Jeff Matthews

See there, Michael. Yet more in common. You have a stone house, too. I like your place. What a beautiful house and lot! So Wintery with all that snow. Definitely gives more meaning to the Holiday Season. BTW: Can't save any of the exterior pine. To much warping over the years. It didn't hold up to rain too well.

I guess I'd have to see an up-close shot of the BR's to understand completely. I was talking about disassembling sides from motorboard and top. Then, use skilsaw as needed to trim down. Using a sharp blade and straight line, this shouldn't take all too long. Then, use new wood to make new motorboard (but gotta get a router with a circle template to cut a very smooth circle for the woofer). Then, insert new motorboard and re-assemble. Sounds like a 2-weekend project to me. Do you have close-up pics of BR fronts w/o grills to show me where the difficulty is?

Yes, I see what you are saying. As far as pics, I'll get my friend's camera and get some. Mine look like what you just posted - only I've pulled the cloth off the front of only 1 so far. Mine has less grain in the wood - although it is birch like the one you showed. BUT.... couldn't you trim down the sides the inch or so in order to have them equal? Then, you could go with a new face. Definitely some work, but am I right or wrong?

Close guess. See the far side of the back where the sliding glass door is upstairs? In there. EDIT: And now that I've advertised to the world a great place to get some free K-Horns, etc. in the middle of the night, I will add that we have 3 vicious dogs that have the run of the house and the land. Good luck to adventurers! I've always wanted to see what a skinless guy looks like. []

I might consider trading my Decos for 2 matching pair of regulars in nice condition. Are these Decos really that much more desirable? If you all think so, I'd consider trades. But I'm not eager or anything, so it would take something real tempting. Heck... I'm not sure. Michael, why can't you just buy a piece of wood for the motorboard and make regular Corns into Decos?

The Who "In Tune" Try this: "The sensation is not new to you It's something you all have known You get it, it goes right through you Yes, it's something we all have known"

Time to confess. My wife did all the work.

Here's the back - still untouched. Michael, you can see the painted version of that tongue and groove. The folks that built this place must have bought tongue and groove by the boatload. It was used for subflooring, roof decking, some interior walls.

On my end, it looks like the forum already shrinks them down and you have to click on the JPG filename link to see them full-size. Is that what you're doing? I'm still in learning mode here.

Last one.

Here's another.

Looks like it does. Somebody let me know.

Testing pics. Does this work?

Ray, I'm disappointed. Bart: . I am surprised anyone even got the band. "Tenderloin." Try this: "Oh baby don't it make you feel so bad Dark clouds are over the street After what I read, I can hardly feel my heart... My heart beat Down the subway stairs After him they leapt An echo snap and scream of fire The hot pursuit was done For the last time he felt the light And gave up his last fight Oh baby don't it make you feel so bad Dark clouds are over the street After what I read, I can hardly feel my heart... My heart beat" Name that Tune!

Finally got one. It's been awhile. Tom Petty: "Mary Jane's Last Dance." Okay, I'm going to have to try to stump everyone like Ray. Try this: "I come to you in a blue blue room By some abuse and some heart You raise the blinds say, 'Let's have light on life, Let's watch it fall apart. Let's watch it fall apart.'" Name that Tune!

Sounds good, Mark. Hate to get down to minutia, but a have indents where the body of the stable slammed against the wood. Kind of like if you pressed your fingernail into a styrofoam cup to leave a little dent. Did you have any of those to deal with?

I have alot of that same tongue and grove pine paneling. Michael, this is too interesting. You're a Klipsch guy. You have a house on 2 wooded acres in the city. You have tongue and grove pine paneling for some of the walls. You like Santana's "Moonflower," which most people have never heard of, and you have a Crown Microtech 1200. Ever heard of the "Doppelganger" theory? Nope, but you're in Ohio, I feel a couple of road trips coming on..... Dern, now I've got to go spend an hour on internet looking up Doppelganger theory LOL EDIT- HOLY COW, okay, you can come over sometime, but if my cats freak out, I'm calling the cops! LOL END EDIT. Michael Michael, see a couple pics I posted on 20 Watt Amp thread. On the last picture, you can see some of that tongue and groove below the old masonite siding I haven't replaced yet with Hardiplank. As you can see, the tongue and groove was used on the exterior, also. It did not weather outside well. There's lots inside on the left half of the house downstairs that's in pretty fair shape. A re-staining will be just fine - when I get to that half of the house. Right now, we're going to re-hab the right half interior. Then, go to the left. The room with the pine is about 35x35 downstairs - 1 big TV room with an enclosed utility room in the back right corner. Read the post I made close to the end in the same thread to see my life's challenge during the last year. I'm proudly re-habbing our new old house. Don't have any pics of inside, but you can see a little of what we've been doing outside. Plus, we did alot outside first before coming in. We at least needed to get the part facing the street out of the way first. Fun... fun... fun... When I get done (if ever []), a road trip is in line. Have to come during a summer to get out of the Houston heat wave.

Anything particular you did with the staple indents? Or did you not have any that were problematic?

Just retrying the pics: Didn't work. How come when I re-size the pic. in my edit message screen, it doesn't re-size in the final post?

Sorry, I don't know how to properly size pics for posting on forum. They are out of proportion. For example, the width of the area in stone where the chimney is is about 16 feet. Looks like about 8 feet in the pics I posted. On my computer, they are correctly proportioned.

Vegetable Oil sounds really dangerous on paper. I would not try it, unless I saw it done on something I wouldn't mind destroying first. How about compressed air - if your talking about well-settled dust? Tell us what it is that is on there that makes them dirty.

Here's some pics:

Hands full! Married. No children. 3 dogs, 1 cat, and lots of KOI in a cruddy pond I'll either get to or fill in. KHorn room is 15 x 20 x 8 1/2. Might become bigger. I'll get the serials. Don't know the year. e-mail: jmatthews@xexam.net. Will post pics to give you a flavor of fixing up "This Old House."

Craig, I don't record myself on drums. I just put on CD's of classic rock and sit down and jam. I'm not at all a "serious" drummer. I'm pretty decent for a "not serious" drummer. I also got your PM. I am about as serious with my stereo equip as I am at drumming. Decent equipment for being "not serious" about it. So, I don't know alot about the specs of my equip. I know that my KHorns have AA Xovers and the drivers are supposed to have AlNiCo magnets. My place is a wreck. When I said "fixing up 'This Old House,'" I meant it. We have gotten down into stuff that would scare most people away. Ripping out joists and walls and beaming up to combine 2 rooms into 1 room. Installing DIY HVAC galore. Finally just routed the gas lines to furnaces this weekend - a project I put off until the first cold front, of course. The house didn't even have siding material on big walls in the front when we bought it (just tar paper). The living room floor was like a trampoline because the joists were so rotten. Wood framed windows were rotten on the bottom, and the weight of the glass was collapsing them as they sagged. Truly a fixer-upper. Some people told me "run as fast as I can," but I saw the challenge and the diamond through the lump of coal. We've done alot. Foundation is fixed. All new windows. Demo'd all old brick front and chimney and replaced with limestone brought in from Austin. 250' of wrought iron fence with intermittent limestone columns across the front. Hardi-plank, crushed asphalt driveway, etc. But all the interior finishing touches are waiting for all the structural to be completed. So, the carpet is shot. The kitchen and bathrooms are gross, etc. We'll be getting to those in about 3-4 months or so. I can't wait. After a year of re-building this house, I finally get to start refinishing the interior to make it look nice - and finally presentable. Imagine buying a 4500 square foot house and practically ripping it down to its skeleton - even replacing part of the skeleton for that matter - all while trying to live there and accomplish this like some sort of "weekend warrior." It is fun, though. I love the challenge. Why did I take this on? 2 wooded acres this close-in is rare. If it wasn't for the land, I would have "ran as fast as I could." Look forward to hooking up with you. Keep my contact info. handy, and let me know when your Scott pre comes in.

Jeff, .... "Smoking" someone on the drums is not part of my language. Craig, I've never seen a great musician boast. While it might not be part of your language, I know when I get smoked. [] But it's not competitive in an "ego" way for me - it is all in good fun. Really, I'd rather sit down with a better drummer because that is where I take home a few new tricks. As it turns out, it really is a small world. You know my brother, William. He took lessons from you. I think his son, Christopher, also took lessons from you.