Haha. The Bilco doors lock - and I have security!
Thanks, guys.
Depending on the tides, they could be!
Funny you should ask, Bill. I don't know about "extensive," or how often I will change things up, but I definitely have some rotational ideas - one of them being a "Curator's Corner." A place to highlight tools from time to time not by type or brand but by theme. More on that later.
Thanks. Haha. I prefer softshell sandwiches myself. Blue crab shed their shells after every full moon. They begin to grow back almost immediately, but for a few days they are soft. You slap those on a grill and then on a roll or bun and you slap another bun on top with the legs sticking out on both sides and just bite. I happen to think they are sweetest in the late summer and fall, especially October. So consult your Ben Franklin almanac for full moons in 2021 and buy your tickets in advance.Awesome little spot you have there Lugz.
d42jeep and I live pretty far away. We would have to plan ahead. When will those crab cakes be available?
Thanks, Otg. Stick around. Much more to see coming up.
Thanks, Shelby.
Thanks, 3bay. It really does feel like hybrid space to me most of the time. When I have guests I go full nerd tour guide and historian, as you can imagine, but most of the time I am just tinkering and putzing around down there by myself.
Speaking of office space this is my favorite corner and as you can see (Pic 1), it gets used quite often.
That "wall" behind the jeweler's desk is a chimney for a double fireplace on the first floor. One half of the fireplace is in a living room and the other is in a parlor or sitting room. It was an ash collector in the basement until a former owner sealed it off. That's my Union-made Craftsman machinists' chest up on a shelf in the cubby hole in Pic 2. And that airbrush lightbulb is my dad's handiwork from his one year at art school before WWII (he never went back) sitting on an obsolete and defunct socket fixture.
I don't think I've ever showed this Billings board before, because I didn't really have a good place for it before now. See Pic 3 for a bit of a better close-up.
I've shown the little Parker vise before. Some of you may recall that it came mounted right there on the jewelers' desk, which dates to the 1890's.
Tour to be continued some other day.
I would never leave home....lolThey still run! I can walk to the Navesink, and I sometimes pop and drag for stripers there, but prefer surfcasting. (For the midwesterners and other coasters, paul is referring to the names of the tidal estuaries you can see depicted just to the north and south of the Lugzsonian flag pinned to the postcard in Pic 1 in Post #1.)
Thanks, Tom. Due to the age of the house, the type of foundation, and the huge plank-top workbenches (didn't get around to those yet...) that were there when I bought the place, it really feels like a living time capsule sometimes. The erector-set shelving units are the newest things in that space, and they're probably from the 70s. Haha.
That's what my plumber likes to joke! (One thing I don't like to mess with too much myself is the furnace.) Not kidding, I once caught him goofing around wearing some of my WWII stuff wielding a machete waiting for his helper to come out of the crawlspace. He was mortified, but I just laughed. Boys will be boys at any age. He lives in town and brings me things to ID from time to time.tombell572 said:
I think I've posted just about everything you're going to see before, just not out on display like this. But thanks, I get your point. Have to say what really helped me finally get properly organized this year was COVID-19. Seriously. I never could catch up before. I just kept getting more stuff and putting it away somewhere or making the piles and mess bigger and bigger. I forgot what I had or I'd get frustrated trying to find it. This hobby is 'all about the hunt', as they say, but after awhile you have to polish and admire your treasures, or it starts to feel like it's all for naught.tombell572 said:
All the exterior trim - original fascia, fishscale shingles, etc - is there. Unfortunately it's covered in the vinyl siding a PO put up. This has been a source of conflict between Mrs Lugz and I forever, with me wanting to tear down the vinyl and redo the wood shakes, and her prioroties always outvoting me. Interior was all redone. I replaced 26 double hung windows, parquet floors (I was sanding down the nails!), and skimcoated drywall over wallpapered plaster walls in every room. I left the radiators and fireplaces alone. They have some neat features. I'll get some shots.
Neat idea.Perhaps an exhibit of tools that may have been used around the time the house was constructed would be an appropriate addition in the future.
You're welcome. I'd say I shouldve taken some 'BEFORE' pics, but everyone knows what those piles look like!
Haha. Nope. Nudged out by being on the wrong side of the river.
