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During a long awaited vacation in Eastern Canada with my wife, we re-discovered an artist we had both forgotten about, and fell in love with her story and her art. Maude Lewis was from the Nova Scotia and despite a rare crippling disease of "Juvenile Arthritis" she, along with her husband, managed to eek out a living from her paintings and artwork way back in the 1950s era.
We picked up one piece of her art and the Nova Scotia Art Gallery store that my wife already had a place in mind for before we got home. All I had to do was make a picture frame ... easy, or so I thought ... not so.
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Today I am constructing a sturdy shipping crate that will be used to ship my Mosrite Joe Maphis Model 1 to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This article is not much about woodworking but more about my first hand account with the guitar trade between Randy Bachman and Roy Herman in 1968.
Over years since the trade, Roy and I talked frequently about the trade and events before and after and in may ways how it affected the lives of many people, including Randy Bachman who received Roy's Gibson Les Paul, and went on to create an amazing music career and a stunning list of well know songs, using the Gibson Les Paul, that have formed a Rock and Roll music legend. Here is story of the unknown, Mosrite Guitar that was central in this trade.
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One of the things repeating to myself (and others), over and over is ... Everything Changes, NOTHING stays the same forever, learn to adapt. This is one of the reasons I am often a bit of a pioneer in working with new technologies. For example, I made a video of using a laser for woodworking way back in March of 2016, 8 years ago when they were still in their infancy for home use, but these machines have skyrocketed in their abilities.
I toured the Frank Lloyd Wright "Allen" house in Wichita in the spring of 2024, and one of the tour guides items of note was a wooden ceiling lampshade in the living room which she described as "having been made with a jigsaw"....
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One the best things about being a woodworker is that if there is something you need and you either can't find it to purchase for a reasonable amount (or any amount for that matter) or can't even find what you are looking for .. you make it!
DIY Chainsaw Case: Build Your Own Ultimate Case
Such is what I did recently with my chainsaw, that is terrible for weeping chain oil, even after I drain it, and 5 months later it is STILL weeping a small amount of chain oil ...