Friends and I had planned a fishing trip for this past weekend. We expected the water to be a bit high due to the remnants of Gustav but the weather forecast was for two days of bright sunny skies for the weekend. Granny Clampets beetles can forecast weather more accurately than those boneheads. Two gloomy drizzly days with heavy cloud cover most of both days. There were few minutes each day the sun peeked through but definitely NOT what the Weatherman told us to expect.
We did catch fish but not as many as usual. The water was a bit cloudy due to the runoff and it was about a foot high. All three of us had decent catches but not at our regular numbers.
Its been a few days since I posted . I have been nose to the grindstone trying to get enough work done to be able to take off for the weekend. Projects are going well. I have the first coat of epoxy on the rod, I have the falcon pen started and I almost hav ethe inlay finished on the Dragon knife. The dragon knife has given me fits. There is one copper inlay around a curve on the butt end of the knife that is driving me nuts. I have inlaid it twice and can't get it to stick. Its wanting to bow up in the middle. I have tried cutting it deeper and recutting the footing. Today I ordered some new dead soft pure copper sheet (I think my current stuff is alloyed). When it gets here I will clamp this inlay as I go to make sure it seats the way it should. In the mean time I will continue to work on the falcon knife for David.
Sketches are also going on now in the evenings. I almost have the drawings for the African Elephant and Lions knife done. I am also working on sketches for a Ron Lake Fixed Blade with a Native American theme.
Back to work,
Ray
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