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THE ARTISAN CHRONICLES
What goes on in the mind of an artisan? How does he work? How does she run the business? Read on. It's pretty interesting.
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Glass = Treasure
We’re working on an amazing project right now – the wood windows at West Tampa’s Centro Espanol building. It’s always interesting...
Lynda
Mar 9, 20212 min read
Museum - Phase 2
We made a commitment long ago to share our knowledge and passion for historic windows with as many people as possible. And our Wood...
Lynda
Mar 5, 20211 min read
Wood Window Overhaul Works Best Cyclically, Like Singing Rounds
(First published Sept, 2020) How is singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat like an Artisan Army working on windows?? Singers who know and...
Steve Quillian
Feb 27, 20214 min read
How To Escape Client Judgment
I've always been passionate about how Client Care/Job Setup/Organizing the Work Beginning and End should be conducted. This is nothing...
Steve Quillian
Feb 25, 20216 min read
Chisel in the Left Hand, Hammer in the Right
The Artisan has become such by eliminating unnecessary, superfluous movements and combining two or three basic movements into one that is...
Steve Quillian
Feb 24, 20213 min read
Set Up is Key to Excellence
The secret to excellent execution is an excellent set up. A worker may wind up with an excellent result every now and then, but for one...
Steve Quillian
Feb 21, 20214 min read
Wood Window Joinery With A Nine Year Old
Turns out that taking your nine year old (Kolten) to the shop to help with making wood windows is a lot of fun! Being in the middle of a...
Steve Quillian
Feb 7, 20211 min read
A Window Sash Milling Sequence
An order for twenty eight window sash, fourteen 8 lites and fourteen 2 lites, is an excellent opportunity to let our readers in on as...
Steve Quillian
Feb 4, 20212 min read
The other window
I've been with Wood Window Makeover for over 2 years now. And in that time I've learned a thing or two about wood windows. I'm not a...
Lynda
Feb 3, 20212 min read
Dedicated Tenoning Station
A dedicated tenoning station was one of first of my dedicated tool assemblies. The need arose out the delays inherent in changing set...
Steve Quillian
Feb 1, 20212 min read
Dedicated Sash Making Set Ups
What tools will I need to make a sash? As few as possible. The idea is to be as productive as possible in as little space and as little time
Steve Quillian
Jan 29, 20213 min read
Open Source Window Making
Window making in 2021 is all but dead unless you are a big fat corporation. And their windows are designed to fail. And they make them so...
Steve Quillian
Jan 28, 20213 min read
Fitting Day for Fitting Storm Windows
Because there aren’t any thunder storms lol! Its the big secret window replacement companies don’t want you to know. Why? They make...
Steve Quillian
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Major Facelift
If you have driven down Cypress Street in Tampa between Howard and Rome, you’ve undoubtedly seen a new mural being installed on the south...
Steve Quillian
Jan 23, 20215 min read
Managing Large Projects as Tapestries
So we have a large project coming up soon, in a couple of weeks as a matter of fact. For months we’ve been working on small to medium...
Steve Quillian
Jan 22, 20213 min read
Chasing ingredients
When you're figuring out what to cook for dinner, where do you start? With your store cupboard ingredients? Or do you find that one...
Steve Quillian
Jan 14, 20211 min read
Reminder to myself - find my moment of zen (by The Brit)
Some people are just great at puzzles. And they love them... Those kids who can solve a Rubik's cube is under a minute? Geniuses. Steve...
Steve Quillian
Jan 13, 20211 min read
The Archetypal Window - An American Success Story…
It was an archetypal time, unlike any other in history. The land of opportunity had reached its full stride. There was an ‘unending’...
Steve Quillian
Dec 3, 20204 min read
Once a Flip Always a Flip
So, our next job is one that sprung on us in an unlikely way. A man in St. Petersburg hired us to re-glaze his historic windows and make...
Steve Quillian
Oct 29, 20203 min read
Wood Window Advice? Keep Rowing Till The End
How is singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat like an Artisan Army working on windows?? Singers who know and understand not only the song, but...
Steve Quillian
Oct 27, 20204 min read
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