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Oh cool I’ve never came across such an animal!

What’s that half moon shaped thing?

There’s a vertical bottle shaped steam engine at silver dollar city that’s ran on air and they have it hooked up to a bunch of wood lathes turning Baseball bats, last year I had a chance to buy a comparable steam engine at an auction but it was so big and heavy that I couldn’t get it myself and it was at the far back of the property in a shed on a small hill side with trees everywhere so I couldn’t drive up to it I would have had to wait all day till the auction was over be over with before they would load it with a skid steer, and I passed on it, I kick myself because they almost gave it away,

I’ve read 20000 under the sea several times but it’s been over a decade ago since the last time I read it, I plan to re read it soon, I’m currently working my way through the complete Sherlock Holmes collection and as soon as I’m done with that my next books were going to be treasure island and 20000 leagues under the sea

Oh sorry I meant his first secret island, the one in 20000 leagues under the sea where he built it but at the end of the movie he planted explosives to destroy the submarine base and stop the technology from falling into the hands of the bad guys, I suppose Captain Nemo probably had a few secret islands hanging around, i forgot about his second secret island in that movie

Scott oh man a steam tractor sounds awesome! You’ll have to share pics! as far as I understand from what John told me the old flint lock firearms were replaced by the more modern percussion cap ones, and there was a lot of people who would take their old flintlocks and had them reworked to be percussion arms because it was much cheaper than buying a new rifle,

Jerry I don’t really have any special plans for them other then hanging them on the wall of my study room that I’m putting together along with the swords and some other neat artifacts I’ve collected,

I’ve places from coast to coast and places overseas as well that are supposed to be super haunted but I never saw any, I guess I must have always showed up during the off season for haunting honestly though the scariest and most disturbing things I’ve ever experienced in my life were caused by my fellow humans… Now back on the topic of Curios and artifacts, I was recently givin a couple of old firearms, they had been taken to an expert for information and appraisal years ago but I didn’t get the paperwork with them, so I can only repeat what I was told, you antique arms aficionados my know more, what I was told is that they are from the American revolutionary era and that they were originally flintlocks that had been reworked at a later date, iwas talking with a forum member on the phone the other day about some other antiques I have recently inherited and he told me that conversion was Common when technology had evolved Anyways they are a couple of old rusty muskets but I think they are pretty cool

Nice touch Scott! A hundred years later captain nemo would escape slavery and crawl onto the beach to find the skeleton and in the cloak would find a map that led to the secret island where Captain flint had hidden a second treasure and with his fellow escapees they would find the island use the treasure to fund building the nautilus!

Or was it Hanibles great grandson the revenuer who after not finding a future in warfare became a government Man and used his elephant to invade stills? A clever disguise! Nobody would ever suspect the elephant was a highly trained booze detection animal!

Blind Pew carrying a chainsaw, chasing over the rocks, flying to his death off a cliff, while being chased by a giant squid holding a great white birch tree!

Man that elephant storysounds like a Jerry Clower story I heard once on cassette tape! Lol

Oooooh! You could make blind pew from treasure island!!!! Or maybe Captain Nemo from 20000 leagues under the Sea!!! Or if you wanted to do something scary you could make a sculpture of Jerry with a chainsaw and a birch tree!!!!

Oh man that’s Rotten!!!! I love it!! Lol

The Mummy strikes!!!

Same here

That’s pretty cool info! Where was you able to find that out?

Those are pretty sweet John!!!! I got a sinking hammer it’s new though and German made but I forgot the brand I got it for doing sleigh bells but never used it for that lol

Seems like I’ve missed a bunch!!! but ohhhhh man do I have a Bigfoot story!!!!!!! so some years ago I was with a group of friends at one of their houses, he lived right beside the highway, it was fall so the sun sat earlier in the day, well he was showing us all a new to him gili suit he had bought at a army navy surplus store, well us boys were playing around with it and taking turns trying it on.. then we came up with the bright idea to wait till dusk and mess with cars driving down the highway It was just dusk and the sun had set but it wasn’t dark outside, there was a curve in the highway a couple hundred yards south so we would wait hidden in the brush till we heard a car coming and then step out and do the Bigfoot pose and stare at the car and then turn and move back into the cover of brush an trees!!!! we did this for close to an hour till it was dark outside and we got board and moved on to other shenanigans inside, no telling how many vehicles we did that too there was Bigfoot sightings reported in the days afterwards and we all died laughing rolling around on the ground, as far as I know nonbody ever bothered to contact anyone and let them know it was a joke It’s double funny because Adair county holds a Bigfoot convention every year we’re a bunch of people go stumbling around the woods with shaky cameras hoping to get sight of him!!! and there’s a dude who writes a column in the Stilwell democrat journal newspaper every week about Bigfoot!!!! bahahahahahaha oh man I still laugh to this day when I think about it!!!

That’s crazy I never knew that! Jerry, the last saddle shop we had went out of business and auctioned off everything, it was a Massive business they had a huge leather shop and a huge showroom i ment to go to that auction but it came an passed and I totally missed it I was interested in some of the antique leather working stuff As far as the meets foot oil goes I think the feed store carries it but I’ll have to check, if they don’t I can get the hardware store to order some in

thanks for the tipss? I was wondering what to do about the leather it’s really really dry Scott, That exciting I can wait to see them!

Howdy Scott! I never thought I’d get into swords either! But now that I have a couple I want more! Lol i like the idea of an old sextant on a shelf, I’ve already been collecting some antique nautical art to hang on the walls!

That’s a good idea Les! I might actually give that a try sometime today

Das, thank you for the heads up! After some googling i found there’s a book called the Ames sword company by John Hamilton I might try and pick a copy up to learn more on another note while googling swords and whatnot I came across a ww2 Cutlass from a Antique dealer that had bluing and that made me wonder if some swords were blued originally? I guess that could make sense not wanting a shiny flashy blade catching sunlight and attracting unwanted attention on the battlefield, it might have just been that particular model though

No Sir I don’t have the scabbards, the swords have been passed down a few times through that family the last owner a Vietnam vet and before him his father a WW2 vet and before him I’m not sure because no one is alive that remembers in that family