I spent an hour or so on this drawing this morning, and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. As annoying as some of these more difficult drawings are, it’s going to be so worth it in the end. After seeing that piece of shit James bought last week, I’m starting to see my drawings in a different way – they make this craft seem like Ikea furniture in some ways, but in many ways they are the most informative drawings I’ve ever looked at on this subject. Nothing seems to go into the detail that we get. Or if it does show you excellent details, it usually has shit for a description. This book has such amazing drawings (I swear) that probably anyone with a basic knowledge of tools who is half literate could build any of these homes. Add in James’ descriptions of what is going on in the drawings, and it seems impossible someone couldn’t do it.

After I finished that drawing I went to print a bunch of stuff for James, and then checked out how they were doing with the log jig. Zack put a brand new blade on the chainsaw so they would have real nice cuts, only to fire it up and find out Jan had mixed up some screws and one that was too proud collided with the blade. After he put the old blade back on they finished the cuts, but apparently there is about an eighth of an inch discrepancy overall. I’m not sure, but I’m assuming that’s due to the foundation being built out of scrap timbers laying in the yard.

I also spent a couple minutes this morning making some shirt designs for each of the building courses. I’m not sure if he’s going to want to make three different designs, or maybe just combine them into one design of all three buildings. Or maybe he’ll hate them all. Not sure.

Here they are:

That’s the Bents course design.

This is the Post and Beam design, but I liked the side view of this building better than the gable, so I did this one too:

This is the point where the blog post comes screeching to a halt due to exposure to a photo of my love I shouldn’t have looked at. I guess that’s what you get for being curious. Karma sure does work quick when it comes to the little things. Fuck you Flickr.

I love you Captain. I wish I had you to hold and pat your butt. I was never allowed to tell you, you were my favourite, but you are and always will be and I miss you so much.