This is my 3rd day on the road. Louie is my only friend that is older than me, but he’s still a boy. He rides a 500′ cable across a churning river to get to his house. Yesterday I turned around on the beach to catch him trying to lasso me with a piece of kelp.
Yesterday we played in his shop. I had cut some slabs out of an oak log with my chainsaw, the same log that rolled down a hill and fractured my rib a few months ago. I figured I’d make a litttle box out of the wood.
Louie ran it through his big powerful wooden-wheel shipbuilders’ band saw, then milled it down on his Makita planer, and I ended up with 2 beautiful pieces of oak.
Room attached to Louie’s shop where I sleep and fiddle on my Mac.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Room attached to Louie’s shop where I sleep and fiddle on my Mac.
I have tool envy. Love the band saw!
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
_George Bernard Shaw
Louis looks awesome… as does his house!