by Ted Bowers | Mar 8, 2023 | Bonner County, The Panhandle community Blog page, Reviews and comments on Sandpoint Services
What’s your favorite tool? I admit I have a tool fetish. I see a tool that is elegant in design and function, well crafted and just plain pretty–I gotta have it. Whether I would ever use it or not, makes no difference. Know what I mean? If you do, then...
by Ted Bowers | Feb 28, 2023 | Bonner County, The Panhandle community Blog page
Selecting a Construction Company -Advice column, wonderfully written by Ted Bowers 2015. For the first 10 years of my career as a builder in Sandpoint, my contact with customers consisted of a verbal agreement and a handshake. We relied on each other’s honesty and...
by Ted Bowers | Feb 23, 2023 | Bonner County, The Panhandle community Blog page, Sandpoint Blog, Shopsandpoint.com, positive sharing,
From: Ted Bowers Date: Sunday, March 15, 2015 Subject: Reader, 3/19 im a spoon maker. I shape fruitwoods and hardwoods into spoons, spatulas, knives, scrapers, something we call a kitchen stick, and the occasional ladle. I started making spoons during a particularly...
by Ted Bowers | Feb 17, 2023 | Sandpoint Blog, Shopsandpoint.com, positive sharing,
Mindfulness of Job site Safety, 1/2/15 HAPPY NEW YEAR! An aspect of the changing year is that we tend to look both backwards and forward and contemplate our lives. Some of us look at what should be changed and make New Year’s resolutions. Having tried that...
by Ted Bowers | Feb 1, 2023 | Bonner County, The Panhandle community Blog page
Much of I my earliest training in the trade consisted of performing repairs on old homes in Sandpoint. It was (and is)dirty work–sometimes belly crawling in spaces under housesbarely deep enough to fit a human, dragging heavy timbers and hydraulic jacks for...