Tonight’s update captures a typical exchange within the team, this one between Tony, Pam, and me pertaining to the cedar board in the photo below.
How do we approach a board with so much character?
— Tony Foster
Great question, right? Tony has been transforming rough cut cedar into properly finished and dimensioned pickets for the carriage barn privacy fence.
Pam offered sage advice.
My thought is, get a long board out of the right side, whatever width you can. Then the left side, there will still be a usable piece below the character. That could be for the shorter portion on the fence on top of the beautiful stone wall.
— Pam Murphy
Practical solution.
And I couldn’t resist a wabi-sabi perspective…
Good ideas, Pam. Better yet, let’s hold off for now to see if we actually need the lumber that we would derive from cutting it out. Might be awfully neat to incorporate that into a table or bench top with a couple of inlaid bowties!
— Geo Davis
Turns out my yen wasn’t as much an outlier as expected.
I love the imperfections. A table would be perfect and beautiful.
— Pam Murphy
Perfect imperfection. Now we get to start dreaming up a project…
Wabi-sabi, the perfection of imperfection.
— Geo Davis
What do you think?