Jun 22, 2015 | Home & Garden, Special Projects
A great informational visit with Drew Madzin at his business called FROM THR GARDEN in Freehold, NJ. We walk his property and talk about the different fruit trees he grows and visit his steel shop, wood shop, beekeeping facility, greenhouse, and retail store. Drew...
Jun 20, 2015 | Special Projects, Tools & Tips, Woodworking
Learn how to build a really simple system to help keep your iPhone steady when shooting video. This can be adapted for other phones and the tripod and microphone attachment work great for a really nice audio/video...
Jun 10, 2015 | In The Studio, small painting, Special Projects, Tools & Tips
Here’s a quick tip on using contact cement to mount a painting in a float frame.
Jun 8, 2015 | Beehive, Home & Garden, In The Studio, Special Projects
Here’s a video on my bees swarming and the swarm trap I made to catch them in the future. Also, check out the two still life paintings I made that were inspired by the artists Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. You can also see some of their famous...
Jun 1, 2015 | Home & Garden, Special Projects, Tools & Tips
Remove the skin from and oil based paint with an artist’s palette knife. The skin on this can of paint was really thick but it’s good to go once...
Mar 26, 2015 | Beehive, Home & Garden, Special Projects
The new bees arrived today (March 25th)…a little early, given the cold weather and not really ready for them yet, but here’s a video on putting the bees into the new Top Bar hives that were just built. If all goes well and they make it through the next...
Mar 22, 2015 | Beehive, Design Plans, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Woodworking
Here’s a how to video on building a new top bar beehive using thermally treated poplar. You can also print the complete design plans, and parts list which is posted below to build your own hive. Here are the plans and parts list..you can drag to your desktop and...
Mar 13, 2015 | Beehive, Special Projects, Uncategorized
Well, unfortunately the bees didn’t survive the winter… kinda sad news for anyone who’s been following the first year of Jon’s top bar beehive project, but it’s also been a great learning experience. The comments coming in on YouTube...
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