Mirage IIIVB

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Sounds like the illness didn't last too long at least.
Nothing like sprucing up a house just so you can sell it and then the new owners just tear it up again.

Especially the eejits who've bought into the stupid remodel porn reality shows.
No you feckin' muppets smashing the old cabinets and fixtures out of the kitchen
is not a good idea. It's stupid drama for the show and when they eff something
up it isn't shown, it's fixed off camera. No, you're not going to be able to do a full
reno in four days, no it won't be as cheap as the shows claim etc. etc.

Especially the people who move into a house with lots of beautiful woodwork then paint it all white and the walls grey. I'm also a wood worker when not building models so that's a crime in my book.

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Sounds like the illness didn't last too long at least.
Nothing like sprucing up a house just so you can sell it and then the new owners just tear it up again.

Especially the eejits who've bought into the stupid remodel porn reality shows.
No you feckin' muppets smashing the old cabinets and fixtures out of the kitchen
is not a good idea. It's stupid drama for the show and when they eff something
up it isn't shown, it's fixed off camera. No, you're not going to be able to do a full
reno in four days, no it won't be as cheap as the shows claim etc. etc.

Especially the people who move into a house with lots of beautiful woodwork then paint it all white and the walls grey. I'm also a wood worker when not building models so that's a crime in my book.

I hear ya brother. One of the things that sold us on our 1951 house is that all of the mouldings, doors, built-ins and cabinets were varnished wood. In the public areas, foyer, short hall to bdrms and great room (living, dining) it's all mahogany. Kitchen, utility, bath and bedrooms are fir, some of it VG. The baseboards are 4" streamline in both types of wood. Mahogany doors, interiors hollow core, front and back solid. Floors are oak except in kitchen, utility and bath. The kitchen cabinets are birch ply doors and drawerfronts with a 3/4" fir ply and VG fir carcase. The filler panel between the top of the cabinets and the kitchen ceiling is a single 15.5 ft X 7.5" X .75" VG fir plank, tight grain and completely clear. But ya know damned well whoever has the house after we've popped our clogs will rip it all out and replace it with the flavour of the month, because it's "old". Bland crap that will look out of date by the next year and reveal its shoddy construction within months of the work being done, if not during the build.

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I built my own kitchen cabinets. Custom made with solid oak doors and front frames. 3/4" fir plywood everywhere else. The upstairs bathroom cabinets too. I've redone all the trim and the doors in the house with oak to replace the cheap original stuff. I learned everything from my dad and used his shop. It's quite the family tradition as my son and his cousins are very good at it too.

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I built my own kitchen cabinets. Custom made with solid oak doors and front frames. 3/4" fir plywood everywhere else. The upstairs bathroom cabinets too. I've redone all the trim and the doors in the house with oak to replace the cheap original stuff. I learned everything from my dad and used his shop. It's quite the family tradition as my son and his cousins are very good at it too.

You and my brother would get on, he was a 7 year apprenticed shipwright, still has a love and "feel" for wood 

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I built my own kitchen cabinets. Custom made with solid oak doors and front frames. 3/4" fir plywood everywhere else. The upstairs bathroom cabinets too. I've redone all the trim and the doors in the house with oak to replace the cheap original stuff. I learned everything from my dad and used his shop. It's quite the family tradition as my son and his cousins are very good at it too.

You and my brother would get on, he was a 7 year apprenticed shipwright, still has a love and "feel" for wood 

Boat building would be a whole different world! But fun I bet.

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I built my own kitchen cabinets. Custom made with solid oak doors and front frames. 3/4" fir plywood everywhere else. The upstairs bathroom cabinets too. I've redone all the trim and the doors in the house with oak to replace the cheap original stuff. I learned everything from my dad and used his shop. It's quite the family tradition as my son and his cousins are very good at it too.

You and my brother would get on, he was a 7 year apprenticed shipwright, still has a love and "feel" for wood 

Boat building would be a whole different world! But fun I bet.

When the shipyards closed he ended up forming his own building business with mates from the yards, as between them  they had all the skills necessary. He did tell me once though that a 7 year apprenticeship was "one year making tea, one year learning the job, and five as cheap labour". All a long time ago now, back in the late 50's/early 60's when the GB had a shipbuilding industry.