tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post5222199666701418134..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: Bricks, Slight ReturnMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-71072834682649153142012-02-27T01:53:58.778+00:002012-02-27T01:53:58.778+00:00Thanks Bron. Never bothered to look up "jack ...Thanks Bron. Never bothered to look up "jack leg." I got it from a fellow worker and friend who hails from Tidewater Virginia, and I always assumed it meant exactly how you've defined it.Kent Wileyhttp://www.manmadewilderness.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-27626712623062356232012-02-26T23:11:11.236+00:002012-02-26T23:11:11.236+00:00Jack-leg is an Americanism, mid 19th c. , sort of ...Jack-leg is an Americanism, mid 19th c. , sort of an unsrupulous hack, used on both preachers and workmen.<br /><br />Very familar with the aesthetic principle, just not the term; one of the problems of a "jack-leg" education.<br />Autodidact. 8-)Bronislaus Janulis / Framewrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15839855368056037541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-11011653225252217782012-02-26T20:35:47.893+00:002012-02-26T20:35:47.893+00:00Martyn,
I think it's more complicated than th...Martyn,<br /><br />I think it's more complicated than that -- I'll take a proper photo of an entire wall, and we may be able to work it out -- as well as rows of headers, every Xth brick in a normal row is a header, too. It makes what would otherwise be a boring expanse of red brick a delight to look at.<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-20550601398365296362012-02-26T19:57:29.783+00:002012-02-26T19:57:29.783+00:00As the son and great-grandson of bricklayers I'...As the son and great-grandson of bricklayers I'm ashamed I can never remember which one is Flemish bond (header-stretcher-header-stretcher) and which one is English bond (row of headers on top of row of stretchers) but having looked it up, your first picture below is English bond, your second one (the wall) is standard stretcher bond as used for non-loadbearing one-brick-thick walls, while the wall illustrated in this post appears to be Common or American bond, which is where rows of stretchers are replaced every x number of rows by a row of headers. There's a nice website on the subject <a href="http://www.waltonsons.com/brickbonds.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. And, indeed, that repointing is crap. My dad would have had a fit.Martyn Cornellhttp://zythophile.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-5428176677766818482012-02-26T17:31:58.025+00:002012-02-26T17:31:58.025+00:00Bron,
Kent is a fellow US citizen, so your guess ...Bron,<br /><br />Kent is a fellow US citizen, so your guess is as good as mine (probably better) and "wabi sabi" is a Japanese aesthetic category, much discussed in this blog -- why not google it!<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-32694063293052229412012-02-26T14:13:47.938+00:002012-02-26T14:13:47.938+00:00For us befuddled cousins across the sea: jack-leg,...For us befuddled cousins across the sea: jack-leg, wabi-sabi?Bronislaus Janulis / Framewrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15839855368056037541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-28119403419226453522012-02-26T11:05:34.980+00:002012-02-26T11:05:34.980+00:00Struan,
Of course... I hadn't included the p...Struan,<br /><br />Of course... I hadn't included the possibility that this might be an artistic "intervention"... It all makes sense now!<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-36788720162671221562012-02-26T09:53:51.045+00:002012-02-26T09:53:51.045+00:00There is a better way....
http://www.janvormann.c...There is a better way....<br /><br />http://www.janvormann.com/testbild/dispatchwork/<br /><br /><br />If you feel like popping out to Bishop's Waltham, the brick wall around the south side of Palace House was supposedly used as a testbed for the patterns used at Hampton Court.<br /><br />Eventually, even the worst jobs turn into wabi sabi. Somewhere I have a neg from HC showing the patterns that result when gardeners bang cut nails into brickwork for five hundred years.struannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-73181789778134358842012-02-25T18:53:33.982+00:002012-02-25T18:53:33.982+00:00One does wonder whether the "craftsman" ...One does wonder whether the "craftsman" considered his options on this job. Or did his supervisor tell him/her that it didn't matter? I was once told by a super that I was doing "too good a job". But then again, that guy was a serious jack-leg. I pity the poor old house that he was "restoring". I think it was more like a deliberate desecration.Kent Wileyhttp://www.manmadewilderness.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-78829212458658116512012-02-25T10:08:58.661+00:002012-02-25T10:08:58.661+00:00Martin,
It's shockingly bad, isn't it? L...Martin,<br /><br />It's shockingly bad, isn't it? Looks like they've used "exterior grade" polyfilla, applied with a thumb.<br /><br />In a way, this kind of thing cheers me up, as when I get into an "Is everything rubbish these days, or is it just me?" mood, it confirms that it's not just me.<br /><br />The idea that a professional job is a job done to a high standard, efficiently, and for the going rate is becoming antique. Then again, people aren't prepared to pay a reasonable going rate -- "It is the duty of the wealthy man / To give employment to the artisan"...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-86885798993789621282012-02-25T06:27:35.851+00:002012-02-25T06:27:35.851+00:00Nothing short of vandalism. If paint was sprayed, ...Nothing short of vandalism. If paint was sprayed, there would be an outcry, but this 'botched job' is the standard that many have come to expect/accept, without question. I very much doubt if the perpetrator ever served an apprenticeship. If they did, it wasn't in bricklaying.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13494219959077922220noreply@blogger.com