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Russ:
Was gifted this bar of 1095 steel. Im going to be working reduction to get the knife i want. Ill keep you updated  (f)

Russ:
Got a design! These two are keeping me working whenever i can! Keeps my mind clear and destressed for school. I see why people call bowmaking and stuff a type of therapy!

DC:
When I went to school if we finished our Industrial Arts project we could work on our own stuff. I made knives. I made a Bowie knife with a 10" blade at school! Times have changed. Now a days if a student picks up a sharp stick he gets sent home for a week and is lucky if he escapes therapy.

Russ:
Sad thing is thst there was a kid, about preschool age, his name was hunter, great kid i heard from my friend, but he was deaf. The only way to say his name was to make a gun with his two fingers. Teachers called that a threat and expelled  him. Dont know what happened after that.

Hawkdancer:
I don't think playing "cops and robbers" or "Cowboys and iIndians" or soldiers damaged us too much!  Some of us wound up in the military and even Congress, went to college, and a few wound up in jail.
But we were the "pre-war kids", and not Molly coddled with a lot of experiential theories about how to raise or educate children.  The day after I retired from the Army, I started my ponytail, still got it somewhere.  As the country song says, "The Class of '57 had a Dream" - life lead us where we are.  I still size a person up on the basis of whether I would hunt with them or not!  Btw, I sign a little, and know about name signs - a preschooler doesn't understand about threats, either.  I'll stop rambling, and drink my coffee!
Hawkdancer

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