Knife shop dreams

[jerryk25]

Well . . First a disclaimer. . . .

I consider myself a SharperDeals cult member.
and am using TalkBlade as an emergency communication channel.

I sort of feel like a Traitor, publishing my cartoons here, . . . Before SharperDeals Posts.

But, I can't log on. . .I'm on a borrowed Laptop that has a "Net Nanny"
that does not allow kids to surf bad pages. . . .
And it won't let me go thru the Login protocol gymnastics
to get back to posting on SharperDeal.

And I'm just too old and tired to make the effort.
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Anyways . . . To all you young guys that have fingers that still work.
Savor those moments where you stand at a vice, and smash your fingers.
There will come a day, when you can't mangle anymore.

When you are not allowed to get dirty. . .

I can fiddle with soft plastics, paper and glue. And a little sewing.

I'm stuck here in a nursing home.
Entertaining myself by making hook-less Shrimp fishing lures out of bendy straws.
and giving them away to pretty nurses.

I'll take a photo of the actual plastic straw shrimp, as soon as I can
figure out how to use my laptop camera and point it away from me
and still see what the image will be, centered. . .too low. . .etc. . . .

Anyways.
Here is my latest cartoon. . . about 90% finished.
Me dreaming about my unfinished projects.
The heart is willing. . .but the hands fail me.

[jerryk25]

If you look back on the bed. . . . you'll see more shrimp. . .
The LapTop camera does not have good resolution.
You can't see the shrimp details, the folds that make the gills.
or the little notched claw feet.

Also a recent photo of me, with a new scraggly grey half-beard.

[john]

You’re amazing I wish I had half your talents.
Wishing you a supersonic recovery ‍

[boots]

That's awesome, you're really talented, I can barely make a cup of water. If you were God, I'd bet you'd make something like this...

[rock-n-roll$$$$$$]

jerry, you are the best, always a kind word, please get better and get home soon. Eric

[jim d,]

Jerry - you continue to be amazing, thanks for all your efforts.

Jim

[Tom19176]

Jerry great work!!! Hope you're home soon !

[tr4252]

Cool shrimp Jerry. Sincerest best wishes to you.

I built switchblades too, stopped about 10 - 12 years ago. I enjoyed it a lot, and the members here were really supportive. I share your feelings of nostalgia about the bench work. I had a pretty nice shop in my basement (still do, just don't use it much), and I would put on some music, get to work, and space out for hours. I miss that.

Tom