Random Thoughts Thread

[frogger]

Live edge tables.. too trendy?  We are shopping for a dining table and the wife likes them.  I like the walnut ones but I don't know if I will tire of the look in 5 years.

[Robert Hall]

6 minutes ago, frogger said:

Live edge tables.. too trendy?  We are shopping for a dining table and the wife likes them.  I like the walnut ones but I don't know if I will tire of the look in 5 years.

Interesting...would look good in a log cabin or lodge..

[frogger]

10 PRINT "LIVE EDGE";
20 GOTO 10

RUN

 

 

 

[A Horse With No Name]

 

Since I am in a good mood...shame we don't get this here.

3 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

Interesting...would look good in a log cabin or lodge..

I have built somne live edge furniture...it is a lot of fun to make.

[A Horse With No Name]

3 hours ago, frogger said:

Live edge tables.. too trendy?  We are shopping for a dining table and the wife likes them.  I like the walnut ones but I don't know if I will tire of the look in 5 years.

I don't think that you will tire of the look at all.

[Robert Hall]

3 hours ago, frogger said:

10 PRINT "LIVE EDGE";
20 GOTO 10

RUN

 

 

 

Those stairs would kill me.. even having 6-8 steps at most w/ a split level (4 distinct levels, 4 sets of stairs) is killing me now..

Edited December 20, 2018 by Robert Hall

[A Horse With No Name]

 

[balthazar]

5 hours ago, frogger said:

Live edge tables.. too trendy?

I do not believe nature/natural can ever wear out its welcome.
The live edge stiff I see is still fabulously expensive, when it comes down to WalMart-level pricing and is mass produced (which really isn't possible), then maybe.

[A Horse With No Name]

1 hour ago, balthazar said:

I do not believe nature/natural can ever wear out its welcome.
The live edge stiff I see is still fabulously expensive, when it comes down to WalMart-level pricing and is mass produced (which really isn't possible), then maybe.

Local place here harvests slabs and sells them cheap. My daughter's desk and my upstairs hall table were just over a hundred bucks for both for lumber...good big of assembly required.

[balthazar]

I priced a piece of red oak a few weeks ago locally- got hired to make a free-standing 'bar countertop'. Not live edge but dimensionally rough cut; 6/4 x 11"-8' : $90.
Place has stupendously beautiful raw material, plus makes select pieces of furniture. The exotic slabs, depending on species and visual interest, can be over $900 ea. One of their tables:

Edited December 20, 2018 by balthazar

[frogger]

That is quite a beauty.  We have a small house,  only looking at 6 feet, hoping to keep it to half that price.  Other option we are considering is vintage MCM teak or walnut.

 

 

[David]

10 hours ago, frogger said:

Live edge tables.. too trendy?  We are shopping for a dining table and the wife likes them.  I like the walnut ones but I don't know if I will tire of the look in 5 years.

I never get tired of wood furniture, Just awesome!

6 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

Those stairs would kill me.. even having 6-8 steps at most w/ a split level (4 distinct levels, 4 sets of stairs) is killing me now..

Great leg workout! 

I do agree that stairs suck for normal every day use.

[David]

@A Horse With No Name @Robert Hall @balthazar

This company is up in a little town called LaConner, indian reservation, the guy uses recovered wood from the Ocean, buildings, forest, etc. I bought my wife her Jewelry box from here it is a work of Art.

We want to one day after we remodel our house get one of his custom built square tables for 12 people. Just beautiful wood work.

https://www.makerswoodworks.com/

I will also say that my wife and I love these two woodworking companies out of Victoria BC in Canada.

https://www.houzz.com/pro/arosteguistudio/arostegui-studio-furniture-and-design

http://www.arosteguistudio.com/arostegui-studio-home 

[oldshurst442]

39 minutes ago, dfelt said:

I never get tired of wood

I never get tired of wood either. I always wake up in the morning with one. 

[ocnblu]

7 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

I never get tired of wood either. I always wake up in the morning with one. 

Bless your heart

[ocnblu]

[A Horse With No Name]

 

This is really kind of cool!

 

[A Horse With No Name]

On 12/18/2018 at 9:16 AM, oldshurst442 said:

I prefer Chorizo Tacos to Chicken. 

Good interview with former Ford CEO

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/12/13/former-ford-ceo-speaks-on-his-tenure-at-the-automaker.html

16 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

I never get tired of wood either. I always wake up in the morning with one. 

https://www.wood-database.com/white-willow/

Willow is a notoriously soft and unproductive species though. 

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/ford-fusion-mondeo-coupe-looks-like-evos-concept-42167.html

Link is acting Funky, ford fusion coupe would have been interesting, especially if they had done an SHO version. 

[A Horse With No Name]

https://www.autoguide.com/manufacturer/ford/2014-ford-fiesta-st-review-video-2797.html

 

Will miss the Fiesta ST when it is gone...

[ocnblu]

 

 

[ocnblu]

Edmunds.com has their build and price up for the Chevy Blazer.  Way too expensive.  I also went to cars.com, where the Blazer is available in search mode.  Saw an AWD RS "in transit" listed at $51k.  Completely nuts.

[riviera74]

1 hour ago, ocnblu said:

Edmunds.com has their build and price up for the Chevy Blazer.  Way too expensive.  I also went to cars.com, where the Blazer is available in search mode.  Saw an AWD RS "in transit" listed at $51k.  Completely nuts.

The pricing may well be nuts, but it is what the market will bear.  I doubt any non-luxury sedan can get away with that pricing as of now.

[ocnblu]

AWD LT Cloth with black wheels, bowties and emblems, plus floor liners is $39.8k.  Too darn high.

[Robert Hall]

11 minutes ago, ocnblu said:

AWD LT Cloth with black wheels, bowties and emblems, plus floor liners is $39.8k.  Too darn high.

Crazy pricing.  A base Grand Cherokee Laredo 4x4 is $32.9k.  V6 standard.

[ocnblu]

11 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

Crazy pricing.  A base Grand Cherokee Laredo 4x4 is $32.9k.  V6 standard.

And the Jeep is the real thing!

[Robert Hall]

It's really too bad they didn't go the path Ford seems to be going w/ the new Bronco for the Blazer...

[ocnblu]

I will bet you a dollar a Passport Sport AWD in Black Forest Pearl (with standard black 20" rims) will be cheaper than the Blazer LT AWD/3.6 I priced out over to the Edmunds.  The 20"  black alloys are a $1995 option on the Blazer LT!

46 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

It's really too bad they didn't go the path Ford seems to be going w/ the new Bronco for the Blazer...

I'm excited to see the Bronco and Maverick myself!

Edited December 22, 2018 by ocnblu

[balthazar]

[ocnblu]

[balthazar]

Edited December 22, 2018 by balthazar

[ocnblu]

2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo E in Walnut Brown

Trail Rated package

Trailering package

$38,530.

[A Horse With No Name]

On 12/21/2018 at 7:05 PM, Robert Hall said:

It's really too bad they didn't go the path Ford seems to be going w/ the new Bronco for the Blazer...

Agreed. Ford is acting like they want my business.

[daves87rs]

3 hours ago, ocnblu said:

2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo E in Walnut Brown

Trail Rated package

Trailering package

$38,530.

I’ll take one in silver.....

[balthazar]

Jest hanging out in a dirt/weed lot with my (future) $4.5 million dollar, 165 MPH '35 Duesenberg 'Mormon Meteor' speed record setting race car.

[trinacriabob]

It has happened.  Seattle now has a second commercial airport to augment SEA, which is on the south end so it can also serve Tacoma.  The "new" one is at Everett's Paine Field, so it's the same airport from which we've seen all the historic Boeing maiden flights.  The airport is north of town.  Its airport call code is PAE. I'm figuring it's been less than a year.

23 hours ago, ocnblu said:

 

 

 

Less is more. 

(170, 200, 250?)

Edited December 23, 2018 by trinacriabob

[ocnblu]

6 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

Less is more. 

(170, 200, 250?)

This one is a 170.  Less IS more.  Agreed.

[ocnblu]

[riviera74]

1 hour ago, ocnblu said:

Which model and year is this Pontiac?

[balthazar]

'60 Bonneville.
SO fabulous!
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Edited December 23, 2018 by balthazar

[ocnblu]

Yes of course, a 1960 Bonneville.  Just an absolutely smashing automobile.  Makes one wonder just when the true zenith of automotive manufacturing occurred...  are we past it by, say, 58 years?

[balthazar]

This just in: Less is never 'More'.
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[ocnblu]

So his Olds is a couple years old and he can't get the boys to dry it off?  He has to leave the car warsh with a wet car?  Dang those show-off Cadillac drivers!

[ocnblu]

From ocn to you

[trinacriabob]

Almost all of the gains in the stock market (did the Dow brush 26,000 or 27,000?) under the current President have been eliminated.  I was once sitting at a Starbucks having coffee and an Ivy League trained economist of Indian extraction was sharing the same long table.  This was in late September.  I told him that, in my mind, the Dow should more realistically be at about 24,500.  This was all too simplistic for him.  He could only talk in ivory tower econometric models that he did as part of his work.  Well, I was only partly right.  The slide has exceeded what I said by almost 3,000 points.  Bah hambug.

Edited December 24, 2018 by trinacriabob

[David]

28 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

Almost all of the gains in the stock market (did the Dow brush 26,000 or 27,000?) under the current President have been eliminated.  I was once sitting at a Starbucks having coffee and an Ivy League trained economist of Indian extraction was sharing the same long table.  This was in late September.  I told him that, in my mind, the Dow should more realistically be at about 24,500.  This was all too simplistic for him.  He could only talk in ivory tower econometric models that he did as part of his work.  Well, I was only partly right.  The slide has exceeded what I said by almost 3,000 points.  Bah hambug.

Agreed, we have been long overdue for a correction.

https://money.cnn.com/data/markets/

Apple is down to $146 and change. Over all this week to the end of the year will be profit taking and I would not be surprised to see the market hit 20K and then bounce back up to around 21-22k.

The KKR published in mid 2017 saying the US would be in a deep recession by the end of 2019.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-13/kkr-predicts-us-recession-2019-and-inevitable-cycle-millennial-deleveraging 

Now many various places are saying it too and it seems the drop in stock market, over long crazy trillion dollars of debt by businesses and the billions in personal debt will take us there.

It is going to be interesting to see what all happens next year.

[balthazar]

3 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

Almost all of the gains in the stock market (did the Dow brush 26,000 or 27,000?) under the current President have been eliminated.

Well, no. Dow was right about 17,500 when Trump was elected, so it's still up 4000 pts from then. Beyond that, the S&P was up 19.4% last year alone, so the bump is even greater if you're in it for the long term. This is not to dismiss the 5000 pt drop from the peak tho.
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Edited December 24, 2018 by balthazar

[balthazar]

Take a lookie-loo at this old '70 Plymouth. You guys know the model. It's straight, no visible missing parts or rot; a solid car. Let's assume it's likewise complete underhood (let's say it has a 440 6-pack) & inside. With that assumption, this would probably be termed a '#4 condition' car. Without googling it, what's your guess on it's value as it appears in the pic?

[daves87rs]

2 hours ago, balthazar said:

Take a lookie-loo at this old '70 Plymouth. You guys know the model. It's straight, no visible missing parts or rot; a solid car. Let's assume it's likewise complete underhood (let's say it has a 440 6-pack) & inside. With that assumption, this would probably be termed a '#4 condition' car. Without googling it, what's your guess on it's value as it appears in the pic?

Would say at least 10 grand....

11 hours ago, dfelt said:

Agreed, we have been long overdue for a correction.

https://money.cnn.com/data/markets/

Apple is down to $146 and change. Over all this week to the end of the year will be profit taking and I would not be surprised to see the market hit 20K and then bounce back up to around 21-22k.

The KKR published in mid 2017 saying the US would be in a deep recession by the end of 2019.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-13/kkr-predicts-us-recession-2019-and-inevitable-cycle-millennial-deleveraging 

Now many various places are saying it too and it seems the drop in stock market, over long crazy trillion dollars of debt by businesses and the billions in personal debt will take us there.

It is going to be interesting to see what all happens next year.

Not so much interesting as scary....figured at least a drop of 8k, could be around 10 grand off....

[ocnblu]

No idea... $90k?

8 hours ago, balthazar said:

what's your guess on it's value as it appears in the pic?

 

[Cmicasa the Great]

Thinking of picking this up for $2500. Runs but need engine work, new shocks and tires and obviously some body work