Many thanks Dag. Thats my work from chain saw to paint brush. We've still got a long way to go. I did all the joinery by hand, though I roughed some out with a power drill. Just exploring innapropriate technology.
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Pat and Patsy Hennin, a truly remarkable couple run a business teaching folks to build there own homes. Their classes are a great deal of fun and really effective. She is a architect/engineer and he is a builder who trained as a lawyer but decided not to be evil. The students run from hippies to retired folks to college kids to young couples. Its intensive and interesting with some pleasant evenings of beer drinking interspersed.