Jorge Pozzobon
Registered: May 2007
Location: Passo Fundo - RS - Brasil
Posts: 1,147
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Sat September 20, 2008 3:14pm
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Great result Mark and beautiful black widow wrap.
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Mark Daley
Registered: September 2007
Location: Woodland, CA
Posts: 283
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Sat September 20, 2008 5:18pm
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That is gorgeous Mark. You really outdid yourself on this one!
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910
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Sat September 20, 2008 5:23pm
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Grrat job Mark. ho whard was the splitting as far as lining them all back up and cutting a perfect angle all teh way through?
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Mark Fisher
Registered: March 2005
Location: Broken Hill, N.S.W, Australia
Posts: 1,715
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Sat September 20, 2008 11:46pm
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You are the master with these handles Mark. Absolutely stunning.
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stan mclean
Registered: September 2005
Location: MA
Posts: 321
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Sat September 20, 2008 11:57pm
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The grip looks great. I really like the picture, nice job with your backgrounds.
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Michael Joyce
Registered: March 2005
Location: Central MA
Posts: 1,528
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Sun September 21, 2008 10:27am
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Too cool.
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Jeffrey Van Zandt
Registered: April 2008
Location: Tok ,Alaska
Posts: 93
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Sun September 21, 2008 10:59am
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very nice beautiful work sir
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Mick McComesky
Registered: March 2005
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 556
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Mon September 22, 2008 6:35pm
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Beautiful rod, Mark. Everything about it is terrific, not just the really sick grip! Work like this just makes me wonder why I even bother sometimes:)
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mark blabaum
Registered: June 2006
Location: Southwest - Wisconsin
Posts: 1,282
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Tue September 23, 2008 8:59am
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Guys thanks for the kind words. Billy cutting the angles wasn't that hard to do, I thought about it for quite a while before I cut them and found that setting the table saw blade to 45 degrees and ripping along the face of the blank was the easiest way to make the cuts. The trick was that you didn't cut all the way through the blank; you only cut to the center of the blank flip it over and then cut the other half to end up with four equal wedges to glue back together. I was surprised myself when every thing went back together with out a glitch.
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Steve Rushing
Registered: April 2005
Location: Atlanta (Decatur) GA
Posts: 118
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Tue September 23, 2008 1:22pm
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I think all of your work is creative and exceptional craftmanship, but this has to be my favorite (so far) from a aesthetics perspective.
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curtis barberie
Registered: March 2008
Posts: 112
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Wed September 24, 2008 6:46pm
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Exelent work Mark
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