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		<title>Going with the grain &#8211; reflections on &#8216;natural&#8217; beauty &amp; making</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2013/woodwork/going-with-the-grain-reflections-on-natural-beauty-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oak stand]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Take a piece of wood &#8211; plane, sand, and oil it, and you will find it a beautiful thing. The more you do to it from then on, the more chance that you will make it worse.” Tage Frid 1979 So I came across this quote from the late woodworking monster Tage Frid while we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Wood Burning Stove – 7 Air Supply, Testing &amp; Tweaking</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2013/wood-stove/making-a-wood-burning-stove-7-air-supply-testing-tweaking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2013/wood-stove/making-a-wood-burning-stove-7-air-supply-testing-tweaking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 17:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wood Stove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modifications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rocket stove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tweaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wood stove]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The stove is burning away as we write this, making for a nice cosy workshop :D There have been a few problems though and a number of modifications since we first got it going. Most irksome amongst these was smoke escaping into the shop space &#8211; not good. Anyway, we&#8217;ll come to that, first lets have a quick look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Wood Burning Stove &#8211; 6 Heat Exchanger</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2013/wood-stove/making-a-wood-burning-stove-6-heat-exchanger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2013/wood-stove/making-a-wood-burning-stove-6-heat-exchanger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 17:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wood Stove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air-to-air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fabricate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heat Exchanger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[make your own]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been testing the experimental wood stove and heating the workshop for a while now, but for the sake of completeness and order lets have a look at the heat exchanger build. Just as a recap on the design: The heat exchanger is a completely separate unit to the burn chamber. That way the burn chamber can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plastering, the final frontier: Clay plaster how-to</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2012/how-to/plastering-the-final-frontier-clay-plaster-how-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2012/how-to/plastering-the-final-frontier-clay-plaster-how-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How To]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clay plaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earthen plaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limewash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[straw bale walls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Winter is here and we finished the plastering of the workshop straw-bale walls before it arrived. It may have taken a little longer than anticipated, but objective achieved :) ! To put the final nail in that side of things, we&#8217;ve written up the whole process, our research and experiences as a &#8216;make your own&#8217; step-by-step: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Wood Burning Stove &#8211; 5 refractory lining</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2012/wood-stove/making-a-wood-burning-stove-5-refractory-lining/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Wood Stove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burn chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insulating]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[secondary combustion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super insulated burn unit We have begun lining the inside of the wood stove with heat proof insulating materials. The first thing to do was get a good amount of insulation down for the stove floor. For this we used some insulating fire brick type material that came from Dave&#8217;s chimney reconstruction. It was a little oddly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Destruction Testing Straw Bale Construction</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2012/workshop/destruction-testing-straw-bale-construction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clay plastering of the FE workshop is completed and we are between coats on the exterior lime wash. The only reasonable thing to do is use our spare plaster experimenting bale to carry out some destruction tests! So we have had most variants of the predictable jibes and japes about straw as a building material: it will burn, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musings on Mending @ Mendrs</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2012/invent/musings-on-mending-mendrs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brake]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Flowering Elbow attended the first Mend*rs symposium 29th June-2nd July. Organised by three inspired menders and scholars: Jonnet Middleton, Guiseppe Salva and Beck Collins with the aim of: &#8216;bring[ing] together an emergent community of research around issues of repair. By research we include practice-based research, arts-based research, activist research as well as traditional academic inquiry. We want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clay Plastering Progress</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2012/workshop/plastering-the-straw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 13:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[clay plaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[straw bale walls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had our first plastering party, hoorah! A really good fun weekend, with lovely people and lovely mud. Here&#8217;s a quick low down on what we did and learnt. Since our testing of different clay plaster mixes and digging mission (documented in the previous blog post) there was quite a bit of preparation to be done: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straw bale clay plaster weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2012/workshop/straw-bale-clay-plaster-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[clay plaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earth plaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural building materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[render]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soil testing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plastering party: 18th-20th May Duel purpose post here: a little update on workshop happenings and an open invite to come and learn/do some clay mixing and plastering on the straw bale walls. So the weekend: the scene is set, we have some bale walls crying out for plaster, a lovely load of clay earth and other ingredients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop Update</title>
		<link>http://www.floweringelbow.org/2012/workshop/workshop-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Straw Bale walls so far&#8230; It has been some time since the main wall construction was completed, but I see that the last blog post on it shows it in early stages, so lets have a little update. We were not able to properly render finish the wall last year because of the cold weather &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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