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Chips Ahoy! Babe and Tommy

I very rarely get the old chisels out and do any old-timey chiseling anymore due to the chain saw and die grinders, but it sure is nice to make the big chips and get into that groove and just bang away. You can remove a heck of a lot of wood in a hurry–just not as fast as the chainsaw. Why use it? I can’t chainsaw up something that is not anchored and this fore arm was not. I even used the wide one a bit and the deep gouge. I do/have done 99.9% of all my chiseling with that old shallow gouge with all the duct tape on the end and the dot of white paint on it from my Mickey Mantle statue. Why? You have to hit bigger gouges too hard and deeper ones take too much wood. I go to the shows and see tables and tables of chisels and tools laid out and I laugh because I don’t need any of it! One tool does most all of it. The one thing that I would buy, is time, and that they’re not selling. It’s the key ingredient.

 

Here’s the man with the rosie cheeks who someday, will be going to school on money I made breathing in all this dust and having no life. I hope he does well at school. And it may be the local college because I can not see doing another one of these and going through this again for the money I’m getting. If I can’t get nearly double, I will not take another gig. But this one is almost done and we’re going to have some fun with it I’m sure. Tommy visited me in the shop (“shop”, Read: dingy cellar) today just as I had penciled in the most famous number 3 in the world. After he left, I realized it was in the wrong place by about a half inch and so I sanded it out and redrew it.

Tommy was playing his toy piano last night and I was trying to get him to hit the keys with his right hand and he really wouldn’t. But he did hit a few notes with his left hand and I thought, “…wow, a lefty!”. If this leftiness holds up and he can throw a 100 mph, then my wife and I have planned to use some of his major league fortune to buy a place in the Ardennes, in Luxembourg.

We love the Duchy.

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I just saw this again and it always makes me laugh.  The 1-800 Lawyers commercial on TV.

It is as if they have called down to central casting and said, “…send up a sort of a silent movie villian type…sort of an oily lawyer character actor with a waxed mustache like Snidley Whiplash on the Dudley Dooright cartoon…yea, that’ll do it…”

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[I love the reactions. Carragher wigs out while Gerrard just has that look that sort of says, "...you ******"]

 

I love this stuff. Only the Brits could get this INTO a story. And, well, it does have a potential whiff of something, I suppose.

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