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Ahh...great emoji fu.Just awesome.
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One of the young ones came out yesterday while there was still daylight. About half the size of the adults and looking very capable.
My favorite Alpaca wool blanket made its way into the wash and shrunk a ton. When my wife asked me what I wanted to do for Father's day, I replied "teach my daughter how to use the loom." We are now weaving a new wool blanket that will be about 7' X 6' and weigh between.6 and 7 lbs.
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Did you build the loom?
Looks good, sampson
BF
Looks good, sampson
BF
It can be snugged up with a pick before untying and then will get folded over and a 1" hem all the way around to make it all even and stronger.
You are always full of good ideas Nick.
Nope, didn't build it. It is a 4 heddle Leclerc Artisat made in Canada, the third one made in 1981.
I don't remember if I posted this guitar before?
The headstock is inlayed with blacklip abalone (tail) and red abalone (body) of a Swallowtail Humming bird (Trochilus Polytmus)
Where the idea originated
Hummingbird dots
close up
Blacklip 'dots' (little humming birds) and how I cut them out - I used a jeweler's saw, not the bit in the pic. The bit was used to cut the 1mm slot in the fingerboard.
Jamaican mahogany back and sides.
Spruce top, rosewood fingerboard
awaiting varnish after sanding....
The headstock is inlayed with blacklip abalone (tail) and red abalone (body) of a Swallowtail Humming bird (Trochilus Polytmus)
Where the idea originated
Hummingbird dots
close up
Blacklip 'dots' (little humming birds) and how I cut them out - I used a jeweler's saw, not the bit in the pic. The bit was used to cut the 1mm slot in the fingerboard.
Jamaican mahogany back and sides.
Spruce top, rosewood fingerboard
awaiting varnish after sanding....
Lots of these guys this year around the garden. Please, oh please eat a bunch of biting flies my friend.
Lightning bugs have become active making it difficult to want to go to bed at a reasonable time.
Twelve-spotted skimmer
Ruby-throated hummingbird enjoying the calibrachoa
Lightning bugs have become active making it difficult to want to go to bed at a reasonable time.
Twelve-spotted skimmer
Ruby-throated hummingbird enjoying the calibrachoa
Live underwater Deerfield Beach, Florida
It's relaxing. Have a drink & a smoke. Enjoy!
It's relaxing. Have a drink & a smoke. Enjoy!
Incredible work of art GH. A priceless stunner of an instrument.
Good fireworks on the 4th of July there!
Thus the challenge!
A really weird cloud formation from a couple of years back. Don't think I've seen the like before or after this shot.
Jumping Spider 1/160sec ISO 400 and f/7.1
Lightning bugs ~10sec ISO 800 f/1.6
Dragonfly 1/400sec ISO 400 f/7.1
Hummingbird 1/2500sec ISO 800 f/6.3
I wonder if that could be remnants from a rocket launch? Amazing looking.
wow that ocean sure looks flat.
Wow. About forty years ago, folks were fishing off that pier and one guy accidentally snagged the flipper of a big sea turtle. I happened to have my fins and snorkel with me, so I swam out to were the turtle was. Had to gently guide the docile beastie toward shore so I could stand and remove the hook.
It was so patient as I worked it. Clearly, it had to hurt... but I got it out and he swam slowly away. Folks on the beach clapped.
It gets even flatter sometimes. You'll be zooming along in 60 feet of water with sumbody in the bow looking down for good bug reef. On shore, the waves can be about 3" high when they reach shore.