Did you do a plaster skim coat over the wallboard?
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Did you do a plaster skim coat over the wallboard?
Pete Ham of Badfinger died all too young at the age of 27. That anniversary is coming up.
A wonderful song that I’ve been working on.
The Badfinger story of abuse epitomizes the worst of the industry.
A wonderful song that I’ve been working on.
The Badfinger story of abuse epitomizes the worst of the industry.
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Both the Beatles and the Monkees are down to two members left.
No, as we want it easily repairable, if needed, plus is saved us money to allow is to use quarter sawn white oak everywhere!
Edit: missing word - oak.
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I suppose that the curse of having a photographer’s eye is that the work of any contractor will be held to a very high standard. Once you see a flaw, it’ll be amplified every time you look at it.
You have no idea!
And, not just because I am a photographer. I designed it all, I am a visionary.
They are now, but they did need a fair amount of work to get them that way, especially the ceilings. Check out the floor joists. They all needed sistering to get the ceiling flat for the new crown moulding that was going to go up. There was a couple inches of variations throughout the room. The Amish guys did a great job with this.
This was just after completion, but some details still remained to be done, such as getting the fireplace screen made by the blacksmith, so the old speaker grill is back in place.
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Healing? from major mouth surgery. Gotta love me grumps.
Here are some photos of the construction progress in the dining room.
The night before the demo began. You can see that I was already drawing initial plans for the wainscoting on the walls before they got torn down.
Demo'd! Electrical and insulation in place, as is the sistering of the studs and ceiling joists, and the blocking for the wainscot/plate rails. Old plumbing still there but was soon to be replaced.
Drywall in place. Note the full-scale drawings I made of where the wainscot elements were going.
The finished room with the Aurora Craftsman light fixtures in place.
Ah, we have the color back. So sorry for the technical glitch we were experiencing!
Window seat area by the box bay back windows.
Corner detail showing some of the great looking 1/4" thick solid glued-up quarter sawn white oak panels in the wainscoting, The windows and trim casings are original to the home, as are the bench seat slats.
This original door was painted white!
The floors are the original oak strips from when the house was built.
The night before the demo began. You can see that I was already drawing initial plans for the wainscoting on the walls before they got torn down.
Demo'd! Electrical and insulation in place, as is the sistering of the studs and ceiling joists, and the blocking for the wainscot/plate rails. Old plumbing still there but was soon to be replaced.
Drywall in place. Note the full-scale drawings I made of where the wainscot elements were going.
The finished room with the Aurora Craftsman light fixtures in place.
Ah, we have the color back. So sorry for the technical glitch we were experiencing!
Window seat area by the box bay back windows.
Corner detail showing some of the great looking 1/4" thick solid glued-up quarter sawn white oak panels in the wainscoting, The windows and trim casings are original to the home, as are the bench seat slats.
This original door was painted white!
The floors are the original oak strips from when the house was built.
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Seeing wall stencils ... too modern for those? In days of yore there were stories about the farmer's daughter and the traveling stencil guy.
They are now, but they did need a fair amount of work to get them that way, especially the ceilings. Check out the floor joists. They all needed sistering to get the ceiling flat for the new crown moulding that was going to go up. There was a couple inches of variations throughout the room. The Amish guys did a great job with this.
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This was just after completion, but some details still remained to be done, such as getting the fireplace screen made by the blacksmith, so the old speaker grill is back in place.
Remarkable given the initial state. Every step required vision and a skilled hand.
Your photo album will be historic documentation of the evolution of the house, long after we’re all gone.
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If you are going to own one Aretha album, let it be 1967’s I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You).
Recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals Alabama and Atlantic Recording Studios in NYC, it represents a time where deep changes were going on. It was the first song of her album for Atlantic and it made her a superstar.
On this Palm Sunday, a fitting church song that’s an emotional vocal blend of blues, gospel, and soul. The Muscle Shoals Rhythm section helped punctuate the song’s emotion.
Aretha Franklin had made nine albums while under contract to Columbia Records but had remained commercially unsuccessful. When Columbia Records let Franklin's contract lapse in 1966, Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler quickly signed her, taking her in January 1967 to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, along with recording engineer Tom Dowd and Franklin's then-husband Ted White. Wexler had arranged for Chips Moman and Tommy Cogbill from Stax Records to join the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section at Rick Hall's FAME Studios. Musicians on the record included Ken Laxton on trumpet, King Curtis and Charles Chalmers on tenor saxophone, Willie Bridges on baritone saxophone, Spooner Oldham on Wurlitzer electric piano, Chips Moman and Jimmy Johnson on guitar, Tommy Cogbill on bass guitar, and Roger Hawkins on drums.
Ref: I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) - Wikipedia
That looks like the end of my Starbird boom stand! Mine happens to have a 6" fresnel on it.
Not too modern. I had considered that, or, possibly, a frieze from Bradbury & Bradbury.
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Will anybody be around to care, or notice, far in the future?
Here is a photo of the living room we started with (I had cut that section of carpet in front of the fireplace out as I had no idea what was under that area; it was lower than the surrounding carpet). And we scraped several layers of paint of the old mantel hoping to find something nice under it all. Nope, it was just very musty smelling bluestone, that now serves as a bench in the back yard. Oh, yeah, don't mind the covered up hole in the ceiling, we had some plumbing work done a couple months prior to the photo being made, knowing the whole ceiling was coming down, anyway. It's just contact paper to keep any dust from coming down until the dust was really flying!!!
The dining room's work was done, and finished up, literally, a week before we started the living room demo.
We might have room for you.
Given your love for all things A&C I won't show you these detail photos of some of the fireplace mantel and the dining room plate rail, nor any of the crown moulding.
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Don't peek,now, you hear?
I may faint!
Starbird is a staple in studios. Is yours a model 180?
The mic that Aretha is using looks like a Neumann U47, installed in a Neumann cradle. The boom in the image looks like a Starbird.
I have a couple of large boom stands that I made out of Yamaha cymbal stands. They work well for overheads but I’m not sure that I can get the extension distance that you do. Yours is mobile which can be a plus.
I have a Latch Lake MicKing 3300 on my wish list.
micKing 3300 | Latch Lake Music
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A future owner of your house certainly will. And if you become the next Karsh they might turn your place into a museum.
OH, NO!!
Honest to gawd...if there really is such a thing as ‘soundtrack of our lives’, Hal Ketchum and
Joe Jackson have always stood shoulder to shoulder with
Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, ‘round here.
Honest to gawd...if there really is such a thing as ‘soundtrack of our lives’, Hal Ketchum and
Joe Jackson have always stood shoulder to shoulder with
Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, ‘round here.
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