****My Hubby Has Wood****

[LixyChick]

:D

Shhhhhhhhhh! I snuck into the barn today cause round this time of year, as it gets chillier and chillier, hubby retreats to the barn for warmth. Enough with the yard work....enough with the gardens.....enough of not being creative with my hands (he says).......and I usually reap the benefits of his proto-types! I word it that way so it doesn't seem like I get the rough draft of all the nicer things that come from his creativity! But...as I said....shhhhhhh! I'm making you privvy to he first creation of the season!

I said (in another thread) that romance comes in many forms.......and this is one of my favorite ways to be romanced!

Ladies and Gentleman...........hubbie's first windchime...EVER!

Gawd..........I love that man and his wood! *giggle*

[LixyChick]

If you know me....you know I take two pics of EVERYTHING! Especially my man's wood!!!!!

Oh geezzzzz!

[LixyChick]

because when I got this sneak preview he had just coated the copper chimes with laquer (so they don't weather to that green color) and the wood with polyeurethane (sp?....too lazy to look it up...lol!)

but....here's the clapper.......metal buttons on wood!

[LixyChick]

here's the wind catcher......which I am informed will have the same metal buttons on it as an eye catching feature!

[LixyChick]

And please notice in that pic above.....that strange object in the background that closely resembles the outline of a really, really cool picnic table!

If we all hold hands and close our eyes and wish out loud..........by spring it could be just that! My new picnic table.....which I've been waiting for since early this past spring!

Oh damn.....I'm gonna pay for that one! Yikes!

[PantyFanatic]

Very nice darling.:) (YES!:D and I'm so happy you normally take two pics of everything.;)

It looks like it would have much lower notes than the normal “tinkle” wind chime. Out of honest curiosity, are those chimes made from ¾” EMT? And the top ring, ….. what did he use for that?

[PantyFanatic]

SORRY!:o Spoke too soon. (AGAIN)

The chimes looked silver in the pic. I'd love to chat with Mr. Lixy (can't remember his nick. lol) sometime.

[Lilith]

He sure knows how to work his pipe too:D


It's lovely! I have one Scotz made, now if Mr. Lix wants to crank out some and sell them let me know. I can start my own Pixies mens windchimes collection.

[LixyChick]

The above chime is a proto-type. Hubby has never made one and is quite excited to hear them in the autumn wind! And even before this one is finished.....he has another in mind. He brought me this object.....which he found in our old barn.......and he wants to use it as the clapper for the next wind shime (bigger pipes....and just an all around bigger chime). My first question was, "What is it"? He didn't know. It is really heavy (bout 2-3 lbs.) and reminds me of a cannonball from the civil war! But....it has this hole through it and would make for a pretty shitty cannonball....doncha think? He thinks it came from a bell...an actual clapper from a big bell! But....I would love to hear any thoughts or opinions or actual facts.....if you get the notion!

[LixyChick]

another view......I made him put it in his hand to show scale! It's iron.....not lead.....and it might not make the best clapper because as I said...it's rather heavy.

Any clues?

[PantyFanatic]

Very interesting item. Do you know what the material is? Is it magnetic? Can it be easily scratched? What color is it after you get through the oxidation?

That hole through (assuming it all the way through) it is VERY interesting. A hole of that shape and in that location had a specific use intended. What does the surface look like?

[PantyFanatic]

LOL- (next pic, I couldn't wait;) )


It looks like a casting with that parting line. How well was it finished or machined after?

[LixyChick]

PF.....Originally, hubby wanted an all metal clapper because wood just dulled the effect of the sound on the copper. When he couldn't find just the right piece....he opted for the wood with the metal buttons (which he found in some of Pop's collection of what-nots that he collected over the years.....and I mean he passed on a collection!!!). So now we have the best of both worlds (in sound) as the clapper will rotate and the chimes will hit either the wood or the metal...........and we've heard both and I wanted wood and he wanted metal! But then.....I always want wood! LOL! The pipes are left over from a plumbing job we did earlier this summer...and are 1/4". Sorry they look silver, but I had to lighten the pics because it is very overcast today and the lighting in the barn sucked! Did I ever tell you how well he sweats..................................................pipe??????? Yuck, yuck! And PF? He never chats on this forum.......cept for the occasional cooing at me.......but he watches and tells me what to type for him. (Note to self: X-mas present for hubby? Typing lessons!!!)

Lilith.......He sure does know how to work his pipe! Er....um....and he hangs a pretty nice chime too! As to cranking some out.....I've been trying to convince him to make plenty of everything he's made......bird houses, trellis's.....etc.......but he just says.....I like making them and giving them away........I don't think I could sell them! To which I reply......"????????????????????"!!!!!!!!!!! LOL! I gotta get a pic of the two sided bird house with brass corners he made me.........oh.....and the one with the front porch and all the "gingerbread" type decoration on it too. You might have seen that one on the side of my barn in a pic or two...but I never really took a close-up. If you want a chime.....I'm sure he'd love to make one for you.....and all you'd have to do is gimme a P.O box to mail it too....because I know you value your anonymity!

[exhib_it_all]

Actually, the item that looks like a small cannon ball looks a lot like a deep-sea fishing weight that is used for big nets.

[LixyChick]

I tried my best to get as much detail of that thing as I could PF! Yes..the hole goes all the way through.....yes it does have a cast line. I likened it to the same way they make dipsey's (weights) for fishing........one side of mold filled with molten metal...then the other...and close it and let cool...and voila.....a whole weight! Didn't scratch it yet......haven't tried to clean it either. It's rusty and has a pitted surface though. I used to live near the Red Bank Battle Field in National Park, N.J........and they had an exibit of cannon balls and the house left standing from the battle of Hessian Run still had some balls in the side.....and they looked very similar to this thing....though they didn't have holes and they weren't as small.

[LixyChick]

GMTA exhib_it_all!!!!! TY for the suggestion......of which I had already thought on the same path! Though....as far as I know....fishing weights are made of lead..........no?????

I don't think this thing is lead........pretty sure not anyway! I could go scratch it now....and just settle that curiousity.....couldn't I? LOL!

[Steph]

Everything looks really, really cool, Lixy.

The oxidation talk went over my head. At least one of us understood PF for a change!

[dicksbro]

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Tell hubby the wind chime does look terrific.

Wish I had a barn and workspace like what he's got. Is it heated for the winter?

Good luck on the picnic table. :D

[LixyChick]

LMAO@Steph! I just spout things out and if I happen to hit on something pertaining to the actual subject I think, "Yep! I meant to say that"!

Thanks db hunny bun! I got an answer to your question by way of pics! I was asked to post some pics of the entire shop....so bear with me.....I resized them and lightened them and here they come!

Hubby just recently insulated some of the workshop area.....but it's a really old barn (100 or so) and so it's hard to keep the heat in. We didn't want to cover up the beams and such...but the wind would come through the walls inna blast if we didn't do something. So far, this is the only source of heat. We've tried a wood burning stove but was afraid to leave it alone should we need to go out and it was still smouldering....then we tried a wall hung propane one....but it was too big and therefore too hot....so dad-in-law gave us this till we find something better.

[LixyChick]

I'll try to keep my long windedness to a minimum....lmao!

This is just a shell of a stick of dynamite......he would never make me grab the real thing....it gives one an immediate headache if you touch it's resin.

[LixyChick]

Part of the second room......it's two rooms in one, seperated by a floor beam. The floor is now concrete but I don't imagine it was when it housed horses (way back when). They can't stand on concrete too long!

[LixyChick]

Just throwing this in here to show what project he has in store for me after the picnic table...I hope! Though....he's had this plan for over a year now. Can we all do that hand holding and chanting out loud thing again???? Gawd, I need this cupboard!

[LixyChick]

The shop is cleaner in this pic....lol! He's vacuuming!

[LixyChick]

Let's see.......all in all there are 6 rooms in this barn...and a few alcoves....a hay loft and a secret room above my garden shed (can only get to it by an outside door!) If you go up these stairs it opens to a huge room we use for storage.....summer lawn chairs and such.

[LixyChick]

Just scanning around the lower rooms here......

[LixyChick]

This is what you see when you come in the main door......this all looks the same to me...but shows the lay-out pretty well, I guess. As I said...I was asked to post pics of the whole shop!

[LixyChick]

BTW....sorry about some of these being so fuzzy. I didn't have the resolution up very high on some.....other's I had it at max!

[LixyChick]

And.......give yourselves a bonus point if you can spot a pic that doesn't have a glass of beer in it! ROFLMAO! Hey! We got the meister..and we make use of it!

Hubby named this....not me! This is through the door at the far end of the shop....another room, to house the "Hornet". And I've got some industrial sewing machines in there (that I haven't brought into the house since we moved in...in 1999.....YIKES!)

[LixyChick]

Just some pics on the wall. One has the project of the blasting of "Crazy Horse" in the black hills of South Dakota........

Hubby likes it.....but I prefer the Key Largo map! *sigh* I miss the Keys!!!

[LixyChick]

His entertainment......um....I mean his closet!

BTW...on the outside of the right door there is a dart board and my nephew loved coming out to the barn to shoot darts...(he was going on 13 at the time)..........I wondered if he was REALLY shooting darts out there!!??? LOL!

[LixyChick]

A work in progress.........

Next pic will show the completion and the second and third thoughts of his projects as he goes along. He's never really satisfied with something when it's done....I think the actual making of it is the thrill for hubby!

*NOPE! I don't see no beer!!* OMG!

[LixyChick]

It's the same shelf as above.......he didn't like the rail results so he didn't include it!

[LixyChick]

This was in the barn on a shelf when we moved in. It was broken up but not irrepairable. I love whirligigs! Hubby fixed him for me. He saws when the wind blows!

*Iss des net en schnitzelbank*

Oops! No...it's not a shaving bench.......but a saw horse whirligig!

Just some Pa. conversational German for ya! Pa. Dutch that is! I work with a girl from Germany and she thinks these folks are nuts!

[LixyChick]

Please pardon the bird poop all over this...it's the two sided birdhouse I spoke of in a reply to Lilith. We had it in the crux of our maple tree all summer cause we haven't had a chance to put it up on a post yet! The middle (inside) has a divider....and two families can live in it at once! So really cool when it's all cleaned up! Has brass tips even!

The side (shown) with the screws in it are for cleaning accessibility....birds are so dirty when they move out!

[LixyChick]

My swing! A simple design......but that's what this tree called for! I needed a swing....but not something that would take away from nature!

OK..I'm done! Till that picnic table and corner hutch get done, that is! Keep chanting for me! *giggle*

[dicksbro]

Those pictures are terrific, Lixy. Thank you for sharing that part of you and your hubby's life. Always makes me feel closer to people to know something about who they are and their day-to-day lives. You two are especially "special" in my eyes.

Tell Mr. Lix I really admire his workshop and the way he decorated his closet. There's nothing like the classical nude. :)

<< Hugs to you both >>

[LixyChick]

Thanks db!!!!!! Your words mean more than you know! Mr. Lix reads along with me most times......and all I have to do is look to him after we scroll a reply and I can tell......he appreciates a special compliment as much as I do! *hugs*

[LixyChick]

Just read a PM and was so shocked!

I've surpassed 5000 posts...........

When I read that PM......I immediately came to the last post I remembered doing just to check......and sure enough.....

Yikes! I'm getting old!

Shoulda done something more special than this thread......huh?

[PantyFanatic]

....birds are so dirty when they move out!
I guess they don’t get their “deposits” back then Lixy.;) lol

…Shoulda done something more special than this thread......huh?
Except for pics of you,… what could have been more special?

YEP! That definitely is a wood workers shop.:) Neat place and some nice work there. Did he do the edge of your shelf with a router or does he have a jointer that I couldn’t make out?

Just have one question. Is that white thing on the post by the radial arm saw a beer can crusher? ….. with a beer meister next to it? ……………….. Oh the shame!:o

[LixyChick]

LOL PF! Nope.....no deposits back....I get to keep all the "deposits" they gave me, as you can see by the roof of that house!

Yeah! Prolly coulda done some new pics, huh? Awwwww! TY for the compliment though!

Now shhhhhhhhhhhhh with the jointer thing! I was gonna get him one but I opted for the band saw instead...(it was a might less expensive and closer to my budget at the time)! And....he has the radial arm saw and table saw.....so shhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! Yes, he did the edge of the shelf with a router! I got him some really good bits for X-mas last year......and he's been a routing fool ever since! That's also how he did the edges of the wood on the wind chimes, the bird house roof.......and how he did my living room base boards! BTW....he made that router table himself...and made the base table for the radial arm saw as well as for some of the other tools.

Did you notice the chisels hanging above the work bench? Some are new (3 years old) and some were his great-grandfather's, passed down to him from his dad who got them from Pop (his grandfather).

There's another wall (which I didn't have a pic of) to the right when you walk into the barn, that has all sorts of antique tools on it. I gotta get a pic of it because there is one thing up there that we still don't know what it is or how one would use it!

As to the can crusher.....yep, that's what it is! When the beer runs out in the meister....and if his back is out and we can't get another keg....we get cans.....so sue me! LOL! Also....we do drink soda (pop) from cans sometimes.......and we do recycle....so the crusher makes for more room! No shame in that, huh?

*hugs*

[Slow Ride]

Lixy...........looks like Hubby is a natural when it comes to wood work,and has a nice wood shop as well.

And your pretty dang handy with a camera..............great pictures sweetie!!!

[Lovediva]

Lixy....I LOVED the pics!! Thank you soo much for sharing them with us! Your hubby is an excellent craftsman!!


(*I wonder if he can make oak dildo's*) ;) :D

[Irish]

Lixy---FYI:If you want to know if something is lead,check it with a magnet.Lead doesn't have nickel in it,so is not magnetic!
As far as typing goes,check your local High Schools.I took a night course in keyboarding,at the High School,in the next town.You
learn right on computers.
That's a good idea with the lack of the woodstove.I had a sheet-
metal stove in my garage(motorcycle business)so that I could work after supper.I finished,working one night&came in the house.My garage is not attached to my house.Luckily,I forgot something,and went back out.The stove had started a fire in my
garage.I quickly got everything out,after opening the main door.
I called the Fire Dept.Luckly,the damage was minimal.This was 3 yrs ago.
Hope this helps! Irish

[LixyChick]

Thanks SR.......I agree! Nothing like watching him work his wood!

Diva.....YSVW! And ya know....if he shellacs it enough (no splinters) it could be an interesting project.....LOL! I'll ask him for ya!

Irish....Thanks hun......It's definitely not lead! I can tell from the texture after the scratch test...but could tell all along due to the difference in iron and lead mass. It's a very hard metal....very dense but not like lead so I thought it iron instead. It will attract a magnet but is not magnetic itself. It is a cast and is pitted...but doesn't look used. Since this house and barn are so old....and used to be a working farm....we got to thinking it could be some sort of farm implement or something to do with horses. It was made for something specific....but I can tell through lack of wear marks that it has never been used. As to hubby going to typing class...........ROFLMFAO! I should post the notes he wrote down when he took a two week course in conversational Pa. Dutch! Near the end of the course...the notes went something like this......"Fuck this"....."This sucks"......."I'm bored and could really use a cold on"....."Id rather be sleeping"...."Bite me"....."I'm starving"..................LOL! I swear they are just a few of his "notes" from the last days of class! He'd NEVER take the time to sit through a typing course.....I tried to teach him and he just hates it! Thanks for the suggestion though! *hugs*

[dicksbro]

Hey, I think I used those same notes in an Economics class. :D

[PantyFanatic]

You're wrong DB. Those are the notes from English class.

[LixyChick]

LMFAO! Good and Proper English class even! He does have a way with words, eh? When we first moved into this house we had Mennonite neighbors. At one time hubby was on the barn roof and almost lost his footing and his drill was sliding down....and so he used his "good and proper" English to stop the drill and himself from going ass over tincups! Well, the next door neighbor was outside taking her clothes down from the line at the time..............and not even 6 months later they moved! Hmmmmm? Think his English had anything to do with that? Maybe he shoulda said it in dutch! LMAO!

[PantyFanatic]

…..When we first moved into this house we had Mennonite neighbors……and not even 6 months later they moved! Hmmmmm?…..

Oh well… there goes the neighborhood.:rolleyes:





LMAO:D