Mother Lode of Old Fencing

Today we struck the mother lode of old fencing! At 9 a.m. I had an email from someone who saw our three week old Craigslist request for old fencing.

It was a little disappointing, a pile of junk and some wood. Here is Jan with the morning batch of wood.

Then in the afternoon we had a call from our friend Mike of "Mike's Garage Doors." He had just passed a house with a large stack of fence wood and sign "Free Wood" and it was only a few blocks from us.

 So, here is the second load of the day. There was lots more but things are getting out of hand in the back yard.

As soon as we got back we did some organizing of wood. Jan still done the roof on the lean-to shed.

The old potting table went back into use for now.

Removing nails from boards....

...had to get the back view of one of his favorite t-shirts.

The stack of fencing wood good enough for the siding for the garden castle shed is building up.
 

Here is a better shot of the fold formed copper piece I made and posted last night.

Any ideas or suggestions? Lisa?

Oh, keep Mike's phone number handy if you need a repair or new garage door, 259-8340. Thanks, Mike!

A Jumble of Screws and Nails

The sounds of metal and sorting screws is coming from the studio. Earlier today we stopped at Harbor Freight during their 3 day sale. Jan found some organizers and is now busy sorting, from this.......

....and this jumble

... to this

 

....and this!

 He's a happy man.

While he worked all evening in the studio I was keeping him company and doing some organizing and decided to work on a copper fold formed piece. First I cut a piece of copper about 1.5 x 4 inches, slipped it in the vise to fold in half then hammered the fold, annealed and repeated several times. Then the pod was opened. The copper has a purplish look after annealing.

Then I decided it needed to be torn apart, I used metal shears to cut parts open on the front side and used round nose pliers to curl back the cut areas. I buffed a little and will think about what to add, it will make an interesting necklace.