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What to do when beavers threaten your conservation efforts?
Western North Carolina’s Kanuga Conference Center is home to a Southern Appalachian Mountain bog - one of North America’s rarest habitats. Bogs often home to rare plants and animals, provide important habitat for migratory birds and game species, improve water quality by filtering sediment and contaminants, and store floodwaters which helps decrease downstream flooding. They’re places we very much want to conserve.
Kanuga’s bog has seen the recent arrival of beavers. On one hand, they’re cutting down shrubs, which is a positive step as it allows more sunlight to fall on the plants managers want to thrive. On the other hand, their dams are making water levels so high they’re turning the bogs into ponds – eliminating habitat for the plants and animals that need the bog to live.
A solution? Install pond levelers –pipes through the beaver dams that help drain the pooled water down to a desired level and minimize the ability of beavers to detect stream flow – tricking them into thinking their dams are intact.
Recently staff from Kanuga Conferences, Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy the N.C. Natural Heritage Program, The Nature Conservancy, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service joined a team of Haywood Community College students to install two pond levelers at the Kanuga Bog.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Laser land leveling at IRRI
Part of the image collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
What to do when beavers threaten your conservation efforts?
Western North Carolina’s Kanuga Conference Center is home to a Southern Appalachian Mountain bog - one of North America’s rarest habitats. Bogs often home to rare plants and animals, provide important habitat for migratory birds and game species, improve water quality by filtering sediment and contaminants, and store floodwaters which helps decrease downstream flooding. They’re places we very much want to conserve.
Kanuga’s bog has seen the recent arrival of beavers. On one hand, they’re cutting down shrubs, which is a positive step as it allows more sunlight to fall on the plants managers want to thrive. On the other hand, their dams are making water levels so high they’re turning the bogs into ponds – eliminating habitat for the plants and animals that need the bog to live.
A solution? Install pond levelers –pipes through the beaver dams that help drain the pooled water down to a desired level and minimize the ability of beavers to detect stream flow – tricking them into thinking their dams are intact.
Recently staff from Kanuga Conferences, Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy the N.C. Natural Heritage Program, The Nature Conservancy, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service joined a team of Haywood Community College students to install two pond levelers at the Kanuga Bog.
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Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
A member of the species known as the Nameless, these creatures appear in the High Republic era of Star Wars. I have been wanting to make one for a while, and I’m happy with how it turned out!
Some cheap photography equipment I ordered from Dealextreme finally arrived.
80cm (31") Shoot through umbrella: ~5€ (7.94$)
Big 15cm (6") air blower: ~2€ (3.51$)
Nikon lens and body cap: ~1.6€ (2.56$)
Fluid based leveler to help with panorama photography: 3.5€ (5.39$)
Shipping costs: Zip, zero, nada! (Free shipping worldwide, wonderful!)
The build quality in all of the products is actually quite good even they were so cheap.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
L'Anima - a gourmet Italian restaurant in the City of London, near Finnsbury Square and Liverpool Street.
Its passionate Chef Francesco is half-Calabrian and half Sicilian who keeps a tight grip on the proceedings of his kitchen ran by 40 staff - all Italians, except for a delightful German lady whose presence adds Anglo-Saxon elegance to an otherwise very Mediterranean environment: don't get me wrong L'Anima is no run-of-the-mill trattoria decorated with lamps made of Chianti bottles.
The interior decoration is restrained and minimalist that exudes refinement without ostentation.
Its kitchen, by far larger than the space of the bar and restaurant is a model of well-equipped modernity with no money spared for the best utensils: they bake their own bread on the premises.
And the food? What kind of food is it?
Francesco is uncompromising about his traditional family cuisine, taught by his 'mamma' and his nonna: he called it "traditional Italian family cuisine with a twist!" - that is HIS version of Southern Italy - Calabrese, Puglian, Sicilian with occasional concessions to Tuscany, Veneto or Roman...
The monthly Saturday cookery course is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on cooking, degustation, competition with the prize of a (black) truffle the size of a chicken egg and a three course meal for twenty with white wine from Aosta red wine from the the volcanic slopes of the Etna and a red desert wine.
Ah I forgot the "Italian breakfast" of coffee, bread, butter and four jams. Said an American lady registered for the course; "Francesco next time you do not give us this bullshit you give us instead coffee with a shot of grappa, like the Italian working classes have for breakfast".
Well, grappa is a great leveler, so we drank to that at the end of the lunch.
Francesco-s personality is larger than life: his staff are grateful and are kept on the straight and narrow; i asked him if he shouted in the kitchen he gave an unapologetic "yes". But do you swear? i asked looking at his staff whose faces were sheepish - a mixture of a smirk with an embarrasment - well this WAS my answer - I can't remember what he said...
Francesco's cuisine is prodigal: does he look forward to having a star in the Michelin? He denies it. He says that he is true to himself, regardless. He has somewhere posted a list of the 100 best restaurants in Britain: at the top of the list there is this rural eatery on the Thames Valley, somewhere, which was shut for several weeks by the food inspectors for having poisoned its hosts. L'Anima was amongst the top 20 on this list, more precisely at number 17. Maybe it should start poisoning its clients to gain the first place: "i do not make concession to my clients. Once one gets famous one could do what one likes.". Francesco is a likeable and diplomatic presence, but as most talented people go, he must be difficult to work for. But his staff is glad to work for l"Anima which they helped up the slippery ladder of the gourmet restaurants in London.
Thank you Francesco!
Thank you too to the friendly presence of Francesco's American financial backers and great gourmet connoisseurs who added colour, spontaneity and warmth to our course. (not forgetting the young and distinguished Oxonian-Finno_Brits who stimulated the conversation).
I made this table today so i could have a cool desk to go with my new mac...made from 100% found objects..fan blade..half stainless ball..ceramic insulator..gears and all hardware came from the scrap yard, and i even found the glass top in the trash on the side of the road..just needs blade end glass levelers.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Finally got around to making a adjustable leveler for the iEQ45 2" tripod. This would also fit any tripod with a 8mm x 1.25mm threaded hole.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
L'Anima - a gourmet Italian restaurant in the City of London, near Finnsbury Square and Liverpool Street.
Its passionate Chef Francesco is half-Calabrian and half Sicilian who keeps a tight grip on the proceedings of his kitchen ran by 40 staff - all Italians, except for a delightful German lady whose presence adds Anglo-Saxon elegance to an otherwise very Mediterranean environment: don't get me wrong L'Anima is no run-of-the-mill trattoria decorated with lamps made of Chianti bottles.
The interior decoration is restrained and minimalist that exudes refinement without ostentation.
Its kitchen, by far larger than the space of the bar and restaurant is a model of well-equipped modernity with no money spared for the best utensils: they bake their own bread on the premises.
And the food? What kind of food is it?
Francesco is uncompromising about his traditional family cuisine, taught by his 'mamma' and his nonna: he called it "traditional Italian family cuisine with a twist!" - that is HIS version of Southern Italy - Calabrese, Puglian, Sicilian with occasional concessions to Tuscany, Veneto or Roman...
The monthly Saturday cookery course is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on cooking, degustation, competition with the prize of a (black) truffle the size of a chicken egg and a three course meal for twenty with white wine from Aosta red wine from the the volcanic slopes of the Etna and a red desert wine.
Ah I forgot the "Italian breakfast" of coffee, bread, butter and four jams. Said an American lady registered for the course; "Francesco next time you do not give us this bullshit you give us instead coffee with a shot of grappa, like the Italian working classes have for breakfast".
Well, grappa is a great leveler, so we drank to that at the end of the lunch.
Francesco-s personality is larger than life: his staff are grateful and are kept on the straight and narrow; i asked him if he shouted in the kitchen he gave an unapologetic "yes". But do you swear? i asked looking at his staff whose faces were sheepish - a mixture of a smirk with an embarrasment - well this WAS my answer - I can't remember what he said...
Francesco's cuisine is prodigal: does he look forward to having a star in the Michelin? He denies it. He says that he is true to himself, regardless. He has somewhere posted a list of the 100 best restaurants in Britain: at the top of the list there is this rural eatery on the Thames Valley, somewhere, which was shut for several weeks by the food inspectors for having poisoned its hosts. L'Anima was amongst the top 20 on this list, more precisely at number 17. Maybe it should start poisoning its clients to gain the first place: "i do not make concession to my clients. Once one gets famous one could do what one likes.". Francesco is a likeable and diplomatic presence, but as most talented people go, he must be difficult to work for. But his staff is glad to work for l"Anima which they helped up the slippery ladder of the gourmet restaurants in London.
Thank you Francesco!
Thank you too to the friendly presence of Francesco's American financial backers and great gourmet connoisseurs who added colour, spontaneity and warmth to our course. (not forgetting the young and distinguished Oxonian-Finno_Brits who stimulated the conversation).
L'Anima - a gourmet Italian restaurant in the City of London, near Finnsbury Square and Liverpool Street.
Its passionate Chef Francesco is half-Calabrian and half Sicilian who keeps a tight grip on the proceedings of his kitchen ran by 40 staff - all Italians, except for a delightful German lady whose presence adds Anglo-Saxon elegance to an otherwise very Mediterranean environment: don't get me wrong L'Anima is no run-of-the-mill trattoria decorated with lamps made of Chianti bottles.
The interior decoration is restrained and minimalist that exudes refinement without ostentation.
Its kitchen, by far larger than the space of the bar and restaurant is a model of well-equipped modernity with no money spared for the best utensils: they bake their own bread on the premises.
And the food? What kind of food is it?
Francesco is uncompromising about his traditional family cuisine, taught by his 'mamma' and his nonna: he called it "traditional Italian family cuisine with a twist!" - that is HIS version of Southern Italy - Calabrese, Puglian, Sicilian with occasional concessions to Tuscany, Veneto or Roman...
The monthly Saturday cookery course is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on cooking, degustation, competition with the prize of a (black) truffle the size of a chicken egg and a three course meal for twenty with white wine from Aosta red wine from the the volcanic slopes of the Etna and a red desert wine.
Ah I forgot the "Italian breakfast" of coffee, bread, butter and four jams. Said an American lady registered for the course; "Francesco next time you do not give us this bullshit you give us instead coffee with a shot of grappa, like the Italian working classes have for breakfast".
Well, grappa is a great leveler, so we drank to that at the end of the lunch.
Francesco-s personality is larger than life: his staff are grateful and are kept on the straight and narrow; i asked him if he shouted in the kitchen he gave an unapologetic "yes". But do you swear? i asked looking at his staff whose faces were sheepish - a mixture of a smirk with an embarrasment - well this WAS my answer - I can't remember what he said...
Francesco's cuisine is prodigal: does he look forward to having a star in the Michelin? He denies it. He says that he is true to himself, regardless. He has somewhere posted a list of the 100 best restaurants in Britain: at the top of the list there is this rural eatery on the Thames Valley, somewhere, which was shut for several weeks by the food inspectors for having poisoned its hosts. L'Anima was amongst the top 20 on this list, more precisely at number 17. Maybe it should start poisoning its clients to gain the first place: "i do not make concession to my clients. Once one gets famous one could do what one likes.". Francesco is a likeable and diplomatic presence, but as most talented people go, he must be difficult to work for. But his staff is glad to work for l"Anima which they helped up the slippery ladder of the gourmet restaurants in London.
Thank you Francesco!
Thank you too to the friendly presence of Francesco's American financial backers and great gourmet connoisseurs who added colour, spontaneity and warmth to our course. (not forgetting the young and distinguished Oxonian-Finno_Brits who stimulated the conversation).
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
L'Anima - a gourmet Italian restaurant in the City of London, near Finnsbury Square and Liverpool Street.
Its passionate Chef Francesco is half-Calabrian and half Sicilian who keeps a tight grip on the proceedings of his kitchen ran by 40 staff - all Italians, except for a delightful German lady whose presence adds Anglo-Saxon elegance to an otherwise very Mediterranean environment: don't get me wrong L'Anima is no run-of-the-mill trattoria decorated with lamps made of Chianti bottles.
The interior decoration is restrained and minimalist that exudes refinement without ostentation.
Its kitchen, by far larger than the space of the bar and restaurant is a model of well-equipped modernity with no money spared for the best utensils: they bake their own bread on the premises.
And the food? What kind of food is it?
Francesco is uncompromising about his traditional family cuisine, taught by his 'mamma' and his nonna: he called it "traditional Italian family cuisine with a twist!" - that is HIS version of Southern Italy - Calabrese, Puglian, Sicilian with occasional concessions to Tuscany, Veneto or Roman...
The monthly Saturday cookery course is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on cooking, degustation, competition with the prize of a (black) truffle the size of a chicken egg and a three course meal for twenty with white wine from Aosta red wine from the the volcanic slopes of the Etna and a red desert wine.
Ah I forgot the "Italian breakfast" of coffee, bread, butter and four jams. Said an American lady registered for the course; "Francesco next time you do not give us this bullshit you give us instead coffee with a shot of grappa, like the Italian working classes have for breakfast".
Well, grappa is a great leveler, so we drank to that at the end of the lunch.
Francesco-s personality is larger than life: his staff are grateful and are kept on the straight and narrow; i asked him if he shouted in the kitchen he gave an unapologetic "yes". But do you swear? i asked looking at his staff whose faces were sheepish - a mixture of a smirk with an embarrasment - well this WAS my answer - I can't remember what he said...
Francesco's cuisine is prodigal: does he look forward to having a star in the Michelin? He denies it. He says that he is true to himself, regardless. He has somewhere posted a list of the 100 best restaurants in Britain: at the top of the list there is this rural eatery on the Thames Valley, somewhere, which was shut for several weeks by the food inspectors for having poisoned its hosts. L'Anima was amongst the top 20 on this list, more precisely at number 17. Maybe it should start poisoning its clients to gain the first place: "i do not make concession to my clients. Once one gets famous one could do what one likes.". Francesco is a likeable and diplomatic presence, but as most talented people go, he must be difficult to work for. But his staff is glad to work for l"Anima which they helped up the slippery ladder of the gourmet restaurants in London.
Thank you Francesco!
Thank you too to the friendly presence of Francesco's American financial backers and great gourmet connoisseurs who added colour, spontaneity and warmth to our course. (not forgetting the young and distinguished Oxonian-Finno_Brits who stimulated the conversation).
L'Anima - a gourmet Italian restaurant in the City of London, near Finnsbury Square and Liverpool Street.
Its passionate Chef Francesco is half-Calabrian and half Sicilian who keeps a tight grip on the proceedings of his kitchen ran by 40 staff - all Italians, except for a delightful German lady whose presence adds Anglo-Saxon elegance to an otherwise very Mediterranean environment: don't get me wrong L'Anima is no run-of-the-mill trattoria decorated with lamps made of Chianti bottles.
The interior decoration is restrained and minimalist that exudes refinement without ostentation.
Its kitchen, by far larger than the space of the bar and restaurant is a model of well-equipped modernity with no money spared for the best utensils: they bake their own bread on the premises.
And the food? What kind of food is it?
Francesco is uncompromising about his traditional family cuisine, taught by his 'mamma' and his nonna: he called it "traditional Italian family cuisine with a twist!" - that is HIS version of Southern Italy - Calabrese, Puglian, Sicilian with occasional concessions to Tuscany, Veneto or Roman...
The monthly Saturday cookery course is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on cooking, degustation, competition with the prize of a (black) truffle the size of a chicken egg and a three course meal for twenty with white wine from Aosta red wine from the the volcanic slopes of the Etna and a red desert wine.
Ah I forgot the "Italian breakfast" of coffee, bread, butter and four jams. Said an American lady registered for the course; "Francesco next time you do not give us this bullshit you give us instead coffee with a shot of grappa, like the Italian working classes have for breakfast".
Well, grappa is a great leveler, so we drank to that at the end of the lunch.
Francesco-s personality is larger than life: his staff are grateful and are kept on the straight and narrow; i asked him if he shouted in the kitchen he gave an unapologetic "yes". But do you swear? i asked looking at his staff whose faces were sheepish - a mixture of a smirk with an embarrasment - well this WAS my answer - I can't remember what he said...
Francesco's cuisine is prodigal: does he look forward to having a star in the Michelin? He denies it. He says that he is true to himself, regardless. He has somewhere posted a list of the 100 best restaurants in Britain: at the top of the list there is this rural eatery on the Thames Valley, somewhere, which was shut for several weeks by the food inspectors for having poisoned its hosts. L'Anima was amongst the top 20 on this list, more precisely at number 17. Maybe it should start poisoning its clients to gain the first place: "i do not make concession to my clients. Once one gets famous one could do what one likes.". Francesco is a likeable and diplomatic presence, but as most talented people go, he must be difficult to work for. But his staff is glad to work for l"Anima which they helped up the slippery ladder of the gourmet restaurants in London.
Thank you Francesco!
Thank you too to the friendly presence of Francesco's American financial backers and great gourmet connoisseurs who added colour, spontaneity and warmth to our course. (not forgetting the young and distinguished Oxonian-Finno_Brits who stimulated the conversation).
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
L'Anima - a gourmet Italian restaurant in the City of London, near Finnsbury Square and Liverpool Street.
Its passionate Chef Francesco is half-Calabrian and half Sicilian who keeps a tight grip on the proceedings of his kitchen ran by 40 staff - all Italians, except for a delightful German lady whose presence adds Anglo-Saxon elegance to an otherwise very Mediterranean environment: don't get me wrong L'Anima is no run-of-the-mill trattoria decorated with lamps made of Chianti bottles.
The interior decoration is restrained and minimalist that exudes refinement without ostentation.
Its kitchen, by far larger than the space of the bar and restaurant is a model of well-equipped modernity with no money spared for the best utensils: they bake their own bread on the premises.
And the food? What kind of food is it?
Francesco is uncompromising about his traditional family cuisine, taught by his 'mamma' and his nonna: he called it "traditional Italian family cuisine with a twist!" - that is HIS version of Southern Italy - Calabrese, Puglian, Sicilian with occasional concessions to Tuscany, Veneto or Roman...
The monthly Saturday cookery course is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on cooking, degustation, competition with the prize of a (black) truffle the size of a chicken egg and a three course meal for twenty with white wine from Aosta red wine from the the volcanic slopes of the Etna and a red desert wine.
Ah I forgot the "Italian breakfast" of coffee, bread, butter and four jams. Said an American lady registered for the course; "Francesco next time you do not give us this bullshit you give us instead coffee with a shot of grappa, like the Italian working classes have for breakfast".
Well, grappa is a great leveler, so we drank to that at the end of the lunch.
Francesco-s personality is larger than life: his staff are grateful and are kept on the straight and narrow; i asked him if he shouted in the kitchen he gave an unapologetic "yes". But do you swear? i asked looking at his staff whose faces were sheepish - a mixture of a smirk with an embarrasment - well this WAS my answer - I can't remember what he said...
Francesco's cuisine is prodigal: does he look forward to having a star in the Michelin? He denies it. He says that he is true to himself, regardless. He has somewhere posted a list of the 100 best restaurants in Britain: at the top of the list there is this rural eatery on the Thames Valley, somewhere, which was shut for several weeks by the food inspectors for having poisoned its hosts. L'Anima was amongst the top 20 on this list, more precisely at number 17. Maybe it should start poisoning its clients to gain the first place: "i do not make concession to my clients. Once one gets famous one could do what one likes.". Francesco is a likeable and diplomatic presence, but as most talented people go, he must be difficult to work for. But his staff is glad to work for l"Anima which they helped up the slippery ladder of the gourmet restaurants in London.
Thank you Francesco!
Thank you too to the friendly presence of Francesco's American financial backers and great gourmet connoisseurs who added colour, spontaneity and warmth to our course. (not forgetting the young and distinguished Oxonian-Finno_Brits who stimulated the conversation).
kitchen Island/table. Built primarily with old growth hemlock barn siding and beams from western NY. The undercarriage was also built with Douglas Fir bleacher boards from LeMoyne College's gymnasium and yellow pine door casings salvaged ffrom a Buffalo area house. Even the figure 8s holding the top down are salvaged from an old table. The top is held together like a barn door with fasteners only.... the screws and leveler feet (and a tad bit of glue for the corners) and varnish are the only new materials. light sandings and varnish with tedious attention to detail, as barn wood is snaggy, and it is a usable and washable but rustic piece.
Press blanking line for steel up to 3,2 mm in thickness, 1850 mm in width, 630 ton link drive press, blanks up to 4000 mm in length, speed of 90 m/min and electromagnetic stacker. Leveller with automatic change of cartridge and swinging die.
LÃnea de corte con prensa para acero de hasta 3,2 mm de espesor, ancho de 1850 mm, prensa link drive de 630 ton, formato de 4000 mm de largo, 90 m/min de velocidad y apilador electromagnético. Aplanadora con cambio de casette y troquel oscilante.
L'Anima - a gourmet Italian restaurant in the City of London, near Finnsbury Square and Liverpool Street.
Its passionate Chef Francesco is half-Calabrian and half Sicilian who keeps a tight grip on the proceedings of his kitchen ran by 40 staff - all Italians, except for a delightful German lady whose presence adds Anglo-Saxon elegance to an otherwise very Mediterranean environment: don't get me wrong L'Anima is no run-of-the-mill trattoria decorated with lamps made of Chianti bottles.
The interior decoration is restrained and minimalist that exudes refinement without ostentation.
Its kitchen, by far larger than the space of the bar and restaurant is a model of well-equipped modernity with no money spared for the best utensils: they bake their own bread on the premises.
And the food? What kind of food is it?
Francesco is uncompromising about his traditional family cuisine, taught by his 'mamma' and his nonna: he called it "traditional Italian family cuisine with a twist!" - that is HIS version of Southern Italy - Calabrese, Puglian, Sicilian with occasional concessions to Tuscany, Veneto or Roman...
The monthly Saturday cookery course is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on cooking, degustation, competition with the prize of a (black) truffle the size of a chicken egg and a three course meal for twenty with white wine from Aosta red wine from the the volcanic slopes of the Etna and a red desert wine.
Ah I forgot the "Italian breakfast" of coffee, bread, butter and four jams. Said an American lady registered for the course; "Francesco next time you do not give us this bullshit you give us instead coffee with a shot of grappa, like the Italian working classes have for breakfast".
Well, grappa is a great leveler, so we drank to that at the end of the lunch.
Francesco-s personality is larger than life: his staff are grateful and are kept on the straight and narrow; i asked him if he shouted in the kitchen he gave an unapologetic "yes". But do you swear? i asked looking at his staff whose faces were sheepish - a mixture of a smirk with an embarrasment - well this WAS my answer - I can't remember what he said...
Francesco's cuisine is prodigal: does he look forward to having a star in the Michelin? He denies it. He says that he is true to himself, regardless. He has somewhere posted a list of the 100 best restaurants in Britain: at the top of the list there is this rural eatery on the Thames Valley, somewhere, which was shut for several weeks by the food inspectors for having poisoned its hosts. L'Anima was amongst the top 20 on this list, more precisely at number 17. Maybe it should start poisoning its clients to gain the first place: "i do not make concession to my clients. Once one gets famous one could do what one likes.". Francesco is a likeable and diplomatic presence, but as most talented people go, he must be difficult to work for. But his staff is glad to work for l"Anima which they helped up the slippery ladder of the gourmet restaurants in London.
Thank you Francesco!
Thank you too to the friendly presence of Francesco's American financial backers and great gourmet connoisseurs who added colour, spontaneity and warmth to our course. (not forgetting the young and distinguished Oxonian-Finno_Britswho stimulated the conversation).
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
L'Anima - a gourmet Italian restaurant in the City of London, near Finnsbury Square and Liverpool Street.
Its passionate Chef Francesco is half-Calabrian and half Sicilian who keeps a tight grip on the proceedings of his kitchen ran by 40 staff - all Italians, except for a delightful German lady whose presence adds Anglo-Saxon elegance to an otherwise very Mediterranean environment: don't get me wrong L'Anima is no run-of-the-mill trattoria decorated with lamps made of Chianti bottles.
The interior decoration is restrained and minimalist that exudes refinement without ostentation.
Its kitchen, by far larger than the space of the bar and restaurant is a model of well-equipped modernity with no money spared for the best utensils: they bake their own bread on the premises.
And the food? What kind of food is it?
Francesco is uncompromising about his traditional family cuisine, taught by his 'mamma' and his nonna: he called it "traditional Italian family cuisine with a twist!" - that is HIS version of Southern Italy - Calabrese, Puglian, Sicilian with occasional concessions to Tuscany, Veneto or Roman...
The monthly Saturday cookery course is a mixture of demonstration, hands-on cooking, degustation, competition with the prize of a (black) truffle the size of a chicken egg and a three course meal for twenty with white wine from Aosta red wine from the the volcanic slopes of the Etna and a red desert wine.
Ah I forgot the "Italian breakfast" of coffee, bread, butter and four jams. Said an American lady registered for the course; "Francesco next time you do not give us this bullshit you give us instead coffee with a shot of grappa, like the Italian working classes have for breakfast".
Well, grappa is a great leveler, so we drank to that at the end of the lunch.
Francesco-s personality is larger than life: his staff are grateful and are kept on the straight and narrow; i asked him if he shouted in the kitchen he gave an unapologetic "yes". But do you swear? i asked looking at his staff whose faces were sheepish - a mixture of a smirk with an embarrasment - well this WAS my answer - I can't remember what he said...
Francesco's cuisine is prodigal: does he look forward to having a star in the Michelin? He denies it. He says that he is true to himself, regardless. He has somewhere posted a list of the 100 best restaurants in Britain: at the top of the list there is this rural eatery on the Thames Valley, somewhere, which was shut for several weeks by the food inspectors for having poisoned its hosts. L'Anima was amongst the top 20 on this list, more precisely at number 17. Maybe it should start poisoning its clients to gain the first place: "i do not make concession to my clients. Once one gets famous one could do what one likes.". Francesco is a likeable and diplomatic presence, but as most talented people go, he must be difficult to work for. But his staff is glad to work for l"Anima which they helped up the slippery ladder of the gourmet restaurants in London.
Thank you Francesco!
Thank you too to the friendly presence of Francesco's American financial backers and great gourmet connoisseurs who added colour, spontaneity and warmth to our course. (not forgetting the young and distinguished Oxonian-Finno_Brits who stimulated the conversation).
Some of my modern cameras have built-in electronic spirit levelers. Some have LCD grid lines. Some of my older cameras have view screens with grid lines. For my cameras that have no built-in leveling features, I use a shoe-mounted spirit leveler.
To make sure that all my levelers are in agreement, I periodically take my equipment to the edge of a large body of water (such as Lake Michigan) and use the sky/water horizon to test them.
The Fuji X-Pro1 digital cameras shown is this image only has a horizontal electronic leveler. One of my other digital cameras (Canon G15 compact) not only has a horizontal electronic leveler but also has a vertical electronic leveler.
I tend to use levelers when shooting architectural and landscape subjects and when shooting tripod mounted video productions.
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Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Help support Breast Cancer research and own a piece of racing history with a workbench from Gladiator GarageWorks.
Signed by all 33 drivers from the 2009 Indianapolis 500, the 6-foot wide workbench features a solid maple top and room below to dock up to two Gladiator cabinets underneath. Race fans and car collectors alike will appreciate the heavy-duty steel frame that supports the 1 3/4" thick top and features leveler legs to accommodate uneven floors.
The signatures, placed in order of their qualifying positions, have been protected with a layer of polyurethane so you can enjoy the workbench as a keepsake or put it to work in the garage as a real workbench. Proceeds benefit CureBreastCancer.org.
The auction will take place on Bidaroo.com from August 21 – September 20, 2009.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.
Made of 2 old doors from the storage rooms of an old apartment complex that is being renovated. The wood is knotty grade white pine.... wood used for purely utilitarian uses...like basement locker doors. They date to about 1890-1900. and have lots of character including pencil marks from the builders, probably old German immigrants. The glass is a desk top from a desk that no longer exists but somehow we acquired it. The bracing pieces are from a 2x6 hemlock joist from a carriage house that was demolished a few months back. Its wood is a little newer, probably 19-teens.
For this piece I wanted to clearly demonstrate the material's provenance from old buildings, and incorporate some of the architectural elements such as the tongue and groove panels, the bent-over nails and the simple "Z" shaped bracing.
The "front" side of the door can make a nice table top but I wanted to show off the "Z" side. In the store we had a piece of desktop glass. I trimmed the door to slightly less than the glass dimensions, and finished the top with water-based, satin polyurethane.
A second door was used to make the legs. That door was cut in half and the first and last boards removed. The edges of the removed boards were ripped flat (no tongue or groove) and butted at 90 degrees to the edge of the remaining door panel and glued and screwed together with trim screws. The whole thing was braced internally with some scraps of poplar I had in the shop. The ends (top and bottom) were cut at 10 degrees with a circular saw and leveler feet were added to the bottom brace.
The legs were attached to a block that was through the top with trim screws. The legs were attached to the block with heavy, 2.5 inch Spax screws underneath.
The braces were made from resawn hemlock and attached through the top with trim screws and to the legs and center structure with longer SPax.
Everything was lightly sanded and varnished and small silicone bumpers were attached to the top to prevent the glass from sliding.
Eventually here I will get some nice picture in a better setting than the shop.