Granted, the world always looks better with a buzz. But after my sleepless night, we’ve made progress on the plans, and also with the wood piles. There is still a load of work ahead, and we’ll need every day at ten hours. But according to a rough calculation we can get the frame cut, the night before the crane comes. There will be an interesting mix between mill rule layout, square rule layout and scribing, for all those trying to figure this frame out in a couple of generations. Whatever gets the job done...
Just down the road lives a Compagnon menuisier. That is a journeyed cabinetmaker in the French tradition. We were over at his place for the Aperitif this evening. An occasion we all showered for! He’s retired, and therefore has plenty of stories about the little hamlet that La Garelie is, his professional life and over the top jobs for opera singers and the occasional story from his traveling time.
He’ll make us some wedges to key the scarf joints together, and has resurrected Emmanuels chisel that had lost both corners in the hard oak. Other treasures include the very french bisaigue as well as the more useful demi-bisaigue, or Stossaxt ( as we Germans call it) with my middle name for a makers mark.
On the whole the neighbors are very excited to see this ruin resurrected. Many have seen it go from being full of life to being abandoned but for an old couple over the span of a generation or two. All wish us bon courage. You can figure out what that means. My reply to that is that we’ll need it!
Stay healthy and don’t make any mistakes is the other thing to go by.
Merci pour ce post! Comme ca je vois mon mari de temps en temps.
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