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Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.
13 de Junio 2013
Canon EOS 60D
Lente Canon Zoom EF-S 18- 200mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS
A disturbed night's sleep is normally a nuisance but the recent bright Wolf Moon caused me to have a succession of early starts to my day. It also provided some photography opportunities, of course!
The last full day of the Victorian Iron Horse Roundup at the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad featured several historic locomotives operating out of the Chama, New Mexico, terminal. The daily excursion to Osier was handled by K-36 No. 487. Locomotives 425 and “Glenbrook” operated around the yard during the morning and afternoon; Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 was in the shop after suffering a mechanical issue the previous day and the 4-4-0 “Eureka” was not under steam after a blower line issue arose during the trip to Cumbres Pass on Saturday. The highlight of the day was the doubleheader nighttime excursion with locomotives 168 and 425 that departed around 10:00 PM for an overnight run from Chama to Antonito. This was the first time overnight accommodations had been offered on the narrow gauge (in an authentic D&RG tourist sleeper) in over a century.
LionSteel M2 CB Italian hunting knife. D2 steel blade and cocobolo wood handle. Photography by Jarek Konarzewski
These beautiful door handles at Wheatlands had a life, light and history of their own. What to do with them? Well play noughts and crosses of course. Guess who won? Don't you love the wear mark on the wood? have a good Friday 13th
We found this chip carving pattern ("karveskurd") while searching through pictures of old mangleboard examples.
From WIKIPEDIA:
Mangle Boards (called Mangletrær in Norwegian) were long, flat boards with a single horse-shaped handle. They were used to roll the wrinkles from linen cloth which had been wound on a round stick. Mangle Boards could be very plain with very little carving or very complex with wonderful acanthus or chip carving over the entire board and horse handle. Mangle boards were also used as betrothal gifts.
A young man would make a mangle board for the woman he hoped to marry. He would carve a design on the top of the board. The story is that a young man would then hang the finished mangle board on the door of the house where the young woman was who he wished to marry. If she accepted his proposal she would bring the board into the house. If she refused his betrothal she would leave the board hanging on the door. The man could not use the same mangle board for the next woman he proposed to, so he had to carve a whole new board and design.
Because of having to continually carve new boards they say the best wood carvers in Norway were bachelors! I don't know if that is true or simply folk lore, but it makes for a good story.
From BERGEN-GUIDE.com:
A distinctive type of wood carving called “karveskurd” or chip-carving has rich traditions in Norway. This type of ornamentation is recognizable by its geometric patterns made with the help of compass and ruler. With a compass one could compose stars with both six and eight points and also triangular and square patterns. Many variations within this framework were possible and produced an unbelievable number of different designs. Chip -carving was usually done with the aid of a v-shaped chisel (geisfuss), so that the pattern emerged with sharp surface edges and a pointed finish in the bottom of the groove. Chip-carving is a very widespread technique and may be found all over Europe. In Norway, it is found especially in the western part of the country and the coastal area further north and south.
The origin of chip-carving is difficult to trace. From the seventeenth century on, however, many decorative articles were imported from Denmark and Germany with a thinner and denser ornamentation than that of the older Norwegian chip-carving. It is evident that these items sparked new interest in the decoration of smaller wooden articles, such as chests, boxes, caskets, and mangle boards, with this more delicate carving. Chip-carving existed side by side with other forms of wood carving and rosemaling in country districts, although in certain areas rosemaling completely replaced it.
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Hand carved from 350 year old RECLAIMED TEAK from old farmhouses in JAVA.
ZAKOPANE in the SIERRAS.
Architecture from "the LAND of the BLUE EYES".
My lifelong thanks to my three Viking buddies from University of Montana... Arnstein Rustberggard of Gol, Claus Urbaye of Oslo, and Jan Brentebratten of Chicken Falls (Honefoss) for teaching me how to love all things NORGE !!!
We began with a simple Carpathian Alps design known as Zakopane Style, after the alpine village of the same name in the podhale (alpine area) along the Polish/Slovakian border. From there we added architectural accoutrements covering a historical period from 1050AD to approximately 1920, in the modern age. We have incorporated door portals and shutter carvings from the old Stavkirke (Stave Churches) of Hallingdal, Telemark, and Urnes (Norway)... to roof details from the Novgorod/upper Dvina River Region of NW Russia... to window carvings from the old Prussia/Bohemian regions...... carved doors reminiscent of the Baltics, and various other folk details from the Hutsells of Ukraine and the goral (mtn people) in Poland.
This is Phase 1 of a larger compound to incorporate inspiration from European architecture as well as many such inspirations in our own High Sierras. Sites such as Vikingsholm at Lake Tahoe, the Hearst compound at Wyntoon, Rainbow Lodge, Sugarbowl, and Thunderbird Lodge.
Thanks goes out to my dear friend and business associate, Herr Gunter Kugler of Bremen who has faithfully guided us through much of this building project. From his vast knowledge in wood technology, to his love for the historical aspects of construction, from the Vikings to the Hansa Federation to his knowledge of construction in wood and other natural products.... he has helped our team develop this architectural style known as "from the LAND of the BLUE EYES". I look forward to our "first Cuban" and glass of Trockenbeerenauslese overlooking the 14th....
Architect: Larry Pearson, PEARSON DESIGN GROUP, Bozeman, Montana
Master Builder: Matt & Ted Williams, WILLIAMS CONSTRUCTION< Clio, California.
Two-handled standing cup and cover; rock crystal; engraved and mounted in gold; enamelled and jewelled; oval bowl with two dolphins as handles; Triumph of Galatea on each side; reeded baluster stem, foot in two stages engraved with maritime deities; mounting on bowl and base with oblong fret in white enamel, each enclosing an enamelled fruit or ruby or diamond in raised setting; upper mount at mouth with lower border of formal leaves, enamelled green and purple; other mounts of two bands on stem enamelled with fruit and set with stones; mount on foot, which simulates cord passing through number of loops, enamelled alternately ruby and emerald; cover unmounted and represents seated stork with ruby eyes and gold collar on neck with pendant cartouche.
This was my third HGTE and the most boring one but the sound is so amazing!
I hope you like the shot!
The Flickr Lounge-Rust
The handle is part of a mechanism that will shut the electricity off in the house.
What's up Flickr! Here's another early edit from yesterday's Harley-Davidson themed shoot that I hope you enjoy. This image was created using Scott Robert Lim's "Crazy, Stupid Light" techniques, LR Presets and PS Actions. As always let me know what you think.
Title: Handling Business revisited...
Model: Claudia Vanessa Hinestrosa
Frame:*CRUST BIKES* romanceur disc
Headset:*CAMPAGNOLO* record threaded headset 1
Front wheel:*VELLO ORANGE* disc front hub HU-0043 x *VELOCITY* blunt ss rim
Rear wheel:*VELLO ORANGE* disc rear hub HU-0039 x *VELOCITY* blunt ss rim
Tire:*TERAVAIL* rutland tire
Stem:*NITTO* fw33 power stem
Handle:*NITTO* b352 albatross bar
Grip:*HERRMANS* ergo grips
Brake lever:*DIA-COMPE* tech-5 brake lever
Saddle:*BROOKS* cambium C17
Seatpost:*NITTO* 65 seatpost
Crank: *WHITE INDUSTRIES* G30 crank arm
Chainring: *WHITE INDUSTRIES* eno tsr chainring
Pedal:*MKS* lambda
Bottombracket:*WHITE INDUSTRIES*BSA BB
Front rack:*NITTO* rivendell basket rack RBW52F
[Composite photo] 16-INCH GUNS of USS Iowa (BB-61) -- six forward (seen here), three aft. This was possibly the best battleship gun ever put into service. Originally intended to fire the relatively light 2,240 pound (1,016.0 kg) AP Mark 5 projectile, the shell handling system for these guns was redesigned to use the "super-heavy" 2,700 pound (1,224.7 kg) AP Mark 8 before any of the USS Iowa class (BB-61) battleships were laid down. This heavier projectile made these guns nearly the equal in terms of penetration power to the 46 cm (18.1") guns of the Japanese Yamato class battleships, yet they weighed less than three-quarters as much
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As modernized in the 1980s, each turret carried a DR-810 radar that measured the muzzle velocity of each gun, which made it easier to predict the velocity of succeeding shots. Together with the Mark 160 FCS and better propellant consistency, these improvements made these weapons into the most accurate battleship-caliber guns ever made*. The Armor Piercing (AP) shell fired by these guns is capable of penetrating nearly 30 feet (9 m) of concrete, depending upon the range and obliquity of impact. The High Capacity (HC) shell can create a crater 50 feet wide and 20 feet deep (15 x 6 m). Ask Frank: During her deployment off Vietnam, USS New Jersey (BB-62) occasionally fired a single HC round into the jungle and so created a helicopter landing zone 200 yards (180 m) in diameter and defoliated trees for 300 yards (270 m) beyond that.
*An example: During test shoots off Crete in 1987, fifteen shells were fired from 34,000 yards (31,900 m), five from the right gun of each turret. The pattern size was 220 yards (200 m), 0.64% of the total range. 14 out of the 15 landed within 250 yards (230 m) of the center of the pattern and 8 were within 150 yards (140 m). Shell-to-shell dispersion was 123 yards (112 m), 0.36% of total range.
Partially done handle with only tool used to make it.
For my new two-handed file, I decided to make wooden handles. Since finger positioning is important to maintain constant angle and pressure, rounded handles are not the best choice. I know, that traditional Japanese kitchen knives with octagonal cross-section handles are quite easy to control because it has flats. But eight facets is too much, because positioning is different from one for kitchen knife. So, my choice was hexagonal shape. To make it more comfortable, I made it slightly tapered in vertical axis.
Material: thick dead maple branch, naturally dried.
Tools: straight cutting edge knife (kiridashi).
Technique: shaping with knife, then - slight burnishing with another piece of maple wood. No flattening with plane, no scraping with knife.