Hi Folks,
In another discussion, Is Someone Stealing your design, I announced the first ricipient of this prestigious award.
Now the purpose of this award is to present a little challenge but more important is to just have some fun. The award is for no specific reason, i.e. there are NO QUALIFICATIONS!
This is NOT a competition!
Here’s how it works: To start it off, Im sending a board that must have a knot in it, of my choosing, to someone and they must make something out of it and post a pic in The Gallery here on Knots. A year hence, the current recipient selects a board of his/her choosing (with a knot in it) and sends it to whomever he/she decides. This means that the current recipient has one year to make his/her own award!
Isn’t that great!? You get a rough old board FREE! Then you get to make something out of it and it’s yours to keep. Kinda like patting yourself on the back……………
Regards,
P.S. Oh, I almost forgot. The first winner is Ray Pine. I will be sending him a cherry board that has a large knot in it that is kinda shaped like a butterfly key. Let’s have a big round of applause for Ray!
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/11/2007 10:50 am ET by KiddervilleAcres
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Bob:
"This is NOT a competition!"
"Oh, I almost forgot. The first winner is Ray Pine."
I am completely confused.
Hastings
Hastings,
The first winner is Ray Pine, metaphorically speaking of course. But you knew that right?
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob, areyou sure your Knot Irish, you seem to have that way with words that people keep accusing US of. Have you checked back,we did export quite a few to the US but I dont think they were all that bad.Some of them even come home on holliers,Maybe there are some of them around you,it's easy to to pick up our ways.
PS I dont think we sent anyone that bad ,some may have got through the net.HA HA HA. Regds.Boysie Slan Leat.I'm never always right but i'm always never wrong. Boysie
boysie,
Nope I don't recall any Irish in US.
I'm part French (Dad and Gramps) and English (Mom) with just a touch of Native American (Definitely Gramps, that's another story!).
The Native American I swear is the cause for my temper. But as an older gent I have learned to temper it, sometimes with a bit 'o the bubbly, beer that is. Have taken to brewing my own of late.
By the by, I understand that some of the best barly and malt is from your fine land. Must pay a visit when I hit the lottery.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Hey Bob,
What kinda beer be you brewin'?
Neil
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning that's the best they're going to feel all day"-Dean Martin
Hi Neil,
Me be brewing just VERY basic. I just got the kit about a month or three ago. Made up the basic recipe that came with the kit.
I am looking for more recipes and the Inet has a ton. Next up, a German brew when I find one I think I will like. That's the thing about this hobby, you never know what you're gonna get, at least when you first start.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob,
Many years ago when I were a lad, in the 70s, I discovered home brewing. Before long there were gallons of wine and beer. In time the quality got very good too.
There is one disadvantage: the stuff is cheap and you feel obliged to drink it all - especially when it tastes good. Soon you are permanently inebriated and so are all your friends, which is worse than being permanently stoned (a normal state in the 60s). Nowt gets done, in either case!
In 1976 I gave up all them mind-messers and got a bicycle. Soon I was racing it about the countryside with other madmen (we were not called the Lune Cycle Racing Club for nothing). Life improved along with my health and body. Now I am handsome, nice and sexy (or so I tell myself) despite being a wrinkley (daughter-allocated nomenclature). Also, I am full of vim and vigour, making furniture with a will.
Beware the hop!
Lataxe, who never wanted to have to get on any wagon.
Edited 9/13/2007 2:54 pm ET by Lataxe
Fear not Sire,
I have become melancholy in my later years. I've devoted myself to the study of 18th C. furniture. In the American style of course. As everyone knows we perfected the Queene Anne style and my goal is to take it to the next level.
I remember (I think) the 60's as I was there at Woodstock. A bit of inhilation of those Mind Messers, but was a great time to smell the roses, not to mention the music. The mud I could have done without.
As to the brewing/consumption of same, well let's just say that one must test same to make sure as to not poison our friends. I've taken to zero consumption during the week. So far the doctor has pronounced me medically correct, but warns me not to get over excited about my furniture endeavors.
I say RUBBISH to his prognostications and constant drivel! I know when I feel good. That's not really true; I just said that for effect.
On the weekends when one is occupying the woodshop (shed), and without a proper DC, the homebrew helps to wash the sawdust. I've found that it chemically reacts to the lignum in the wood such that you no longer need those Mind Messers or a respirator!
In truth, I'm just yanking your chain.
Can't wait for the snow to fly around here. Then I can get away from walking 5 miles each day and get back into cross country skiing. Of course a daily sit in the Hot Tub with the wife.
Clothes are not allowed in the Hot Tub.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/13/2007 7:59 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Bob,
"Clothes are not allowed in [my] hot tub"
I yam nekkid and awaiting the invitation right now! On second thoughts, it's a bit far to cycle, especially sans-lycra. I will entice the ladywife into the Jacuzzi instead...........
Lataxe, aka Percy Filth.
Edited 9/14/2007 5:29 pm ET by Lataxe
Lance,
The "daughter allocated nomenclature" (wrinkely) brought on a smile: you are lucky that she does not refer to you as an "Oxygen thief".
You can slow down the wrinkles and speed up a bit on the old bike by use of fish oil, you know, much like Ray no doubt is resorting to the use of upper cylinder lubricant for that Indian.
When are you going to sort out your computer?Philip Marcou
philip,
I recommend "Marvel Mystery Oil", my dad used it, and maybe grandpap too. Plus it has that name, full of promise, and redolent of the Buck Rogers era (and extract of wintergreen). I even use it on the whetrocks in the shop, it makes the planes run cooler.
Ray
Ray & Philip,
This next week there is a fillum on the gogglebox that I have nivver heard of before - "The World's Fastest Indian". Apparenty this concerns the antics of a New Zealander who soups-up an Indian sickle and breaks a world speed record astride the thang.
Now, I am wondering if history might in some strange way repeat itself. Perhaps Philip will visit with Ray and become particularly enamoured of the lumpetty-lumpetty ve-hickle. Some engineering magic ensues and before long there is a gleaming machine, dripping with speed potential and throbbing eagerly between the newly-adopted Kiwistan citizen's thighs.
I will break that record", he promises Ray, who looks on proudly as off goes Hiz Excellency in a cloud of dust, with a cry of pleasure and exhilartion! Yip aye yip!
"Where is my sickle", asks Ray after a half hour or so stood anxiously at the garden gate. Aha! It was all a cunning ruse to get the Indian back to the Marcou Shed in Kiwistan, where it becomes another object of an engineer's fetish! ("You're my sickle now; let Daddy give you a little polish").
Lataxe, a precog (as Mr Dick likes to call us).
Mr. Froe,
I just knew it!
I tried to warn Ray about the shenanigans going on with his Injun. I even offered the services of a friend who could restore it back to original, well almost.
Now we Yanks will not only have to hide our women, but now our Injuns as well, when His Excellency pays a visit!
I will warn the Canadian authorities just in case. I must come up with a way to get their attention. Perhaps I should steal some pics of his planes for identificatio as no one has ever seen him B4.
Is it possible he's actually one of Mels clowns? No one listens to me. Is it an age thing?
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/15/2007 6:49 am ET by KiddervilleAcres
Lataxe,
The Worlds Fastest Indian is based on the true antics of Bert Monro, a NZlander who brought his highly modified 1928 Scout to Bonneville in the late 60's -early 70's and did indeed establish a land speed record for 'sicles under 1000cc's which still stands. It is a fascinating story of ingenuity and perseverance, and dedication to a goal. Old Bert is played by your own Sir Anthony Hopkins, in what he described as the best role of his life. Unfortunately the perception of the film as a motorcycle movie reduced its distribution and hence its popularity.
Bert was a real character, well known to the cycle community at the time, and was the subject of several articles and a couple books. His modifications to the bike included converting from flathead to overhead valve operation. New cylinders were turned on his little lathe from salvaged gas-pipe, with cooling fins individually sweated in place. He cast his own pistons from recycled aluminium, a combination of ford and chevy auto pistons. When stock Indian connecting rods couldn't hold up to the strain, he carved a pair from a Caterpillar tractor axle. The stories go on and on.
More found on this site:http://www.indianmotorbikes.com/
I am onto Philip's machinations, and will be ready for any shenanigans, should he attempt them. You see, I have trained my iron horse so that, like the Lone Ranger's mount "Silver", it will stop on a dime and wheel around for home, at the sound of my voice.
Heigh-ho,
Ray
Ray,
Due to technical difficulties, and I/we had to go to Canada to take out the dock as ice is just around the horizon. Oh, and another befugilty beset me, Some clod stole the Nakashima keyed knot that I had set aside for you.
So I searched the woodpile to find the Knottiest (naughtiest) broad (Ooooops) I mean board (sic) I could find.
This has been approved by Mr. Froe (I think) but much to the chagrin of that Maestrou of the Planes just south of the Equator. Mr. Cohen wishes you well too.
As for the Indian, I must confess that I had inside knowledge of the shenanigans going on with regard to your trusted steed. But I cannot reveal my sources. As a hint though, she is a rather buxom blonde, in Canada, who is related to an Eskimo of Russian descent.
Now on to more important matters. The knotty board, which will be posted to you henceforth is a prize piece of Cherry the likes of which you have never seen. It was chosen from my prized scrap pile after much consideration.
Yes, I have changed the rules. It's knot a knot, but rather a knot of knots!
Regards,
Oh man I'm going to pay for this!
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/16/2007 8:48 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Edited 9/16/2007 8:51 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Bob,
"she is a rather buxom 'blonde', in Canada, who is related to an Eskimo of Russian descent."
Hmmm. Nanooka, with boobushkas, 'or, like, whatever'. I can resist anything, except temptation.
Thanks for the warning.
Ray
PS If the rules have changed, so have the other terms of the agreement.
Ray,
Just squared up the cherry stock for the legs on the QA piece.
JUst wait till you see my new legs!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob,
Pah! That board you shewed is a rather good lookin' one compared to some of the plug-ugly brutes I have in my woodstore. Why, I have to cover them with sackcloth in case a child sees one and has nightmares; or a granny passes out with shock! "I saw something nasty in the woodshed"; (name that quote and the novel from which it comes).
If only the postman was cheaper, I would send samples to yous in the colony over there, so you could gasp and wonder at my strength of character being able to deal with such aberations of nature. Perhaps I might toss one into the Atlantic with a meassage scrawled on it along the lines of "Please pass this monstrous article to Ray Pine, who will make a lovely gadroon from it".
On second thoughts, I think I will just have another wee nip and a fondle of one of my many beautiful engineered artifacts from NZ.......they laugh in the face of ugly planks.
Lataxe, knackered from making a Very Heavy oak trestle table so that nip is just painkiller.
Sir,
Ada takes comfort knowing there are more than one side to a board! I'm confident Ray will have fun with at least two of them.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/17/2007 3:02 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
What the hell is a gadroon?
Neil,
http://www.answers.com/topic/gadroon
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Thanks Bob,
I thought it was going to be some perjorative word with origins deep in Northumberland somehow directed at the French.
Neil
neil.
It's a cross between a gorilla and a baboon.
Edit: With a ruffled skirt.
Ray
Edited 9/18/2007 12:53 pm ET by joinerswork
I didn't know the French wore ruffled dresses.
Neil,
They don't, but word has it that Lataxe favors them, especially silk ones! He likes to flit about the shed fondling, ooops, I mean fettling his Mad Cows!
It makes them feel safe.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Bob,
I may fondle and also flit (it's my faerie nature) but not in frock, skirt or other feminine apparel. I do not even have a periwig, flouncy sleeves and buckles on me shoen. No, I wears manly trouser albeit of violent colour and a lot of bag. Also, I have manly facial hair (less than Ray's - he is a Hell's Angel and must portray "unkemp hirsuit" to frighten the righteous folk down the roadside diner - I have seen that Marlon Brando fillum).
It's a surprise that Neil has not come across the gadrooning - it is everywhere that frou frou is found. It does sound insulting - "Why,sir; you are nothing but a damnable gadroon sir; what say ye to that, eh, eh?! You're naught but a dangle-down on lady-furniture, sir"! (Slaps antagonist with a lace glove).
But, if one makes scuttle furniture with them all too biological-looking legs, then at least it should be decent. I hope, Bob, that you have perfected your gadroons and that they are at least knee-length. We do not want to see scuttle-leg garter-top as it would be upsetting to various aesthetic sensibilities.
Has Ray made summick of that plank yet?
Lataxe, legs decently trousered.
Lataxe,
The other side of the plank has a much more interesting look with features that remind me a picture I have in my jokes library. Alas I can't post the pic as I'm sure my Knots priveleges would surely be revoked by the Forum Constable.
Perhaps I should post my new legs down to brother Mel, the carver extrodinaire. I understand he has a new fangled Schultemessr he's wanting to try out.
I need to hone my carving skill, or lack thereof, B4 trying Garter Topped Cabriole legs. You know of course that these legs are/were replacements for those gawdy turned posts of the style B4 QA? And they were painted!
And I also found out that frou frou - Rococco was started on your side of the pond! I can imagine the shadows those put upon the walls at night, with candles ablaze! Do you recall those from your youth?
Also, I would like to remind you that I have a tribe of Injuns standing at the ready for dispatch to Rays, should you and that mischievous planemaker have any ideas about making off with the Indian.
These injuns are quite fond of biologically inclined legs but frown on frou frou.
Best Regard,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/18/2007 2:42 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
neil,
Surely you've seen a poodle.
Ray
Touche'
Lataxe:"I saw something nasty in the woodshed"Was it not Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. Also turned into a fillum of the same title?I like this from page 8:"And it is only because I have in mind all those thousands of persons, not unlike myself, who work in the vulgar and meaningless bustle of offices, shops and homes, and who are not always sure whether a sentence in Literature or whether it is just a sheer flapdoodle, that I have adopted the method perfected by the late Herr Baedeker…"Regards,Hastings
H,
You win that prize, which is the accolade "more heducated than even Ray Pine in the Fine Warbling and Wittering Arts (paper-based)"! Also, 3 Baedeker stars (albeit you have probably used his Method and already awarded them to yourself). :-)
Since reading that book in my early teens, I have always kept an ear cocked for "sheer flapdoodle". Why, it is here, there and everywhere! Robert Poste's child was my heroine for at least a year (aged 13).
Lataxe
Philip,
As my not-so-hotmail is playing up, I am hoping you will post a jpeg (not pdf) of that blade and its dimensions here in Knots (eg in answer to this). Surely Bob will forgive this little diversion?
Lataxe
Lat,
I am not keen for the general populace to see that I cannot draw.
Let me have another go at sending you a jpeg via private Knots....
On another note: here is Mel enthralling over the wanders of robots and cnc machines, yet your hotmail is a c/up-can you imagine the results if "they" take over the world? (:)Philip Marcou
Many years ago when I were a lad, in the 70s, I discovered home brewing. !!!!!!!!!!! My brother and I did too!Grandpa had some stuff in a big wooden thing hidden in the basement!It was so big we 'tapped' it fer years before he found out!
Mr. Pine,
I understand that you have some concerns about the fine piece of cherry that I sent to you.
I'll have you know that this piece of crap I sent to you was selected, after many hours of digging through my Scrapiles of which I have 14,567 of. Just to find the right one. They're graded on the preference of the chickens who lay the finest eggs in New Hampshire. Rhode Island Reds from the finest stock.
I see from your WEBsite that you are an accomplished reproduction furniture maker who specializes in a style of furniture that does not appeal to that poor penshioner woodshed dweller across the pond. I suspect he's fond of straight Greene & Greene legs instead, sans any frou frou.
On another note, G-sharp I think, I've a simple plan to protect the Indian. Simply furnish your home with Queen Anne furniture, repleat with carvings and an abundance of scuttle legs. Keep the Indian in your livingroom with lots of candles lit at night.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/20/2007 9:25 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Bob,
As this is a family forum, I will not say what I was reminded of when I looked at the board you sent me. Suffice it to say that it ought to be kept out of sight most of the time.
Still pondering,
Ray
<<Still pondering>>Ray,Based on your description of the quality of the board, and if the knot hole is large enough, perhaps a privy seat would be "a way to go."Mike
It's not a competition. It's a popularity contest.Too bad. Had it been inclusive throughout the forum, it might have been an interesting project. I'll bet dollars to donuts that the editors at FWW would have gotten behind it. Imagine, a furniture show in cyberspace.
sapwood,
I'll bet dollars to donuts that the editors at FWW would have gotten behind it.
Thanks, that's exactly what I was hoping would happen.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
"The first winner is Ray Pine. I will be sending him a cherry board ..."
If the first "winner" is ray Pine, why are you sending him cherry? ;-)
I could say something like "Well, because it's brand new that's why it's cherry" but I won't because it might be misconstrued and the whole discussion might be derailed or highjacked.
Neil
Basset & neil,
It's cherry 'cause it's the best wood that I have. Actually that's not true, I do have some Birds-eye and spalted maple, but it's the closest thing I had to mahogany.
I do have some pine which might have been more appropriate. Oh well, I guess I'm just different.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Don't even mention that idiotic thread. It should be shot....along with everyone posting on it.
Wow, guess that includes me? Man I sure wasn't expecting this!
Sorry for, actually I'm not sure?
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Not you Bob, but there's enough jackasses there to fill Noah's Ark all by themselves.
Boardman,
You know, I inherited my folks cabin on a lake that straddles the border between Canada and the good ole US of A. And guess what my moms decoration motif was/is?
Noahs Ark!
Bon jour,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 9/11/2007 10:05 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Hmmm.... I'm heading up to Ashland WI tomorrow. It wouldn't be anywhere near there, would it?
Returning to the subject of actual woodworking, I'm going to stop in at this place:
http://www.timelesstimber.com/
I've always wanted to get a close look at submereged lumber and learn a little more about the process. And take pictures. I'll post them early next week.
Boardman,
Nope, it's across from Vermont in Quebec.
You should have a good time from what I saw on the WEBsite. Every once in a while I get a chance to salvage wood from old barns up here in NH. Some of these barns were built with old growth timbers.
When they tore down my great grandfathers barn I grabbed a good amount of the white oak support beams. NICE stuff, still have a good amount of it in the stash.
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
I've worked in lots of houses in my neighborhood, built from 1880-1920, and have seen lots of oak from the time when the logging boom moved thru Minnesota. I really like the look of the tight grained oak - not nearly as garish as the look of today's oak.
By the way...I've been to Quebec City and really liked it and would love to go there again. I'll call next spring to arrange the 2 week free stay in July. Good fishing on the lake?
2 week free stay in July WHAT!? Do tell more. I suppose that would be at The Frontenac?
What a fantastic city, where the old meets the new. I used to go to the Winter Carnival. The women were ...........
Oooops, that was back many moons ago!
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
The walled part of the city was real nice, and the food was even better. And yes...the "scenery" you referred to was "exhilarating." So much so that a couple years later I came across a great airfare rate and went to Paris. Uhh......"incredible!"
I'm guessing that since you mentioned the Frontenac that your cabin is also 5 Star? Cool.....!
Bman,
Cease with that dissent and the hard words! Are you trying to jackass this thread!?
Lataxe, waving a bladder on a stick
Dear Laxative,
Opinion noted.
Opinion disregarded.
Yours Truely,
Boardman.
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