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Tom Kirkman Registered: March 2005 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,568	L-R: Andy Renzetti, Buddy Owens, Don Morton at the shop in 2001. Most of the well known and popular thread art we know today was being done by Buddy back in the 50's and 60's before there was any instructional information available on thread art. Many of his patterns remain unique and have never been done by anyone else.
	· Date: Sat July 30, 2005 · Views: 4,157 · Tags: 1 · Filesize: 56.0kb, 127.0kb · Dimensions: 800 x 690 ·
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Tom Kirkman

Registered: March 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,568

Sat July 30, 2005 7:54pm

There are a few rod builders I know that I would truly consider master rod builders. Buddy is one of them. Tomorrow Sammy Mickel and I are going to try and catch him at home. If Sammy can distract him long enough, I plan to pull out my camera with a macro lens and shoot some of his thread-work. Most of it has never been photographed. Each of his customers received their own unique thread pattern, not to be used on anyone else's rod. Over the years he's done thousands and all with either 00 or A thread. (One of the reasons I plan to shoot with a macro lens.)

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Jim Upton

Registered: March 2005
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
Posts: 440

Sat July 30, 2005 8:02pm

Man I sure hope you will post some of them here.

Michael Joyce

Registered: March 2005
Location: Central MA
Posts: 1,528

Sat July 30, 2005 9:50pm

You've mentioned his talents before...sounds like some work that needs to be seen to beleive.

Tom Kirkman

Registered: March 2005
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,568

Sat July 30, 2005 10:24pm

He'll never take any good photos of his own stuff, so I'll have to. We'll see how good Sammy is at causing a distraction. The thread work is so intricate and the designs within the diamonds and squares so small, that it will take a macro to really show the detail.

BIlly Vivona

Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,910

Sat July 30, 2005 10:30pm

I've been waiting for this for a while now. Looking foward to it. If Sammy does a good job, I'll buy him a beer or a coffee or wahtever he drins in Charlotte. The Pressure is on

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Michael Joyce

Registered: March 2005
Location: Central MA
Posts: 1,528

Sat July 30, 2005 11:01pm

Sounds like thread art "espionage"...put a silencer on the camera. lol.

Mike McGivney

Registered: March 2005
Location: Toms River, NJ
Posts: 139

Mon August 1, 2005 10:09am

I hear the theme to Mission Impossible playing in the background. Good luck getting the pictures.