Authentic Nautical Accessories, and Custom Furnishings
I was an A-1 scrounger. No, that's not a scavenger writ large. It's a resource locator and redistributer extordinaire. It was the summer that my best friend and I ran a Tiki carving business in Baltimore. Tiki's were hot for restaurants, homes, and small ones for personal jewelry. We'd set up a table at one …
Currently, I am bandsawing small planks, turning blanks and spoon blanks for future projects. Admittedly my storage areas look like I am a packrat. But the materials were either free or very cheap compared to buying plank stock in length and thickness for the work. Nothing goes to waste.
woodworkers are masters of recycling from plank to scrap.
While running a Folklife program for a federal agency, one of my staffers gave me a gift made by Indonesian youth. It was a sort of lobster made from egg crates and other bits and pieces. It scuttled around realistically when manipulated with a string. Next year I found some neat little autos made from cut-up bits of soda cans.
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