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...for a pretty fantastic piece of guitar work by the great Roy Clark. Here he is on "The Odd Couple" TV show.

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ferkixlll:
Ahhh, the era of the cameo appearances.
teddykev:
Looks like an Englishman, sounds like a true Flamenco player...Now that is Beautiful. This guy is Antonio Banderas dad right?
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...tons and tons of grain was transported from Australia to the UK in the holds of sailing ships. These were not yacht-like ships. They were steel hulled (and often masted, too) behemoths. The lower foresail could weigh 3,000 pounds and might have a one inch diameter cable running around it's perimeter as it's bolt rope. These were long voyages and most often around the Cape...
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teddykev:
Seriously interesting. Well I grew up on the Golf of Saint Lawrence so I'm biased to maritime culture I suppose ;-) The video is serious...from 1933 to 1948! Pretty amazing. Cheers fir posting Matt :)
ferkixlll:
Nice find.
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ckdexterhaven:
"guess what day it is? Woo woo!" "it's my poll!" /random radnich, for old times sake
thelabrat:
Great photo!
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A project I ran in the early 2000s has been on my mind lately, for many reasons but mostly because I can't get the roofs out of my head. A few images below show a little about why.

The shingles you see are six inch wide Western Red Cedar showing two inches (yes, only two inches) to the weather. Obviously, the hip shingles are purpose
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teddykev:
Wow man now that is craftsmanship. Definitely the kind of job you can be proud you were a part of. Amazing!
chefdaddy:
Wow. 
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I have belonged to a group called the Timber Framer's Guild off and on since 1987. It was founded in 1985, and this is what they were about. "The Guild is a nonprofit organized exclusively for educational purposes, to provide training programs for timber framers, disseminate information about timber framing and timber frame building design, display the art of timber framing to the public, and...
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mattacme:
You are expressing several thoughts that many have been debating for many years and they are all valid and interesting. I suppose my own jaded view on the subject, at least in North America, is that timber home construction is a method that only he reasonably well of can afford anyway (it's not particularly efficient) and that as a vernacular building practice it is being lost, again, in the wake of ever more able machining processes. While some of those processes are a real boon they incorporate so much technology and energy (soft & hardware to run them, incredibly costly and narrow focussed milling equipment and tooling to cut them) that I seriously question the efficiency of that model, too. There is a finite quantity of high quality timber at any given time, even with good forest management, so being able to manufacture high quality timber structures on an industrial scale cuts against the grain (excuse the pun please) in the first place. There are loads of examples I can give if you like but I think you understand. 
mattacme:
For me it's more about the entire process than just the finished product, and losing, again, much of the skill needed to select and responsibly harvest appropriate timber, saw and season it, lay out the work, cut the parts and erect the structure is at least a minor tragedy. It's not so much about it's attendant parts, it's about it's entirety.
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teddykev:
Great pics, love the artistry :)
ferkixlll:
Nice to be reminded of.
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mattacme:
@venom, the artists name is Jeff De Boer, a Calgary based artist. Check him out at http://jeffdeboer.com/Galleries/CatsandMice/tabid/77/Default.aspx
ferkixlll:
I think that Sisu wishes that she had that on when we took her to the Vet yesterday. Poor thing is allergic to fleas.
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littlejohn22:
that was awesome... must grab this for my iPod
arroia:
How?! How do they do it?!
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Classic. There's a live version on youtube with Tony Joe & Johnny Cash doing it, also pretty great. Enjoy.

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teddykev:
Thank you for posting that my good man. Making my lazy Saturday afternoon just that much better :-)
littlejohn22:
Cool
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teddykev:
Thanks a bunch my good man. Great pick up to my day :-)
ferkixlll:
LOL. Stay interesting.