Post #625814 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Feb 20, 2012 10:29 PM

Sunset:

We had 5 straight days of moderate to severe wind here, and a couple days of rain and cold

It actually snowed about two miles away from here, up on the hills:

Here's the end of last week's stuff and today's stuff:

I was looking to see if I had a matchbook in my collection when I came across that Disney polynesian village one. I was planning on doin some two tone stain samples, so I used a portion of the graphic for a sample piece:

My second stain test was on the entire Disney graphic, and it was a total fail. I redid the stain in a dark color because the way it looked with the two stains I used totally sucked

It still sucks, just not as bad as it used to.

I was still pissed because the stain test didn't turn out good, so I guess I wasn;t paying attention like i should have beenand messed up my next stain test piece by removing he wrong part. It was even worse because i was almost finished with it and wated all that time...

I called it a day in the shop at that point in my mess up and took it out to the shooting range to give it that natural rustic Mojave finish. Then I cleaned my bathroom and did the dishes.

After a weekend of attending to other Mojave matters, I got back in the shop this morning and warmed up with this stain test piece:

I probably won't shoot this one up.

I finished up the day with a PNG inspired fishing club, based on the ones from the upper Strickland mountain region:

they used to be able to cut the fish's head off in the shallows of the river with the tapered edge of the club. The best club fishermen could actually behead the fish on the downstroke, and gut the fish on the up stroke. The carved images on the club were based on what the fisherman was looking for under the swirlin water's surface.

My favorite part is that it looks like the outline of a fish:

On 2012-02-15 15:32, Cammo wrote:
Can you shoot one with like a shoe beside it, or your hand, or a dog sniffing at them?

Cherry Pepsi can? large round ones are about 12" diameter and the small round are maybe 8-9"

On 2012-02-17 11:03, Captain Jack wrote:
Are you using a traditional shop router or that dremel attachment?

I have a 1hp smallish router that I mainly use. I'm glad you asked that becuse I have one of those dremel router sets that I forgot about. I'll have to find that and see if can do some smaller line and detail work with it.

On 2012-02-18 22:08, hang10tiki wrote:
U busy man

It's been quiet for a couple weeks around here so I've had plenty of time to get my work done

On 2012-02-19 06:41, Benzart wrote:
I'm thinkin you need a Good electric recip carver for your works, would save you much time .

Funny-I was thinin' the same thing a couple days ago. It's on the list. Just a couple more shop must haves first...

On 2012-02-17 01:33, HOUSE OF KU wrote:
Jonesey!! Nice to see you visiting :)

That's for sure! definitely nice to hear you break radio silence, Jonesey!

On 2012-02-16 18:39, TravelingJones wrote:
What up BUZZY? OUT!

Wow, so good to hear from you. I think of you often. As you can see I relocated out to the Mojave for a little while. It's a lot different lifestlye out here. Kind of like a rehearsal for the post apocalyptic world...

Even with a constant full bowl of food,the dog's taken to hunting for her food. Here she is mining for gophers:

She's a reflection of her environment out here, so sometimes her solutions to the problems are more damaging than the original problem were:

It was a little gopher hole, now it's a big dog hole

we've been living off the land as much as we can. Poki's partial to rabbit:

but will settle for fish when it's available:

I like the fish I catch much better:

we're draining the lake to fix it, so the fish found a new home...

in my frying pan!

One of the bigger fish I caught looked like this:

So he got moved to his new home: the Koi pond at Amy's other desert house

I saved another one as a pet:

his name is Goldy
Poki loves Goldy!

Kiss kiss goldy! I also have about 10 pet catfish in there, but they're afraid of the dog and are always hiding in the deep, dirty part of the pond.

well Jonesy, aside from shootin', making the usual laod of tiki crap, and hanging out with the animals, that's about it for me..What about you?

On 2012-02-15 00:59, HOUSE OF KU wrote:
Cool looking router work there Buzzy!

thanks Freddie! Just a phase I'm going through right now

On 2012-02-14 22:31, RevBambooBen wrote:
get any splinterz mountin all that wood?

Not in any place that matters, or that I can see...

I love the fish!
Buzzy Out!