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Pyro
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# Posted: 3 Aug 2008 17:21 - Edited by: Pyro
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I posted some pics in the general discussion area, but that was before I saw this section.
Here are some of the tasks I've been working on over the last few years...
I was about to cover the walls, so I took photo's of all the writings on the camp wall. 4/1/1918 was the earliest date I could read, but some were even fainter than that one...
Here is where the date was written...
And some others...
Florence McCarthy Charlestown, MA.
H.E. Straw from 1937
A faint note also from 1937...
A faint note from what looks like Dec, 1st 1954...
and an idiot's note written over an older note from 1948...
(It's just above the Dec 1 '54 note)
All of these notes were on this wall...
So I added my name along with my wife's. (She kept her Maiden Name)....
I then covered over the whole wall with Eastern White Pine.
I don't think we own this cabin, (The deed & tax collector tells us we do!) But actually, were are merely stewards of it during this time of it's history.....
Joe
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Pyro
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2008 14:34
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When it came time to finish off the ceiling, I insulated it with rigid foamboard & then placed strapping on the rafters & collar ties to run the pine the other direction. (Except for the area above the ceiling fan)
I pickle stained the ceiling wood before I installed it with Minwax waterbase stain & then finished it with non-yellowing (waterbased) polyurethane. Oil base finishes turn amber (yellow) much more than water base finishes do. I am planning to use oil base Polyurethane on the walls so they WILL amber up a bit with age.
I did this to the ceiling before I installed it to make it MUCH easier to get a different color up there w/o having stain drip back down on me as I applied it. I am in the process of doing the walls this year.
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soundandfurycabin
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# Posted: 4 Aug 2008 23:49
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That's a nice looking cabin. Why did you raise the roof?
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Pyro
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# Posted: 5 Aug 2008 13:41
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The ridge of the old roof was sagging like the back of an old draft horse. The gable ends were starting to fail too. Thre was no ridge pole holding the ridge in line either, so I knew I wanted to rip the whole roof off to re-frame it.
It once had a transition halfway from the ridge to the drip edge. (See black line in photo below) Snow would build up there in the winter & become quite heavy. So I raised the roof to create a single pitch from the ridge to the drip edge. It worked out quite well.
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Pyro
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# Posted: 5 Aug 2008 18:36
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The original builder placed Cedar tree trunks on surrounding rocks. But that was a bit too low to my liking, so I rased the camp & supported beams across the width of the camp.
Doing this supported the camp as a whole quite a bit better. Frost heaves still happen, but all settles down properly when spring comes again.
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Pyro
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2008 12:29 - Edited by: Pyro
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Here are the new cabinets I built this year. My wife was so happy to see them go up, she started putting stuff in them before I could get them finished!
I built them from scratch, but used the solid pine handy panels that Home Depot sells (all glued up edge to edge) for my cabinet sides and doors. That saved me a LOT of time.
Here they are basically finished. I clear coated them w/ urethane. The family is playing "Hand & Foot". A card game that we only play at camp. It's a camp tradition that dates back 3 generations.
Here you can better see the Granite counters and the Hand pump at the sink. It draws up lake water for cooking and cleaning. Our drinking water comes from a well 100 feet away from the door of the camp. I had the counters made up for me by a friend, but installed them & attached the sink myself. (Heavy...ugh!) I didn't glue the joint so that the counter can move if the camp moves in the winter.
The snowshoes are used each winter, but become wall decorations in the summer. The Ship's wheel is from an old 32' wooden Cabin Cruiser I used to own.
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CabinBuilder
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2008 13:47
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Great job!
I like your cabin interior work, especially diagonal wall boards. Was it much harder than horizontal board placement?
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Pyro
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2008 21:43 - Edited by: Pyro
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Well, yes kind of but it wasn't too hard.
The window & door opening corners were the only real tough spots. The outlets cut outs were a bit different too.
If I just left it at a 45 degree angle everywhere it would have been much easier, but on the gable walls I wanted to match the starting board to the pitch of the roof. That was a much better outcome aesthetically, but I had to change my chop saw angle more times than I otherwise would have.
Thanks for the kind words about the work. I hope it gives others here some idea's that they can tweak into their own work and make it their own. I know I'm inspired with some of the other photo's members here have posted.
Joe
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Pyro
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# Posted: 19 Oct 2008 22:19
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BTW, Take a peak at the sugar bowl by the coffee maker. It is a camp relic that has been here in this camp for 70 years or so.
It's the old "Depression Glass" or as some call it, Vaseline Glass. I took a black light to it & it GLOWS super green from the uranium in it.
The aluminum Tea Pot on the stove is as old as the hills too.
Kinda neat having these and a few other things that remind us that we are merely the stewards of this place for the time being.
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