First multi wood knife handle
for a friends broken knife

  

 As you may or may not know .. I am a tinkerer.
 (If that's a word)   Although my
 skill levels are low , my imagination Is
 right up there with the best of them.
 I have many interest and will try just about
 anything.  I like to think of it as a sort of
 self reliance sort of mentality.  I could buy
 most of the things I make  very cheaply
 but somehow it just wouldn't be as
 satisfying.  I don't know how you can, for
 example, simply throw away a knife that was
                                              your fathers for years because of a broken handle

Sheath and knife handle
made from my old welding apron

and simply go to Wal Mart and replace it with
a Made in China cheapie and still sleep at night.
But that's me.  People do it everyday.

Patch knife and flint striker
made from an old file

 
 


 By the same token I have found that we do
have limits.  More times than I can count I have
failed, sometimes miserably, to duplicate what
my mind envisioned.   In such cases I have
succumbed to technology and just bit the bullet
and bought the product.  But let it be know it
wasn't without a great deal of thought and effort first !  
  A good example was this weekend I decided to
make a mount for a cell phone on my 4 wheeler. 
So simple a fifth grader could do it right?
  (Go fetch me a fifth grader)  Mount came out really nice and I was sure I could
  get some great trail footage with the camera of my cell phone without spending
  a fortune on a fancy new camera.  I was mistaken.  First off the camera was
  mounted to the front of the bike naturally so the audio faintly picked up the
  exhaust noise in a such a way that it sounded like little toy running in the
  background.  Secondly, although I expected vibration,   I didn't expect to be
  sea sick after only a few seconds of watching.  All and all the whole project
  was a scratch.  Although some tweaking could occur at a later date.
  I'm not one to give up easily  To add insult to injury  the case that I put my
  phone in to protect it from what I figured was an inevitable fall, cast an
  eerie green glow on the bottom of the film reminiscent of the green grass
  and blue sky filters for the TV's in the sixties.  Oops .. That's going too far
  back for most of you ..lol    Hey I have another idea !!  Off to do some tinkering .