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I Set Up A Web Camera To Document The Building Of My Last End Table

January 3, 2015 5 Comments

Why yes, I do use a giant buzz saw with the blade installed backward in it. Why do you ask?

As you can see from the screen capture thumbnail, three of the fingers on my hands are webbed. Comes in handy when I’m trying to hold on to screws while using my cordless drill. It’s not supposed to be cordless, I just cut the cord off accidentally when I was using the chop saw; but those buggers are expensive, so I keep using it that way. Takes a long time to set a screw, but it sure gives me big wrist muscles. That’s why I’m able to carry an entire lift of  2x4s on my shoulder over to the table saw that I bought at Snidely Whiplash’s yard sale.

This, people, is why women want me, and men want to be me, and children are warned to stay away from me. 

Sippican’s Christmas Roundup 2014

December 10, 2014 No Comments

I’m very grateful to a lot of people for a lot of things. Life is hard, I guess, but so many people are kind to me on a regular basis that I’ve decided that the world is a pleasant place filled with nice people. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Some of the nicer people I could mention are readers here, and they support my sons’ efforts via the PayPal tipjar, and you should think about laying some lucre on them this Christmas season. 32 Degrees North has old skool decorations, ornaments, cards, and gifts, the kind
we adore here at the Cottage. Every year like clockwork they send my children Advent Calendars,
which brings a big smile to their faces and a wistful tear to my eye.
They’ve got Easter stuff, too, which is like Christmas with sightly less snow shoveling, so I like it even better. Go there now, there’s no time to
waste: 32 Degrees North. 

Our friend Nora Gardner sells lovely dresses that make the guys go hubba hubba on Wall Street without stepping over the demure/brazen hussy line once. Nora’s a bright young lady, and she’s better looking than the pretty models she’s got showing off her dresses, which doesn’t seem fair, really.  Her stuff is
made right here in New York City.  Nora Gardner

Now for a bit of a ticklish topic. I’ve gone out of business. Sippican Cottage Furniture and Fastique are no more. I’ve sold furniture on the Internet for ten years now, which I’m pretty sure is longer than the Internet has existed, but it’s dead, Jim. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that’s ever purchased anything from me in the past. Many of the people that read this blog are former customers, and I am profoundly grateful for your friendship and patronage.

I have four tables left over, including one Evangeline Table. If you check up at the logo at the top of the blog, they’re listed on the navigation bar. Sorry about the pictures; they actually look a lot better than that. You can purchase the tables using your existing Amazon accounts to check out, using a buy now button at the bottom of the page. Shipping is free anywhere in the US, but when they’re gone that’s it. Many thanks, and Merry Christmas.

Direct links to the tables, if you prefer:
Evangeline Table [Update: Sold, thank you! Many thanks to our friend Charles S!]
Cinnamon Mount Lebanon Table [Update: Sold! Thank you to our friends Thud and Anh!]
Honey Pot Mount Lebanon Table [Update: Sold! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Karen in Massachusetts!]
Walnut Mid Century Modern Table [Update: Sold! Merry Christmas to old friend Paul K!]

Sippican’s Christmas Roundup 2014

December 10, 2014 11 Comments

I’m very grateful to a lot of people for a lot of things. Life is hard, I guess, but so many people are kind to me on a regular basis that I’ve decided that the world is a pleasant place filled with nice people. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Some of the nicer people I could mention are readers here, and they support my sons’ efforts via the PayPal tipjar, and you should think about laying some lucre on them this Christmas season. 32 Degrees North has old skool decorations, ornaments, cards, and gifts, the kind
we adore here at the Cottage. Every year like clockwork they send my children Advent Calendars,
which brings a big smile to their faces and a wistful tear to my eye.
They’ve got Easter stuff, too, which is like Christmas with sightly less snow shoveling, so I like it even better. Go there now, there’s no time to
waste: 32 Degrees North. 

Our friend Nora Gardner sells lovely dresses that make the guys go hubba hubba on Wall Street without stepping over the demure/brazen hussy line once. Nora’s a bright young lady, and she’s better looking than the pretty models she’s got showing off her dresses, which doesn’t seem fair, really.  Her stuff is
made right here in New York City.  Nora Gardner

Now for a bit of a ticklish topic. I’ve gone out of business. Sippican Cottage Furniture and Fastique are no more. I’ve sold furniture on the Internet for ten years now, which I’m pretty sure is longer than the Internet has existed, but it’s dead, Jim. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that’s ever purchased anything from me in the past. Many of the people that read this blog are former customers, and I am profoundly grateful for your friendship and patronage.

I have four tables left over, including one Evangeline Table. If you check up at the logo at the top of the blog, they’re listed on the navigation bar. Sorry about the pictures; they actually look a lot better than that. You can purchase the tables using your existing Amazon accounts to check out, using a buy now button at the bottom of the page. Shipping is free anywhere in the US, but when they’re gone that’s it. Many thanks, and Merry Christmas.

Direct links to the tables, if you prefer:
Evangeline Table [Update: Sold, thank you! Many thanks to our friend Charles S!]
Cinnamon Mount Lebanon Table [Update: Sold! Thank you to our friends Thud and Anh!]
Honey Pot Mount Lebanon Table [Update: Sold! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Karen in Massachusetts!]
Walnut Mid Century Modern Table [Update: Sold! Merry Christmas to old friend Paul K!]

Desperate Endstage Monomaniac Spanish Shaker Goodness

April 22, 2014 16 Comments

Well, now. Dude’s hardcore.

I make furniture, of course, but I never have any sort of competitive feeling when I watch videos by other makers. I either find them interesting or infuriating, but the only way to infuriate me is to do worse work than mine, not better, and so waste my time. I can make furniture faster than anyone that can make it better, and I can make it better than anyone that can make it faster. Those are the damp, moldy laurels I rest on.

This video is plenty fascinating to me though. Guy’s working in Spain, I guess, since the video and website is in Spanish, but if my Spanish still works, he’s either from Austria, Holland, South African or Nigeria, or all of them. He’s making a very American, Shaker design, usually referred to as a “harvest table.” It’s cherry. I understand everything he’s doing, and I could be a docent for the whole thing, but that would ruin the aspect of this video that struck me as borderline sublime. No one talks. There’s no goddamn music. The light in that room is remarkable. I have seen a kajillion videos of people making things at this point, and this one has to be the ne plus ultra. No one else has the nerve to shut the hell up and make something with a camera pointed at them.

Un Trabajo Feliz, indeed. 

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