163 days ago
by frank |
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Glamdring, Summer Awards and, Left Overs
....and so it ‘just is’. All good stories must have a place of start….then some middle ground….and then comes the ‘whats all left over’ or maybe I should say, the ‘left overs’.
And as such, it seems fitting that since this is about ‘hobbit holes in my-world’....I should bring in one famous player, who working with me helped get this story going back in the early days of summer. That bein...
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185 days ago
by frank |
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Wood From An-Other’s Wood Bin
....and, the beauty that comes from knowing there is a place that I fit in….
....my days are filled with the ever increasing knowledge that this thing I call wood and working, is my place of having found peace within the cosmic center of my universe….
....spalted maple; 38’’ wide x 3-1/2’’ thick and 7’-8’ in length and, this is one that I am working on in the evenings here in my outside 360 de...
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188 days ago
by frank |
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Druthers of Wood
....esoteric, rar-i-fied forms for wood art,realms of vision….—by flp
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195 days ago
by frank |
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The Beauty of a Soul in Wood
….into the fire of your eye, ran the character of the wood, and who was there to welcome my goings, but the burnished steel of i….
—-my going was but a sweetness of golden syrup, and from the tap ran gallons of sap, so what was i a doing collecting, when the springs of spring sprung ambrosia….
....that was then till in my now of days, i milled your sapwood looking for slabs, and in the soul of your heartwood you still held more...
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199 days ago
by frank |
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Glamdring and Hard-Rock Sugar Maple
So shall we begin….as in a continuation of Hobbit stories for those who waunder much of their life in the woods and glens of the Dark Forest…..Mirkwood.
Here is a picture of a froe-saw-sword-hammer that will from hence-forth be known by the name of ’Glamdring’.
Glamdring was a Noldorian sword, that was first used by Turgon; king of Gondolin in the Battle of the Unnumbered Tears, (Nirnaeth Arnoediad)....during the Years of th...
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202 days ago
by frank |
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Splaying For Maple
….one wood as i am,wood house of the mighty ones,splayed color environs….–by flp
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