Rosslyn Redux

Tag: Joinery

  • Joyful Joinery

    Joyful Joinery

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    Revisiting a reflection on “Durable Joinery” from one year ago because… circularity. A regathering of ideas once again — and probably forever — relevant. Recollecting. Relearning. Mission Intermission Joints. Joinery.Durable joinery.Rejoinery.Durable. Dynamic.Durable dynamics.Team dynamics…interrupted.Progress interrupted. Again.Stutter steps.Impromptu regrouping.Remapping. Rebooting.”There are timeswhen the border —between brokenand unbroken —blursand faultines become fractures.”Would woodworkingsuccor?Would wood joineryreconjoin?Might metaphormend?Joining, conjoining,…

  • College, Collage, Kismet

    College, Collage, Kismet

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    Three mornings into Bloganuary I’m starting to reevaluate the merits of this challenge. Today’s prompt is less open-ended than ideal for inspiring creative responses. But then I remembered a post I’d begun drafting (and eventually abandoned) this past summer. That 6 month old seed — quick to germinate, quick to stall — came to mind…

  • Tung Oiling Ash & Elm Table

    Tung Oiling Ash & Elm Table

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    I’ve been keeping a little secret. And I’m not quite ready to spill the beans, not 100% at least. That will happen soon enough in a post chronicling the concept-through-construction of a mixed species (ash and elm) “bistro table” built by Ron Bauer this spring. Anticipation is half the pleasure! Until then, today’s post is…

  • The Art of Thresholds

    The Art of Thresholds

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    I’m slightly obsessed with transitions and betweenness. Liminality and interstices. Metamorphosis, reawakening, and transformation inevitably weave themselves into my words about gardening and historic rehabilitation. In fact, in a not altogether exaggerated sense, Rosslyn Redux is a kind of carefree contemplation of thresholds, the art of thresholds, and the artifacts of crossing thresholds… Transitions. Flux.…

  • Lumber Loft: Acclimating Ash & Elm Flooring

    Lumber Loft: Acclimating Ash & Elm Flooring

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    For the last couple of weeks my future study/studio/office in the icehouse has been serving as a lumber loft. Remember my excitement when we completed installation of the beech flooring (surplus materials remaining from reflooring Rosslyn’s living room, parlor, kitchen, and entrance hallway) a couple months ago? And my anticipation when Tony was about to…

  • Elm and Garapa Threshold

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    A Jeroboam of gratitude to Peter Vaiciulis for agreeing to fabricate a custom elm and garapa threshold for the icehouse bathroom doorway. Conjoining two two dissimilar hardwoods is challenging enough, but I added an extra detail (or two) that you just might be able to spot in the photo below. The strip of garapa (closer…

  • Durable Joinery

    Durable Joinery

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    Joints. Joinery. Rejoinery. Durable. Dynamic. Durable dynamics. Durable joinery. Team dynamics… Consider that word parade fair warning for where I’m headed. From dovetails to team dynamics, in the twinkling of an eye. At least, that was my plan in revisiting a flood of field notes. Instead my errand evolved into a meandering meditation on admittedly abstract, fairly freestyle…

  • Bowtie & Broken Memento

    Bowtie & Broken Memento

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    Bowtie & Broken Memento: Poem Amidst broken memento and fragmented hope, fractured sculpture and ruptured carpentry, a bowtie binds bitter ends. A patchwork harvest of homegrown cherry, felled and milled, cured and crafted, offcuts conjoined, scrappy remnants sewn in singalong, cradling conversation, cutlery, crockery, and nourishment. Sun soaked, finger tipped tenderly, inadvertently in thought, in…

  • Carriage Barn Artifact Triptych

    Carriage Barn Artifact Triptych

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    Intriguing artifacts tend to pop up in unlikely places. Rosslyn’s carriage barn, for example. We’re currently undertaking structural improvements to the larger of the two outbuildings west of our home. In anticipation of a re-roofing project that will include stripping the old leaking asphalt shingles and installing a new standing seam roof next spring, we’re a little over a…