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This Week’s Featured Pulp Improvement
Pulp Path
Pulp Path
Continuing on with the Pulp Path Project this past week, mind you, had some other appointments to attend to, so, as always, you do what you can do! And what a week it was, I’m talking temps in the mid 70’s for a few days, a little late season summer throwback and just plain extremely nice. So we got busy.
As we left off last week, we had done a dry run with our Boston City Hall Paver bricks, using a herringbone pattern with a couple curved line end to end bricks making up our edges. Dry run looked great, just needed to do a little more leveling so pulled up the dry run and did a full re-screed of the walkway (left the edge bricks seated and in place so we had a guide). Laid out a straight string line angled at what would be a corner edge of our herringbone pattern, beginning at the concrete steps down from the house and pointing out toward the brick edge where it would end. With that line in place, set our fist batchof angled bricks, sort of a stacked “V” pattern right under that string line, and with that, we now had our clean start point from which to set the rest of the bricks!
And set we did, using all full size bricks at first to get us from one end of path to the other, saving the brick cuts for phase two (and there was going to be a lot of them)! You see, due to the shape and size of the path (it’s actually larger on the house side to match the concrete steps, then gets thinner as we make our way to the driveway), in a nutshell, you just are not gong to have exact sizes of bricks fit in between the edge bricks, so you just plan for that and by plan, I mean, get yourself a nice diamond edge masonry blade for the chop saw! That’s right, we are cutting those bricks into fit wherever required with our 12” Dewalt Chop Saw, making a ton of dust (we’ve got the fan set up so it blows away from us) and occasionally having to do it a few times as some bricks don’t hold up to being smacked into place with a mallet. Did you know you could cut bricks with a radial saw? Pretty cool (and there was a time when I did not know that). Also, to add, we just picked up and installed our 2nd diamond edge masonry blade so there is a lot of cutting going on!
Kind of got hammered by some pretty heavy rain the last couple days so we are almost complete, got a few more of those cuts to go and then we will lock the bricks in with sand (still on the fence with what type we’ll use on that) and then let Mother Nature due the rest, as in, letting everything settle into final position. Looks like we will indeed be able to finish up prior to it getting too cold to work outside for the season, so mission accomplished on that end!
Progress pics below, see you next week!
Pulp Improvements
The 257 Project
Most Recent Pics for Sale
Nothing at All
A long time ago, in a small apartment in New York City, I was listening to a Prince song, simply called “7” and I was very much getting into the sound of the guitar playing, and what I perceived as an “open” chord strum, aka, just hitting those strings with no fingers applied (forgive me if that was mistaken). I tried to work that into something, and came up with a riff that I thought was pretty catchy. Not 100% sure what mood I was in at the time but decided that “you don’t need Nothing at All” was a good premise and ran with it. Years later, and also during the pandemic, decided it was a good time to rebuild it. Got busy with my wonderful musician friends and a new version it was.
Hope you enjoy!
The 1800 Project
Yes, it has been awhile since we mentioned the 1800 Project, however, we’ve recently completed the part 2 trailer for the feature length and down the road video for the complete project. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, The 1800 Project Part Deux (the finish). Enjoy!
Pulp Gameroom
Another video from the archives, this is all about taking a room with some nasty carpet with old paint on walls and converting it into a game room paradise (at least for us)! We stripped the space down to the concrete floor/bare walls and then went full steam ahead with the LVT flooring, patch/paint on walls/ceiling, new light bulbs and then the pool table, dart board, TV, a neon light and a bunch of cool wall art. Enjoy!
The Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach Limited Edition Prints Prints
We recently mentioned that we had been gifted a fine collection of Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach “limited edition” art prints which we intend to eventually sell here from the website (will be setting up a page in our shop collection). Currently doing a complete inventory of what we have and documenting all of that. Wanted to share a little taste of what we are talking about so will feature a pic or two each week until we get that shop page up and running. This week’s sample print below!
Summer Tanager
