Scott NC

I used to give all my stuff away, but I found a store that likes my face sculptures and want's to do them on commission, which is ok with me. I just decided on a fling to take some samples and a portfolio of sorts in and ask if they would be interested, it's 30%. It's an eclectic little shop, but in a pretty high end area. The owner has a bird shop too and said if I could come up with something unique along those lines, he would sell them too. I was thinking of making some bird houses, textured sheet metal, maybey a twisted roost or porch with handmade (small) hinges and hardware, similar to this old beat up wood one I have: I could fashion it as an outhouse. Or even a bent old stovepipe coming out the top. Or a hanger like this? The birds would be easy to forge. I think hang by baling or piano wire. What unique bird related stuff could I do? I looked at the bird shop and they have a lot of hangers and whatnot. I have an assurance, I'd get a nice price for handmade as opposed to import stuff. That hanger is wood birds and twine.

Did it cut fairly square? Looks like it but you know.... Just curiosity.

I'm glad it's working well for you so far. I have some questions for you but think I will wait until you have used it more to ask.

Bugs have no lungs.

Nice fish, Billy. I really like the pipe photo! You look a bit astonished. I must say, it's nice of Max to give you a little credit by letting you hold up his catch for the camera.... You guy's are having too much fun!!!

I lost a family gun once to a house break in 25 years ago. It was my dads stevens side by side 410. I lost a of other stuff but that hurt. I'm glad you have those to preserve. Nice phoros. I know the rat that did it and I would like to teach him something but I've gotten over it. Dirty thieves.

I'm not sure what mean humor is.

You did post that and I said "Hi". I don't know where it went.

And then a voice came out of nowhere:

I could not agree more.

Hi Slag!

Dad sent me a complete unabriged Sherlock Holmes, when I was in the Navy. He new I liked it. There is a book of some unpublished stories as well as a lot of other insider stuff on Doyle and why he wanted to kill off Holmes, but I will have to find it on the shelves or look it up. There is an old black and white British movie series on Holmes on youtube. Google: "The Careless Sufferegete". If you can watch "Boris Turgof The Anarchist" in that episode without cracking a smile or laugh let me know. It's a half hour watch.

I know, I said large and heavey, but I mean't by model engineering standards. It may be 2 or 3' long. I haven't seen it in 30 years. I'm getting a bit irritated with no photo. We may lock horns soon.

We are getting secret island and treasure mixed up. One island and second secret treasure. I was just trying to work an all important chainsaw into how to get to the secret island to dig up Cooks second treasure. Books are always better. Billy, read "From The Earth To The Moon", by Verne. The furnaces built to create the cannon to shoot them off on their way is worth it alone. Pouring the cannon walls..... Don't watch the movie though. The human imagination, unlimited, is why movies are always worse. I will bow out until the dust settels.... again.

I wish I was tecno savy some times. I always miss out on the easy money.

Thank's John. Grandpa's ran on steam or compressed air, I have to verify the compressed air part with my brother though. Family lore. I'm hoping he sends a video.

I suspect the used bookstores in my area cherry pick everything, where the good stuff goes, I don't know. And I look closely and dig through boxes.... I'm starting to think conspiracy... There's cookbooks & home fix-it books galore. I have better luck at the flea markets.

I usually don't offer unsolicited ideas but maybe the chainsaw could be modifried with paddles, if the bar was long enough that it could be mounted on the end of a cobbled together log raft, like an outboard motor and speed them along to Flint' secret island and even save labor digging up his second treasure, flying sand everywhere, what with the paddles and all. That is if it were buried on a sandy beach.

I better study up on it.

Draft gear is just a steel box full of springs that cushion the coupler. You heard trains taking up slack? It soften all that steel banging back and forth. I suppose I am easily amused. Sometimes they are hard to get out. I think now they use compressed gas.

Very nice Billy. But what are the conversions all about? I know very little of such things. I'm waiting on photo's from my brother of a model Case steam tractor my grandpa built. He doesn't tolerate being pestered or rushed very well. He got the tractor, rather large and a heavey beast, and I got his lathe at the estate sale.

Thanks Das. Those glass eyes are just colored beads of glass, I got a bunch in a box of junk at an auction and have been trying to find uses for them, lol. It is a coincidence you mention lost culture antiquity because I've been watching some old movies that have huge stone carved heads in mountain sides and been trying to figure out what they were modeled after. Olmec heads is what I am going with. I had never heard of them so thanks. Bad habit, saying never.... Good old Nemo.... I watched "Mysterious Island", but in that one the Nautilus was already built but worn out broke down. Maybe fund rebuilding of it..... A lot of my stuff turns out looking like him and I don't even try... Now I will have to make another, just to try this..... An idea I can certainly use on other things, too. Thanks, Lee. I've always wanted to experiment with invisibility in my projects.

Too bad he survived the fall and landed all broke up on the beach and got chewed to the bone by fire ants.

I used to play and climb around them on the siding they left them on in the flyspeck town I grew up in... Always loved aspects of it. I'd love to drop a draft gear again if I got the chance...

Thank you Larry. I found a transission shop that will give me all sorts of crazy shaped metal junk that could be shaped and manipulated to my liking. I used to build large scrap art and now find myself being able to get back to that. Slowly. But those faces carried me through rough time. I'm working on a large pelican for my sister right now.