How'd Ya Git Yer Username

[asy]

Asy, the pioneers used regular hand tools such as chisels, ax, foot adz, draw knife ect. He shaped it from the swell of a Tupelo Gum "in our region". Shore nuff bowl makers had their own tools. One in particular, was called a scorp. It was used to dish out the inside. Foot operated laths could turn an oval shape by mounting the wood blocks on a spindal. Just imagine turning a wooden football shape that separated into two halves. That was high cotton back then. As for me, I must admit I use electricity. Wonderful tool, that there hand grinder!--------- I don't have a website. Not yet any way, but I think I could figure out a way to ship down under.

Wowwee.

I am absolutely fascinated.

I can understand turning an oval then splitting it, then hollowing out the inside with an adze or such. Must say, the hand grinder sounds a lot faster and easier.

Ya gotta wonder, what would a craftsman of 150 or 200 years ago say if you turned up with a grinder in his workshop!

asy :D

[pappy]

Ya gotta wonder, what would a craftsman of 150 or 200 years ago say if you turned up with a grinder in his workshop!

asy,

I bet it would be close to something like

Wowwee ;)

[woodbowl]

Thanks for jogging my memory cktate. I now remember seeing the wash rag sewed to the flour sack. Buying 25lb - 50lb of flour at one time was the commom thing to do and a free wash rag was was a big deal back then.-----hillbilly, I don't live in Tenn. I'm down here in the NW Fla Panhandle about 50 miles from DanG and 30 miles from Cooks saw. I'll try to plant a tree soon.------Hey wowwee..........uh........I mean asy, the bowl halves are already in two pieces "before" the 19th century operator turns the blocks on the foot lath. This thread is becomming a bit unravelled. Anyway, that's how I got my user name.

[swamp-drifter]

it seemed to describe pretty well what i end up doing while out in the field

[firtol88]

Fir = men or man in Irish used to designate males kinda like Mr in it's use
TOL = Tree of Life, a very old Celtic symbol which I happen to have a large depiction of on my back (shhhh not many know that one)
88 = the number I wore playing hockey before I was transplanted to the south and started wearing 11 playing football. Notice which one I prefer, I can let my kids watch hockey...

Beyond sports though I must say in general I like southerners much better than most yankees (too liberal and too often fake)

[maple flats]

My uncle used to work in the oil business as a geologist and gave my sister a bowl shaped like yours but made of stone. He had it dated somehow (carbon?) at 3500 years old. Back then they probably used it rather similar to what you explain. 8)

[LSUNo1]

No explanation necessary!

[firtol88]

No explanation necessary!

http://fightmusic.com/mp3/sec/LSU__Geaux_Tigers_Cheer.mp3

That was for my business partner, I'm too anti Ebonics to put up with football nowadays.

[Tom]

uh oh!   What are we starting here. :D

The Real Song

[twostroke_blood]

Was out of beer, so i got to drinkin my chainsaw mix. My wife always said i was full of gas anyway. :D

[StihlDoc]

Have had STIHL in my blood for 30+ years and am in a postion where I can offer a broad spectrum of STIHL and other two-stroke technical knowledge that might help answer questions others may have.

[rbarshaw]

rbarshaw, Robert Barshaw. First initial of first name and last name. Every one in my family has a first name that starts with R. I thought of it first so I get to keep it.

[Tom]

I think that's neat. 

My Grandfather, Dad, me and my three boys are all TC.  Four of us are TRC's  :D

We used to put TC on our Christmas presents so that we knew who's was who's. :D :D

[asy]

I think that's neat. 

My Grandfather, Dad, me and my three boys are all TC.  Four of us are TRC's  :D

We used to put TC on our Christmas presents so that we knew who's was who's. :D :D

How many times did you open parcels with toy trucks in them?

Oh, And, how many times did you give them BACK!?

asy :D

[Tom]

One of my big jokes was "That's mine!" when they would open a package.   I let them open all of the packages and then would see if they would give me something. :D

The trick was to make sure that they got their stuff. :D   I would put their first names inside of the package to be sure.  It's a good thing they all had a good sense of humor and liked different things.  We've always gotten a lot of laughs over it.

[Furby]

Bump to the top for the newer members. ;)

[mometal77]

i love steel

[Stamp]

STAMP is an acronym for my husband's first and last name initials and my first, middle and maiden name initials.  When we were dating we would put "STAMP" in the high score when we played the trivia game at the end of the bar.

[Chris J]

I chose a slang expression I hear frequently in my neck of the woods (so to speak) that means "much nothing."

?Que paso?  = What's happening? What's up?, etc.
Mucha nada = Bunch of nothing, not much, etc.

It can also be used to tell some one that that they might be working, but they're not getting anything accomplished.

Umm...maybe I should've given it more thought  :-\.

[Jodi]

Oh man, mine's just my name...how embarassing....

[Bro. Noble]

Welcome Jodi,  mighty glad to see you here ;D

Jodi is a real  8) name

[rpg52]

Not very interesting, but I can remember it (getting harder as the years pass).  My initials and birth year.
Ray

[Timburr]

My first name is Tim. My surname is Burr :D :D not realy.
Burr comes from my love of discovering of, opening up, seeking that figured grain and dealing in burrs 8)

You folks sell lumber, I sell timburr. smiley_British_jack

When waifs, strays and lost souls are walking by in our woodland, I shout "TIMMMBURRRRR" when I'm about to fell a tree. eh? :D ;D :D


Cheers Tim

[PawNature]

My wife has alway been know as manature cause animals take to her. As her worst half I was taged pawnature.

[Kirk_Allen]

Kirk -  Named after my great uncle
Allen - Family name which consists of 8 generations of men and has been traced back to the 1600's.  Furthest back that my Dad was able to trace turned up that one of ancenstors in the late 1600's was a slave rower on an English Ship.     ? Does someone owe me some money for that ?

George Allen was my Great Grandfather and was the FIRST person to bring sheep to the Midwest across the Apalachains.  He took FIRST PLACE in the 1893 worlds fair in Chicago with his sheep.  My dad still has the Original Oil painting of the prize ram with his ribbon at the fair.  Took home $500 prize and  that launched the Allen family farm!  His name is on a plaque in the AG hall at Purdue as one of the key contributors to the success of the Shropshire sheep in the US.