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   RW | Apr 02, 2005 02:03am | #1

   geez Stan. You keep posting pics like that a lot of good carps are gonna hang up their toolbelt and start looking for something they can be good at.

   "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain

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   donpapenburg | Apr 02, 2005 02:23am | #2

   Even with the paper they are perdy

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   MarkDikeman | Apr 07, 2005 10:35pm | #3

   Stan-

   Are you sure you don't want an employee?  It would be a shame to not be able to pass on your knowledge to someone!  You do wonderful work. 

   Mark in Champaign

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   StanFoster | Apr 12, 2005 03:51am | #6

   Mark:   Hey...come up to my shop..and I will buy lunch.  I didnt realize you were in Champaign. 

    

   Stan

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   MarkDikeman | Apr 12, 2005 04:04pm | #9

   Stan-

   Thanks for the offer.  I will take you up on the visit to the shop.  I work for Habitat for Humanity and we have two houses that are supposed to finish in the next two weeks, so I will be fairly busy until both are done. 

   Mark

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   DaveHeinlein | Apr 07, 2005 11:55pm | #4

   Great work, as usual, Stan.

   Do you buy the balusters and riser stock pre-primed, or do you do it?

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   StanFoster | Apr 12, 2005 03:52am | #7

   Dave:   I get the balusters pre-primed....but the risers are just raw boards.

    

   Stan

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   DaneB | Apr 11, 2005 03:03am | #5

   If anybody ever tells you that you are not a master artiest has to be so blind that they trip over there own feet.

   Again many thinks for showing the rest of us how you went about building that master piece.

   Dane

   I will always be a beginner as I am always learning.

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   StanFoster | Apr 12, 2005 03:55am | #8

   Dane:   Thanks so much for the kind words...but I will be the first to say that I am over rated.   My work barely deserves getting posted.   I say this because I go to the big cities and see some mind boggling displays of material and talent that I just crawl back into my little shop and use what I just saw to motivate me.  

   I am not a master by no means.

    

   Stan