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Cagey
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I'll tell ya - when it comes to cute, maggots ain't got nuthin on trilobites!
Probably be a good enterprise... BeanieBites, Cabbage Patch Bites, My Little Bites, Poke-e-bites, Pet Bites, Rainbow bites... the possibilities are endless! Get rich! Amaze your freinds!
Probably be a good enterprise... BeanieBites, Cabbage Patch Bites, My Little Bites, Poke-e-bites, Pet Bites, Rainbow bites... the possibilities are endless! Get rich! Amaze your freinds!
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I think if you really wanted to do it right, you'd go for a smaller specimen (and also avoid breaking the bank), get a lapidary saw working and trim it to fit in a recess on the guitar face, or else get a nice flat surface ground on the bottom of the thingy and glue it to the top of the guitar.
This guy looks pretty neat, and at .9" in length it's more of an accent than a primary feature:
http://www.fossilera.com/fossils/loose-0-9-inch-elrathia-kingii--2
This guy looks pretty neat, and at .9" in length it's more of an accent than a primary feature:
http://www.fossilera.com/fossils/loose-0-9-inch-elrathia-kingii--2
There are people doing all sorts of neato fake boners with the casting resin stuff. I have a couple of these cute dragon skulls around with slides on their horns and picks in their skulls.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Magic-Dragon-Skull-statue-goth-Treasure-Trinket-jewelry-Box-Free-shipping-USA-/321549137810?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4addd27792
There's got to be a way to sonically isolate a wood neck/center block/bridge unit, and then you could CAST on all the horns and spikes and fangs and scales and paint it all demony-red to satisfy the inner 6-year-old. I'm kinda surprised they're not already out there. Me wanna.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Magic-Dragon-Skull-statue-goth-Treasure-Trinket-jewelry-Box-Free-shipping-USA-/321549137810?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4addd27792
There's got to be a way to sonically isolate a wood neck/center block/bridge unit, and then you could CAST on all the horns and spikes and fangs and scales and paint it all demony-red to satisfy the inner 6-year-old. I'm kinda surprised they're not already out there. Me wanna.
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Looks like tooled leather.... From a tool.... :icon_biggrin:
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StübHead said:
Bagman67 said:
I thank you for such kind words....I think it may be time to take a break to wait until I'm properly inspired/enthused to do something new--I'm a bit empty headed at the moment. Also I managed to bring on a serious respiratory infection by being careless about protection in all that mahogany dust; it's no joke!
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wow, that sucks. Breathing wood dust is a bad thing indeed, some species of wood are worse than others. However none of it is good for us humans to inhale. Hope you get better soon, and in the future a dust mask should be part o your tool kit... :icon_thumright:
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Antibiotics and a steroid inhaler have done their job, and a lesson's been learned. I had resisted and then discarded the mask I initially was using because it made blowing the wood dust out of all those excavations so inconvenient. Well, I can assure you that painful, difficult breathing is a whole lot MORE 'inconvenient'. Seriously, ya gotta use the proper protection for this stuff or it will bite ya in the ass!
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Get a Shopvac...solves the problem of blowing wood dust away... :icon_thumright:Great Ape said:
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:icon_biggrin:Great Ape said:
Blowing it "away" is a really bad idea, if that is going to give you comfort to think that it's now "away."
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/particle-sizes-d_934.html
The stuff that gets "encapsulated" in your lungs - trapped by mucus, covered over, hardened up, COPD = "Chthonic Osiris Pendragon Dookie" - is 5 microns and down in size, and it lives in the AIR. If you see fine dust (40 microns is the ultra-powdery stuff), that's a GREAT indication that the air is also full of little deadlies, but making the big chunks leave may just lull you into an eventual slow, highly-tortuous death-by-incremental suffocation. You see these people creeping around with the little oxygen-tank strollers, puff... puff... puff...? Until there is no puff no mo'. :sad1: And just blowing shit all over the place is an even worse idea unless you have a high-potency recirculation fan that blasts it all outside and turns over all the air over in the whole shop. Outside is fine (by the way :icon_biggrin
, once the stuff hits humidity & wind & rain etc. - AKA "weather" - it's beat. It's not poison you have to think about, well you do - TOO - but that ain't this and substitute-worrying isn't gonna... mmm... mmmm... mmmmm... BZZT! Remember 1983* when a bunch of Marines got blown up in Beirut? So... we invaded Grenada? 
ccasion14:
Which we can now see obviously ended up fixing "the Beirut thing" just so-oo fricking well... fixing your "poison thing" and blowing "away" the gauche unsightly visual dust is invading Grenada.
Interestingly enough, it turns out that coal and asbestos per se aren't really bad for you at all, per se. You could eat a big plate of 'em for breakfast every day of your life no problem. Per se. But asbestos likes to bust up really sub-5 micron tiny when you go cramming fistfuls of it into crannies (not grannies, perv) and coal does this weird thing when you blow it to smithereens with dynamite - it gets small-ish too.
I really HATE to be Mr. Bummer (please still love me! please still love me!) but this is, unfortunately, entirely real and entirely sucky stuff.
(How dare he say anything... unpleasant! Ee-yew - JERK!)
There might even be a reason why the first 5 pages of every 20-page Rockler blurbo is full of hoses and fans and stuff (apparently one big-ass M.F. blower-thing, pointing outside, is the heart & start of a good rig). This is a weirdly-new problem caused almost entirely by much-better sandpaper glue and all the new machines and processes that can then result from that little butterfly-in-the-rainforest. And there's an incubation period, so the Puffer Brigade is just now starting to spool up to full size. And up... and up... and there are factories the size of small towns in China.
And it's also obviously a cumulative and situational problem. I build and finish so little relatively I'm not concerned, and with the state of my hands I'm going to play music first and foremost and only after I play myself into full lather do I poke around and see if I have any fingeriness left. I'm sure it's age-and-activity related too, unfortunately - I used to work at City Grill in Austin, you'd pour a bag of mesquite charcoal into a big bin, set it on fire then stick your head in it and cook fish & meat all night. I used to cough up a lot of black crap but I was also playing bass in bands full-time, drank a case of beer a day, had nightly relations with women to whom I was not betrothed and never slept. God I miss my 20's.... :toothy12: not much of anything could ever stay stuck, is what I mean. High metabolic rate. Any two of those nowadays would kill me.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N8G8T-yAsU
(bust out the good phones - 5:46->->->->-> :glasses10: goddam. cat: things worth sticking around for....)
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/particle-sizes-d_934.html
The stuff that gets "encapsulated" in your lungs - trapped by mucus, covered over, hardened up, COPD = "Chthonic Osiris Pendragon Dookie" - is 5 microns and down in size, and it lives in the AIR. If you see fine dust (40 microns is the ultra-powdery stuff), that's a GREAT indication that the air is also full of little deadlies, but making the big chunks leave may just lull you into an eventual slow, highly-tortuous death-by-incremental suffocation. You see these people creeping around with the little oxygen-tank strollers, puff... puff... puff...? Until there is no puff no mo'. :sad1: And just blowing shit all over the place is an even worse idea unless you have a high-potency recirculation fan that blasts it all outside and turns over all the air over in the whole shop. Outside is fine (by the way :icon_biggrin
, once the stuff hits humidity & wind & rain etc. - AKA "weather" - it's beat. It's not poison you have to think about, well you do - TOO - but that ain't this and substitute-worrying isn't gonna... mmm... mmmm... mmmmm... BZZT! Remember 1983* when a bunch of Marines got blown up in Beirut? So... we invaded Grenada? ccasion14:Which we can now see obviously ended up fixing "the Beirut thing" just so-oo fricking well... fixing your "poison thing" and blowing "away" the gauche unsightly visual dust is invading Grenada.
Interestingly enough, it turns out that coal and asbestos per se aren't really bad for you at all, per se. You could eat a big plate of 'em for breakfast every day of your life no problem. Per se. But asbestos likes to bust up really sub-5 micron tiny when you go cramming fistfuls of it into crannies (not grannies, perv) and coal does this weird thing when you blow it to smithereens with dynamite - it gets small-ish too.
I really HATE to be Mr. Bummer (please still love me! please still love me!) but this is, unfortunately, entirely real and entirely sucky stuff.
(How dare he say anything... unpleasant! Ee-yew - JERK!)
There might even be a reason why the first 5 pages of every 20-page Rockler blurbo is full of hoses and fans and stuff (apparently one big-ass M.F. blower-thing, pointing outside, is the heart & start of a good rig). This is a weirdly-new problem caused almost entirely by much-better sandpaper glue and all the new machines and processes that can then result from that little butterfly-in-the-rainforest. And there's an incubation period, so the Puffer Brigade is just now starting to spool up to full size. And up... and up... and there are factories the size of small towns in China.
And it's also obviously a cumulative and situational problem. I build and finish so little relatively I'm not concerned, and with the state of my hands I'm going to play music first and foremost and only after I play myself into full lather do I poke around and see if I have any fingeriness left. I'm sure it's age-and-activity related too, unfortunately - I used to work at City Grill in Austin, you'd pour a bag of mesquite charcoal into a big bin, set it on fire then stick your head in it and cook fish & meat all night. I used to cough up a lot of black crap but I was also playing bass in bands full-time, drank a case of beer a day, had nightly relations with women to whom I was not betrothed and never slept. God I miss my 20's.... :toothy12: not much of anything could ever stay stuck, is what I mean. High metabolic rate. Any two of those nowadays would kill me.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N8G8T-yAsU
(bust out the good phones - 5:46->->->->-> :glasses10: goddam. cat: things worth sticking around for....)
