I would like to say thank you for all of the support we are receiving.  It may take a leap of faith to start something like this and to open it up to everybody on the internet, but it is working better than I ever expected.   Yes, there are some shallow thinkers out there, but the overwhelming majority comments are helpful, upbeat and positive.  Water may float the boat in the future, but your support is doing it now. And I can not say enough about our guest workers.  We have obviously tapped into a common dream for folks like Jakob who is currently here from London England.  He took his holiday and savings to fly across the Atlantic to run a grinder for days on end.   I am grateful.  –Doug

If there is a certification for grinding then Jakob could pass with his eyes closed.  With his and Jacks help we got all ten porthole frames welded together and ground.  The next step is to bolt the porthole rings on and weld the nuts onto the frame.  So should the nuts and bolts be steel (39 cents each), stainless ($1.50 each) or bronze ($10 each).   Frankly, bronze is a non starter.

And many thanks to Chris Faith for the awesome photo on the bottom of the post.   It is a composite of several photos taken with long exposure times.  See “light painting” for more.

Ten Porthole Frames

by Chris Faith