"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

What a beautiful gesture. Duncan truly did capture and immortalize Buddy Boy. Very impressive work. What a true friend there Paul. Duncan, this one is the finest gesture I've seen to date here on the porch. A more honest and true friend than anyone could hope for.
Well done. Well done.
 
BigBiscuit said:
What a beautiful gesture. Duncan truly did capture and immortalize Buddy Boy. Very impressive work. What a true friend there Paul. Duncan, this one is the finest gesture I've seen to date here on the porch. A more honest and true friend than anyone could hope for.
Well done. Well done.
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Paul & Duncan - I could not have reflected any better than Bob already has stated here. A truly amazing gift, from an amazing friend. :)
 
BigBiscuit said:
What a beautiful gesture. Duncan truly did capture and immortalize Buddy Boy. Very impressive work. What a true friend there Paul. Duncan, this one is the finest gesture I've seen to date here on the porch. A more honest and true friend than anyone could hope for.
Well done. Well done.
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+2!!!

Outstanding!! That is just exceptional Duncan, and a priceless keepsake for Paul and Nanc. :thumbup:
 
Jolipapa said:
Jack, sometime with the same cause I get the same effect, but I do even not need a bullworker for that! :D
Hope your back is getting better.
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LOL! :D Thanks my friend :) :thumbup:

paulhilborn said:
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What an incredible work of art, and truly something for you and Nanc to treasure Paul. Duncan is an amazing friend, and a very talented artist too. Well done Duncan, superb work, and a most thoughtful and kind gesture too :) :thumbup: Thanks also Duncan, for the package that arrived here late yesterday afternoon (more of that later) :thumbup:
 
What a wonderful tribute to Buddy Boy, Paul. Well done Duncan.
 
Wow Paul and Duncan!!!....I'm blown away by that beautiful gesture. Our pets really become such great family members, they truly show unconditional love!

Lots of humans could learn from these dogs.
 
Yes, dogs become a member of the family. I don't know what I'd do without my daily companion, Pearl The Wonder Corgi. We take long walks together, watch Tv and she loves to join me for an afternoon of reading a good book. She is currently reading The Adventures Of Lassie. But age is catching up with her, and now she needs glasses to read.
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Beautiful work Duncan! Paul you are blessed with great friends, be they in this world or the next.

I was working in a far flung corner of the island today - Uig. The weather was bizarre, blizzard like snow storms which lasted 20 minutes at a time then blazing warm sunshine thawing everything in minutes. Quite an odd experience. I took the photo from a little village called Timsgearraidh. The hamlet in the foreground is Cradhlastadh looking across Uig Sands towards Ardroil. The snow capped hills of Uig and North Harris creeping in at the edge of the shot. I feel very lucky to live and work in a place like this. Locals call the Isle of Harris; God's country.



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Thank you for the kind words Paul Sir, and others who have commented- I didnt get Buddy quite right, and the angle of the pic shows what I feel is wrong with the picture- and yet when I use dividers to check that my proportions are right - they match - but it just.....well I guess whats done is done, I try to draw so the closer you look the more detail you see - instead of the normal way when you look close you loose detail - thats why it takes so long - I just need to do draw more consistently, but I endevour to settle down with Drawing soon and get more into it.
 
Very fine work, Duncan. I'm always in awe of anybody that has artistic talent because I can't draw a stickman without tracing off of somebody else's work.

Paul, I love the picture. I looked at it for quite a while wondering why the landscape looked so alien to me. Then it hit me, there are no trees! :eek:
It's been a while since I've been across the Great Plains here in the USA, and that's the only place I can recall being that you can see so far and not see a single tree. I see a lot of posts and poles in your picture so the trees have to be around somewhere, but not a single one in your picture. It's a very cool landscape. Thanks for sharing it.
 
Cory Hess said:
Very fine work, Duncan. I'm always in awe of anybody that has artistic talent because I can't draw a stickman without tracing off of somebody else's work.

Paul, I love the picture. I looked at it for quite a while wondering why the landscape looked so alien to me. Then it hit me, there are no trees! :eek:
It's been a while since I've been across the Great Plains here in the USA, and that's the only place I can recall being that you can see so far and not see a single tree. I see a lot of posts and poles in your picture so the trees have to be around somewhere, but not a single one in your picture. It's a very cool landscape. Thanks for sharing it.
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Cory, there are very few trees in the Hebrides it is a very exposed and windy place stuck out there in the Atlantic. There are significant peat deposits all over the island so clearly there once were thick forests and vegetation but not now. In the valleys and certain sheltered places there are pockets of woodland but nothing like what you would find on mainland Scotland. The government offer significant subsidies to crofters who are prepared to plant trees on their croft, but any serious storm and *snap*. So not many do.

It does make for dramatic landscape but whenever I travel back to the mainland after a long period on the island I get moved seeing large areas of forest again. :)
 
Very good day today. This was my first outing on the Norton for a year, that is since I crashed. I had two good folks in mind, Bob and Barrett.
Bob, I hope you're doing well and this outing was dedicated to you!
Barrett, I was more than surrpised and happy when I found a yellow enveloppe from Arizona! I just can thank you. The knife and the little goodies beside are FAN-TAS-TIC! The chestnut bone is very similar to harvest orange bone and I do love it (curiously the picture has a reddish rendition!)!
Sunday I hit the road for good!
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