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It's been almost two years since I put aside my knives. During that time I have been quite busy with golf and my latest craze - learning to play the mandolin. The last several months have been pretty bad for golf and I can only work on the mandolin so many hours a day without lacerated fingertips, so I have been going kinda stir crazy.
I still have a pile of wood, mostly hard maple and cherry. Last week I got to thinking maybe I should relearn how to put a good edge on a knife and see if I can still carve a few doo-dads. So, yeah, I can still put an edge on a blade. And I have started a few balls-in-boxes with no tears and no knife-induced lacerations so far.
Then I got to thinking about this forum. I wonder if they ever got it fixed? Well, yeah, it looks like it so far. I wonder if I recognize anybody? Well, yeah, as a matter of fact some of the same old toots are still here.
I checked on a tutorial I put together two years ago and which was stripped of all photos in the new forum software transition. I was pretty proud of that one. I see it is still there, but the photos are gone. The tutorial was on carving a set of Borromean Rings. I still have photos on my computer that went with the tutorial. Maybe I'll redo the whole thing.
So, I have put a link to the forum on my desktop and I plan to stop in more frequently, probably daily. I don't think I'll be as monomaniacal with my carving as before, but I do believe I will keep at it, interspersed with golf and working on old fiddle tunes on the mandolin.
It's good to be back.
I still have a pile of wood, mostly hard maple and cherry. Last week I got to thinking maybe I should relearn how to put a good edge on a knife and see if I can still carve a few doo-dads. So, yeah, I can still put an edge on a blade. And I have started a few balls-in-boxes with no tears and no knife-induced lacerations so far.
Then I got to thinking about this forum. I wonder if they ever got it fixed? Well, yeah, it looks like it so far. I wonder if I recognize anybody? Well, yeah, as a matter of fact some of the same old toots are still here.
I checked on a tutorial I put together two years ago and which was stripped of all photos in the new forum software transition. I was pretty proud of that one. I see it is still there, but the photos are gone. The tutorial was on carving a set of Borromean Rings. I still have photos on my computer that went with the tutorial. Maybe I'll redo the whole thing.
So, I have put a link to the forum on my desktop and I plan to stop in more frequently, probably daily. I don't think I'll be as monomaniacal with my carving as before, but I do believe I will keep at it, interspersed with golf and working on old fiddle tunes on the mandolin.
It's good to be back.
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