Category Archives: For Fun

I’m getting into the meat of my JKC that I’m building for the upcoming NAHBS and wanted to share a few photos of it……. but I suspect that for many the background might also be of interest. My shop is in my garage so the car parked in the background gets a lot of ink …
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The lovely Karin and I needed to go out of town on a short trip and we flew out of Bozeman on Wednesday afternoon. Since the forecast looked like we might get a small bit of snow we threw winter jackets and gloves into the car with the ever-present shovel and away we went. Just …
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This month marks a bit of a milestone in my framebuilding career as it’s been 20 years since I started working as a professional framebuilder. It was late October in 1989 that I went to work with Ben Serotta in Greenfield Center N.Y. and I’ve been building ever since. When I sat down to think …
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It’s Thursday morning as I write and Karin and I got home from our trip yesterday afternoon and what  wonderful vacation it was. We originally intended to head north into Canada but at the last moment realized they changed the rules about crossing the border into Canada and I didn’t have a passport. So at …
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I was having a conversation the other day with a fellow framebuilder and the conversation turned, as it often does, to some of the stupid stuff that happens in a production frame shop. Whenever you get a group of 20 to 40 year old boys together for long hours silly stuff seems to happen. Our …
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