and the open house was postponed so  Bee, who is having her second show (first in a gallery) on the 9th of April at  Rex could concentrate on that.. 

It took me a while to remember what has been happening at the studio this month. The beginning of the month in some respects seems like so long ago. The main thing that happened was the installation of my dust collection system.  Oneida hooked me up with a cyclone system and even designed the ductwork for me. That system, coupled with a Jet air filter, has the shop practically dust free.

The Exactor saw arm helps considerably. My studio is kinda messy here in the picture because the system came in about 10 boxes. 

The rest of the month was taken up with starting about 5 new projects, three of which are new chairs.

A new thing for PM Custom was the building of skateboard decks.  Both decks that we built were plywood/fiberglass combinations. They came out pretty good considering they were the first. They were project decks that my kids designed and I helped build. We used West System  Epoxy to do the lamination. 

My oldest daughter did most of the manual labor on her board. 

Her friend helped and he did the paintwork and graphic on the bottom. 

My younger daughter did a lot of helping on her board and also did the graphics. 

Attaching the 8 inch  Independents

We wanted to mount 10 inch trucks on the Flying Beaver, but they didn’t arrive on time and so we ended up using 8’s on it too. 

Anyway, it was a fun month and I look forward to seeing what April has in store.

Cheers,

Paul