Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967

Thanks, Yul! The sad thing about the turquoise heart is that it's fake. But what the heck... so's the feather! On a lighter note, I'd love to find a way to have a "touchmark" stamp made... even if it was just the fire-breathing duck!

Oh, DURN yore cotton' pickin' hide, Yul~! You just sent me down a whole 'nother rabbit hole!! But what a cool ideal. Sumpin' like this, maybe? I'm going to have to rifle through my leathworking stuff and see what else I might have "in stock;" otherwise, Tandy is but a short detour on the way home from my Monday and Tuesday classes in Clovis.

Hm... That's a good point, Joe. If you expand the picture, you'll see that the pins pass through tiny holes drilled through the stones; they literally can spin on those pins. I could perhaps put a drop of CA in each one... or maybe find less elongated samples - I have a small jar with hundreds of 'em. Um... I don't think anyone's gonna wear 'em in their hair ~ they're almost ten inches long, 1/8th inch thick, and danged heavy! I do like the idea of aligned stones... gonna have to ponder that one.

So there's a really nice older lady in my writing group who happens to be Native American. She is currently working on her latest book, a novel about a younger female detective in San Francisco, who also happens to be Native American. In her story, whenever something of significance has or is about to happen, the detective has a vision of a floating feather. Kind of a neat touch... Well, one evening after our weekly gathering, I was dinking about at the forge. As I worked on whatever, I was pondering her character, and had a bit of inspiration. Feeble, perhaps, but hey - it was late and I'm old. So, on a whim, I decided to hammer out an "iron feather" from a scrap of angle iron. Fairly simple, and kinda fun. Anyway, I did, and gave it to her at our last class - and I was really surprised at how much she liked it! As did a friend of hers who was visiting from out of town - I'll mail the friend's off tomorrow. And now I have a list of "feather requests;" I've been pounding out more of the danged things, much to the amusement of my chickens - one of whom donated the original pattern. Well, I came across a picture of real feathers (turkey?) decorated with small chips of turquoise, and wondered how that would work with the "iron feathers." I happen to have a bunch of those turquoise chips, so I drilled a series of holes in one of the metal feathers and literally pinned the beads on. Pictures below. So, now I'm going to ask for opinions: better with or without? First "Iron Feather" I gave to my classmate "Real" feathers with beads More "feathers" And the comparison. So - better with, or without? I used the small 2-burner propane forge, rather than firing up the coal-burning 1890's Buffalo. Here's a feather "cooking." The "Buffalo," which got to sit this one out. Thankee for any input!

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Sweathogs...!

Why "ZEBCO...?"

Arguably the best Citroen ever, the Deux Chevaux~! 😄

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I ain't sayin' where, but....

We need a "drooling" emoji!

Add a dash o' maple and OH Yum~!

'Specially if the twenty have submachineguns and the one dude has a pistol. Just watch almost any episode of NCIS....

Like an Inside-Out Cobbler!