TWISTEDWILLOW

Howdy from eastern Oklahoma and welcome to the forum! After you get a good set of tongs then check out kens custom iron you’ll get several pairs of tongs for what you’ll spend on a single ready made pair, you just gotta finish em out

it’s always a rough day when ya loose a pet, but it especially hits hard when it’s an old friend that’s shared the house over a decade,

I’m that case wouldn’t that be a 1942 m3 grease gun?

I saw an add awhile back on cl advertising an antique champion corn sheller on a stand!!! Only problem was it wasn’t a corn sheller it was a champion 400 blower… two other occasions in flea markets, someone mistook a galvanized well bucket for a potbelly stove… second someone mistook a porcelain bed pan for a… wait for it… bean pot that’s not a joke that actually happened

Thomas, all the bad ones shipped out an the good ones delivered us a good time! Frazer, yes and they will need their signature upon receiving the job, also we will be tracking their progress!

Yes but they will have to follow their instructions to the letter!

Toss non poisonous bug in the air Fryer with some rice or noodles for 30 minutes let stand for one minute and serve hot with soy sauce

I know it was 34 years ago but Maybe you could try an track down one of the quilt makers an see if they have any information or pictures of it?

Lol I’m sure there’s plenty of work to be had up there! it’s nice to have two or three snows a year that melt off in a few days here I just don’t think I’d care for 2 or 3 feet of snow that hangs out for a month or two! Lol

Thanks John! Just make sure you don’t stamp your foot accidentally!

I wonder how much mula you could make minting bulla?

Your a little late on that one Thomas, John done covered that bucket of bulla

That’s an awesome idea George! I hadn’t thought of that! Thank you! John, my hands are the kinda the same, I can do it but only for a few seconds

I had to run back down to the post office because I forgot something I needed to ship out, while I was there I bought some international mailing stamps they run a $1.30 a stamp, I inquired about using wax seals on international letters, they didn’t know right off hand but they looked it up for me, an what they found was the charge for a non machinable letter going internationally is .30 cents, an they said if I add a postcard stamp with an international stamp it should be okay

Lol, I’d like to visit sometime but I don’t know if I’d open up shop there, The cooler weather would be nice but y’all get way to much snow for me!

Well now I’m having second thoughts about visiting Alaska now!

Nice score!

An Alaskan mallet for Klondike croquet!

Looks nice Gandalfgreen! Is that a little hand I see holding it down towards the bottom?

Wow that’s pretty awesome John, thanks for sharing that, I might give that I try sometime just for fun! I’ve already spent way more time then I outta on the usps website reading around as well as a bunch of wiki pages lol, on a side note I found that the North Pole postmark postmaster is located in anchorage Alaska if anyone needs to get a letter from Santa Clause,…. Jerry you got something you wanna share with the rest of us?

I’ve seen another one from townsends that John posted awhile back about building a bellows, they really make a good video!

That’s pretty awesome Das!! I didn’t know people used to fold their letter into an envelope! also I didn’t know the wax was made from shellac, that makes sense because I was thinking these candles were acting really weird acting when I lit them, almost like melting plastic, but I just figured they were some kinda weird wax, thank your for sharing that video!

I only got to go on two operations with seals when I was in the navy, i didn’t get to know them very closely but from my short time I spent with them I can say they are a pretty cool bunch of guys, we hauled some of them around during operation unified response in Haiti back in 09 after the quake, and those dudes are pretty awesome to work with,

Mail finally ran a little over an hour ago, just got the new stuff in, I practiced twice on another envelope before sealing my first letter, It’s gonna take a little more practice with the candle, judging how Much wax to use, it burns really slow an I was afraid of the wax cooling before I stamped it, but I’d like to see a ring all around the stamp, Other then that I thing stamp works really well!

Hmm I don’t think the lady at the post office would appreciate me bringing a seal into the post office, she’d probably charge me extra postage for the bucket of fish too… Lol i just looked up the study of postage stamps, according to wiki it’s called Philately… seen any good stamps philately?