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A SHOP TOUR

9/10/2017

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A nice gal came to my shop today to pick up her ukulele and she thought my shop pretty interesting.  I guess it is a little goofy so I thought I would  share some images of what is in it other than tools.
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 If I ever finish painting it this is going to be an umbrella handle just like Mary Poppins used.
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An ostrich egg resides in a watercolor paper box painted in a Haida design
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The workshop rooster
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Shoe boxes filled with scraps of wood.  I cannot stand to toss the beautiful scraps.
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A puffin wind vane from long ago.  He flies in the wind
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An ornate old molding plane
A painting of the rooftops of the Doges Palace from a trip to Venice years ago
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 This was to be just one of a series of Mason Bee Houses in this architectural style hung side by side on a sunny wall.  paper tubes would be inserted into each hole for the nesting bees to use.  A great idea but I failed to make a mold because of the holes.  This was the prototype.  It would have been called "Bee Street"
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I was into making frames for my paintings for awhile.  This one was pretty ornate.
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This big painting of a Naples fishing boat hangs behind plumbing pipes in the corner.
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A poster advertising a french art exhibit hangs beside my grandfather's cigar molds. He was the first cigar maker in WA territory in 1885.
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 A pencil sketch of my wife Marya is taped to the freezer door.
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Here is a little bowl being turned on the lathe
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.This is the wooden foundry pattern used to cast the bronze manhole cover in Fairhaven Village Green.  A fun project.  The letters are purchased and glued on, all else is carved bass wood on a plywood circle.  Cast at Bellingham's Union Foundry.
Hope you enjoyed this little tour.  Come and visit my workshop some day.
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