Recent content by RainierHooker

Oh, and my family teamed up to get the wife and I this old neon sign which will find a place in the kitchen...

Archeology completed, we inserted the pantry... ...and all that is left to do is some drywall repair, trim work and a light restoration to the pantry's wood and hardware. (although not shown in this picture, the cap and crown molding is back on top of the pantry) The gas installer is coming...

So, obviously, we brought the butler's pantry home, and ripped out the '70s. And in doing so, we did some more household archeology. Under the faux-terra-cotta and 1/4" plywood we found the original 1907 natural-linoleum sheet floor in goldenrod with red and green marbling... (yes, we...

Not much in the garage to report on, but since its the first thing you see when coming into the house from the garage or backyard, I'll show you the most recent development in the house... For Christmas I ended up buying a new gas range for the wife, and that jumpstarted a kitchen remodel that...

Wrapping up the pergola and privacy fence... Still got a few things to do, like lighting, and the back gate, but it pretty much looks like its gonna look now. I'll finish the last few pressing jobs outside, but now that the weather definitely decided that its fall, its on to indoor projects...

Yep rubberrodder, I'm here in Tacoma and on the HAMB. Thanks for the compliments. No permit issues yet, but I'm doing my darnedest to keep tabs on the codes here and only do what I can get away with myself. The fire pit has a metal ring around the sides and the bottom is crushed rock...

A little late to the party, but by far the easiest way I've found to remove pro-seal, polyamide, hysol, or any other sealant from aluminum are the green 3M "Radial Bristle Discs". As long as you don't get too forceful, they will strip aluminum or magnesium without abrading it. I've been an...

Oh, and since I haven't really said what my goal is back here, I'll expound a bit... The pergola will remain open-air on all sides except where it attaches to the garage. The roof will remain open, providing shade more than anything, but I am toying with the options of removable roof-panels or...

Moving along, I have got most of the pergola up, just waiting on a break in the rain that hit yesterday to finish it off and start painting... Once I get the structure all done I'll be cleaning up the ground under and around and laying down a layer of gravel to provide a decent surface until...

Modern Jess, According to the Tacoma Daily Ledger, or house was built in 1907 by Contractor L.P. Price for the original owner, Mr Rush Marble, who I believe was a mid-level clerk at the Northern Pacific Railway. The history we have on it states that, when built, it was the first house on the...

Got up this morning and built a tiny workbench... It fits along Dad's 1948 GE Refrigerator and is topped by Grandpa's Sheetmetal Tool Lockers... And finally this wall is filling out nicely...

And spent the day on another corner. Here's how it started, janky shelves made out of scrap plywood: Getting there: And pretty much done: I think I'm going to face the fronts of the shelves with 1x2" pine boards to strengthen them and give a more finished look. The jury is out as to...

And now, its installing shelves and organizing. As I get a corner done, stuff from the pile outside gets to come back in... ...so far we have one corner done.

Holy Carp. I can, for the first time in many moons, walk into my future woodshop... And speaking of woodshops, I found this in there: ...this little Craftsman bandsaw used to belong to F1 Driver Pete Lovely. It was one of the few things that I could afford at his estate sale a few years back.

Then, as I pull every shelf clear and pile apart, let the disaster begin... As you can see, the Model A went back into the back corner. It is smaller than the M3, and so I can actually walk around it. And this is the temporary destination for all that garage detritus: ...the parking space...