All About Pocket Knives

Some memorabilia from my hometown...

Love that seen of snow, classic!

Hey '46, who's the guitar maker?? Can't make it out but from a distance it looks like a pretty good one.

Hey Murph, it's an Avalon, made by the company formerly known as Lowden. It is a smaller body (Parlor size) but does have 14 frets to the body though, so not a true Parlor. Cedar top, Mahagony back and sides. It has a pickup system in it that is factory. Great for fingerpickin' the blues which is mostly what I do and is really well balanced low to high. It almost sounds as good as an Olsen! Just got back my Gibson Advanced Jumbo from Joe Glaser and this Avalon will be goin in the closet for a while now. Man, Joe outdid himself on this Gibson. I had always used the Gibson for a Bluegrass guitar but here lately wanted it to be set up for more universal playin. Oh it's like butter now.

Thanks Perry. I'd never played a Lowden but my son has and he likes them pretty well. I know what you mean about the old Gibby's. My old SJ was slick and smooth too, wish that I would have kept it. What I noticed about the old Gibson acoustics was that they were not as loud as the Martins but oh man the tone they had. Gibson is importing the Epiphone from China and I am really impressed with the tone and playability for a guitar <$200. Anyway, just ask about the guitar because the gold machine heads and ebony buttons caught my eye.

Right, I wish I still owned my 60s Gibson cherry sunburst, sloped shoulder J 45 I had at one time. Oh the PAIN!

This is the one that I had. A 1961 Southern Jumbo. Belonged to a local celebrity, Red Turner, who starred on the old WLW-TV show Midwestern Hayride. Kenny Price started his TV career on this show. He was teamed up with a fellow who used the name Zeke Turner, who at one time was lead guitar for Hank, Sr.

Oh the PAIN MURPH! That has got to hurt pretty bad man. I was lucky enough to meet Kenny Price before he died. I was not a big deal back then, just a broke, out of work idiot,,,lol.

I thought I would show a few of my old things in my display case.
Also, pictures of my kids. My daughter, Fawn, now 26, and My son, River, now 31.

Hey Joe, good lookin case and Family which is the most important thing in the world.

Thank you, Perry. That is most surely true.

here is my new Winchester...
3 bucks at a yard sale...unfinished trench art project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5O47iSsqo

Wow Donald, that is cool!

Is that shell from a Hotchkiss 2 pounder?
I watched that video..........I want one!
That would keep the neighbor's cats out of your yard! (& the neighbors too!!)

yes dale, a two pounder.
cats, volkswagens...anything bothersome within two miles is called a target...

gringo wrote:anything bothersome within two miles is called a target...

I must put that on my Christmas list!

Virginia does have it's good points. Automatic weapons and cannons being one of them. Most of them have even quit calling people from out of state "feriners"

I have shown this view from the back yard a few times. Managed to catch some
of the sunset color in these pics.

The mountains shown are just behind the Mendenhall Glacier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Glacier

IM

So, IMB, how about hosting an AAPK cookout in your back yard one day this summer?

Hmmmmmm.....

Seriously beautiful topography up your way.

I'm envious.

Charlie Noyes

A stick I made for one of my cousins.

Nice job Jerry, your cousin will love it......so long as his initials are "PB"

nice job Jerry

jerryd6818: That's a fine lookin' walkin' stick, what wood is it made from and is it a "family secret" how you attached the antler to the wood? Treefarmer

treefarmer wrote:jerryd6818: That's a fine lookin' walkin' stick, what wood is it made from and is it a "family secret" how you attached the antler to the wood? Treefarmer

Thanks guys. T.J. I was going to tell you his initials aren't P.B. but we call him Peanut Butter but his initials are P.B. and we don't call him Peanut Butter but I may start after he gets his stick.

The wood . It was a sapling that grew up in the back fence row of a place I lived 20 years ago. I've held on to it all this time and originally had stripped the bark and intended to use it as a walking staff.

I attached the antler by boring a hole in the stick and antler, then epoxied in a 3" long 5/16" steel pin - 1-1/2" into each piece.

I was going thru some of my Grandpa's stuff and I came up with an old Everready battery and a Everready DC pocket amp meter dated 1919

These are some of the guitars i've built over the past couple of years. I lost pics of about 30 or so earlier ones in the crash of '07.
I've shipped some guitars as far away as Germany and Japan, but most have stayed here in the U.S.

WB