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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Back to the Drawing Board

21-Dec-07

Wanting to draw some pictures on sheets of paper rather than in a sketchbook, I needed a work surface. At the Woodcraft shop in San Carlos, I found the perfect drawing board. A sheet of 13mm thick birch plywood, 24″ x 36″.  Top grade spruce or birch plywood is a wonderful material. Once called “finnply” because [...]

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Don’t Tread on Me

11-Dec-07

Detail from Scott Greene’s “Tiller” 72″x72″, oil on canvas, 2007.

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Crusty

09-Dec-07

The crust is starting to get there. I added about half a cup of Red Mills Gluten Flour to the recipe. I had been trying that in bagels, and I think it makes the crust chewier. Even when an experiment ends with an imperfect loaf of bread, it is still rewarding. It almost always tastes [...]

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