Replies

1. 
   roc | Jun 27, 2009 05:58am | #1

   They are inspiring ! If you click on Home then it goes to the other members of the family rifle makers etc.

   I have always admired bead work as well. Something about it . . .

   Thanks for the link !

   I learned a new place to keep my tooth pick to !

   roc

   Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

2. 
   Eef | Jun 28, 2009 10:25pm | #2

   dan,
   amazing stuff! the bar, for so many crafts, just keeps getting higher.
   however, could they not have back-dropped the red man in a more appropriate setting? i mean, it looks as though he's posed in some common backyard in orange county, for pete's sake.
   eef

1. 
   danmart | Jun 29, 2009 12:50am | #3

   Funny thing Eef

   Frank's art work took a strange turn after the indian was completed. It was featured on the front of a beautiful book by Gordon Barlow -- then it disappeared from the internet. Word had it that he took some criticism for his use of animal bones???

   For about a year I couldn't find a single photo on the net. All of the photos I had viewed on the process of building it just vanished. Don't know the whole story.

   All of the House brothers have been doing incredible handwork for a long time. Hershel(oldest) was in Foxfire 5 back in the 60's showing the young journalists how he made his rifles in the remote shop he worked in back in the Kentucky woods. Hershel has a couple dvd/tapes showing how he builds his flintlock rifles and they are a nice peek into the world of the marriage of wood and metal. Lots of information and fun to see.

   By the way, Frank House(indian creator) built a few of the rifles featured in the film The Patriot. His wife made lots of the clothing and leather bags for the cast. Most of their stuff wouldn't fit in the FWW pages but they do make some interesting pieces -- with hand tools.

   photo: hershel's bench. not a magazine bench

   dan

   
1. 
   Eef | Jun 29, 2009 01:17am | #4

   dan,
   the times that my bench looks like that are the happiest. many years ago i "carved" soup bones into simple jewelry. then i found things went a lot faster if the bones were ground on a wheel. the resultant smell caused all in proximity of the process to threaten me heartily. have not ground a bone since. but perhaps with proper dust collection...?
   anyhow, i very much enjoy viewing your work and the work of those you linked us to.
   thanks,
   eef

   Edited 6/28/2009 6:22 pm ET by Eef