WE'RE BACK!
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:12 am
Dear gang,
how's everybody doing?!
Let me apology for being absent so long gents. Just before Christmas, I was pretty burned out after a long and hard year, so my wife and I went to Denmark for two weeks over the season holidays to relax, and to get the empty batteries re-charged.
Ok, so after feeling better again and seeing how the new hatshop slowly but surely came to life my computer went nuts. COMPLETELY. So I had to send it in and it was gone for weeks and weeks. I got it back recently and could start answering the 300 e-mails that had been sitting there waiting since. - Did he say new hatshop???!!! WE??? - Oh, I didn't tell? Well here ya' go: last year in June, my neighbor moved out and my wife and I decided to buy the property, as here - in the middle of nowhere - property is pretty darn cheap. Now, on that property was a building (I wouldn't call it a house really) of 40 squaremeters, built from fine asbestos during the 60's and a pigcube or similar, built from solid stone with an asbestos roof. Now, the 40sqm "house"... well, the tractor of the former owner took care of that and we got rid of nine tons of asbestos, incl. the roof of the pigcube. The pigcube was one ugly something containing two rooms, one of 22sqm and another one of 7sqm. I figured that the 22sqm would make a nice hat-work-shop for us and evtl. the 7sqm room could become a bathroom later on. US??? - YUP! Since October last year, I've been training a very talented guy named Stefan to help me make hats in order to get these terrible long leadtimes shortened down quite a bit. He's EXTREMELY picky and just as talented - a mixture that is HIGHLY appreciated by me, as I now have someone to control my work and vice versa. Stefan has made one heck of a nice Raiders Fedora for himself by now and he'll be helping me starting next Sunday when we start working in the new hatshop.
So what's been done so far? The roof was completely renewed with black, shiney tiles (old fashioned), isolated, all the old plaster removed from the walls, one outer door removed and the hole closed (who needs two doors for 30sqm???), new windows added, new front door added, new door added inside between the two rooms, new floor (one that's equal), new tiles on the floor, several hundred meters of caple for outlets, new plaster on the walls and then some more.
I'm currently doing my best to get everything back on track again, so please accept my apologies for simply not being there. I hope it'll pay of by better leadtimes and a more laid back Marc soon
To those still reading - thanks for your patience with me guys!
Yours,
Marc
how's everybody doing?!
Let me apology for being absent so long gents. Just before Christmas, I was pretty burned out after a long and hard year, so my wife and I went to Denmark for two weeks over the season holidays to relax, and to get the empty batteries re-charged.
Ok, so after feeling better again and seeing how the new hatshop slowly but surely came to life my computer went nuts. COMPLETELY. So I had to send it in and it was gone for weeks and weeks. I got it back recently and could start answering the 300 e-mails that had been sitting there waiting since. - Did he say new hatshop???!!! WE??? - Oh, I didn't tell? Well here ya' go: last year in June, my neighbor moved out and my wife and I decided to buy the property, as here - in the middle of nowhere - property is pretty darn cheap. Now, on that property was a building (I wouldn't call it a house really) of 40 squaremeters, built from fine asbestos during the 60's and a pigcube or similar, built from solid stone with an asbestos roof. Now, the 40sqm "house"... well, the tractor of the former owner took care of that and we got rid of nine tons of asbestos, incl. the roof of the pigcube. The pigcube was one ugly something containing two rooms, one of 22sqm and another one of 7sqm. I figured that the 22sqm would make a nice hat-work-shop for us and evtl. the 7sqm room could become a bathroom later on. US??? - YUP! Since October last year, I've been training a very talented guy named Stefan to help me make hats in order to get these terrible long leadtimes shortened down quite a bit. He's EXTREMELY picky and just as talented - a mixture that is HIGHLY appreciated by me, as I now have someone to control my work and vice versa. Stefan has made one heck of a nice Raiders Fedora for himself by now and he'll be helping me starting next Sunday when we start working in the new hatshop.
So what's been done so far? The roof was completely renewed with black, shiney tiles (old fashioned), isolated, all the old plaster removed from the walls, one outer door removed and the hole closed (who needs two doors for 30sqm???), new windows added, new front door added, new door added inside between the two rooms, new floor (one that's equal), new tiles on the floor, several hundred meters of caple for outlets, new plaster on the walls and then some more.
I'm currently doing my best to get everything back on track again, so please accept my apologies for simply not being there. I hope it'll pay of by better leadtimes and a more laid back Marc soon
To those still reading - thanks for your patience with me guys!
Yours,
Marc
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