Bull Sigh

I knew there was a sale but I was pretty broke at the time. I should not complain, I've paid huge bucks for conference proceeding books and rare historical books. The thing is, I want to focus on axe making so I knew I'd eventually pop for this one, then my son beat me to it.

Clean up and organization always takes me 2 or 3 times as long as I think it will.

My son picked up a copy and I'm working through it. So far so good. Kinda pricey.

That stand is a beauty !

As a relative newbie here, I don't know the people of the community well. However, Frosty was active in most of the threads I participated in and he was very welcoming to me. Rest in peace, Frosty. You will be missed.

Do you still have copies of the hard cover?

If IFI had a thumbs-up button to click, you'd have many, JHCC.

There is a Youtube timber frame builder who uses the handle of Mr. Chickadee and he has a video of building a timber frame smithy. He builds in the Japanese timber frame style, so that's not what the OP here was looking for, but Mr. Chickadee is an interesting guy that makes lots of cool stuff, so you may enjoy checking it out.

Are you experiencing any tippiness if you are out on the end of the horn or on the heel?

LOL, JHCC. "This has definitely been a strange turn of thread." My fault, sorry...

"I had to look up "challenging matrix for a nutrients digestion method," read a few hits and am lost. Why would anyone want to make digest nutrients challenging. Don't get where matrix comes in." It relates to analysis of nutrients in natural waters, since high levels of nutrients are toxic to bugs and beasts. Many analytical methods convert similar contaminants to one single compound by a digestion procedure, then analyze for that compound and report a total. For example, nitrate and nitrite ion are related and can contaminate a river if excess levels of fertilizer are used. That's a common issue, see "Gulf of America (or Mexico) Hypoxia" in a search. Some methods convert nitrite to nitrate, then analyze for nitrate. Waterways with high levels of fine particulate shale can basically swamp the capacity of the analytical method's digestion procedure.

"So on the walls I installed plenty small floodlights so i have plenty of light from different sources and angles to eliminate as much as possible shadows." You nailed it, Gewoon. Having a mixture of diffuse light and direct light is what works best for me. As I age and my vision deteriorates, this becomes more important.

"So Bull my friend I gift you with this, one of my favorite rabbit holes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Shale" Wild. I've heard of Burgess Shale because it was used as a challenging matrix for a nutrients digestion method, but I had no idea of the history WRT fossils. It's a huge world out there.

I admitted once that I had a bad case of Fungi Fear. Botanists like to do that naming crap. I avoid it whenever possible. I start with Oliver Medsger: Edible Wild Plants. Available used under $10.

LOL on rabbit hole. Yes, much of the natural product world makes me wonder about humans. For another large rabbit hole, look at Sacred Datura and Native American rituals. Pyrrolizidines were a badger hole for me at the time. I did my work in Scrophulariaceae, mostly Indian Paintbrush. They are worth avoiding: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/20801500/PALecture2010.pdf