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« Reply #1800 on: June 25, 2012, 01:20:15 pm » |
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That cog is seriously cool. Looks like a great starting point for an REALLY nice steamy chandelier. You could probably make the chandelier and sell to the folks who go for the "industrial" look... for THOUSANDS!!!
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« Reply #1801 on: June 25, 2012, 01:31:45 pm » |
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Just finished big week of collecting in Wisconsin. Coming home with a car full of stuff, including tuba, bugle, trombone, gauges, oilers, misc brass, speakers, torches, sword, knobs, and much much more. Now I have to make something.
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« Reply #1802 on: June 29, 2012, 02:46:51 am » |
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Just finished big week of collecting in Wisconsin. Coming home with a car full of stuff, including tuba, bugle, trombone, gauges, oilers, misc brass, speakers, torches, sword, knobs, and much much more. Now I have to make something.
We will of course be expecting photos... Picked up a little gear wheel today...  Well - actually it is not that little really.  It is in fact a four foot diameter wooden pattern for a gear wheel. Nice. Glue it to your house and call it steampunk? |
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« Reply #1803 on: July 03, 2012, 10:21:06 am » |
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Okay so it's not technically steampunk but I found a giant (25 inch) spirograph set meant for sidewalk chalking. But I got to thinking that 1) they could be used to make patterns on walls if I wanted. and 2) They are giant plastic gear wheels. just putting them together and hanging them on the wall would be cool (unfortunately they are the usual bright plastic colours, that could be fixed).
Total cost: $1
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« Reply #1804 on: July 03, 2012, 04:40:43 pm » |
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Just finished big week of collecting in Wisconsin. Coming home with a car full of stuff, including tuba, bugle, trombone, gauges, oilers, misc brass, speakers, torches, sword, knobs, and much much more. Now I have to make something Clearly you all the components for an Illuminated, steam powered, self defending, adjustable, amplified, Sousa Band |
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« Reply #1805 on: July 04, 2012, 08:36:48 am » |
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Last weekend was spent visiting relatives in East Anglia, which also meant an opportunity for raiding unfamiliar car boot sales. I must say we were rather disappointed overall, BUT...
I picked up* a slab of mahogany that measures approximately 4'6" x 1'4" x 4" for the sum of £10!
It's too big to go through our band saw so it'll have go to the local timber yard for cutting into more usable pieces. No idea yet what it will be used for, but it wil be used.
*When I say 'picked up' that's not literal. It was a hard job for both of us to lift it off the sack truck and into the car.
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« Reply #1806 on: July 05, 2012, 06:19:42 pm » |
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OK, technically not a flea market find but but I was at a market... I was waiting for an art store to open last Sunday and decided that it was way too hot to sit in the car. I saw a new store opened up within walking distance and went in. Think Hobby Lobby, (big box hobby stores) meets Old Time Pottery, the flea market, and Pier one. Everything from candles, baskets and glassware, to rugs, mattresses, and scrubs. Yes, even scrubs. So I turned the corner on one isle and found a wall of fake storage books. thought I'd post here. I've never seen so many of the things in one place. And they were pretty sturdy too, not shoddy at all. Some were even made of pressed tin. Bet they'd be cool to recover too... I think the place is called the Garden Center... though gardening supplies there consisted of some chairs and a watering can or twoo shaped like bumblebees.     |
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« Reply #1807 on: July 05, 2012, 10:52:03 pm » |
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OK, technically not a flea market find but but I was at a market... I was waiting for an art store to open last Sunday and decided that it was way too hot to sit in the car. I saw a new store opened up within walking distance and went in. Think Hobby Lobby, (big box hobby stores) meets Old Time Pottery, the flea market, and Pier one. Everything from candles, baskets and glassware, to rugs, mattresses, and scrubs. Yes, even scrubs. So I turned the corner on one isle and found a wall of fake storage books. thought I'd post here. I've never seen so many of the things in one place. And they were pretty sturdy too, not shoddy at all. Some were even made of pressed tin. Bet they'd be cool to recover too... I think the place is called the Garden Center... though gardening supplies there consisted of some chairs and a watering can or twoo shaped like bumblebees. Excellent find - so where is this shop then? |
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« Reply #1808 on: July 06, 2012, 12:21:48 am » |
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Such a variety-gotta find one near me  ! thanks! |
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« Reply #1809 on: July 06, 2012, 02:25:06 am » |
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Finally getting a chance to post pictures from my Wisconsin trip. This is just a representative sample of the haul.  |
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« Reply #1810 on: July 06, 2012, 02:49:04 am » |
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Nice speaker, there - nice bayonet, too - French, I think, Lebel. Without the hooked quillon - is that sheath original? Like the horn section as well.
Looking forward to finished product!
Cheers
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« Reply #1811 on: July 06, 2012, 02:58:14 am » |
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Thanks.
The speaker is an old RCA unit.
Not sure about the bayonet and sheath, but it was too cheap to pass up.
The horns are hard to come by at a cheap price. Very happy to find these.
Also really like the nickel clarinet.
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« Reply #1812 on: July 06, 2012, 02:58:42 am » |
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Nice haul Maets. Give a holler when next you are up this way. Maybe we can get together for a coffee or something.
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« Reply #1813 on: July 06, 2012, 06:27:48 am » |
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Greetings Maets - your bayonet appears to the French M1866 Chassepot SABER BAYONET or the "Remington/ Zouave" pattern (or one similar to it) which seemed to be quite popular in the US and Europe around 1860: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chassepothttp://www.bayonetsonline.com/images/bayonet1-094.jpg"the old smithy" has an excellent article which describes the Chassepot or "Yataghan" style (referring to it's curved sword-like blade shape) and it's reulting influence . http://www.old-smithy.info/bayonets/yataghan%20models.htmThe Chassepot Rifle BTW is an interesting transitional firearm - a bolt-action breechloader that used self-contained paper cartridges with a percussion cap fixed to the base of the lead bullet. A long needle-like firing pin pierced the paper cartridge and struck the cap, thus giving it the name of "Needle Gun" in the U.S. yhs prof marvel |
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« Reply #1814 on: July 06, 2012, 12:29:09 pm » |
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Thanks Prof Marvel.
Thanks Uncle Arthur. I'll be back in December.
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« Reply #1815 on: July 06, 2012, 08:13:12 pm » |
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I am a wee bit South of Eau Claire. So if you gt up this way I will gladly put on the coffee pot and throw an extra log in the stove.
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« Reply #1816 on: July 14, 2012, 11:14:09 am » |
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Brass tea Urn, complete with the word 'TEA' imprinted. Only 50p. Shotgun ammo belt in rather good nick. £6 pin stripe waistcoat. £2 and a collection of other random bits I will be dismantling for parts - £5 ish Empire bless car boot sales Nice Haul! |
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« Reply #1817 on: July 15, 2012, 12:55:32 pm » |
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Too late for true SP period but I found a load of 1941 newspapers under the carpets in the house we just bought. Any bright ideas how we might use them?
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« Reply #1818 on: July 15, 2012, 01:53:41 pm » |
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Carpet underlay, so delighting the next occupant?
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« Reply #1819 on: July 15, 2012, 09:58:36 pm » |
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Carpet underlay, so delighting the next occupant?
As we plan to be in this house until death do us part, we will put current newspapers under the carpets for the next owners. |
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« Reply #1820 on: July 18, 2012, 11:46:23 am » |
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Too late for true SP period but I found a load of 1941 newspapers under the carpets in the house we just bought. Any bright ideas how we might use them? Photocopy them. Offer to either the main library, a museum or a newspaper archive (depending if they local or national papers?). |
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« Reply #1821 on: July 18, 2012, 01:58:54 pm » |
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Any bright ideas how we might use them?
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« Reply #1822 on: July 18, 2012, 09:57:39 pm » |
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Any bright ideas how we might use them?
Yep frame em up, make great taking point pictures. May well do just that. I gave a feb 1941 paper to a visiting USA cousin to use in the high school history classes he teaches. Picked up a delapidated leather satchel off Freeshare today. Project contemplation stage again. |
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