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From: Gilbert, Az
This is the kind of work I can do, when I can. Have Tools Will Travel!! Any members want the most beautiful deck in the neighborhood? The one I am showing y'all was done in Cedar. I make those posts myself. The wind was blowing hard when I took these photos and it was in the fall, so those are leaves you see on the deck.
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
Thank you, and yes I have all of my fingers left. Very few carpenters my age can make that claim. I've had a lot of really bad cuts in my life and a couple of life threatening falls, but have somehow survived. I take a lot of pride in my work. Those diamonds are probably the most difficult design you can do because all of the material has to be the exact same width and that's not how it comes from the supplier so I have to rip every piece to the exact same width before I can even start. On my own house I had 3 decks and one of them was the one and only checker board deck I've ever seen. A whole Hell of a lot of work in a checker board deck.
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
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From: Sterling Heights,Mi
Smokin
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..........................I've been sitting here for about 10 minutes trying to decide how to respond to this. Still not sure I've come up with anything.
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
Smokin
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I am too Timmy.
I was going to tell Mark that acceptance of his offer could be considered prostitution...
So now I'm over here entertaining myself with discovery of the paralells between deck building and prostitution.
For example,
a deck builder accepts money to insert a big deck
a prostitute accepts money to insert a *** ****.
I won't even start on where I could go with laying wood..
Sorry for the offensive material you all, I guess I'm not very PC today!...at least I leave you all as speechless as Mark left me.
I was going to tell Mark that acceptance of his offer could be considered prostitution...
So now I'm over here entertaining myself with discovery of the paralells between deck building and prostitution.
For example,
a deck builder accepts money to insert a big deck
a prostitute accepts money to insert a *** ****.
I won't even start on where I could go with laying wood..
Sorry for the offensive material you all, I guess I'm not very PC today!...at least I leave you all as speechless as Mark left me.
Gone, but not forgotten
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
I am too Timmy.
I was going to tell Mark that acceptance of his offer could be considered prostitution...
So now I'm over here entertaining myself with discovery of the paralells between deck building and prostitution.
For example,
a deck builder accepts money to insert a big deck
a prostitute accepts money to insert a *** ****.
I won't even start on where I could go with laying wood..
Sorry for the offensive material you all, I guess I'm not very PC today!...at least I leave you all as speechless as Mark left me.
I was going to tell Mark that acceptance of his offer could be considered prostitution...
So now I'm over here entertaining myself with discovery of the paralells between deck building and prostitution.
For example,
a deck builder accepts money to insert a big deck
a prostitute accepts money to insert a *** ****.
I won't even start on where I could go with laying wood..
Sorry for the offensive material you all, I guess I'm not very PC today!...at least I leave you all as speechless as Mark left me.
Lead Driver
Joined: Oct 2004
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From: Columbia, MO
And I'm starting to get excited for it already. 
Mark, nice looking work. I've got several friends who do carpentry, and I know the struggles they can have just building normal stuff. Pieces of art like that deck are a considerable challenge. You should be proud of that.
Lisa, you make me smile. You also do realize, that IA is a lot closer to Smokin' than CO too...which means no matter what, you've gotta go. Might even make a decent road trip for you to swing through here where I'm at then head south from here, either riding together or driving separately. I'm about 4 hours from Des Moines, for reference.
Mark, nice looking work. I've got several friends who do carpentry, and I know the struggles they can have just building normal stuff. Pieces of art like that deck are a considerable challenge. You should be proud of that.
Lisa, you make me smile. You also do realize, that IA is a lot closer to Smokin' than CO too...which means no matter what, you've gotta go. Might even make a decent road trip for you to swing through here where I'm at then head south from here, either riding together or driving separately. I'm about 4 hours from Des Moines, for reference.
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From: Charlotte-Fairbanks-Bflo
And I'm starting to get excited for it already.
Mark, nice looking work. I've got several friends who do carpentry, and I know the struggles they can have just building normal stuff. Pieces of art like that deck are a considerable challenge. You should be proud of that.
Lisa, you make me smile. You also do realize, that IA is a lot closer to Smokin' than CO too...which means no matter what, you've gotta go. Might even make a decent road trip for you to swing through here where I'm at then head south from here, either riding together or driving separately. I'm about 4 hours from Des Moines, for reference.
Mark, nice looking work. I've got several friends who do carpentry, and I know the struggles they can have just building normal stuff. Pieces of art like that deck are a considerable challenge. You should be proud of that.
Lisa, you make me smile. You also do realize, that IA is a lot closer to Smokin' than CO too...which means no matter what, you've gotta go. Might even make a decent road trip for you to swing through here where I'm at then head south from here, either riding together or driving separately. I'm about 4 hours from Des Moines, for reference.