If you read this blog as a reflection of my status in life, one might believe that I’d dropped off the face of the earth. Such is not the case, however. I’ve been busy as always. A frantic August led to a frantic September which resolved into something all together differe

Yesterday was glorious sunny cold day, and I spent all of it in the shop. Granted, it had lots of windows, which was nice. Winter in Olympia has it’s challenges, and the grayness of it is one of them. We revel whenever the sun peaks through. I started on the project of building

The house I grew up in was never really done. We began construction when I was 4 or 5, got the walls up, the roof on, the insulation and windows in the first year. That winter we lived downstairs amid piles of lumber and woodworking tools. The upstairs was accessible via an extension

I’ve finally got my hands on a brazing torch and have been sticking pieces of metal together. My friend and frame builder, Corey Thompson (who needs a website) showed me a few things about the practice a few days ago, and he gave me free reign in his shop yesterday while he was at wor

I recently acquired a new bicycle for my main mode of transportation. It’s a Kogswell frame, you could reference the Spring 2010 issue of Bicycle Quarterly to get the specifics for its frame geometry and front-end angles and characteristics, as it is the 700c test bike that they