Message from @Deleted User

Discord ID: 345345047111139328


2017-08-10 00:02:45 UTC  

@Deleted User I dig that look, but can I ask why everything is so square?

2017-08-10 00:07:53 UTC  

@RevStench what are those serrations on the side of that chisel what are those for

2017-08-10 00:53:17 UTC  

@Deleted User it's for cutting, like a knife. I cut a few cut nails with it today. Worked great. Holds an edge pretty well.

2017-08-10 01:03:11 UTC  

Damn. Mean chisel! Lowe's Kobalt tools are pretty good I've got a few of them

2017-08-10 01:32:47 UTC  

Yeah the few I have hold up pretty well. I can't recommend their lineman pliers, stick with Kline, which I'm sure you know better than I do.

2017-08-10 01:41:41 UTC  

Yeah blown up quite a few pairs

2017-08-10 02:07:58 UTC  

@RevStench#3208 nice trim! Square - basically what my wife wanted when she found all those doors.

2017-08-10 02:12:10 UTC  

That square hardware is Emtek, pretty good stuff we spent a mint on

2017-08-10 10:26:22 UTC  

@CJames - TN#6244 oh right on. Now you need one of these.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/322712446747934721/345150880280215554/20170216_131610.jpg

2017-08-10 13:35:38 UTC  

Haha

2017-08-10 14:20:35 UTC  

Hahaha that's awesome

2017-08-10 16:08:01 UTC  

This guy tells me he does stained glass, shows me this...

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/322712446747934721/345236858814464002/20170718_114848.jpg

2017-08-10 16:10:10 UTC  

Little bullshit window decoration. He did sell it to this lady for $375.

2017-08-10 16:10:33 UTC  

So I showed him my leaded glass,

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/322712446747934721/345237497724403714/20170808_133640.jpg

2017-08-10 16:11:38 UTC  

The bottom sash on the double hung was broken out, and I matched the rest damn near perfectly.

2017-08-10 16:12:30 UTC  

I could do a video tutorial one day to show you guys some old school techniques.

2017-08-10 16:13:44 UTC  

It was incredibly hard to find glass.

2017-08-10 16:16:54 UTC  

Working on making 270 feet of dentil block today.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/322712446747934721/345239092864352258/20170809_151342.jpg

2017-08-10 19:09:17 UTC  

@RevStench#3208 that is beautiful work brother

2017-08-10 21:00:29 UTC  

@Deleted User thanks bro, I've only been doing stained glass for about 2 and a half years. It took me the better part of a year to get good at it. But one day it clicked, after probably a thousand hours haha, and I fight for every window job I can get now.
The real hard part is finding glass or finding someone talented enough to make the colored glass. Cutting glass is the easiest part. I wish I had the time and space to teach myself how blow glass.

2017-08-10 23:17:55 UTC  

Very nice

2017-08-11 03:54:48 UTC  

need some advice. I have a poured concrete porch and steps. I want to add wooden railing. Would I be better served to set my 4x4 in quickcrete or side mount them with concrete anchors and burying the bottom of the posts.

2017-08-11 04:01:55 UTC  

You don't want to bury wood in the ground, it sucks up water and rots. Bury them in concrete.

2017-08-12 01:05:19 UTC  

Yep or you can use galvanized base plates with wedge anchors if the posts can sit on the concrete

2017-08-12 02:37:12 UTC  

I'll be honest I'm struggling to design the porch. It's an awkward split level. If I just put up railing it's going to look hokey. I also need to incorporate a flower bed or retaining wall on both sides. They left us with a slope of large gravel.

2017-08-12 02:55:27 UTC  

Do you have roughly a 6'x6' porch, with about 4 or 5 steps?
And that slope is just off one edge of your home and you need to tie all together? Is the other side just grass all the way to the house?
I'm trying to visualize what the front of your home looks like. The land lay out.

2017-08-12 03:04:31 UTC  

I don't have a newer pic but there are not more shrubs. From the drive way there are 3 steps to the first 3x3 landing then turns to house 3 more steps to a 6x6 slab. On the left going up there is a 2 tier flower bed. To the right is the gravel slope.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/322712446747934721/345764461237501952/Screenshot_20170811-215609.jpg

2017-08-12 03:07:14 UTC  

You can't tell from the pic but the slope on the right erodes onto the steps. I've planted monkey grass which helps

2017-08-12 03:20:31 UTC  

Oh ok, you should look into iron hand rails, there's a lot of styles and you can even get custom made ones if you're feeling fancy. But iron will blend in more because they are skinny.
It's weird there's a gravel slope on the right.
If you made the hand rails out of wood I get what you mean it would look hokey. I'll have to think about that. I don't build a lot of things like this regularly so I need to brainstorm.

2017-08-12 11:48:30 UTC  

I agree with the fabricated iron. And my earlier comment about base plates only really works if the posts are used in framing something up. Doesn't work so well just for handrails

2017-08-14 21:34:44 UTC  

@Placidseven - MO bro I haven't forgotten about you, I've been talking with some others guys who build decks for a living, trying to get you some sort of classy game plan.

2017-08-14 21:37:06 UTC  

The flower beds on the left, are they like wooden retaining wall. Railroad ties?

2017-08-14 21:37:46 UTC  

Sorry I use the word like a lot, I'm a valley girl!! Haha

2017-08-14 22:26:25 UTC  

Please excuse my nigger teir landscaping

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/322712446747934721/346781637939298305/20170814_172515.jpg

2017-08-14 22:28:25 UTC  

Lol

2017-08-14 22:28:26 UTC  

So I was thinking of doing something similar on the other side but redoing the existing flower beds with 2×8 and 4x4 cedar

2017-08-14 22:30:08 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/322712446747934721/346782574989017088/Screenshot_20170814-172953.jpg

2017-08-14 22:30:14 UTC  

Like so

2017-08-14 22:30:17 UTC  

You forgot the pyramids, bruh. To be nigger tier you have to have pyramids. They wuz kangz

2017-08-14 22:31:08 UTC  

Epic fail at cultural appropriation

2017-08-14 22:34:51 UTC  

Lol. Couldn't resist the temptation on that one.