​Here be a vast treasure of tall tales, as told by

​the Argo Builder

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild, with a faery, hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. -Yeats, from "The Stolen Child”

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What's New:

• Cover photo: Making an Alphorn:​ Alpenhorns make a beautiful sound, and I wanted to play one, so I designed and made one.  Here are the drawings and build-log of my Alphorn.
• I am building a 12' 6" Wooden Stand Up Paddleboard from Chesapeake Light Craft.  Build log here.
• Building a hand-cut stone arch from local stone.
• I built a "Book nook" which is a little hidden alley into the imagination, between the books on my bookshelf. Here's how I built it.
• Exploring the unforgiving Wisconsin western shore of Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Algoma and back on a small boat​

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