one step closer.....

[lumberdude]

Well, I just came up from the garage where I completed my "dust free" room. It may be a bit overkill, but I am very pleased with the way the "varnish booth" turned out. I have two sets of double filters through which I pull air through for ventilation, and a filtered doorway for a dust-free entry.

I just love the details of working a hobby!!

Starting sunday, it's time for the varnish!!


lumber

[This message has been edited by lumberdude (edited 11-16-2001).]

[ken mcclure]

Ahh. What a feeling! I'll crack open a Rolling Rock and think of ya! (For those who don't know, Rolling Rock is a beer brewed here in Western PA. Nice mild stuff with a good nutty aftertaste.)

[Kristian]

Must be a micro brewery. Otherwise it's hard to find good American beer. http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/tongue.gif

[JimConlin]

Rolling Rock is available in Boston.
Life is good.

'33'

[Will]

I too have drunk from the glass lined vats of old Latrob....Snyders Pretzel in hand .

[G. Schollmeier]

lumber,
How can you have a good varnish job without bug legs sticking out.
Ken,
Rolling Rock may have started in LaTrobe but is nation wide now. The only beer I'll drink out of a green bottle. http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/biggrin.gif
Gary

[Mr. Know It All]

Originally posted by lumberdude:
Well, I just came up from the garage where I completed my "dust free" room. It may be a bit overkill, but I am very pleased with the way the "varnish booth" turned out. I have two sets of double filters through which I pull air through for ventilation, and a filtered doorway for a dust-free entry.

I just love the details of working a hobby!!

Starting sunday, it's time for the varnish!!


lumber

[This message has been edited by lumberdude (edited 11-16-2001).]

DUDE......ALEX BEVAN PAYED TRIBUTE TO ROLLING ROCK BEER IN HIS SONG " SKINNY LITTLE BOY FROM CLEVELAND OHIO"." POP THE TOP OFF A ROLLING ROCK AND TURN UP THAT ROCK AND ROLL". BET YOU COULD CHARGE ADMISSION TO THE VARNISH BOOTH. MY LYMAN BOAT FRIENDS HERE ON THE NORTH COAST WOULD PAY IT TOO......ESPECIALLY IF YA SERVED ROLLING ROCK. GOOD LUCK ON THE VARNISH JOB.
KEVIN IN OHIO

[lumberdude]

hmmmmm, admission for my booth.....

I was wondering what to do with this thing after I'm done with this project, and my next one, and maybe the one after that....

Lumber...

[wolfietuk]

Home Aircraft builders build many jigs and fixtures for their projects. Many will then bequeath these to another builder when they are done. Something for boatbuilders to think about.

[Art Read]

Ahhh, but will the certainly "better" results, but never "perfect" from your sterile environment satisfy more than the "just good enough" results I get when I put just one more "protective" coat with sawdust and woodshavings still underfoot? I feel like I just got away with something "naughty" every time I come back in the morning, wipe off the night's accumulation of dust and see a nice, gleaming surface appear. 'Course, I never look "too" close, you understand....

[lumberdude]

You see, I'm trying to wow myself with the finished product, a feat, at times, that is very difficult to achieve. But I like it better that way.

[Tim B]

OK fellow forumites, I smell a hoax. Don't you find this lumberdude alittle suspicious? Consider what we are expected to believe.

A wooden boat newbie finds a classic boat just begging for an apprecative owner. He brings it home and makes careful and polite inquiries on the forum. Just the thing to spike our interest. He takes our suggestions, does the right thing in pulling off all the fiberglass.

Then he starts sanding. He reports that he is enjoying sanding. His kids like sanding. HIS WIFE LIKES SANDING. He waxes poetic about knowing every curve of this boat. Soon is whole family is sucked up into this project. Suspicious yet?

Next he's asking for varnish advice, which kind, how to, all that. He has set up a completely dust free environment (I heard rumors that the dust particle contamination is below 20 ppm!) You just know that his next post is going to be about how much he enjoys sanding between coats.

He going to be done with this project in less than 6 months. He'll be out on the water before I'm done moaning about having to recanvass my deck (never mind actually starting to recanvass).

I can only draw one conclusion. Lumberdude is a invention of the commitee. I think he might be a Cleek counterpart. You know, the newbie who seeks out advice from you know, Mr Cleek. He's too perfect, the SWMBO is too supportive, his family is too into this. He even has that air of being taken with boat building. You caught the bit about his next project and the one after that.

Of course the committee has corrected some of their previous flaws. They've posted pictures of lumberdude's boat, complete with kids.

All I can say Lumberdude is that if you are a creation of the committee made for the purpose of shaming the rest of us into getting out of our moaning chairs and into the garage, er boatshop, then I hope it works.

Thanks for the inspiration. It's great to here about someone else who enjoys this stuff as much as I do.

tim

[lumberdude]

Dang, they're on to me......

And what the hell does SWMBO mean???

Thanks Tim, I feel like a secret agent or something.

...and I think it's down to 10ppm, got check that....


http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/wink.gif

[ken mcclure]

She Who Must Be Obeyed.

[lumberdude]

Thank-you , I've been wondering....

[ken mcclure]

http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/Forum5/HTML/003189.html

for some lists of common acronyms used around here.

[lumberdude]

Oh man, that's exactly what I've been looking for!!


Thanks Kw

You know Tim, if I was a member of the commitee, I would have already known those..... http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/smile.gif



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[jeff pierce]

You know Tim, if I was a member of the commitee, I would have already known those..... http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/smile.gif
[/B]

Obviously a desperate ploy to throw us off the trail. What further proof do we need? Only a member of the committee would be that sneaky. http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/biggrin.gif

[JMAC]

Shucks, I did a lot of headscratching and figured out that SWMBO stood for Single Wife of Male Boat Owner. She Who Must Be Obeyed? To a point perhaps, to a point...

[John R Smith]

Hmm

Looks to me as if things are even worse than we supposed. Perhaps the Committee has actually started building boats. Soon they may be posting pictures . . .

John

[chadth]

SWMBO...because, as we all know, "if Mama ain't happy, ain't NOBODY happy...".

[Tim B]

It would be really bad if the committee started fooling us with pictures of 'wooden' fiberglass boats. They did that with the Folgers commercial (they may be a corporate sponsor of the committee). At the start of the commercial the guy is building a wood boat, then you see the boat sailing at the end. The one sailing is really a fiberglass boat. By the way, has anyone seen a picture of lumberdude? When he launches, we are going to need more proof than a distant picture to convince us its really the wooden boat he's repairing. Maybe we should send a forum member to the launching just to verify things are on the up and up. I'll volunteer to go because of my commitment to uncover the truth (it has nothing to do with seeing ice form on the lakes here in Mn yesterday)

tim

[Art Read]

Tim? Did Folger's do an ad like that too? There was a heart medication, (Zolcor?) that used about three different boats in their "tearjerker" ad. Two Friendships, (one ******) and a schooner, I believe. All supposed to be the same boat. I still liked watching it though...

[lumberdude]

You know Tim, oddly enough, if it wasn't for "Hidden Valley Ranch", I would have never have gotten into wooden boats, never found my particular boat, and I never would have had the oportunity to meet and talk with all of you fine folks.

Has anyone seen the commercial I'm referring too? It was a commercial for Hidden Valley Ranch singles. Two guys in a boat just like mine, enjoying a small salad using the single serving ranch dressing packets. I just happend to be watching tv on my computer, saw the boat, and thought, "I'd love to find a boat like that." I began looking all over the net, found a few similiar but not exact, and mentioned it to my buddy. He then came back and said "My dad has an old boat like that in his barn in Iowa, been there for about 20 years."

After seeing a pic, I couldn't believe it! It was EXACTLY the boat I had pictured in my mind!! A few months later, an 8 hour trip to Iowa, and here we are!!

What do you think?

[Wayne Jeffers]

This is just getting too weird!!!

And I'm really surprised at how many here know and enjoy Rolling Rock! My fridge is always well-stocked with green longnecks. I thought it was a regional beer. I never even heard of it until I attended the University of Western Pennsylvania, Southern Campus, many years ago. http://media5.hypernet.com/~dick/ubb/biggrin.gif

Latrobe, PA's two major contributions to civilization are Arnold Palmer and Rolling Rock.

Wayne

[Tim B]

Lumberdude - I'm sure that wooden boats are not exactly what the advertising execs at Hidden Valley had in mind when they made their commercial. Glad it had the right affect on you though.

Art - your right, zicor is the commercial I was thinking of. Folgers did one with a rowing shell that I liked.

It's funny how you never see ******* boats in ads.

Happy thanksgiving,
tim

[Art Read]

Yup! Even Ralph Lauren is getting in on the act... Seen that POLO(?) ad with the quick shot of a neat old mahogany runabout? Hacker maybe? Seems Madison avenue is catching on to the cache of traditional boats as a "status symbol". Could be a real problem for the rest of us once the monied set figures out they can just PAY someone to keep up all that pretty wood... Gonna be like Victorian houses after Bob Villa!

[Art Read]

Wayne... I used to hang out in a waterfront dive that had a "happy hour" special... "Bucket of Rocks". Six "pony size" Rolling rocks in a galvanized bucket of ice. Always meant to sneak out with one of those buckets. Anybody else notice you can't buy a good bucket anymore? Could be a "thread" of it's own!