Last week Eva and I were in Bergen Norway and we visited the four main art galleries, Kode 1 through 4. There were many interesting things to see and I recommend setting aside four + hours to visit all the galleries when you go to Bergen.
In Kode 1 was a year in the life of Stian Korntved Ruud. For one year Mr. Ruud carved a spoon a day, he explored design and wood and the exhibit is fantastic. A person could easily spend hours just looking at all his spoons. Imagine looking at each spoon for just a minute or two, 365 x 2 = 730 minutes / 60 = 12.6. To fully examine each spoon would take several visits.
Thanks to the wonders of the internet you can admire each of the spoons here:
the Daily Spoon
This morning I was at work in the shop knocking together a small table to stand beside a friends laundry room sink.
David arrived with four 2x2 by 6, a couple of pieces of particle board and a plan. In short order we had made the piece of laundry room furniture. As David said it is not a sophisticated project and could have been done by him in his basement with basic tools, but...it sure is quicker and easier with a table saw to make the two rip cuts that were needed accurately and the sliding mitre saw to make the various cross cuts. We used a couple of clamps to hold things together when we worked.
Building for David is especially easy since he always comes with a clear and measured plan.
Last week we had three window replaced and one of the shop related things I have been doing is painting the window frames. The windows arrived primed only. At this point all three have been given two coats of trim paint and the furniture is ready to be pushed back into place. I find painting fiddly diddly and I am not good at it, but with careful taping I think the windows look pretty good.
cheers ianw
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