I actually have a stock of "old" wood. I also have quality furniture from back in the day.
There are house junkyards here. When a building is demolished, valuable components (like bricks and hardwood floors) are stocked for resale. And they are not cheap.
Droughts are a natural phenomena.
Weather change is a natural phenomena.
Solar cooling and warning is a natural phenomena.
I think this thread has seen its terminus.
I got my TP, my lead, my whiskey and plenty of audio components. I just need a good generator.
But sometimes you strike a deal.
I got a matching mid century Danish hutch in rosewood to match the one we already had... same wood, same manufacturer, same style for about 2000 shipped from the East Coast ( we're in the West Coast of the US ).
But three years later I found the hutch and the bottom pieced ( china cabinet + storage ) from the same manufacturer, same year, but in teak, not rosewood for 500 bucks! The shipping added another 500 but it was worth it.
Good furniture lasts for a very long time for sure.
Just like the receivers and amplifiers from the 70s that, with a reasonable restoration, are still working today. Can you think of an Ikea product, or an 80s mass market receiver, that is worth anything today?
I still have some of the furniture from the house I grew up in. I refinished some of it this summer. It will provide a couple hundred more years of service, easily. And I have a set of chairs from my maternal grandmother. The chairs are over 100 years old. They get sat in every day.
I browse resale shops in my neighborhood. Some of the furniture is really nice but the price is dear. "Resale" doesn't mean bargain any more. New stuff is almost always universally junk, which means it will be thrown away in ten years or less. Ironically this exacerbates the problem.
There is an upscale new furniture shop by my house. They have beautiful furniture made with quality wood and veneers. But, even a simple accent table is $5000.
I bought some new furniture about 20-25 years ago. I paid up and got the good stuff. I bet I could sell it for more than twice what I paid for it.
I browse resale shops in my neighborhood. Some of the furniture is really nice but the price is dear. "Resale" doesn't mean bargain any more. New stuff is almost always universally junk, which means it will be thrown away in ten years or less. Ironically this exacerbates the problem.
There is an upscale new furniture shop by my house. They have beautiful furniture made with quality wood and veneers. But, even a simple accent table is $5000.
I bought some new furniture about 20-25 years ago. I paid up and got the good stuff. I bet I could sell it for more than twice what I paid for it.
The tactics of having a small “organisation” (in fact a radical one person club) forcing a government to change this and that might as well be an instrument for that same government. “Some measures have to be taken.”
Bad experiences here with crowds following one person.
@Faste Eddie D: I bet you don't have any fake wood/MDF based furniture in your home?
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I didn't know you were into conspiracy theories. Are the shapeshifting reptilian aliens also involved?
I am not. I am also not one easily manipulated. This Mobilisation for the Environment club is a one person thing by a very radical person. Please look up how this club is being financed.
Your remark "shapeshifting reptilian aliens" is below the belt and not accepted. It is of low class and suggesting I am into extreme right wing stuff which is about the worst one can be accused of in your country (you are very aware of this) and you know a part of my personal history indicating otherwise. I demand you take this silly comment back and reported your post. Shame on you.
Your remark "shapeshifting reptilian aliens" is below the belt and not accepted. It is of low class and suggesting I am into extreme right wing stuff which is about the worst one can be accused of in your country (you are very aware of this) and you know a part of my personal history indicating otherwise. I demand you take this silly comment back and reported your post. Shame on you.
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I do. I'm hoping to replace it in time. I was super busy this summer and my house (and budget) have been transformed, so I'm going to cool it until next spring.
New in woodwork. Well since a few years. Only solid wood and only a few sorts like American cherry, beech, oak so the classic woods around here for quality goods. Very nice to make good looking furniture with it. Just when I thought one can throw all money into audio... I found out the same counts for woodworking machinery.
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Working with wood, particularly finishing wood -for me-, is therapeutic... seeing how the grain comes out to life... sanding, dusting, polishing... it's like listening to a good class A amp over a set of speakers that sound good with music that you love... No plastic for us. No Bose for us. Nope.
I recently refinished a mid 60 audio credenza... it is rather cheap wood but it has real good walnut veneers and the design is mid century. My son didn't want it, so we managed to put it in the car and bring it down 1200 miles. About two hours with a refinisher and it came to live. I thought about doing it more but then it would lose its "lived in" character... so I let it be. Old stuff should never be perfect, it should have some imperfections which are sort of like the surface, you know? While its heart shines through.
As in a concert, where you can ignore the one cough here and the one cough there because the orchestra is everywhere. The coughs are the warts we deal with to experience the live orchestra.
Just as the fine scratches on the credenza are the price we pay to enjoy its 50 years old history.
Besides, working with stuff is a fine excuse to buy more tools. More tools! Awesome.
I deliberately planted an olive tree as an example, olive trees are durable and can be 2000 years old like this one from the picture which is located in Istria, Croatia.
Dry years are possible and then the crop would be weaker, but in recent years it has happened that there is no crop at all.
If such things had happened in the time of the ancient Romans and Greeks, today's civilization would certainly not be the way we know it.
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grunt, it is painful to hear of such matters. I have been tied to the Mediterranean Sea area for various reasons and for many years. The olive tree really is of essential importance there. Let's hope for the better.
Bill Gates didn't become the largest private owner of farmland in this hemisphere to save the bees.
Well I wouldn't know but I was in the green religion for a while professionally and noticed it is mainly just business. Some might say it is only business. Clueless people are made to believe green stuff will save us. My opinion is that much/most green stuff is designed to prolong our way of life by offering only small improvements with various drawbacks. Reel green is not to use the energy at all and to make ones carbon footprint smaller. Not by being a radical nitwit with a Tesla and still fly 5 times a year to far away destinations.
Since the Christian religion is declining people apparently need a new religion and being green seems the new way to belong to something important. The scary thing is the radical way of seeing things combined with oversimplification of complex matters. For instance the manipulating of people to become vegan via various ways which you can not seem to escape. Now please tell me what vegan food is made of, where and how things are produced, what the environmental impact of those crops is and what this food does to your body.
Since the Christian religion is declining people apparently need a new religion and being green seems the new way to belong to something important. The scary thing is the radical way of seeing things combined with oversimplification of complex matters. For instance the manipulating of people to become vegan via various ways which you can not seem to escape. Now please tell me what vegan food is made of, where and how things are produced, what the environmental impact of those crops is and what this food does to your body.
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Yes, it is painful, especially if you invest 30 years of effort and care to make a new one out of an old neglected olive grove, I am especially glad that we saved a dozen trees that were planted by my ancestors in the 19th century.
I don't know what will happen to those trees now, this is the first time they have been without water for more than a year, so they certainly won't have a good future.
"You're an achieved man when you made a house, a child and planted a tree" an old saying told us.
Can't you truck in a few barrels of water and keep them alive?
In California they use drip irrigation on the fruit crops so the water usage is far more efficient.
This is not a very easy task in the Mediterranean karst, especially on a small island. This summer we also had water reductions for households in some regions, so it is a problem from that side as well.
My friend, who has an olive grove further in the continent and who has the possibility to bring water to it, has a good harvest, but it has questionable profitability for a long period.
For centuries, olives were grown only in the karst, among stones and with very little soil, the oil from such olive groves is of top quality, unlike the one from the plantations that we see on the shelves in our stores.
My friend, who has an olive grove further in the continent and who has the possibility to bring water to it, has a good harvest, but it has questionable profitability for a long period.
For centuries, olives were grown only in the karst, among stones and with very little soil, the oil from such olive groves is of top quality, unlike the one from the plantations that we see on the shelves in our stores.
Marcel the powers that be are running both sides so as to make any opposition look foolish and not getting anywhere, just as Lenin ones said:
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves
The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves
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