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An Unexpected Journey: A Newbie's Walk In Wet Shaving

@dangerousdon mentioned how work is a necessary evil to return to after vacation. I feel the same way. I'm really made to be retired. I'm thinking with the land you have, @Dave in KY has a nice little piece of property, @DocHoliday0831 has a huge backyard. @Spider with his watering hole. I think the cadre as a whole can retire and just travel from member to member camping out and just relaxing.
 
NurseDave said:
@dangerousdon mentioned how work is a necessary evil to return to after vacation. I feel the same way. I'm really made to be retired. I'm thinking with the land you have, @Dave in KY has a nice little piece of property, @DocHoliday0831 has a huge backyard. @Spider with his watering hole. I think the cadre as a whole can retire and just travel from member to member camping out and just relaxing.
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I just call the sheriff's department to remove riff raff when they show up 😉
 
Blade-meister said:
There's real value in solitude out in the woods. Before my hip surgery, I'd strap a rifle on and just go out into the hills. I'd tell my wife that I couldn't give her a time when I'd be back and I'd be gone for 2 or 3 hours. I'd always come back with peace and clarity of mind / feeling reset and refreshed. The cabin will serve as a place to do this as well as a place where we can unplug as a family without spending money to go somewhere.

Here's a better set of pictures after leveling was complete:

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Very nicely done! Great piece of land too!
 
NurseDave said:
@dangerousdon mentioned how work is a necessary evil to return to after vacation. I feel the same way. I'm really made to be retired. I'm thinking with the land you have, @Dave in KY has a nice little piece of property, @DocHoliday0831 has a huge backyard. @Spider with his watering hole. I think the cadre as a whole can retire and just travel from member to member camping out and just relaxing.
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There are four reasons anyone can come down by my house. I invited them, they own property bordering mine, they are a government agent (mail, trash, police, fire etc), they have the wrong place and their choice for option 4 is leave or get shot!
 
If you own a ghillie suit they won't even know that they stepped onto the property :cool: I can see TSC retired guys doing "the tour" and visiting us poor guys putting into their social security. In my Flintknapping community I can travel coast to coast staying with knappers if I wanted to.

NurseDave said:
I'm really made to be retired.
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I say that to my wife all the time. I'm really just working so that I can really live in retirement. I'm not talking about amassing money to travel or anything, but to really open a blacksmithing forge and expand my flintknapping business. I'll be busy, but it will be busy on my terms and I can wander out to the shop(s) at 9 or 10 or maybe after lunch. I wish I had the guts to just quit it all and make a living off my hobbies, but I know guys that have done that who live out of vans claiming that it's great. When you have a family, you have to just put your head down and finish the race. Health benefits are a biggy. I knew a knapper who had unexpected health issues and it cost him a ton. He was living the life until that happened and now he has to chip points to pay bills - not fun in my book.

Saturday I got an Iroquois war club almost finished. It's made from a tree sapling that has a story. I was on one of my "grab a rifle and go hiking" trips and I found a tree that had been washed out of the gorge behind my house. It was too big to tote back with my rifle and gear so I had to think outside the box. I found a piece of flat slate and chipped it into saw teeth on one side. I then cut the part of the sapling out that I needed (lower part connected to the root ball) and got on my way. Talk about an expedient tool! So I let this thing age because the striking end is the rootball of the tree and you don't want that to crack. After dry the next summer I carved the end root ball to look like an owl effigy. The beak of the own is the war club's metal spike which I forged. I have to just put brass tacks on it and I will post a picture. I'm pretty sure one of my customers will snap it up quickly once he sees it.
 
Blade-meister said:
If you own a ghillie suit they won't even know that they stepped onto the property :cool: I can see TSC retired guys doing "the tour" and visiting us poor guys putting into their social security. In my Flintknapping community I can travel coast to coast staying with knappers if I wanted to.



I say that to my wife all the time. I'm really just working so that I can really live in retirement. I'm not talking about amassing money to travel or anything, but to really open a blacksmithing forge and expand my flintknapping business. I'll be busy, but it will be busy on my terms and I can wander out to the shop(s) at 9 or 10 or maybe after lunch. I wish I had the guts to just quit it all and make a living off my hobbies, but I know guys that have done that who live out of vans claiming that it's great. When you have a family, you have to just put your head down and finish the race. Health benefits are a biggy. I knew a knapper who had unexpected health issues and it cost him a ton. He was living the life until that happened and now he has to chip points to pay bills - not fun in my book.

Saturday I got an Iroquois war club almost finished. It's made from a tree sapling that has a story. I was on one of my "grab a rifle and go hiking" trips and I found a tree that had been washed out of the gorge behind my house. It was too big to tote back with my rifle and gear so I had to think outside the box. I found a piece of flat slate and chipped it into saw teeth on one side. I then cut the part of the sapling out that I needed (lower part connected to the root ball) and got on my way. Talk about an expedient tool! So I let this thing age because the striking end is the rootball of the tree and you don't want that to crack. After dry the next summer I carved the end root ball to look like an owl effigy. The beak of the own is the war club's metal spike which I forged. I have to just put brass tacks on it and I will post a picture. I'm pretty sure one of my customers will snap it up quickly once he sees it.
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Can't wait to see that club. It sounds awesome!
 
War club done - pictures coming soon. When you want to keep it, you know you did something right and man I'd like to keep this one. Turned out exactly how I wanted it to. Wished I'd kept that expediant saw I made out of slate, I could have included it with the club and the unique story.
 
Blade-meister said:
War club done - pictures coming soon. When you want to keep it, you know you did something right and man I'd like to keep this one. Turned out exactly how I wanted it to. Wished I'd kept that expediant saw I made out of slate, I could have included it with the club and the unique story.
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So cool! Looking forward to the pics!
 
As promised cadre, here are pictures of my ball headed war club. The wood is maple and the fake tiger stripes are painted on in the traditional manner. The spike is blunt because in order to fracture a skull and not penetrate and get stuck it needed to be blunt. Think glass breaking spike. This was made to look traditional in the sense that it is not supposed to be perfect. Too perfect, and it's not believable hanging on a wall. Most likely this would resemble a ceremonial piece due to the ball head not being that large. Enjoy!

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While traveling last week I got the unique experience of being a cold shaver with city water......which doesn't get cold! Two observations: The lack of cold water, or at least what us well water people call cold at 52 degrees, did something to my face that I was getting nicks on raised areas I normally can glide the DE over with out issues. The second was that my shaves were not as close. I noticed just how smooth things went this morning at home shaving with proper cold water.

I also feel that the city water requires more product to get the slickness I'm used to with Mystic Water soaps. I don't know if it's the chlorine, fluoride, or a combination of that and the temperature but I found my face lathering was really difficult and I'd get bubbles with the lathers and what I felt was an inferior lather. I'm sure with more shaving using city water I could dial it in, but like Dorthy said......."There's no place like home".

On the personal side of things, I had one of those trips out of town that seemed to send me back a heck of a lot more tired and worn out than when I left. Not the way I wanted to start the week of the cabin rebuild coming up on Saturday. On the bright side, so far the weather looks great and I have an army of 7 guys coming including our own Shawn from the cadre. We will be grabbing the wall sections, getting them back up and in place, cutting new roof rafters and getting a metal roof on the cabin. My hip is already writing thank you notes to these guys. I couldn't have done any this without help with my hip being only 5 months out from the replacement. I'm really ready to put a period on the end of this cabin project and move on.
 
NurseDave said:
Friggin city folk....
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If Shawn is doing a weather vane, it will be a few knives pointing in the direction of the wind with "TSC Hide-Out" on top. I'll try to take pictures, but I may have to have Shawn @ShawnF snap some with his phone and post them on TSC as the day goes on. I don't own a cell phone so I'm not any good in that department. Weird thing is, at my house people complain of shotty cell service but out at the cabin site they get great service.
 
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