{"id":241,"date":"2008-09-01T18:17:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=241"},"modified":"2016-01-05T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T14:57:28","slug":"so-nice-working-with-professionals-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"So nice, working with professionals for a change"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I swing past the Lumber City<\/a> on my way from Lansdowne Boards<\/a>. Go past the counter, ask “may I browse” (this is a big warehouse place, not your typical hardware store). Guy (Neville) sez “sure”.<\/p>\n

Find stuff on the shelves that look like what I need, make mental note of standard sizes. Past the counter again, “dowels?” — “behind you” — “thanks”. Pick up dowel of possibly correct size for fixing toy boat project (don’t ask).<\/p>\n

Back to counter, start waving hands “I need 12 x 96 meranti, about 1.2 meters”<\/p>\n

N: “Stock size is 1.8 meters”
\nYours Truly: “Good, one of those and 12 x 144 pine, same length, and meranti, 10mm thick, about this wide” (show with fingers)
\nN: “that’s 44mm”
\nYT: “Lekker<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

YT: “And BTW I saw you have Etimo postform tops, but I need something redder”
\nN: “Would that be Mahogany?”
\nYT: “Sounds good”
\nN: (grabs catalogue) “600 wide, 3.6 meter length will be R949, but we’d have to order”
\nYT: “Sharp sharp<\/a>, do you cut to size?”
\nN: “Certainly”.<\/p>\n

Picked up a sample of the mahogany. I can work with these guys.

So I swing past the Lumber City on my way from Lansdowne Boards. Go past the counter, ask “may I browse” (this is a big warehouse place, not your typical hardware store). Guy (Neville) sez “sure”. Find stuff on the shelves that look like what I need, make mental note of standard sizes. Past the counter again, “dowels?” — “behind you” — “thanks”. Pick up dowel of possibly correct size for fixing toy boat project (don’t ask). Back to counter, start waving hands “I need 12 x 96 meranti, about 1.2 meters” N: “Stock size is 1.8 meters” Yours Truly:...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","tag-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}