our house.  Now that we've lived in it for a ...