That transcend windows look fantastic

Perfect mitered corners on that glazing.

I'm starting to get a Rush Limbaugh ego 😂

Hysterical society...haha

They torment these people who own historic homes. The homes cost a fortune to keep up as they are. The historic society has people who patrol neighborhoods and give fines to people who change the look of the home. If they find out you remodeled the inside, they make you change it back. If there are old pictures of the home it has to stay that way. You can't change the colors, nothing. If there is one hand rail and you want two, but there's a picture of only one, that's all you get. Assholes

Hahaha

Baltimore has some areas like that

I appreciate what they do but they get a little silly with some policing.

Hysterical Societies sort of black pill me. It just makes me feel like we're in decline. A civilization on the rise doesn't have time for that sort of stuff.

Good point

Got a paint tip. If you have some paint sitting around and it's gotten really thick and you're getting brush marks that won't go away. You can revive it with Penetrol for oil based and Floetrol for latex. Add a little at a time until the paint flows evenly, when you apply the paint the brush marks should go away after 3 or 4 minutes. Don't add to much.

👍🏻good to know

I actually really like painting. Just don’t like set up and tear down

@Deleted User here's the windows after I used penetrol in the year old paint

That paint is dry. You can see my paint brush in the first picture

So here's a sweet old tool no one uses anymore. A gimlet. Used to make a threaded hole to help start screws.

@RevStench yeah man those are beautiful! That’s a lot of skilled work. Shit I need a gimbal- I usually just a drill bit to start screw holes

Dude the gimlet is a game changer.

Usually I'm doing everything one handed and this just made getting a screw started so easy, no fighting the screw to stay on the bit when I'm trying to screw it in.

@Deleted User hey sorry, it's called a gimlet.

Yeah those are really great

@RevStench cant tell how many metal shards I’ve had from holding shitty screws to get the started

For sure, I use a lot of 3/4in number 1 or 0 screws, square head. They dance around so much and I fight them every single time. But not anymore with a gimlet.

Favorite carpentry channels on YT? https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulSellersWoodwork/playlists

Paul Sellers uses _all_ hand tools. It's very comfy

Here's something cool. This window's bottom sash is bigger than the top, and to get proper ventilation you have to get the top sash out of the way, the top sash disappears into the wall. This one goes up, some drop down into the wall. It's hard to see.

Old levels

Early 1900s plane I use

The Ecuadorians apparently use a clear hose filled with water

Works no matter how far apart the two ends of the hose are.

Oh neat. I guess they can't figure it out how to square a block 😆
I guess you could use a lot of different things.

@Deleted User I was trying to figure out how you would plane a piece of wood with a hose

I get it, a level

Well I think they use it for cutting their structural timbers, 4x4s, etc

The new baby is pushing me out of my office, so I was thinking about building a new one using the shell of a car port the old owner used for his RV. What’s a good resource (books, etc) that I could use, for a beginner? Also, does this seem like a doable project?