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So Wherebe assigned me to build the basic furniture for a pottery shop, which would have included six to twelve potter's wheels as well, had the money not run out. I designed the tables. Wherebe supplied the wood donated from his money guy. These tables were to go into the new and future pottery shop, in a space he was renting a couple of blocks away, on San Jose Avenue across and down the block a bit from Mitchell's Ice Cream. Mitchell's was arguably the best ice cream in the city at the time; although most of the avant-garde set considered it to be 'Bud's Ice Cream' at 24th and Castro. But then they didn't know about Mitchell's, and if they did the setting at 29th, which was a busy wide and destitute traffic through way, certainly might affect the direction of someone's taste buds.

Don't remember much of this period at all. There was someone there to familiarize me with the power tools. But it seems I remember being there mostly by myself. It had a drill press, a band saw, a table saw, and my favorite a brand new radial arm saw, with which I did almost all my cutting. It was easy to set-up with dato blades. I had not much experience and none with power tools but I learned. I built a twenty foot long work table made of fir - everything was made of fir. It had seven 4x4 inch legs, twelve 4x4 cross braces top and bottom shelves, five 2x12 planks for the top, two 2x12 planks for the under-shelf, and an S curve narrowing to two planks at one end with one leg there.

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