[Cob] but wait! RE: OK, this is a heart throb for me

[Ron Becker]

Beautiful  Charmaine,  I forgot that stuff. A bread oven is a good 
starter as well, but more complex than a bench but very doable as a 
first project. And don't forget workshop Charles they are everywhere 
now.

Ron
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On Jan 28, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Dirtcheapbuilder-Charmaine Taylor wrote:

>
> On Jan 28, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Charles Trella wrote:
>
> Ron et all . .
>  done by hands whose skills and artisanship far exceed my own. To own 
> and live in one of these would be nirvana for me.
>  It is my dream to build some form of alternative low impact home and 
> life for my retirement in either NH or some NE quadrant of the US 
> state near the mountains.
>   Chuck
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  But wait Chuck... no reason you can't make a small hut or even a  
> comley dog house with all the artistic talent you DO have.   And you 
> will learn more as you mess with the clay  too.
>
>  Many years ago I envied the gorgeous cob benches I saw, and started 
> making a cob garden bench of my own while I lived at a rental house.
>
> It was so much fun, I learned a ton, and  the peacefulness of mixing 
> the clay and  shaping the arms and back were hours well spent.
> I remember that time fondly, and having people come and want to sit on 
> my "bench"     BUT BUT  my  SKILL level was  pretty low!  I ended up 
> with a cob "couch" shape, and it was big, lumpy  and not perfect at 
> ALL  in my mind.. others saw my pictures of it, and a man in UK later 
> told me it was  my cob couch that inspired him to begin  building...go 
> figure.
>
>   I think one of the best things you can do is to make a small 
> structure, even if it is a 6' long curvey privacy wall with glass 
> bottles for light to pass.
>
>  Nothing says you cant try and experiement  just for the FUN of it.  
> Even a tiny 4' -6' diameter round 'hut" for storing garden tools is 
> worth doing.
>
> post script: When I moved my landlady made me KNOCK my bench down..I 
> could not  bring    myself to do it, and got a friend to  do it for 
> me, and return the clay back to the earth...
>
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