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1. Invisible scarf? Can you see it? Raymond Friend made it vanish.
2. Just one of Tom Cundiff's many tool chests.
3. Brutal 20-year-old TE-72 wielded by a weary 20-year-old timber framer. We already know which one will be running at the end of this day.
4. A harsh job calls for a harsher tool; the sun comes up on an old Hilti TE-72 chipping hammer modified by Tom Haanen to drive those galvanized cut nails through our 2" oak floor. It takes about a second, and it makes a gratifying amount of noise.
5. Tom Cundiff fully engaged in the Tenon Shop. Replacement tenons and most patches are being made from salvage threshing floor stock; some very tightly grained white oak -- hard, strong, rot resistant and appropriate.
6. Mystery joint? This is the BOTTOM of this post, where it engages both the forebay plate and a very large floor joist, underrunning.
7. Park Mason Don Rice (l) and TFG leadership team member Brian Beals do a dawn survey of the unruly joists they will spend this day attempting to subdue.