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| Friday, November 20, 2009, 5:12:27 AM- reading for renaissance, finally found a text i can connect with | it speaks to me on a very fundamental level. i think i seriously approve of rabelais, and believe he should occupy a position of higher esteem in the academic canon. an excerpt from chapter 13 of gargantua:
"i wiped my bum after that" said gargantua "on a head scarf, a pillow, a game bag, a basket- but oh, what a nasty bottomwiper, then on a hat. and note that some hats are soft, and others have bristles, some are velvety, others smooth as taffeta or soft as satin; the best of all is one made of bristles, for it is very good for the abstersion of faecal matter"
"then, i wiped my bum on a hen, a cock, a pullet, on calf-skin, on the peolt of a hare, a pigeon, a cormorant, a lawyer's bundle, a woolen hood, a night-cap and a stuffed decoy-bird"
"but to conclude; i affirm and maintain there is no bottom-wiper like a downy young goose, provided that you hold its head between your legs. believe me on my honor, for you can feel in your bumhole a mirifical voluptuousness as much from teh softness of its down as from the temperate heat of the young goose which is readily communicated to the arse-gut and the rest of the intestines until it reaches the region of the heart and the brain. and do not believe that the blessedness of teh heroes and demi gods in the elysian fields lies in ther nectar, asphodel or ambrosia, as these old women maintain; in my opinion it consists in the fact that they wipe their bums on a young goose"
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| Thursday, November 19, 2009, 4:39:52 AM- guess what, not a knife! | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEjvCRPrCo&feature=related
saw something that reminded me today. its lame, but i'm easy to amuse.
happy day all! (thats a order) | Viewers Comments (6): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "omfg @ freddy kruger sharkie!
foody, I will have a good day, promisexxxxxxxxxx"
- ~Wenchie~ |
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| Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 3:36:32 AM- puukko and various | Made a little puukko today. i'm considering it my second most NN knife, next to krickets knife (which i apparently never blogged). krick's knife is a knife made for an NNer, by an NNer, with steel donated by an NNer (his royal highness, herpoohbare). This is a chunk of what was left from the same steel sent by pooh used to make the knife for krick.
this is a puukko, its the finnish form of what's commonly called a "scandi". its just a general class of scandinavian work knife, generally small, under 110mm, no guard, usually used for general use but most have small adaptations for skinning, woodwork, or fishing applications, having a slight upswept point, flat back, or slight clip, respectively. this is a carpenter's style puukko, hence the straighter front edge, which offers more cutting surface. the blade isn't perfectly traditional, it has a ricasso, and its a little larger than the traditional blades, about 125mm. the handle will be a simple, traditional style, using a reindeer horn bolster capped on both sides with either copper or brass plate (i've not decided which yet) and the remainder of the handle being made of ash or masur birch, again, yet to be decided. i forged it tonight, it has the (very) rough filework done. i may anneal it further and file it more, then i'll heat treat. it should be done in about 2-3 weeks if i have time.
okay, i'll shut up and post the pic now.
also peachy made kickass tortilla soup tonight. it was amazing.
happy nuding NNers | Viewers Comments (5): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "Awesome...I really enjoy reading your how to's and brief histories...I'd have gotten into blacksmithing if it wasn't so DAMN loud and HOT!!!!! wonderful work!!"
- guitartxn |
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| Sunday, November 15, 2009, 12:49:48 AM- casting | so today at work we did casting. my boss has helped with small type casting before, little stuff, and has done a bit of lead casting for roman pieces, but has generally been too busy to play around with it for real. we were doing sand casting, largely because lost wax is more expensive, and because the pieces were simple and large (fittings for a roman sword).
He'd wanted to do "real" casting for ages. I've liked teh idea since i was a kid melting soldering wire on a gas stove. I've cast miniatures in plastics and resins, just messing about, when the oppurtunity arose, but real metal casting was well beyond me.
the guy who placed the order was willing to pay out the butt for this piece, because most people who do casting dont do custom casting at least this size, and those that do would charge an obscene amount for the job, but couldnt have fit it to a sword, let alone making one to order. its a copy of a roman officers sword from the late republic, though instead of a wood insert covered in a thin piece of cast nickle silver, the customer wanted a solid piece.
any rate, the money was more than right, and we both wanted to play with melting crap. yesterday was mostly busy work, grinding charcoal, cooking out borax to be anhydrous then grinding that, mixing them together with a few other strange powders including talc, salt and marble dust, for the flux. we had to season the crucible because they explode from thermal shock if you dont, got everything ready to go then there was a leak in the line on the furnace, which we had to repair, and the glue needs to set overnight usually.
finally got around to it this morning, taking all the bits of scrap from around the shop, piling them into the crucible, stacking it in the furnace, dropping the odd bit of scrap through the top and periodically adding more flux, just to keep it topped up. eventually when it was molten (it looked like the scene from lord of the rings when they destroyed the one ring, fucking awesome) we had to chuck a bunch of pennies in to replace zinc that had boiled off. we weren't expecting what happened from that, and if we'd known we wouldnt have done it so close to the door to the shop. the vent hole in the top of the furnace was shooting a bright green flame that belonged in an alchemy scene from harry potter, and unholy thick white smoke was just blowing out this hole all over the place, smelling like cough drops and death. it was SOOOOOOOOO cool. eventually it stopped, we skimmed the slag and flux, poured it in the mold, and then hastily made a second ghetto mold to make two and a half pigs out of the extra before it congealed in the crucible (we didnt know how much stuff to put in, so we wound up with 3 times as much metal as we needed for the mold).
there was some distortion and a little pitting, but nothing that couldnt be forged or ground out. we learned that we should have oversized the wood molds a little more, and sanded them better because the sand had actually picked up the grind lines from the 220 grit belt we used to shape the molds (which amazed both of us) and that the casting sand smells like fucking evil painful death when it gets hot (oh, and bursts into flame for about a minute, much to our mutual surprise).
any rate, today was fucking awesome. even if everything smells like exploded pennies. thanks to wod and dummy, who are probably the only people with interests devious enough to have read this long ass blog.
happy nuding everyone :) | Viewers Comments (10): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "I may not understand half of what was said, but it's still an interesting read. :)"
- his_princess |
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| Thursday, November 12, 2009, 11:04:09 PM- ... | two papers in one week in one class. that should be illegal.
incidentally, thomas more should have had his head hacked off before he got it in his head that he was funny. he isnt. | Viewers Comments (5): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "You can do it :) if not make a law on it... i'll second it ..."
- cas999 |
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| Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 2:54:06 PM- anniversaries are weird | so, me and peachy had kinda an odd relationship in the early days. last night was one of our sorta-kinda anniversaries. theres the one when we started talking, the one where it turned romantic, the one where we met in person, the one when she moved up here.. we'd been thinking about which one to take as our "real" anniversary. I'm thinking i'll be greedy and keep all of them. any rate, we had a lotta fun :)
happy no-longer-sorta-kinda-anniversarish, beautiful, i love you! :) | Viewers Comments (10): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "suddenly i know what you're talking about - God, i've changed into a soppy bloody woman in a couple of weeks, help me pllleeeaaaassseeee?
xoxoxox"
- ~Ice Queen~ |
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| Wednesday, November 04, 2009, 9:25:11 PM- jesus titty fucking christ | | on top of all this other shit i have a bulge on my wrist that wasn't there last night. i'm hoping its just a ganglion but its the wrong shape and too hard. | Viewers Comments (5): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "YEP ^^^^^^ what the one above said ....
IT DOES WORK ... true that :)"
- woderwick |
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| Wednesday, November 04, 2009, 2:45:05 PM- great fucking way to start my day | | food poisoning and a hangover. yay. | Viewers Comments (6): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "Aww.. foody u need a nursey..."
- duttyrockgal |
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| Sunday, November 01, 2009, 5:43:52 PM- Matarile los zapos? | So i walked into work , and my brain isn't exactly functional in the AM. my boss said put these on the sander table. so i did. this is about half of them. i asked him what they are for he said "belgium".
I concluded that david the gnome was staging a coup of the forest and we'd been contracted to make the armor for his troops, starting with helmets. if you were that small you'd want sharp carbon steel on your head too.
 | Viewers Comments (2): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "I want them on my fingers! That'll fuck the boys out the back! hahahah"
- ~Wenchie~ |
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| Sunday, November 01, 2009, 1:00:23 AM- The best laid plans of mice and men... | ...turn to complete and utter shit when exposed to my family.
Peachy, I love you, and I'm sorry my family ruined your favorite holiday and our date night. | Viewers Comments (3): | Add / View Comments | Most Recent Comment: | "FOODY,
Just DIVORCE your Family.
it worked for me :)"
- woderwick |
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