Cute, eh? The shirt was designed by my SnB buddy Aaron, and is a reference to a reference (yes, a reference to a reference, that's not a typo) to a video game that I've never played. I just like pie.
...I'm sure there's something else I wanted to tell y'all about, but I have Candide on the turntable, and it's distracting me. Wherefore and hence, therefore and ergo...
*ahem*
Oh, right! I was poking around in my storage unit the other day, and was dismayed to discover a thin-to-moderate layer of mold coating quite a few of my possessions, including Brigid, my beloved walking wheel. I pulled her out and brought her to Erik's, where I cleaned her up and have been giving her a new coat of linseed oil every few days. The wood is beginning to look a little less old, and much more colorful... turns out this wheel is more of a redhead than I thought she was.
The oil is showing me that her various parts may be different types of wood, which fits with the evidence I saw when I first got her that she'd been re-spoked. The spokes have a definite redness, while the hoop seems to be much more yellow, and the table and legs seem to be somewhere in the middle.
Any woodworking folks out there want to guess what the various bits are made of? I can spot walnut most of the time, but most other local woods all look the same to me. Keep in mind that Brigid may have been made in Virginia or thereabouts, but she was in Massachusetts when I met her, and I'm not sure at what point during her journey she picked up new parts.
And while I'm soliciting information, are any of you familiar enough with bird species to tell me what this is? (Click to embiggen.)
It looks like a peregrine falcon to me, but I'm no ornithologist, and everything I've heard about peregrines in the last decade relates to them living in cities, not rural Vermont.
4 comments:
The hairdo looks great! And I know someone who NEEDS that shirt - is your friend selling them?
Eklectika, the shirts are available here: http://www.nearandfarcomic.com/products-page/
Lilith, I have a walking wheel from the 1800s that was made on my ancestor's plantation in Tennessee. Is there any requests or a market for antique walking wheels?
TM, there are two basic markets for walking wheels: antiquers and spinners. Antiquers will pay god-knows-what for something they like, and they care more about the look than the functionality. Spinners tend to be more thrifty and won't pay out the nose for a wheel, even if it's in mint condition. A spinner might pay up to $100 for a decent walking wheel, maybe $200 for a spectacular one. An antiquer, who knows. I've seen people asking several grand for them on CL, but who knows if they actually sold.
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