StoneCoal Tackle

Great tutorial, well done!

Are any of you having trouble with Photobucket? I noticed all my pics in the "Busy winter" thread are gone. They are hosted by Photobucket and I can't get their site to open, is it just me and my computer??? Any help appreciated, daymon

Congratulations on the baby girl! My wife and I only have one child and she's still our baby girl, even after 21 years at our house and two years next door with her husband. However they are getting ready to move to Florida in about a month, gonna be different around here.

Dave, glad you like the thread, I'll have to see what I can come up with to show what the finished project is supposed to look like. And Pete, we'll have to explore some of the differences in our building techniques. Here's a few more pics showing the garage floor now poured and the walls framed. ........got some wall sheathing on and a few joists set on second floor but need to set some I-Beams before we go much further. .......this wall will be pretty much solid windows and patio doors both on first and second floors. The steel pipes (leaning in the pic) will support Steel I-Beams and will be concealed inside the framing between the windows. ........so now we're wait'n on I'beams and a load of joists for second floor.

YES

Okay, lets see some walls going up! Snapped these pics on Jan. 5th. A little snow on the ground and a little chilly but not too bad a day. Off to a pretty good start......... Breaking for lunch and checking out the view out the back door......... End of the day, quite a bit of the first floor walls are framed but we need to get a fit day for pouring concrete before we frame up the garage walls..... Stay tuned...................

Hey Bruce, the vulcano erupted again last night and we had to do a little "ash" removal this morning before we could work ............ It turned out to be a sunny day with temps in the upper 20's to low 30's so it wasn't too bad. Pete, we do have a few fires from time to time but for the most part we don't have a lot of underbrush etc. so our most vulnerable time is in the fall when the leaves have just fallen and haven't gotten rained or snowed on yet. A few times in the past we have had such dry falls that the fall hunting season had to be canceled or postponed to keep folks with their cigarettes and campfires out of the woods, sure makes for some upset hillbillys when we can't go deer hunting:pissed:. Here's a pic of how our days usually start...................... Wait'n on daylight. Me and a helper were finishing up another project while this one was being started and here is what it looked like when we came on the scene to stay.............. I'll post some pics of our progress next time. Thanks for looking, Daymon

Bruce, thanks for the kind words on my lures. I hope you get to go crazy on your dream house someday, can't wait to see that stair railing . Brian, I know where you're coming from with the long days and just being thankful you have a job. I live in a small town and I am truly blessed to have a good steady job close to home. This house we are building now is 21 miles from home and that's the furthest I've had to travel in several years! So, lets get up to speed on this project. As every real estate agent will tell you, location is everything. Ideally you want a nice spacious lot in a good neighborhood and it's nice to be centrally located on your lot so the neighboring houses aren't jammed up against you. I snapped these pics yesterday to give you an idea of what the neighborhood is like. Here's a pic of the neighbors to the south........ the neighbors to the west.................. the neighbors to the north..................... .......and, (you're starting to get the picture aren't ya ) here's my favorite part of the neighborhood, to the east. Oh, did I mention the lot size? It's approximately two hundred acres. So now that you have a feel for the location, we'll get to some construction pics next post. Daymon

:eek:WOW! That is so totally cool man! Awesome lure!

Thanks guys for your interest in my real job, I'll try to make this thread fun for'ya. Bruce, those are some cool ideas for a house. I have several similar ideas for some small furniture items etc. that I hope to get to someday. Don't worry, I'm sure I'll get around to a few lures too. Heck, a lot of my lures are made between the hours of midnight and 2:00AM anyways so I've still got that going for me, LOL. And like Anthony said, there will be enough scraps to make a truck load of lures, except right now we're burning them to keep warm while we eat lunch, LOL. So, stay tuned and I'll set the scene and get'ya up to speed on our progress. Oh and Anthony, about lures per board foot. My father is a retired timber and lumber man and always thinks in terms of board feet and how much per board foot a certain species is bringing. I sell a few lures on eBay once in awhile and I once had one sell for $56. So I asked my dad how much Basswood was going for and he said oh, about 75 cents a foot and I said well, I just sold some for $3,000 a board foot! Dad said hmm, maybe I should get back in the lumber business LOL.

Well here it is almost Febuary and I haven't built a lure yet this year! I work construction and usually look forward to a little time off here and there during the winter when things slow down, but it's not gonna happen this year . About a month ago we started a project that will last 10-12 months at six days a week, great job sucurity for the next year but sure puts a damper on the old lure making and fishing . Anyway, since I probably won't get to make a lot of lures this year I thought I might share some of my passion for building with you. So here's a pic from about a month ago and if there's any interest in watching a house grow on a West Virginia mountain top I'll try to post some more pics as it progresses. Hope everyone gets to make more lures than me this year! Daymon