My Sunday afternoon was spent listening to “The Sovereign Individual” audiobook and stamping my seed phrase into a titanium plate.

Escaping the Matrix one step at a time.

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First go at riving a log today. Was a sweet chestnut cut down last year, too big for my chainsaw mill.

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Ooooh that's not the beech I'm used to 🥹

Beautiful, can't wait to see the final piece!

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Beech is so underrated. It has some plain straight grain, but a panel like that top can be very interesting if boards are mixed properly.

Plus is has some cool chatoyancy!

PS. if you build something out of that beech wood, feel free to post it in the community n/woodworking 😄

I can't say that's ever crossed my mind, till now🤔.

threw out decade-old boxes of collected wires & adaptors

so far my universe hasn’t collapsed 🙏

While I have a big orchard (about 50 trees) I haven’t had a large garden in the last few years. After this last trip to the grocery store however, I really realized how much I’m getting fucked on subpar produce and products that I can grow and make much better for myself.

I plan on doing a larger garden next year, adding about a dozen chickens (got two nice coops and a good area for a chicken run) and maybe three or four goats if I’m feeling ambitious.

I know it’ll make traveling much more impractical and add about an hour more of chores each day, but I’m sick of making the trip to the store and losing so much on something that I’ve done much better before.

I feel like the goats and the chickens will be the real game changers. I’ll need to up my preserving and fermentation game, which isn’t bad, I just need to do more of it.

Completed the first phase of the next timber framing project this weekend. Adding a bench to the mudroom section. Matching the shelf from earlier. The joinery on this build was significantly easier than the shelf (the diagonal brace on the shelf is one of the more complex joints to figure out in timber framing... No idea why I started with that).

These are the majority of the tools used for building the frame.

I feel I've become much better getting more accurate cuts with the handsaw and laying out my cut lines. This reduces the amount of work required with the chisel. The wood is very far from square or straight, but it's just a bench 🤷

Hogging out the open faced, crossing mortises on top of the legs is by far the hardest part of this build. Encountering cedar knots is a very unpleasant experience and slows the process considerably. Paying attention to grain direction is critical to avoid split outs. I had a few on this project as you can see, but once the bench top is installed most flaws should be well hidden.

The completed post just looks really cool.

Adding the first layer of the crossing tenons starts to bring the joinery to reality.

Had to pound in the cross pieces to join the two sets of legs completes the joint and really tightens up the whole frame.

The final dimensions are 24"x50"x18" for the frame with a 2" top yet to come. I'll likely end up lower the posts to account for the thick top plus leveling for the floor.

Some of the most annoying and inconsiderate airbnb guests are the ones who turn the thermostat up to 24C 4 times a day.

Literally smashing all the glasses in the kitchen would be less costly than this behaviour.

Elm

It’s a Beech. Beautiful