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Post by Dave B on Aug 24, 2003 4:44:03 GMT -5
I think, maybe a few decades ago, it was popular to make polished-stone cocktail forks. Just a cocktail fork with a simple rod body, and a polished stone with a hole in it glued onto the end of the fork.
I'd like to make some of these using my own stones, but haven't been able to find any cocktail fork blanks. I've found some semi-suitable alternatives, but I'd really love to find the forks simply ready to add a stone. Anyone have a source for these?
Thanks,
--Dave B dcb_rc2@hotmail.com
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Post by Dave B on Aug 24, 2003 4:48:19 GMT -5
By the way --- I was very surprised to read that last message I sent --- because I have no idea what a thingytail is --- until I realized that this board must have some automatic naughty word censoring function. So, it replaced c.o.c.k.tail with thingytail. (I don't know if it will catch what I just wrote there...)
So, anyway, hope that it now makes some more sense...
--Dave
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donwrob
has rocks in the head
Member since June 2003
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Post by donwrob on Aug 24, 2003 22:54:16 GMT -5
Dave, that is a funny post. ;D . I'm glad to see you out smarted the defilth-a-filter program with a couple of periods. I just got back from a long drive after a great weekend in New York. I checked into the site to see what was up and read your post...lol. I'm exhausted, but it will be tough to get to sleep because I'm chuckling so much now. I've never seen or heard of the thing-a-mabob tail fork do-hickys. Sorry, I'm no help at all, but good luck to you buddy. I hope someone on the site has heard of them and/or knows of a source. Thanks for the giggle, Don
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Post by docone31 on Aug 25, 2003 9:10:49 GMT -5
A lot of cutlery sites have what you are speaking of, also Dixie gunworks has them. Mostly, buckskinners, cutlery, and some file blank manufacturers have them. Thingy-tailed forks? I hope a site that deals with toxic materials, potential laceration, shock, toxicity hazards, potential monetary loss through inexperience, has not become so socialized we cannot refer to some materials by their colloqulialistic references. I understand indeed, not jumping topics, for the consideration of the author and webmaster, but hopefully we will not have to refer to problems in some politically correct reference where the issue is so vague we cannot describe it. I use this site for the professional opinions and experience of amateurs to help me do what there is almost no reference to. I have seen forks, knives, and spoons done in the medium you are mentioning, and they can be absolutely dynamic. I have also seen it done in Intarsia with precious metals inlay. In my opinion they are priceless beauty. With todays adhesives we have extreme predictability with dissimilar materials, and with todays tools we can accomplish a beauty that was unavailable. I hope you succeed.
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mrflake
having dreams about rocks
Member since August 2003
Posts: 58
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Post by mrflake on Aug 26, 2003 10:06:34 GMT -5
That first post was such an innocent and funny way to detect the limits of the language allowed on the board that I just gotta try the following. Old Macdonald had a farm and on that farm ( covered in tumbled rocks, just to keep the board moderator happy..lol..) there was a rooster...with a cock a doodle do here and a cock a ddodle do there here a....well you get the idea!
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Post by Dave B on Aug 30, 2003 7:41:35 GMT -5
Docone31,
Hi --- this note is to Docone31 who replied in this thread earlier. (I'm currently traveling on business, don't have a good internet connection, so I can't sign up as a member on this board and get your direct e-mail...)
You mentioned that, among other places, Dixie Gunworks has the c.o.c.k.tail forks that I'm seeking. I went to their website, but couldn't find them. Have you seen them there, or is it perhaps something only in their print catalog? Or do they call them by some other name? (Maybe they call them "thingytail" forks, too?!)
Thanks,
--Dave
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Post by docone31 on Aug 30, 2003 17:08:00 GMT -5
Most of the supplies I know of, are in hard copy. I only recently allowed my self the personal bondage of a computer. I have collecte vintage forks as you are trying to describe, and I can only describe them as georgeous. I was given one circa 1790 by an individual who traveled the Chilcoot pass in Alaska, Chilcoot Lil. She was in her late 90's when she gave it to me, that and sourdough her grandmother gave her to go to Alaska. A lot of history there. Buckskinners are where you will find them.
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Post by Andrew on Aug 31, 2003 15:15:38 GMT -5
Fell off my chair laughing when I read the "thingytail" story. ;D As a test - heres a sentence or two... My last tumble of quartz has a cock up. I am trying to keep a breast of the current situation with grit shortages. Lets see now....
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Post by Andrew on Aug 31, 2003 15:18:01 GMT -5
Oh - I made a boob - I meant "was a cock up" not "has a cock up" I was destracted this summer by blue tit birds nesting in my garden. Ok Ok - thats enough - well have the love nurse on our case again if I carry on like this!!!! Cheers Andrew.
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Post by Dave B on Sept 18, 2003 20:57:54 GMT -5
Okay, now it (cocktail or c.o.c.k.tail) is showing up in those past messages as written. Is the censoring program now gone?
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