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| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38468 | 04 May 17 10:38 |
| Morning Bob - I did not fly the Beavers - I was just a fishing guide. Where is that Borsini accordion now? It is worth money ... All of the old accordions built pre 1967, or so, had very high quality free air metal reeds made in Germany, not like the cheaper accordions today ... |
| rgood, Comment for image # 38468 | 04 May 17 10:10 |
| ...did you fly the aircraft on the fishing trips? |
| rgood, Comment for image # 38468 | 04 May 17 10:08 |
| Hello LW - Thanks for the Accordion pic - very nice inst.! I had an olde Italian make - Borsini (cannot remember the actual spelling) it was a 120 bass also not 180 as I stated before! I was born in 1943, and heard Tollefsen on recordings owned by a friend of mine. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38468 | 04 May 17 09:55 |
| Bob - Toralf Tollefsen (1914-1994) was a world famous, Norwegian born Concert Accordionist who played Pietro Deiro's Concerto for Accordion at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England - lots on the web about him. He played mostly on England's BBC Radio live, which made him a big celebrity in the late 1940's and early 1950's. If I may ask, how old are you now Bob? and did you ever hear him play live on the radio? |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38468 | 04 May 17 09:48 |
Bob - this is my most precious family heirloom - an Italian-made Western Style Piano Accordion with 120 base buttons, a "Vivona" Tone Master, built in 1967, that I took lessons on from 10 - 15 yrs old. I got it back when I was 50, ten yrs ago, and took it up with a vengeance ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38465 | 04 May 17 09:33 |
| Bob - I now live in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario (beside Detroit, Michigan), but I worked for many years way up north all across Northern Ontario, from Sioux Lookout in the NW to Kirkland Lake in the east, in the Mining/Metallurgy, Pulp and Paper, and Environmental Industries. I was a Lumberjack at 19 in the old Permanent Logging Camps (they are all gone now), four hours drive into the bush north of Thunder Bay. I even fought forest fires and was a Fishing Guide on the vast big water of Lac Seul out of Sioux Lookout, and guided Fly-in trips with Beaver A/C to very remote inaccessible lakes even further up, for the rich American fisherman - the best job I ever had in my life ... |
| rgood, Comment for image # 38465 | 03 May 17 23:55 |
| Where is your home LW? |
| rgood, Comment for image # 38465 | 03 May 17 23:53 |
| Did you ever hear any recordings of Tolleffson - a great accordian player of the 50's - he did some great clasiical stuff, Beethoven Brahms etc,etc? I did a little accordian playing in the early 60's (La Paloma etrc. etc.) - never quite got at home on the 180 bass that I owned - Thats when I started on the 'cello. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38465 | 03 May 17 22:58 |
| Why, thank you Bob - you may call me any name you want ... |
| rgood, Comment for image # 38465 | 03 May 17 22:18 |
| Thanks for that LW - by the way my name is Bob! |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38462 | 03 May 17 21:52 |
| AND, they were all giving their long hollow bugling calls... |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38462 | 03 May 17 21:39 |
| Way up in Northern Ontario near Timmins, I saw a spectacular migrating flight of these in 3 flocks totaling 350 birds with 150 birds in one flock - they were spiraling up, with wings flat out, in large "kettles" on rising thermals, and then soaring off the top down to the base of the next rising thermal. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38462 | 03 May 17 21:26 |
| Actually, they are extremely protected now, especially the almost extinct, rare, and barely recovering white "Whooping Crane" - they were shot out of their Rookeries almost to extinction from unregulated hunting and loss of habitat - 1941 only 21 wild and 2 captive birds, 2003 = 306 birds, 2015 = 442 wild plus 161 captive birds. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38465 | 03 May 17 21:08 |
| Mr. Good - right now the practice prop has a Round Head Pin hole 0.023" in diameter, and so do the 0.0035" thick Vellum Tracing Paper outlines, in order to center them to the prop block to trace the outlines onto the balsa block. Since it will be hooked up to rubber band power, I first will stain and clear coat the finished Laminated Prop, and then I will widen the hole to 3/64" (0.0469"), put in a new 3/64" prop hook wire first through the removable nose block, then through the kit supplied Thrust Bearing (3/64" hole), then through a couple of small brass Flat Washers, then through the prop from the rear, and then bend a little "L" to the front of the straight prop wire sticking out past the prop face, and press this little "L", flat, into a groove on the face of the prop hub, then 5 min Epoxy, and then glue on a nice flat metal prop Hub Plate to hide the "L" of the prop shaft. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38462 | 03 May 17 21:01 |
| Are cranes edible? How about their eggs? |
| biplane guy, Comment for image # 38462 | 03 May 17 20:27 |
| I'd frame and hang that shot. |
| rgood, Comment for image # 38465 | 03 May 17 19:49 |
| This looks very good - I always start with the LE too, when will you bore the central hole? |
| rgood, Comment for image # 38462 | 03 May 17 19:47 |
| Wonderful shot LW - Real flying there! |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 38464 | 03 May 17 18:08 |
| Very nicely done. Very similar to my "carving" method except I use a belt sander clamped in a bench vise. Your drawing is super! |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38464 | 03 May 17 16:39 |
| Just give it a try, and have a plastic prop at hand to compare with, plus pics - lots of how-to sites on the web ... |
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