Thanks, Lori...interesting article...

 

Now if I could just make the day longer than 36 hours... 

 

5 hours ago, Nickp said:

Thanks, Lori...interesting article...

 

Now if I could just make the day longer than 36 hours... 

 

what do you have your clone doing???

2 hours ago, Stick486 said:

what do you have your clone doing???

 

...night watch...

 

I have to apologize to the person who started this thread, I got off track and should of  paid attention to whittling.

 

I have all of my whittling supplies in a box stored somewhere. I have a skinning knife that belonged to my grandpa from around the early 19 hundreds. I remember my dad using it a lot. When I find it I will take a picture.

 

I checked out the whittling knifes and there are some nice one. I make mantel clocks and am going to start whittling on some of them. Whittling is a good way to create so I will have to get busy.

 

Thanks for posting all the info about whittling, it was very interesting.

 

Again I apologize.

 

 

Preston

 

I remember whittling whistles in the spring in the school yard when I was in the first grade.

Kind of like this,          http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Willow-Whistle

In fact we had contests to see who could make the best and loudest.

Herb

 

Notice the warning at the bottom, we had not adult supervision and no one ever cut himself.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 17, 20169 yr by Dadio

14 minutes ago, Dadio said:

 

 

Notice the warning at the bottom, we had not adult supervision and no one ever cut himself.

 

 

 

 

 

Heck, my dad GAVE me my first pocket knife when I was only six or so! I was 60 the first time I needed medical intervention for a cut, but I learned my lesson..... never use a sharp tool before checking your blood sugars!

John

Another favorite was Bows and arrows.

Here is a poem that  sums it up nicely of bygone days.

Herb

 

The Yankee boy, before he’s sent to school,
Well knows the mysteries of that magic tool,
The pocket-knife. To that his wistful eye
Turns, while he hears his mother’s lullaby;

His hoarded cents he gladly gives to get it,
Then leaves no stone unturned till he can whet it;
And in the education of the lad
No little part that implement hath had.
His pocket-knife to the young whittler brings
A growing knowledge of material things.

Projectiles, music, and the sculptor’s art,
His chestnut whistle and his shingle dart,
His elder pop-gun with its hickory rod,
Its sharp explosion and rebounding wad,
His corn-stalk fiddle, and the deeper tone
That murmurs from his pumpkin-stalk trombone,
Conspire to teach the boy. To these succeed
His bow, his arrow of a feathered reed,
His wind-mill, raised the passing breeze to win,
His water-wheel, that turns upon a pin;
Or, if his father lives upon the shore,
You’ll see his ship, “beam ends upon the floor,”
Full rigged, with raking masts, and timbers stanch,
And waiting, near the wash-tub, for a launch.

Thus, by his genius and his jack-knife driven,
Ere long he’ll solve you any problem given;
Make any jim-crack, musical or mute,
A plow, a couch, an organ, or a flute;
Make you a locomotive or a clock,
Cut a canal, or build a floating-dock,
Or lead forth Beauty from a marble block—
Make any thing, in short, for sea or shore,
From a child’s rattle to a seventy-four;—
Make it, said I?—ay! when he undertakes it,
He’ll make the thing and the machine that makes it.

And when the thing is made—whether it be
To move on earth, in air, or on the sea;
Whether on water, o’er the waves to glide,
Or, upon land to roll, revolve, or slide;
Whether to whirl or jar, to strike or ring,
Whether it be a piston or a spring,
Wheel, pulley, tube sonorous, wood or brass,
The thing designed shall surely come to pass;
For, when his hand’s upon it, you may know
That there’s go in it, and he’ll make it go.

 

“Whittling” by John Pierpont

This was before IP (IPhones)

Herb

46 minutes ago, Dadio said:

This was before IP (IPhones)

Herb

....and computers!

John

Great poem Herb! Loved it!

4 hours ago, Dadio said:

Notice the warning at the bottom, we had not adult supervision and no one ever cut himself.

 

From about 7th grade on, my folks would let me run a chain saw without any adult supervision and even if they were not home. I was limited to no falling, just bucking up trees and limbing them, but without supervision and, more importantly, NO INJURIES

Thanks Lori.   Last time i carved something it required 7 stitches and i kinda gave it up after that...

I have carried a pocket knife all my life but it's a super leathermans now. But I let my tools do the carving. Most of them have a cord on one end.

I have carved for many years. When I had a real job I had to fly somewhere. I would take a towel to catch the wood chips and a carving knife on the airplane. Try to do that these days.

Years ago I bought a Machetes in puerto rico for a keep sake.

When i got to the airport I kept pushing it across the counter trying to tell the Spanish speaking people to put it with the suit cases... They made me carry it on my lap all the way home.