Welcome aboard David!
I have been making Gun stocks for seventy years
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Right now I have been trying to send messages to my self as RipJack13 suggests. Al its evrytime though I get the red flag saying to big an image size. The worst though has been the avatar image anything I try, no matter how fuzzy it gets, or tiny a resolution size, always the same message. The quilt blue and white pattern next to TheHuntingRifle looks more like a grandmothers quilt than a hunting rifle. The above image is NOT mine. It is Winchester’s. I ordered one at the first day of the Shot Show 2018 in hopes of retrieving another one of my rifle blanks in Sugar Maple. When I send out a blank or a pallet with them on, I usually put only AAA Grade on it. The exhibition graded ones are retained as the sale of a pallet is hardly what a direct sale should bring per blank. Also I see very, very few exhibition grade blanks. Right now I am sorting American Black Cherry and have yet to find ONE that I regard as exhibition. But this resizing image resolution has got me stymied. YET know this, this forum is better than most! Why? Some want high quality images from extremely low resolution. Another factor for me is some of our projects are very confidential before they get put on U Tube, published, etc., Some recommend patents. Yet anyone dealing with anything international knows copyright, patents, whatever is still subject to replication. I personally think some ideas saves valuable wood that just be wasted if an idea doesn’t get used again by Others.- Thread Starter Thread Starter
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To Barry Richardson, Years ago I went out to your area with a huge camera’s, 6x17 Fuji with four lens panels, Linhoff with one super wide also in 6x17, an 8x10, etc. One goal was to do photographs like your avatar. Which is very nice. I also shot even some Chevy Covette C5 shots there, and horse ranch photos, etc., and entrance gates to ranches. My friend, now gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds, Jack O’Connor was originally from there. Here the scene is snowy white and winter still. Hopefully winter will losses it icy grips and let me get back to more productive pursuits. This scene is me out there with the Fuji Panoramic film camera! DaveyJ
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A wood entrance with some help from friends. My son Robin, The Timber Framer. DaveyJ
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Thanks for sharing all the cool pics! Love the gun stocks.
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Here’s a table trestle for a very large dining room table. Note the rustic design and very strong joinery. This one is under construction. Black Cherry with both sap wood and heart wood intentionally. The entire table surface is three boards. It has been used as a table for ten years. Even timber importers have been impressed with this one.
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This is some of our Maple Syrup. On the same three board table. Every day hundreds of people dine on our tables. That makes us happy!- Thread Starter Thread Starter
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Any given day during spring, summer, or fall.....I can be found often draw shaving Timbers or log siding for some project. This is Black Cherry for a boathouse project.
David, without trying to hijack your thread, here are a few powder horns, three stone knives, one steel knife, and a quickie tomahawk.
.................. Jerry (in Tucson)
.................. Jerry (in Tucson)
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Hi Jerry, Very cool! The only powdernhorn I actually treasure was given to me years ago and I carved some lettering on it. Farm Boss snd Some other boyhood notions. It is in my Browning guncase. I actually don’t use it much anymore. I forget such things until I see a Photo like yours. I sure recognize the Buffalo horn. I have some Ruger 45 Long Colts with grips supposed from them. The tomahawk is a more primitive one than mine. I am part Mohawk, Turtle Clan, and they adopted steel hatchets very long ago. I did a lot of genetic typing of Grey Wolves, Mountain Lion, Brown Bear, and far more with Trout and Salmon. My brother, Kermit, named after one if Teddy’s Sons, did his DNA testing. We are more Viking than anything. Such relics of the past surely remind us of an ancestry that we often give little thought to. Seeing these tools is a real joy! I guess I am not actually any more evolved than the stone knife users. When I taught my gal students loved the book Clan of the Cave Bears Most. The stone knives are something you rarely see or hear of these days. I am delighted you sent these photos! What stone is the curved handle quartz looking blade??
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That's actually Dolomite from somewhere near the Alibates Quarries National Monument near Fritch, Texas. That particular rock looks more like a piece of hamburger meat, but the flash did cause a lose of color. Flintknappers call any of the rock from that area Alibates flint. The story goes that a bunch of geologists were searching the area for the source of the rock, and came across a hermit by the name of Ali Bates. They named the canyon he was in and the rock after him. If you're talking about the knife with the feathers,m that one is made from Pedernales Flint from the Pedernales River near Fredericksburg, Texas. That knife was made by Barney DeSimone from California. Obsidian knife with beaded handle was made by Kurt Phillips, from Washington. The knife with Alibates was from someone named Tom. Don't personally know him. Just gave him directions on how to get to Glass Buttes, Oregon. He sent me the knife after he returned. Don't know where he's from..... .. .............. Jerry
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I'm with Gman.....To heck with the gun stock pictures - I want to see more brookie pics and bows and brownies....well, i'm not picky - any salmonids!
On my list to do - make trout pond! My wife wants a catfish pond. Might compromise and do a shrimp pond.
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I am probably the USA leading Trout Pond builder. We have a international website. We have a fishing tournament each year and do that as a Trout and Salmon Pond which was phenomenal got Largemouth Bass stocked and that is a one way street. If the pond had stayed Trout only there is no way a high volume tournament would be allowed there. Catfish in a Pond is an absolute disaster as you practically can never go back. so you Stock Trout and see if it works. Catch is the design of a Trout and or Salmon Pond is a real technical art. The average fishery Scientist is lost here as they work with the best of the best public waters and avoid construction of what might become a real estate great move. I prefer small ponds fir this purpose and the incoming water and the site characteristics are critical. I travel around the USA and the most important single step is having it looked at by an expert. Anyone can dig a pit. The other factors that separate really successful ponds from not very good vary from design and species of fish stocked is a huge turning point. It now is illegal to stock certain fish in many states, for incredibly important reasons. I have built many Trout ponds in many states. Some in stores which are open all night long. The above Brook Trout is a special strain. It is a UW photo obviously. Extremely clear water. Such a pond requires planning design and construction. My Parents worked for the Soil Conservation Service and we helped write the USDA book on such ponds long ago. Then the SCS switched names and mission.
With a little kype who couldn't love a brookie in spawning finery!
Any flint from Bandera and the Medina or Fredericksburg and the Pedernales brings back many good memories.
Any flint from Bandera and the Medina or Fredericksburg and the Pedernales brings back many good memories.
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I can tell the difference between male and female Brookies at spawning time in pitch black night conditions. The females feel silky, the males rougher. Off to to today’s work or else. Is this the Texas Bandera? Looking at some CZ USA 455 Americans in 22 LR. Turkish Walnut is pretty wood and tough. Working with a leading gun store on photographing rifles. Photos often bring back events from the past and it is also nice when you walk those paths again i n your dreams. But now that I am up I better get to work. I will never be able to retire. That is the nature of farming! I am lucky my farming often takes me to Trout water or places where it can be established!
Yep, the Texas Bandera - used to find a lot of points on the banks of the Medina.
FIL had 2 fabulous trout ponds in SW washington. Good weather there and fresh springwater seemed to be great for the fish. All was well until 2 River otters moved in. The game dept came out- Took one look and said we do not have a big enough trap. The male was huge. There was a bridge over one pond and in the winter he would crawl out of hole in ice when you crossed "his" bridge growling and hissing at you. FIL caught the last of his fish and gave up. They were fun to watch but FIL always complained as to how expensive the entertainment was.
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We found a lot of arrowheads and spearheads on the banks of Ouaguaga Creek and the Chenanago River near Windsor, NewYork. Used to be some big native encampments there from 1690 to 1790. In terms of River Otter I did the UW photography of a movie with the Otter scenes. Every small trout pond they come to does get hammered. I myself love Otter and regard them as kindred spirits. They can sure catch fish! An old hermit in the Catskills had two that were with him from kits as the mother was trapped, .leaving the young Otter, so Nip and Tuck grew up imprinted to the old hermit. They were about the most fun loving animals I have ever seen. He lived in a house right by a river pool. There no paint on the house, not much insulation, and the Rhododendrons grew right down the water. Somehow he trained the Otter not to take Trout from that pool. He had dinner with them and they had matching red and white checked bibs. They were really comical! But in a Trout pool, they are going to catch and eat those fish.
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Yes catch they did. Once the game dept decided they could not trap him with trap they had -they opted for M-80 firecrackers to scare them off. Now the female took off but the big male just crawled under the overhanging blackberries and hissed and growled at them. They bought a bigger live trap and tried relocating with a Jet boat 20 miles up Hells canyon but it was hopeless. They returned and continued to dine On FIL's prize trout.
another fish pond- did custom interior on someones 5th house - on 999 acres- I will not say where. staff of a dozen people kept roads open all winter. Owner was expected to spend less than a week a yr there. It sat on a 30 40 acre lake- spring /creek fed. It was too shallow- more of a swamp so they mined the peat moss- enlarging lake and getting good depth. House was a "modest" 9,000 sq ft single bedroom dwelling. Interior decorator drew every wall and every piece of furniture in every room of house and everyone then set out to match. If then the owner did not like picture when finished- you did it again- money was not an object of concern- they just wrote check... The pond had been stocked with trout- had a fish biologist engineer quantity and species. to increase oxygen levels it was arated. Nice fish- 12- 16" plus but each fish ended up costing over $60 each. I was up there looking at some extra work, estate manger was discussing otter problems. seemed 2 had taken a liking to the fishing hole. Consuming lots of fish. Manager was beside himself- owner said- Looks like we are going to have to get biologist back to reassess our stocking program. The otters stayed.
Had a mechanical shooting range across the lake- push a button and a new target popped up- in one or multiple spots. had a couple bunkers- more guns and ammo than I have ever seen in one spot that was not military. One of the strangest jobs I ever did.
Had a mechanical shooting range across the lake- push a button and a new target popped up- in one or multiple spots. had a couple bunkers- more guns and ammo than I have ever seen in one spot that was not military. One of the strangest jobs I ever did.