Our home's plaster/lath/brick walls are light on insulation, as the house was built at the turn of the 20th century, in an age when they just poured more cheap anthracite coal in the furnace when it got cold. Understandably, we divert the majority of the heat into our living space, and really, once the ground freezes, there is not much you can do to warm things up down in the basement shop. It doesn't take long before my fingers and toes become numb while working down there, even when I move a space heater right next to me while working.
Of course things are usually pretty slow from December through February, but I have had a couple sales, as well as some customers schedule build projects. Perhaps they are optimistic we'll get a break in the weather or just looking forward to the spring, but I've tried to get as much accomplished as I can before tapping out and wrapping myself in a warm blanket in an attempt to get some feeling back in my extremities!
In this abbreviated blog entry, I wanted to supply some photos of the Tommasini Sintesi bicycle that I wrapped up assembling the other day:
