The Wimberley Festival

Today I spent the day showing my craft at the Wimberley Market Days Festival, the temperature started in the low 40s and took about half the day to warm into the low 60s. I am not use to spending this much time in the cold, well any colder and I would not have been here. There were the usual crowds and curiosity seekers and laughs, and I still sold much of my work.

New Knife Today

Decided to make a new carbon steel knife, has a six inch blade which is about my size for a knife and a deer horn antler handle of course. The blade came from Mexico and it is an old one. The older 30 year old blades have good steel.

Getting Ready For Next Event

This is the latest stone making I have been doing in the last couple weeks. I will be adding these to others I have made for a festival coming up next week..

Adding More

Adding more stone knives to my inventory.. These two are made from large antler horn tines.

Two More

These two are smaller ones each similar in size but different in shape of the stone.

My Largest Stone Knife

Well, this is the biggest and heaviest stone knife I have made, measuring thirteen inches long. It is also mounted on the biggest piece of elk horn antler I have found. Now this is a knife which would be a good ceremonial piece.

The Ladies

Time for my ladies to come in for the night, they like "perching" high up in the hen house. Here are four of them on the high bar..

More of my Work

Been making some larger stone knives lately, I decided to change some of my approach in design and look to produce something different than what I have been doing in the past, so these came into being. I used flint with elk horn bone. I have a festival coming up weekend after next, time to be creative..

Dumpster Diving

Yep, I do it when it looks like I may get some good stuff, even at my crazy age. Today I got some great stuff including a TV, old reel to reel, shop vac, a word processor, and other stuff. Some other stuff were a phone, hunting vest, army duffel bag, shower massage heads and some cords. Got to love it when you get lucky from a dumpster.

This old reel to reel is missing the AC cord, but I think I can find it at a thrift. It is very clean and has the original cover. 

You don't see word processors anymore, and this one has never been used. Comes with everything you need plus original cover.

This TV has great color and you can see that it is an old Sony. I have it in my studio and it is great for about 20 channels off just rabbit ears.

Cold Morning

Got up this morning and temp was 45, I think autumn is definately here now. The chickens were huddled in the hen house, will look for some eggs later after they go out. My two ducks spent the night in the yard near their pool. Another day starts in the country of central TX.