That is a sturdy cardboard 
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Yeah what was I thinking when I built a retaining wall for our new deck. I should have used cardboard.
@mgoldst could revolutionize the industry! Carrying smelly heavy 3/4" ply oily form boards could be a thing of the past?
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well cardboard was a success — normally would use someting more “permanent” but these are all just one-off pieces and cardboard is cheap and easy to handle for what i am doing. the piece out of the mold:
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I’m liking the shape and surface texture.
Is it just me or does the square hole in the middle look like the perfect spot for a speaker driver ?
I love how the lights from your previous project provide outstanding diffuse lighting for your current project 
I’m a big reader, besides music, I mainly read horror and sci-fi. Lovecraft has always been a favorite of mine and I just bought some more Lovecraft inspired books.
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Brian Lumely is one of my favorite authors. Have you read the Necroscope series? I read those as they came out back in the day, even read them twice.
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No, he’s a completely blank author for me, if I like these, Imma gonna rabbit hole him.
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That happens! I discovered the Necroscope when it first came out, the cover attracted me. Took a page or two and I was hooked. I had to wait for each book after that.
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Other hobbies… I train my dog in schutzhund (igp). Its basically protection, tracking and obedience and long range 22 shooting, we go out to 500 yards in some stages. Hoping to get a 6mm sooner or later for some real distance but this bass stuff has been sucking my spare funds dry.
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Nice,
I used to shoot long range BP with a 45/70 Sharps out to 1000m but eventually life got in the way and I sold that rifle.
Regret that now because not long after I sold my set up complete with a Pedersoli tang sight and range card plus load info, I saw it up for sale again.
Too much gun and too much fun for some people I guess.
Pity because I loved that gun.
I still have my Cadet Trapdoor though so my pumpkin roller needs are satisfied.
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I’m guessing it would be a pretty hot load to get a 45-70 out to that distance
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Depends what you call hot, it is what the cartridge was designed for,
I can’t remember the specific load but I used cast lead alloy pills (around 500gr) and a compressed powder load (probably 65gr?) with no filler.
My load for the Trapdoor replicates the Govt load with 405gr HB pills and 70gr BP compressed. I haven’t shot it to that distance but it is wicked accurate on sillouette targets to a few hundred meters-I really want to try it on a pig one day (I am Australian, it is instinct)
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Covers are always a good way to get my attention. Many, many albums in times before the internet was purchased because “damn, sick artwork” actually still happens to this day. I discovered a vinyl store about an hour away and it’s as old school as it gets. Sometimes I still just buy an album without any prior knowledge or even look it up online.
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I have a Marlin SBL 45/70. I had a GBL at one time, sold it. When you need to take down a T-Rex, this is the tool!
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Got the odd pig up here mate but Dalby and Warwick areas are rife with the things.
I’m chasing dogs here at the moment. Hammering the locals sheep and calves
We were doing some shooting for National Parks up at Dingo a few years back.
The National Park was Taunton were the Bridled Nail Tail Wallabies live.
There was a dingo counting project going where they had sand traps to count how many were in the park.
The Head Ranger said we could apply the Triple S system (shoot, shovel, shutup) if we wanted to but we agreed it would skew the science.
We saw some big dogs while we were out and about, one made a pair of guys very nervous, One of the guys was an older Vietnam vet, the other was a gungho 20 something-not a pair to get nervous easily.
We went for we few years in a row and saw more dogs each year and fewer of the endangered wallabies.
I guess all the rain plus the clearing done by the fires doesn’t help with the pigs.
Bloody dogs and foxes always get into the lambs and calves too eh.
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I started a youtube channel, Tater Cowgirls, with my granddaughter a couple years ago. Initially it was a vegan whole plant based cooking channel (I lost 118 pounds as diabetic that way). In the meantime it is now about Food, Fashion, Faith. I also write poems in the dialect of my Southern German home area (Allgaeu) and, new project, a friend who owns a recording studio in my hometown is helping me to get poems and music from another friend together into an online book or video or whatever we come up with. Exciting new project, started three weeks ago when I went to Germany for Christmas with my granddaughter and daughter. When I don’t play bass, I sing backup vocal in our contemporary holy roller worship band in California.
Gardening, growing my own food, is another hobby of mine as we live in California, with endless growth cycles of different fruit and vegetable.
Reading mystery novels including the biggest one of all, called the Bible, is also part of my leisure package.
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A balmy -30C up on the ski hill today. I think a day next to the heater and and P Bass in hand is the way!
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We’re due for -41 C tonight (-42 F) tonight. It was a toasty -36 just now. This global boiling is killing me.
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