Putty and Paint make it what it ain't.
Mike

Bill Taggart wrote:
> Let's all thank the industrial chemists for painter's caulk.
>
> I'm finally at the finishing stages of a lengthy and complete tear-out and
> renovation of our master bath.  While doing the trim carpentry over the past
> couple of weekends, including door stops, door casings, and crown moldings
> all around (including a couple of non-90-degree angles for an angled wall),
> I found myself saying "good thing this is paint grade work."  But seriously,
> if I may say so myself, I actually have gotten pretty good at finish
> carpentry - provided it's going to painted!  Although those angles took me a
> while to work out right - I finally determined that one is about 133
> degrees; the other is about 136.
>
> - Bill T.
> - To be fair (to myself), I'm sure I could get purty acceptable results even
> if it were stain/finish grade... But the paint grade stuff is sure a lot
> easier!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oldtools-bounces@r...
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> pedger66@j...
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:13 AM
> To: amgron@c...; oldtools@r...
> Subject: RE: [OldTools] Re: workmanship
>
> Jeff,
>
> That's a good one! May I use it? I heard a guy say when he made a mistake,
> "Well that ain't the way we do it in Mississippi." I don't know if he was
> even from there. I've said myself, "That'll do until the inspector comes and
> I hope to be gone by then." Ha. We house carpenters used to joke, "Let's all
> buy stock in a caulk company." when we left big gaps. Ha ha. Of course none
> of that applied when I was working on my OWN projects. Ha ha ha.
>
> Phil E.
>
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Michael E. Siemsen
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