She was a rescued Boston Terrier, who in a former life had been squeezing out puppies in a shady breeding operation. We tried our best to rehabilitate her and gave her a pretty good life on the farm for the past 4 years. She had been dealing with cancer for a year or so, and finally found ultimate rest. She will be sorely missed.
In happier news, this weekend we are off to the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival where I hope to meet up with Jim Tolpin and Tim Lawson of the Port Townsend School of Woodworking. When I return, I'll update with workbench progress. The base is almost complete, and I am just waiting for the vise hardware to show up. I've been learning a lot about creating dowels for drawboring. You probably already knew this, but do not bother trying to use mass-produced oak dowels. They explode more than 75% of the time. My riven (rived?) oak, cherry, and other dowels have closer to a 80% success rate.
More soon!
thanks for the wonderful but sad story and the amazing pictures. Have fun at the festival. I went last year and had great fun.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, the Mr. Lawson isn't using that goofy picture of my holding a hand plane again in their booth.
Hope you have fun!
so sorry for your loss rob. dogspeed to the noisy sleepy poppynandi. i send you all much, much love and compassion.
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