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A few years ago we'd have a problem of geese and ducks flying above our pool and sitting around it all day. With my dads permission, I stuck an electric BB gun that looked like an ak47 out my bedroom window and proceeded to shoot them (maybe 2-3 times each, or until they flew away). That took care of the problem pretty fast. They would get hit, sit their for a half a second and fly away. After a while they weren't a problem anymore.
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Rescue complete.
Several flaws in this one, partly due to the rescue, partly due to stuff I need to learn about hidden tangs - which is the whole point of this exercise.
Picked some materials, here it is gluing up with ebony and seasoned white oak from a 150yo tree:
And a lousy low-light photo:
a close-up of the ebony bolster - see the white highlights? cool.
this angle hides the lousy fitting job.
lesson: tang thickness should be GREATER than your smallest fitting file...
lesson 2: gotta have a full-thickness ricasso. There is no ricasso because this is a rescue job.
and in-hand:
I'll take a proper picture outside tomorrow if it's not raining.
Several flaws in this one, partly due to the rescue, partly due to stuff I need to learn about hidden tangs - which is the whole point of this exercise.
Picked some materials, here it is gluing up with ebony and seasoned white oak from a 150yo tree:
And a lousy low-light photo:
a close-up of the ebony bolster - see the white highlights? cool.
this angle hides the lousy fitting job.
lesson: tang thickness should be GREATER than your smallest fitting file...
lesson 2: gotta have a full-thickness ricasso. There is no ricasso because this is a rescue job.
and in-hand:
I'll take a proper picture outside tomorrow if it's not raining.
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Is this you? Didn't I hear you play with Clapton once?
I consider that an insult, sir. I have much prettier cheekbones, and far shapelier legs.
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That looks good, daizee. A friend of mine used to refer to the sorts of mistakes that lead to these things as "design opportunities".
Couple decades ago I made my folks a blanket storage bench for Christmas. Started out as a simple design made out of maple with maple plywood top edged with some more maple. Boy did I have a LOT of "design opportunities"! I glued up the leg panels out of the 9' piece I was going to use for the aprons, leaving a 7' board to make two 4' aprons, then I sanded through the face veneer on the top, had a little router mishap....if there was a mistake to be made, I made it. But the rescue turned out to be such a fantastic learning and skill building experience; when it was complete I had made something I never would have dreamed of...it sits proudly at the end of their bed, complete with gently arched maple aprons with a half circle of mahogany in the center, the top inlaid with mahogany and accented with zebra wood inlays and purpleheart corner blocks. I'm really proud of that rescue. As you should be of yours.
Couple decades ago I made my folks a blanket storage bench for Christmas. Started out as a simple design made out of maple with maple plywood top edged with some more maple. Boy did I have a LOT of "design opportunities"! I glued up the leg panels out of the 9' piece I was going to use for the aprons, leaving a 7' board to make two 4' aprons, then I sanded through the face veneer on the top, had a little router mishap....if there was a mistake to be made, I made it. But the rescue turned out to be such a fantastic learning and skill building experience; when it was complete I had made something I never would have dreamed of...it sits proudly at the end of their bed, complete with gently arched maple aprons with a half circle of mahogany in the center, the top inlaid with mahogany and accented with zebra wood inlays and purpleheart corner blocks. I'm really proud of that rescue. As you should be of yours.
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woah, next time I snap a blade I'm sending it to you! :-D
Done in the basement early tonight. Sitting in front of the woodstove drinking a Porkslap.
OOH OOH! saw an inanimate pig on the side of the road today, but couldn't snap a pic 'cause I was driving.
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Hey folks,
I think I've mentioned that Christine and I have been climbing in the Tennessee/Georgia area for the last few weeks. Well, during our rest days we've been checking out some of the local sites including Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park. At the park we were both surprised to see many of the products commemorating this battle were made offshore. We also saw other items in support of US troops at various other stores were also made offshore.
We both thought this was odd as we felt these items should be made in the US. Are we just being overly sensitive (typical Canadians) about this?
I'm not trying to start any political discussion - just saying that it seemed odd to us as visitors to the US.
I think I've mentioned that Christine and I have been climbing in the Tennessee/Georgia area for the last few weeks. Well, during our rest days we've been checking out some of the local sites including Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park. At the park we were both surprised to see many of the products commemorating this battle were made offshore. We also saw other items in support of US troops at various other stores were also made offshore.
We both thought this was odd as we felt these items should be made in the US. Are we just being overly sensitive (typical Canadians) about this?
I'm not trying to start any political discussion - just saying that it seemed odd to us as visitors to the US.
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No Gus, you aren't being overly sensitive. I would be rather put off by that as well. Of course I'm not really up to date on the chokchi industry.
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I don't think there's any margin in the manufacturing of souvenirs these days.
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No. I agree with you wholeheartedly. That sort of thing makes me see red, for lots of reasons... many of which, we discussed at length a week or two ago.
(Surely, it will surprise no one here that I'm deeply biased in favor of American and Canadian firms and shops, especially the small independent ones.)
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My daughter was made in Korea.
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LOL! Nice one WW.
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On the bright side, I was buying a bottle of wine at one of the liquor stores in Tennessee and the kid working the register complimented me on my "courier bag". Told him it was a Becker Field Bag that was designed and built in the US with almost 100 percent US materials.
He asked me how much it costs and when I told him the price he said, "If it's well made and it lasts a long time, it's worth it. Not everything has to be made somewhere else."
Smart kid.
He asked me how much it costs and when I told him the price he said, "If it's well made and it lasts a long time, it's worth it. Not everything has to be made somewhere else."
Smart kid.
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you must be one fine dude/chick then!!!!
I'm sweeter than the peaches that come in a can. I did not ask to shoulder this burden; but nonetheless, here it is, and it shows no sign of abating.
It's a terrible cross to bear; but we are all tested according to our strengths, and we must meet those challenges accordingly.
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Just saw this on a billboard. Interesting.
I still think it needs a lighter since it was made by Zippo. Seriously....
My daughter was made in Arizona, and if our math was correct, on my ex-wife's birthday.
But my son was made offshore (in Germany), on my birthday.
We quit celebrating birthdays in that manner after that.
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I'm sweeter than the peaches that come in a can. I did not ask to shoulder this burden; but nonetheless, here it is, and it shows no sign of abating.
It's a terrible cross to bear; but we are all tested according to our strengths, and we must meet those challenges accordingly.
Yes. Yes, it is. But you do it with such style and aplomb...
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