A couple of very special YCS.

The wood "looked" like sandalwood to me. I smelled it but couldn't smell anything but that's what 50+ years of smoking does for you. You can't smell anything. One thing I'm sure of, the wood isn't saatisal.

Don't take anything I say about wood as gospel. Example: Yangdu dragged me down to the furniture store to look at a new bedroom set for Titanic II. I saw a "pine" set I liked and opted for it. Yangdu wisely asked the salesman if this was "real wood." No, he said, it was some kind of plastic laminate that looked like pine. The set was really glue, sawdust and plastic and I thought it was pine.

Now you know.
 
When they stoop to faking 'pine' we really are in the last days of man.


The future promises a free watch, big screen TV, and a particle board real wood simulation desk set.

one thing about particle board, leave it if you're moving any distance. It falls apart of its own weight when disturbed. It is meant to sit in place until decomposing back into the ground from whence it came.

munk
 
This summer disassembled a particleboard structure with a chiruwa AK. It took about 15 seconds to turn an 8'x10' building into a pile of 2'x2' squares. :D :D
 
Most of the material I see being used in the new contruction projects here in Reno is glue and woodchips.
 
I hope plastic gets here soon. Plastic houses...rifles, cookware, space shuttles...all with no stick surface.

I'm told there is a better particle board now. I myself have some of the finest partcle board furniture money can buy. It still only would take 15 seconds with a AK to destroy, but looks better in the meantime, almost like real wood. sob.


munk
 
How about one made from hay? Styrofoam may last 10,000 years, but not in a structural form. Course, one from hay might be eaten by livestock or deer.

You could shoot a cow for trespass and have steak for a year.




munk
 
actually, I think the hay is sealed with plaster. Imagine tryin got resell the thing though.



My parents lived in a house in Tucson whose attic frame was 1920's and 30's car frames.


munk
 
There was a group of architectural students (TX, I think) that built a temporary dorm out of compressed carboard - and lived in it for nearly a year...
 
Hay can make a good house--in adobe. Not the best for wet climates though.

Particle board really sucks, at least what I have stuff in...Shelves take a set like crazy, weighs a ton. Fortunately I'm slovenly enough that nearly all surfaces are concealed by miscellaneous possesions and detritus, so they're not quite so visible. Don't even think of moving it unless you can take it apart to flat boards and wrap it. Even then you'll probably lose some corners.
And some of it I think I could turn it into compost by just giving it a good soaking with the hose, and a kick.

Styrofoam is a good insulator. But if you think burning a hole in the carpet from cig. ashes is a problem, wait till you see what it does to styrofoam.

I'm thinking maybe bubble wrap insulation and those heavy waxed carboard appliance boxes. Regular waxing and I bet they'd last as long as some the McMansions I see going up in particle board, chicken wire, and a thin layer of sprayed mortar. And it would be about a million dollars cheaper too.

They keep showing all these miracle composite materials when I happen to see those house renovation shows...but that's the only place I see them. Must cost more than real wood or something.

On the other hand, I've seen some absolutely gorgeous cold-molded wood-veneer/epoxy boats. Super strong, almost as light as really high-tech composites, but warm and friendly feeling. But you can't squeeze those out of a machine.
 
NO ,NO, NO,They were beutiful.OH GOD I WISH I HAD SOME ROOM ON MY CREDIT CARDS.:( :barf: I'M SICK NOW!!!
 
JUSTRIGHT,

I console myself by thinking that the more of these that I see go by in my impoverished state, the better will be the one that shows up when I've $. Practice and experience means that the later ones will be even better.

Though it's hard to see how that's possible with these, they sure do seem absolutely perfect.

Sher and Kumar both seem on a heck of a roll lately.
 
I'll do my best but that chiruwa was absolutly beautiful!!!I'll do my breathing exercises for now and beg the wife later.Remind me again,What does YCS stand for??? FRANK:(
 
YCS = Yvsa Cherokee Special

He designed the whole rig and trim and sent models over, if I understand correctly.

For some reason, these seem tough for some of the kamis to get right, I really hope we start seeing more of this model, it's one I've wanted since I first saw it. First Chiruwa that I'm aware of in this design, Yvsa's written that he prefers the enclosed tangs.
 
Originally posted by Ferrous Wheel
So, what does Yvsa have to say about the latest version? Closer to the original wood model? You out there, man?

Keith
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Let me get back to you in a day or two. I'm undergoing some more health issues.:(
 
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