May St. Radiators

This was a fun opportunity too get involved with a sandblaster to take all the many coats of paint off of a frequent client's radiators. I happily accepted. The videos and photos do this job its justice but what I lack are photos of the original radiators with all the paint but you can still see the process and the result there at the end! Check it out

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1984 VW Vanagon Welding Project

This vehicle restoration was one I took on for a cross-country trip I underwent with my brother Andrew and a close friend of ours, Adam, during the summer of 2013. I found the van on craigslist in Pennsylvania and when it got back to Maine, the turmoils of an antique vehicle began to reveal themselves slowly. Never the less, when the winter maintenance was for the most part through, I hatched the plan to build a gas tank and spare tire rack on the rear end of the vehicle, as well as a bike rack on the front. The bike rack was sufficient and easy enough but the effort really when into the construction of the bumper, on the images below all of the work can be seen stage by stage. Even my beginning doodle.

This was the type of camper I bought for the trip

This is the plan that i came up with for the rear bumper, I like to
note that the total cost was $180.00 in steel and trailer barrings.

The completed bumper

            The Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota

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Old Apartments

This was a fun project for sure, I offered my Dad in 2011 to paint his apartment buildings at an hourly rate for minimum wage, until I was finished. The only catch was he had to agree to get me a paint sprayer, and off I went, check out these  before and after photos.

 This is essentially what I had done to all four sides.

PRIMED

Before and After

This is also a neat photo I came across one day, its a photo of the apartments back in there younger years, I have put a photo below of the apartments in present day 2010 as a comparison. The comparison photo was one before I painted the apartment building on the left.

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Wisconsin Fencing

This project was a spur of the moment build in the summer of 2011, while visiting my cousin, we decided she needed new fence posts. So with a semi-strict budget we decided to do a cascading cedar fence corner property accents. This was new for me as I had only ever worked with the stockade style fencing, so i was eager to throw up my first cedar fencing!

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Sewing Machine Box

This is a box that I was encouraged by my father to build for my stepmother for her sewing machine. I made this during my first years of playing around in my basement with my tools. It is made from a scrap section of panel waynes coating, strapping and a piano hinge. With a maple board for the top, I finished it with a dark cherry stain and a polyurethane. I learned here a technique for achieving that soft feel that polyurethane can give a surface, which is by finely sanding it with a 500 or 600 course sand paper. I also learned that a brown paper bag holds a very similar result when used to finish sand a surface. Fun little project for someone who was learning the very beginner-ropes of carpentry! 

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