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By Dave, July 1, 2008 1:01 pm

theworkshop.ca – Home Page

This is a link that Steve sent me some time back that I went and looked at (for a long time) and then forgot to post. Lots of good how-to stuff of all kinds!

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By Dave, April 6, 2008 9:00 pm

*** esprit cabane, the magazine of crafty & green living ideas

A really neat French magazine (now in English too) that has all kinds of projects and craft ideas with a focus on homemade and non-toxic. From how-to’s on making wallpaper paste and rice glue to upholstering furniture and making your own paint they cover a wide range of projects for anyone interested in doing it yourself.

I was surprised to find that glazers putty was simply a mixture of chalk power and linseed oil. They give the proper mixture and explain how to use and the curing time.

Good stuff! 😎

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By Dave, April 6, 2008 8:12 pm

A Low Impact Woodland Home

I know I’ve posted about this house before but I think he’s got a new site, and I know that some of the stuff on the site is new. Good stuff! And I still want to build one!

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By Dave, April 3, 2008 10:02 pm

Use Baking Soda to Strip Paint, Shampoo Your Hair : Planet Green

More stuff I didn’t know. Gonna have to try both. Cool! 😎

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By Dave, April 2, 2008 9:48 am

Steam powered Generator

Quite a nice little (?) setup. Tis something I have always wanted to do but never gotten around to.

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By Dave, February 7, 2008 10:25 am

DIY tractor culture in Poland – we make money not art

Some really cool homemade tractors. Some made from motorcycles. Interesting stuff!

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:29 am

Survey: Are You a Retro-Progressive? (TreeHugger)

Yes.

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By Dave, September 6, 2007 12:36 pm

Card Weaving by Bart & Robin Blankenship

An excellent short article on card weaving for beginners. Good stuff, well presented.

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By Dave, September 5, 2007 11:03 pm

Local Harvest / Farmers Markets / Family Farms / CSA / Organic Food

Find it or list it. Looks to be a great service. Good stuff!

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By Dave, September 5, 2007 7:33 pm

Scytheconnection: Welcome

Located this site via a post at Treehugger.com. They have a lot of info on scythes, from how to use them to how to make your own handles. Guess I’ll pull that blade I had for sale at the yard sale tent, clean it up a bit and make a handle and some mounting hardware for it and start using it. Neat site!

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By Dave, August 15, 2007 3:43 pm

The Homemade Homemaker | Consumer and ethical living | Life and Health

Link found via Treehugger.

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 10:23 pm

KINGSMERE CRAFTS

Lot of good info related to leather craft on this site. Good stuff!

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By Dave, August 6, 2007 10:02 pm

Homesteading Today – Simple sawmill setup

The pix below are from the 4th post down and are owned by the poster. Reproduced here for my use only. This is the simplest setup I have seen for a stable, easy to operate, sawmill. I have bits and pieces of a sawmill and a chainsaw with Alaskan mill (actually seems to be based on the Alaskan mill design rather than actually using one) that I may use to build something similar. Cool!

Update Dec 31, 2008 – Here’s a link to fluidp’s post on his site about the sawmill. Thanks for commenting and helping folks with it. Have been somewhat (quite) lax about doing stuff on the site for a long time now. Will try to do better… 😉

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By Dave, June 19, 2007 1:25 pm

Organic Cuba Libre!

Back to the land, a different look.

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By Dave, February 3, 2007 4:56 pm

Firewood

Burn wood? Bookmark this site! Good stuff!

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By Dave, January 3, 2007 11:21 am

Just a quick update, will take the camera out and get pix later today. Got the first 3 wall posts cut to length, headers cut and up, and first rafter cut and in place yesterday evening. Starting to look like more than just a pile of rubble and dirt. Has already been compared to a wooden stone henge (sp?). Ah well, slowly, slowly eats the elephant…

Todays pictures are up in the Roundhouse album at:

http://www.technoprimitive.org/roundHouseConstruction/index.html

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By Dave, December 29, 2006 9:29 pm

Been down somewhat with a bug the last few days and doing little as possible.  Got out some this afternoon and cut some more cedar 8 foot upright posts and 6 foot headers and one 15 foot rafter and carried them over to the round house.  Got a couple of the 8 foot upright posts and one 15 foot  rafter cut and carried over to the site yesterday.

After unloading them all, stood one of them up on the (facing the south facing entry way) right side of the door opening and screwed 3 saplings to it to hold it in place while I marked it for height prior to taking back down and cutting to length.  Planing to put 3 uprights in place with two connecting headers and then put one primary and 4 secondary rafters in.  Will add some bracing to the rafters as well as corner bracing on the uprights and headers.  I figure that should secure it enough to add more uprights, headers, and rafters, without needing too much additional temp bracing.

And that was about it for the day.  Going to Calcis tomorrow so will be back late.

That’s all folks…

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By Dave, December 28, 2006 2:02 pm

Inhabitat » GROW YOUR OWN TREEHOUSE

More of the grow your own.  Cool stuff!

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By Dave, December 28, 2006 1:59 pm

Introduction to growing your own furniture

Takes a bit of time but this is some really cool stuff!

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By Dave, December 26, 2006 10:47 am

christophermolloy.com » outdoor living » the 10 bushcraft books » huts & thatch (pt. 1)

Build a hut out of whatever materials are at hand.  Good stuff!  Lots more on this site.