We’ve had this old Big Lots gazebo for years and years. When we first put the pool under, Roger had a great idea when he suggested we tiki-fy it with some thatch. The roof was on it’s last legs, so we decided to finally bite the bullet and make a thatch roof for it as […]
We bought this Moai from an event company a couple of years ago. Then Rene taught Lina how to paper-crete and she made the little piggy better. All was well with the world. Then the wolf came (high wind storm) and blew the piggy down and he split in half like Humpty Dumpty. Tiki Rancher
I happened across an auction for some 1946 pictures in Tahiti by Adolphe Sylvain. We won a couple of the prints and needed a frame for them. I also needed to get back into woodworking mode, so I figured this would be good practice. The plan was to use some discount teak I purchased years
Lina bought this saw for me in December so I start building some of our upcoming wood projects. It’s the fancy kind that will automatically stop if it detects a body part touching the blade. We bought the saw in December, but I had to re-arrange the shop to make room for it. I built
We have a chair fetish, so we needed new chairs to replace the boring couch in the Party Pit.
Finally finished the Arduino project that we needed before we left for vacation! We’ve had to renovate the basement twice because of freezing boiler pipes when it gets cold. This wasn’t a problem when the original, undersized boiler was working overtime to keep the house warm when it gets really cold. But the new, properly
Our neighbors were downsizing and decided to give me a bunch of tools: The drill press is a monster, so I had to build a stand for it and used some scrap in the shop. It’s bigger than it needs to be, but I did NOT want it to tip over!
Lina has always wanted a bar sign and I had always planned to carve it with my CNC machine, so Lina made the following design in Adobe InDesign: I imported it into the CNC program and we made a prototype with foam: Then I tweaked the design a little to get this: And we cut
We wanted to ride the big wheel on the fourth of July, but we can’t leave Tequila alone in the house any more because she’s starting to annoy the neighbors with her whining. So I cobbled a trailer hitch for the big wheels from stuff in the garage the big wheels. Now Tequila could come
We bought a Three-String, 3/4 Pretzel, Frankl-Style chair home from Palm Springs a couple of years ago that didn’t have any cushions, so I made some cushions for it: I wanted more furniture to match and a Facebook post showed a full set for somewhere around $400. I jumped on it with a quick “When