Today begins intense prep week for camp here on the farm! Team begins arriving today–mucho work to be done, whew.
I’m taking the whole team to see AKUS Wednesday night in Shreveport…stoked for that!
I’ll be away from the forum for the most part this week, just a heads up. Thank y’all for welcoming new posters and being helpful/kind to your neighbor.
That is excellent. I grew up in a town where we had a country ham shop. That’s all they did… country hams. As a result, I am quite fond of country ham. I had no idea until I moved that most towns don’t have a country ham shop. Don’t be surprised if I show up with a moldy, salt cured chunk of meat and ask when you are gonna fire up the smoke house.
Did you say that for the halibut?
How hot do you keep the temp while you are smoking. How do you keep the temp consistant? How much to just come for dinner? Is that mohogany or rosewood?
Target is ~90-95, once you go above 100 you start a cooking process which we’re trying to avoid.
It’s gonna be a learning process. I built a fire in it the other day b/f I had my walls on. Put some coals in from another fire I had, then put a chunk of punk wood on and closed the door. The smoke ran 95-100 for 3 straight hours before petering out. And, it will all depend on ambient temp which is the biggest variable. I probably won’t be able to smoke anything here in Texas until October, and maybe through March.
You just tell me when you’re free and we can get you up here.
I wanted oak boards, but they’re so hard to find around here. I went with cypress, which is a softer wood. But it’s most likely what the smokehouses built here would’ve been constructed with.
Fascinating stuff. Looks great. I’ll have to stick to smoking meat on my Big Green Egg here in middle Georgia.
That’s because the English cut them all down to build sailing ships
I may be late to the question, but I’d really like to hear about Wayne & Kristin’s creative process. Particularly with them working together; how they each developed their solos, what licks and runs they wanted to fit where, stuff like that. I’m such a fan of their Pick Your Poison Album (and really all of it) that it would be cool to geek out on the album a bit.
Tomorrow morning we fly out to Cincinnati to play a private birthday party with Ricky Skaggs & the boys! Stoked to hang with those guys. Bummer is I won’t be able to play with my shoulder, but should get some jamming in afterward when we’re able to sit down.
Have a great trip
That’s an impressive party! I am glad you and your sisters got to do that. Sorry the shoulder was in the way of playing.
I was planning on going to McDonalds for my birthday, but I feel like I should up my game a bit.
How fun!!! I’m sure you had a great time.
Went to our normal Tuesday jam session yesterday. A few songs in, the guy to my right says “Is everyone playing louder than usual today? I just hear a roar and can’t hear anyone’s breaks or singing.”
I’ve been playing long enough to recognize a polite “Your banjo it too loud” when I see it, so I said I’d back off. I played softer than I’ve ever played, and he said again “It just seems loud.”
Then I noticed that our circle wasn’t quite a circle. He was sitting about 2 feet toward the center of the circle.
I said “Man, I think I see the problem. You’re sitting directly in the blast zone.” His ear was about 4 feet in front of my banjo. 
Wow. You keep impressive company.
I was at a jam session in a tightly close bar with my Stelling. My chair was hard against the wall. A girl came in and sat right in front of me. During the break she said that banjo is loud. Can you play softer. I said, sorry love this banjo has no volume control. Needless to say I wasn’t invited back to that jam session. What a relief 
