...for a pretty fantastic piece of guitar work by the great Roy Clark. Here he is on "The Odd Couple" TV show.
...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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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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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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Classic. There's a live version on youtube with Tony Joe & Johnny Cash doing it, also pretty great. Enjoy.
...which is annoying, but trust me, this is worth opening and listening to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M0xTlAI46E
That, my friends, is Imelda May. Oh my.
