Post #628184 by Bay Park Buzzy on Fri, Mar 9, 2012 1:28 PM

I had to concentrate on Mojave Oasis II facilities matters for a week or so, but I finally got caught up enough to sneak into the shop for a couple days this week.

Before I get to that work, a sunset from one of those days:

First piece was "inspired" by the tribes of the Lower Strickland Mountains in PNG. It's kind of a rudder/paddle. The river had quick parts of rapids that only needed steering, so they fashioned these paddles for slowing down by creating some drag, or using it to turn with as a type of hand held rudder:

I guess the shape produced enough drag to slow the boat, but not enough to rip it out of the pilot's hand

I thought they were ceremonial/decorative until I read the caption next to the picture that said they actually used them shaped like this.

Next day sunset,(yesterday):

Upper Strickland Navigator's paddle:

On 2012-02-24 07:06, Cammo wrote:
These clubs with the abstract Martian road kill lobsters on them are the coolest things I've ever seen.

A lot of the paddles are actually used like maps. Not exact "this is what the river looks like" but kind of like "two bumps and a long arm off the center design"="two turns of the river after camp and there's a tributary" If there were markings on the part that meant tributary, then that meant there was stuff down the river. If it was plain, it meant nothing there. The guy on the back of the boat would have the marked paddle. Kind of like the modern outrigger guy with megaphone in charge.

and others were just decorative and didn't mean a thing outside of the ceremonial realm

Meaningless, just like all my stuff...

On 2012-02-27 09:03, MadDogMike wrote:
I think now a teacher would be cruxified for flashing a Bible around in a public school.

Our other favorite sub from that district was the WWII vet Mr Farrington. He brought different caliber of bullets to show us. He told us that the .45 was invented to stop/kill the "Curly Qs" during the Zulu wars. The bullets alone would cause a district wide lockdown these days. "Curly Q's" said by a teacher= Hello Al Sharpton with 20 buses of professional protestors at the school gates. And, he wouldn;t be crucified these days, because that does have its traditions in the religious realm, and there is that whole freedom from religion thing in the public realm

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On 2012-03-02 10:07, Cammo wrote:
That's why it was so small.

Hey Freddie, can you take this one?

On 2012-02-15 00:59, HOUSE OF KU wrote:
Thats what she said! :)

Thanks buddy!

On 2012-03-02 10:09, Cammo wrote:
Also, I don't believe that it was for real.
"Oh, you don't happen to have an electron microscope on you? Too bad, you can't read my book."

He had a little hand held stamp magnifier that he'd let you peer into. I saw it once, and it looked like a bunch of rectangles with something in them, like lines of text, laid out bible column style.

On 2012-03-05 08:45, Clarita wrote:
Love the paddles, very nice!

thanks Clarita.

I need to go check the water...
Buzzy Out!