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Have you hit wine yet? How far do you think you have to dig before the wine strata is found :ROFLMAO:
 
Do you still call it work when you're having that much fun?

I'm curious how they are going to pin the foundation with digging only the inside.
We’re leaving a stone shelf on the edges and they’re going to encapsulate it in concrete.

The foundations are weird. Lots of different stuff. Abandoned granite blocks that probably footed columns at one point. Makes you wonder what happened to the columns. But they probably rotted.
 
Do you still call it work when you're having that much fun?

I'm curious how they are going to pin the foundation with digging only the inside.
The owner wants to join the basements together. That’ll be a cool project.
 
This 3 season room will be slick when it's done. We are ordering these Cranbrook 300 series custom storm windows and doors.

My customer is beside herself with joy....my favorite part of the day is when she comes home and gushes with delight.


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That's always nice. Someone who really appreciates the work.
 
Finished up with the windows for now. To involved without the proper machines.

Especially something that will machine the cope. I had to do it the old school way.

Here is what I started with. It was clamped down to my jointer bed for stability. I made the pencil lines on the quarter round by hand. On the backside where it's flat I used a part that had the profile and just traced it. I watched both sides as I cut.
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I used a Japanese pull saw to cut the bottom of the cope which is in plane with the tenon.
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Then I used a shim (it's MDF) cut to the proper thickness to start the cut for the curved part of the cope.
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After I got my starting cut I removed the clamp and shim and just carefully cut the cope with the standard coping saw. This is the one I use to cope all my crown. It's nothing special, bought it at a hardware store 20 years ago.

When I get to the flat cut the coped section pops out. If I did good I might have to carve a bit off the quarter round of the mating pc. If not I have to carve more or use a curved chisel to dig some of the irregularity out of the cope. Out of the 10 copes I did I had one that was perfect that I had to do nothing to. That was the 2nd to last cope in the job. The rest I had some minor adjustments to make to the cope or to the mating pc. Sure would have been easier with a stub spindle router coping bit.

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