***April 20, 2025-April 26, 2025 Weekly Show, Tell, and Critique***

Happy Easter, everyone!!

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I'm going to apologize in advance for not commenting on posts. I have jury duty starting tomorrow and, if the jury duty allows it, we are hoping to take our maiden voyage in Breezy this week, as the weather looks like it is finally going to allow that. The purpose of the trip will be to shake out problems and get comfortable with the many new systems before we take a real trip. We are planning to spend three or four days at Gettysburg which is only a couple of hours from here in case something goes wrong. I've been there before several times, but we are taking the bikes and will ride the Battlefield. I will comment on posts when and if I can.

We look forward to seeing your recent photos and reading everyone's comments.

Greg

We are going to my daughter's for Easter dinner, so Nancy made some very cute and clever Easter cookies. This was one of the trays.



A certain dog, who's name will not be mentioned but who's initial is "B", was found trying to pull an entire tray of these cookies (which took Nancy hours to make) off the counter and on the floor. BIG trouble!

My grandmother, who was like my mother, was Catholic - very usual for a PA Dutch person - they are usually Lutheran or one of the plain sects, like Amish and Mennonite. She always said and firmly believed "It always rains on good Friday". Usually she is right, but this Good Friday, there was no rain - it was really nice - our first warm day. So, Easter being a non-event for me, I decided to take the first bike ride of the year while Nancy was making cookies.

I had not yet ridden the Perkiomen Trail, which follows the Perkiomen Creek to Valley Forge, where it meets the Schuylkill River Trail. So, I hauled the bike down to the most northern trailhead.



Of course, I followed confusing signs, went the wrong way and got completely lost (thinking of Dak, who apparently has this problem too).



Finally found myself on real mountain bike type trails (too old for that!) at Green Lane Lake, where there was a map and I could figure out how to make my way back to the regular trail. About 10 exhausting miles later. The Perkiomen trail is very nice - an old RR bed with lots of 18th Century houses along the creek:



Did about another 15 miles on the actual trail, which has quite a few dedicated bike bridges as it crosses back and forth over the creek:



Managed to make it back to the truck in tine to get home for dinner.



Made a lot of progress on the Berks County longrifle on Thursday.

I also took the time to do something that has been on my to-do list for a while - fabricating a jig/tool out of some scrap steel which will be needed to put this lock back together when the time comes. Anyone wanna guess what it is?





Thursday was a VERY big day! It dawned sunny and nice, for a change, which made this work go even better, too boot.

First, I did the final full sanding down to 400 grit. No pics of that - pretty boring. Metal removed and final water soaking prior to the final careful whiskering. It raised a surprising amount of fuzz. Shows a little of the figure when wet.



Then came acid, heat and first coat of finish day - my first real peek at the quality (or lack thereof) of the wood I've spent so many hours working on.

The acid (nitric, in which a lot of iron filings have been dissolved, cut with some water) treatment, still wet and drying in the sun turned the wood a sickly green/gray. Had I not done this before, I'd have been throwing up in my shoes at this point figuring I'd just ruined everything.



When the acid dried, it looked even worse. No figure, horrible color, splotchy and dull.



Next, considerable heat was applied to "cure" the acid, which changed the color from green/gray to an ugly orange/brown. Once again, if I had not done this before I would be SICK at this point. This pic shows the color change:



Yes, I used an electric heat gun. Back in the day, they used an iron bar heated to red hot in the forge. But, hey, if they'da had electric heat guns, they'da used 'em.

Now comes the exciting part - the first coat of finish, which will start to bring up the figure in the wood. This pic shows the amazing transformation on the forestock.



First coat drying in the sun. What think of the figure?



I'm pretty happy so far with the figure and the color. It will get better with each additional coat. I will let it dry 24 to 36 hours before doing anything else.

I will very slowly build up the finish. While doing that I will mix black pigment with the finish to blend in darkening in some areas and will lighten other areas by rubbing them back with Scotch Brite. Can't tell yet how long that will take with this chunk of wood - they are all different - somewhere between 5 and 20 coats, I'd guess.

I may start on engraving the metal parts next week while waiting for finish to fully dry between coats, if we don't go to Gettysburg as noted above.

Greg

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This thread is really dying. Hefer's a post trying to bring it up to the top again

We took a good, short ride yesterday - Easter. This was Nancy's first outing of the year; and we were awaiting a nice Easter dinner, so we didn't want to do a long ride.



We did the old towpath of the Union Canal, along the beautiful Tulpehocken Creek, which I had never ridden before:



The canal was built in 1827. This is one of the locks - amazingly narrow:



There were numerous cool 18th century and early 19th century buildings along the creek. This one from 1780:



This is the Gruber Wagon Works, where they built the famous covered wagons used in the western migration:



1847 one-room schoolhouse:



Late 1700's blacksmith shop:



Way cool covered bridge over the Tully. Supposed to be the longest single span covered bridge in PA at 220':



Somewhat weather-beaten, but still iconic PA Dutch distelfink. There will be a distelfink engraved on the lock of the longrifle I am building.



There were also some amazing rich people's mansions overlooking the creek. This one started out in the early 1800's as a canal boat captain's house. You'd need a staff to live there.



Another, but modern:



Yet another modern mansion. They are cool to see, but I honestly wouldn't want to live in such a massive, ostentatious building, like some kind of medieval lord.



We only did about 10 miles total. As usual with the ebikes, you can choose how much or little exercise you get - I got pretty much for an old guy. The trail kept going into the City of Reading. Even though I was carrying, I didn't want to try to ride through that hellhole, so we turned around at that point.

Hopefully, we will spend three or four days at Gettysburg this week, basically just to take our first shakedown trip in Breezy without travelling too far. We'll take the bikes, not tow the truck; and hope to bike tour the battlefield, so stand by for more pics.

Greg

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Haven't been on much not feeling that well for weeks but did go out into Manhattan briefly a few times. Posted in Dak's weekly but I guess he's still climbing since not responded to. Maybe I'll try to repost it here.

Getting familiar with Zoom the entire morning since I made a video appointment with the doctor tomorrow and have never used it before

Also been using the phone like 95% of the time and it's killing my eyes. But laptop connection unreliable and I gave up my Verizon hotspot about 2 years ago. (And gave up the Verizon flip phone over 4 years ago now with T-Mobile basic mobile phone which double as hot spot) Verizon not consumer friendly imo perhaps because I only opted for the bare basics and they never communicated to me about changes to their service like the discontinuation of 3G service. Disconnected my hot spot w/o notice also and was informed by automated voice when I tried to phone them that I needed to connect via web!!!! . They called months later via automated msg asking why I did not renew my hot spot. Put a block on that number.

KB

Had gone into Manhattan again last Saturday but didn't go out at all Easter Sunday except to grab coffee from Starbucks half a block away.

Birddogman said:

This thread is really dying. Hefer's a post trying to bring it up to the top again



Somewhat weather-beaten, but still iconic PA Dutch distelfink. There will be a distelfink engraved on the lock of the longrifle I am building.





Hopefully, we will spend three or four days at Gettysburg this week, basically just to take our first shakedown trip in Breezy without travelling too far. We'll take the bikes, not tow the truck; and hope to bike tour the battlefield, so stand by for more pics.

Greg

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Guessing a distelfink is some kind of bird. Here's another. We get our eggs from a friend and stopped by today to pick up a couple dozen. Looks like mama duck has set up a nest in a planter next to the garage. Same as last year although I have to believe different duck. Guessing the distelfkink is smarter than the duck. And no, we're stopping for freshly laid chicken eggs, not the duck eggs.

Nick

Birddogman said:

This thread is really dying. Hefer's a post trying to bring it up to the top again

We took a good, short ride yesterday - Easter. This was Nancy's first outing of the year; and we were awaiting a nice Easter dinner, so we didn't want to do a long ride.



We did the old towpath of the Union Canal, along the beautiful Tulpehocken Creek, which I had never ridden before:



The canal was built in 1827. This is one of the locks - amazingly narrow:



There were numerous cool 18th century and early 19th century buildings along the creek. This one from 1780:



This is the Gruber Wagon Works, where they built the famous covered wagons used in the western migration:



1847 one-room schoolhouse:



Late 1700's blacksmith shop:



Way cool covered bridge over the Tully. Supposed to be the longest single span covered bridge in PA at 220':



Somewhat weather-beaten, but still iconic PA Dutch distelfink. There will be a distelfink engraved on the lock of the longrifle I am building.



There were also some amazing rich people's mansions overlooking the creek. This one started out in the early 1800's as a canal boat captain's house. You'd need a staff to live there.



Another, but modern:



Yet another modern mansion. They are cool to see, but I honestly wouldn't want to live in such a massive, ostentatious building, like some kind of medieval lord.



We only did about 10 miles total. As usual with the ebikes, you can choose how much or little exercise you get - I got pretty much for an old guy. The trail kept going into the City of Reading. Even though I was carrying, I didn't want to try to ride through that hellhole, so we turned around at that point.

Hopefully, we will spend three or four days at Gettysburg this week, basically just to take our first shakedown trip in Breezy without travelling too far. We'll take the bikes, not tow the truck; and hope to bike tour the battlefield, so stand by for more pics.

Greg

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I love the bridges and the old stone house! I can’t imagine living in one of those mansions. The dogs wpuld get lost inside, and it would be a pain to clean that many rooms!

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Courtney

Birddogman said:

We are going to my daughter's for Easter dinner, so Nancy made some very cute and clever Easter cookies. This was one of the trays.



A certain dog, who's name will not be mentioned but who's initial is "B", was found trying to pull an entire tray of these cookies (which took Nancy hours to make) off the counter and on the floor. BIG trouble!

My grandmother, who was like my mother, was Catholic - very usual for a PA Dutch person - they are usually Lutheran or one of the plain sects, like Amish and Mennonite. She always said and firmly believed "It always rains on good Friday". Usually she is right, but this Good Friday, there was no rain - it was really nice - our first warm day. So, Easter being a non-event for me, I decided to take the first bike ride of the year while Nancy was making cookies.

I had not yet ridden the Perkiomen Trail, which follows the Perkiomen Creek to Valley Forge, where it meets the Schuylkill River Trail. So, I hauled the bike down to the most northern trailhead.



Of course, I followed confusing signs, went the wrong way and got completely lost (thinking of Dak, who apparently has this problem too).



Finally found myself on real mountain bike type trails (too old for that!) at Green Lane Lake, where there was a map and I could figure out how to make my way back to the regular trail. About 10 exhausting miles later. The Perkiomen trail is very nice - an old RR bed with lots of 18th Century houses along the creek:



Did about another 15 miles on the actual trail, which has quite a few dedicated bike bridges as it crosses back and forth over the creek:



Managed to make it back to the truck in tine to get home for dinner.



Made a lot of progress on the Berks County longrifle on Thursday.

I also took the time to do something that has been on my to-do list for a while - fabricating a jig/tool out of some scrap steel which will be needed to put this lock back together when the time comes. Anyone wanna guess what it is?





Thursday was a VERY big day! It dawned sunny and nice, for a change, which made this work go even better, too boot.

First, I did the final full sanding down to 400 grit. No pics of that - pretty boring. Metal removed and final water soaking prior to the final careful whiskering. It raised a surprising amount of fuzz. Shows a little of the figure when wet.



Then came acid, heat and first coat of finish day - my first real peek at the quality (or lack thereof) of the wood I've spent so many hours working on.

The acid (nitric, in which a lot of iron filings have been dissolved, cut with some water) treatment, still wet and drying in the sun turned the wood a sickly green/gray. Had I not done this before, I'd have been throwing up in my shoes at this point figuring I'd just ruined everything.



When the acid dried, it looked even worse. No figure, horrible color, splotchy and dull.



Next, considerable heat was applied to "cure" the acid, which changed the color from green/gray to an ugly orange/brown. Once again, if I had not done this before I would be SICK at this point. This pic shows the color change:



Yes, I used an electric heat gun. Back in the day, they used an iron bar heated to red hot in the forge. But, hey, if they'da had electric heat guns, they'da used 'em.

Now comes the exciting part - the first coat of finish, which will start to bring up the figure in the wood. This pic shows the amazing transformation on the forestock.



First coat drying in the sun. What think of the figure?



I'm pretty happy so far with the figure and the color. It will get better with each additional coat. I will let it dry 24 to 36 hours before doing anything else.

I will very slowly build up the finish. While doing that I will mix black pigment with the finish to blend in darkening in some areas and will lighten other areas by rubbing them back with Scotch Brite. Can't tell yet how long that will take with this chunk of wood - they are all different - somewhere between 5 and 20 coats, I'd guess.

I may start on engraving the metal parts next week while waiting for finish to fully dry between coats, if we don't go to Gettysburg as noted above.

Greg

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Those cookies look delicious. Pretzels, marshmallow frosting, and M&M’s? Yum, yum!

The finish on the rifle looks great so far. I like the whiskering. It’s interesting how the wood color changed during the curing process. It almost resembled camouflage in the photos before the acid dried.

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Courtney

Birddogman said:

First coat drying in the sun. What think of the figure?



I'm pretty happy so far with the figure and the color. It will get better with each additional coat. I will let it dry 24 to 36 hours before doing anything else.

I will very slowly build up the finish. While doing that I will mix black pigment with the finish to blend in darkening in some areas and will lighten other areas by rubbing them back with Scotch Brite. Can't tell yet how long that will take with this chunk of wood - they are all different - somewhere between 5 and 20 coats, I'd guess.

I may start on engraving the metal parts next week while waiting for finish to fully dry between coats, if we don't go to Gettysburg as noted above.

Greg

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I wouldn't add black pigment on most of the wood. The scroll work doesn't match the tiger grain direction and will stand out more if there aren't super dark areas taking the attention.

Really nice looking work !!!

Grant.

Jury duty done. Leaving for Gettysburg in an hour or so. Just enough tine for some quick comments.

Yes, the acid (traditional term is aquafortis) treatment is pretty scary if you haven't; seen it before. You think you wrecked your whole project.

Greg

Thanks, Grant. The pigment will only be applied to certain areas, like around the lock and sideplate panels. It will be subtly blended in to give shading, not over the whole thing - that would make it way too dark. Concomitantly, other parts will be selectively lightened, like the peak of the cheekpiece. I think you'll like the effect. I'll show you when I get to it - busy now leaving on Breezy's first trip.

Greg

That stinks. Sorry you are not feeling well. Take care, my friend I've never met.

Greg

Ha! Duck eggs are good, too. So are turkey eggs - just much bigger. Eggs are free for us, but they don't come from the store: We eat a lot of eggs.





A distelfink is a PA Dutch "hex" (maybe roughly translated to English as "magic" or "mystical") critter that brings good luck. You see that symbology quite a bit around here.







I will engrave a distelfink on the lock of the rifle I am now building, in hopes that it will bring me luck when hunting with it.















Greg

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I'm with you on that. Nancy is a meticulous housekeeper - even our relatively small, cabin-like house (about 1600 sq. ft.) keeps her busy. No one person could properly care for such a huge house and fancy grounds - as noted above, you'd literally need a staff. Plus, you would never know where the other person was in all that vastness. No thanks.

I would, however, taken the money.

Greg

Birddogman said:

We are going to my daughter's for Easter dinner, so Nancy made some very cute and clever Easter cookies. This was one of the trays.

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Looks like work. I imagine the faces can be bought ready-made?

Birddogman said:

A certain dog, who's name will not be mentioned but who's initial is "B",

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B**** sounds about right.

Birddogman said:

was found trying to pull an entire tray of these cookies (which took Nancy hours to make) off the counter and on the floor. BIG trouble!

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That's the difference between cats and dogs. A cat would not try to pull a tray down but rather lick off the sugar (or whatever else) in-place. Non-invasive surgery.

Though the most "inconspicuous" food attack I remember was in my youth: the baker delivered the morning buns in paper bags, and we were frequently getting one too few. My mother complained a few times until she noticed that the paper bags had a small slit at the side when this happened.

Turned out to have been a (red) squirrel that regularly absconded with a single bun. I think my mother upped the order by one then.

Birddogman said:

I had not yet ridden the Perkiomen Trail, which follows the Perkiomen Creek to Valley Forge, where it meets the Schuylkill River Trail. So, I hauled the bike down to the most northern trailhead.



Of course, I followed confusing signs, went the wrong way and got completely lost (thinking of Dak, who apparently has this problem too).

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When the trails are set up by professionals, said professionals are used to getting around by car.

Birddogman said:

Finally found myself on real mountain bike type trails (too old for that!) at Green Lane Lake, where there was a map and I could figure out how to make my way back to the regular trail. About 10 exhausting miles later. The Perkiomen trail is very nice - an old RR bed with lots of 18th Century houses along the creek:

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I still discover "niceties" with regard to bike trails that should have long been in my repertoire somewhat regularly.

Birddogman said:

Did about another 15 miles on the actual trail, which has quite a few dedicated bike bridges as it crosses back and forth over the creek:



Managed to make it back to the truck in tine to get home for dinner.



Made a lot of progress on the Berks County longrifle on Thursday.

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The good thing is once you know the trails, you'll be able to take Nancy along for a quite smoother and more gratifying ride.

Birddogman said:

I also took the time to do something that has been on my to-do list for a while - fabricating a jig/tool out of some scrap steel which will be needed to put this lock back together when the time comes. Anyone wanna guess what it is?





Thursday was a VERY big day! It dawned sunny and nice, for a change, which made this work go even better, too boot.

First, I did the final full sanding down to 400 grit. No pics of that - pretty boring. Metal removed and final water soaking prior to the final careful whiskering. It raised a surprising amount of fuzz. Shows a little of the figure when wet.



Then came acid, heat and first coat of finish day - my first real peek at the quality (or lack thereof) of the wood I've spent so many hours working on.

The acid (nitric, in which a lot of iron filings have been dissolved, cut with some water) treatment, still wet and drying in the sun turned the wood a sickly green/gray. Had I not done this before, I'd have been throwing up in my shoes at this point figuring I'd just ruined everything.



When the acid dried, it looked even worse. No figure, horrible color, splotchy and dull.



Next, considerable heat was applied to "cure" the acid, which changed the color from green/gray to an ugly orange/brown. Once again, if I had not done this before I would be SICK at this point. This pic shows the color change:



Yes, I used an electric heat gun. Back in the day, they used an iron bar heated to red hot in the forge. But, hey, if they'da had electric heat guns, they'da used 'em.

Now comes the exciting part - the first coat of finish, which will start to bring up the figure in the wood. This pic shows the amazing transformation on the forestock.



First coat drying in the sun. What think of the figure?



I'm pretty happy so far with the figure and the color. It will get better with each additional coat. I will let it dry 24 to 36 hours before doing anything else.

I will very slowly build up the finish. While doing that I will mix black pigment with the finish to blend in darkening in some areas and will lighten other areas by rubbing them back with Scotch Brite. Can't tell yet how long that will take with this chunk of wood - they are all different - somewhere between 5 and 20 coats, I'd guess.

I may start on engraving the metal parts next week while waiting for finish to fully dry between coats, if we don't go to Gettysburg as noted above.

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Looks good!

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Dak

Love your story lines with images!

Sorry for the lack of responsiveness last and this week: been climbing, catching up, and am still in the process of finishing the hosting of a mini challenge.

I am back (since early Tuesday) from a climbing trip in Italy. The weather forecasts were horrible (about 2in of rain on most days) and remained so while we were there. Fortunately the weather severely underperformed its announced precipitation levels, making only for two rain check days all in all.




Gerhard going through the crux of a 6a+ I think

A few views from climbing areas:












Breakfast in Italy




Apartment kitchen




View from the apartment




Italian cheese counter




Finalborgo middown

Is that a fake facade?

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Dak

Birddogman said:

We are going to my daughter's for Easter dinner, so Nancy made some very cute and clever Easter cookies. This was one of the trays.



A certain dog, who's name will not be mentioned but who's initial is "B", was found trying to pull an entire tray of these cookies (which took Nancy hours to make) off the counter and on the floor. BIG trouble!

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Guess "B" spent some time in the dog house?

Birddogman said:

My grandmother, who was like my mother, was Catholic - very usual for a PA Dutch person - they are usually Lutheran or one of the plain sects, like Amish and Mennonite. She always said and firmly believed "It always rains on good Friday". Usually she is right, but this Good Friday, there was no rain - it was really nice - our first warm day. So, Easter being a non-event for me, I decided to take the first bike ride of the year while Nancy was making cookies.

I had not yet ridden the Perkiomen Trail, which follows the Perkiomen Creek to Valley Forge, where it meets the Schuylkill River Trail. So, I hauled the bike down to the most northern trailhead.



Of course, I followed confusing signs, went the wrong way and got completely lost (thinking of Dak, who apparently has this problem too).

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This brought up memories of the times I got lost, starting with the time I was in Rome in late 60s. Took up an offer of a buddy in school who lived nearby who was going to some athletic event in our school (used to be ... Notre Dame international school but now converted into a tv studio) on a weekend. He knew the way by bus so I went. The school was basically on the other side of the city. At the end on the day there my buddy saw some of his friends and hopped on with them for the ride home leaving me behind to find my way back alone. Though I had tried to subconsciously memorize the route (and the bus number .. thankfully no transfers) it looked totally different going back home, especially in the gathering darkness. Hopped off midway as I got uncertain of the route and started wandering and came by my embassy and even thought about staying nearby until Monday. Wandered around a bit more in the night and somehow found the bys line again and hopped on and decided to stay on and it was the right move. Yeah a few more after that ... but this was a doozy for me.

KB

Birddogman said:

Finally found myself on real mountain bike type trails (too old for that!) at Green Lane Lake, where there was a map and I could figure out how to make my way back to the regular trail. About 10 exhausting miles later. The Perkiomen trail is very nice - an old RR bed with lots of 18th Century houses along the creek:



Did about another 15 miles on the actual trail, which has quite a few dedicated bike bridges as it crosses back and forth over the creek:



Managed to make it back to the truck in tine to get home for dinner.



Made a lot of progress on the Berks County longrifle on Thursday.

I also took the time to do something that has been on my to-do list for a while - fabricating a jig/tool out of some scrap steel which will be needed to put this lock back together when the time comes. Anyone wanna guess what it is?





Thursday was a VERY big day! It dawned sunny and nice, for a change, which made this work go even better, too boot.

First, I did the final full sanding down to 400 grit. No pics of that - pretty boring. Metal removed and final water soaking prior to the final careful whiskering. It raised a surprising amount of fuzz. Shows a little of the figure when wet.



Then came acid, heat and first coat of finish day - my first real peek at the quality (or lack thereof) of the wood I've spent so many hours working on.

The acid (nitric, in which a lot of iron filings have been dissolved, cut with some water) treatment, still wet and drying in the sun turned the wood a sickly green/gray. Had I not done this before, I'd have been throwing up in my shoes at this point figuring I'd just ruined everything.



When the acid dried, it looked even worse. No figure, horrible color, splotchy and dull.



Next, considerable heat was applied to "cure" the acid, which changed the color from green/gray to an ugly orange/brown. Once again, if I had not done this before I would be SICK at this point. This pic shows the color change:



Yes, I used an electric heat gun. Back in the day, they used an iron bar heated to red hot in the forge. But, hey, if they'da had electric heat guns, they'da used 'em.

Now comes the exciting part - the first coat of finish, which will start to bring up the figure in the wood. This pic shows the amazing transformation on the forestock.



First coat drying in the sun. What think of the figure?



I'm pretty happy so far with the figure and the color. It will get better with each additional coat. I will let it dry 24 to 36 hours before doing anything else.

I will very slowly build up the finish. While doing that I will mix black pigment with the finish to blend in darkening in some areas and will lighten other areas by rubbing them back with Scotch Brite. Can't tell yet how long that will take with this chunk of wood - they are all different - somewhere between 5 and 20 coats, I'd guess.

I may start on engraving the metal parts next week while waiting for finish to fully dry between coats, if we don't go to Gettysburg as noted above.

Greg

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Check out my photos at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/137747053@N07/

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Some recent pics




























THe usual crowd

























KB

Nice NYC scenes and ambience. This one stands out beyond capturing the city flair:

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Dak

Dak on cam said:

Looks like work. I imagine the faces can be bought ready-made?

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Dunno. She made the out of M&M's. The ears are M&M's carefully cut in half - and the faces are hand-drawn. If you look in the middle of the bottom row, you will see one bunny with a broken ear. He has tears coming down his face.

Dak on cam said:

B**** sounds about right.

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Dak on cam said:

That's the difference between cats and dogs. A cat would not try to pull a tray down but rather lick off the sugar (or whatever else) in-place. Non-invasive surgery.

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True!

Dak on cam said:

Though the most "inconspicuous" food attack I remember was in my youth: the baker delivered the morning buns in paper bags, and we were frequently getting one too few. My mother complained a few times until she noticed that the paper bags had a small slit at the side when this happened.

Turned out to have been a (red) squirrel that regularly absconded with a single bun. I think my mother upped the order by one then.

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Good story!

Dak on cam said:

When the trails are set up by professionals, said professionals are used to getting around by car.

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Well, I am clearly not a professional when it comes to following trails.

Dak on cam said:

The good thing is once you know the trails, you'll be able to take Nancy along for a quite smoother and more gratifying ride.

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Well, exploring new trail is is big part of the fun for us, even if we do get lost now and then.

Dak on cam said:

Looks good!

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Thanks, I know it's an obscure thig to do.

Greg