just the other day i discovered 5 more short blanks i had stashed 30 years ago. i milled the tree a huge black walnut tree in Salem Ore about 1980. had these blanks left over and stuck them in a trailer on the back of the property when i moved here. a couple are very nice. think maybe this winter i will try to find another barreled action and whittle another butt and forearm. built myself another checkering cradle so that should keep me busy til spring.

the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded. Robert E Lee
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~