That is a photo of Three finger Jack, Jefferson, Washington and way in the background is Mount Hood...

Yes...I grew up in Coos Bay and left Oregon in 1964 for the Navy. I would love to come home, but there is still a law against shooting californians...

Was this the way-station you were camp at?

I bet you went through McKenzie Bridge and started your journey at Foley Ridge Trail Head. You must have passed through Linton Meadows too.

That's why it was a trick question, I knew it wasn't 3 sisters in the foreground but I don't know my peaks anyway. Yep! that's the little lean-to!! How cool you have a photo of it. There's a nice little stream there and little ponds and the deer came out in the evening at the edge of the trees.....wish I was there right now...thank you so much for the photo...I'm going to steal it if you don't mind..do you know how far in that is? It seems like it was about 3 hr.s or so to get there...drove me nuts! I remember we saw a bear too. There was a place where the trail overlooked a meadow that was way down-hill and we spotted a bear..that was cool. I'm going to write down that trail head too because I always wanted to go back there and my boss never would tell me where we were. I think he had some ideas cooking in his horny little head but he was all gent and never forward at all.....guess he was stupid too...or maybe I was stinkin after all the heat and dusty trail and all...not too appealing...oh well. Do you have any other photos of that area? I'd love to see them. There's a huge meadow just past this that has a little hill on it and it's like you're on top of the world, so pretty there....I miss it.... I have some photos for Fnuser of spalted myrtle wood. I'm making a bowl right now and so I took a couple photos to show the figure in it. Bushy you made my day!! Thank you so much!

Bushmaster wrote:

Yes...I grew up in Coos Bay and left Oregon in 1964 for the Navy. I would love to come home, but there is still a law against shooting californians... .

Hehehe- you aint the only P/O'd over the massive moron migration to them parts.

Wicked cool bowl Suzy!

Yup...Nice bowl...

And yes. I have around 13 years of the Three Sisters Wilderness. Made the trip on horse back ever year until I moved out here.

By the way these are the three sisters. Well 2 1/2 Sisters. Taken fro the base of Broken Top just above the Glacier Pool that is above Golden Lake.

If you want copies of these and others I'll send me your e-mail by PM...

Excellent outdoor aventure area up thereabouts.... mountain biking galore!

Absolutely gorgeous too.

Sorry Stovey...But you can't mountain bike in this area. On foot or horse back only...

You are correct about it being "gorgeous" though...

Copy that, I over generalized... still breathaking none the less. Great shot.

Suz, I'm impressed with the bowl! Wish I had the time and equipment to try that sometime.

Oh my! I bet that looks like molten gold when you get it finished. What's the finish going to be? One of my buddies just dragged over a 3"x10"x60" or 12/4 x10" x 5' of Butternut or some people call it white walnut but the proper name is Juglans Cinerea I don't know latin but all the walnuts start w Juglans. Juglans Regia=English, Juglans Nigra= American or Black. Isn't it amazing what you can learn reading American Rifleman? There's more but I won't bore you. Anyway he wants a 1850's Percussion fullstock. I always liked the Vincent's from Ohio so I'll probably use this as an excuse to do one like that only with iron hardware instead of brass or silver. They are a little early also but it's easier to pull off an earlier style in a later gun then visa -versa. It looks like you're a better Photographer then I am. I just can't hardly use a digital camera. I would love to see that bowl allpolished and oiled.

Well thank you all for the complements! I'm using some polishing wax on it, I tend to do them all that way because it's so easy. It's a real hard wax with rouge in it and you just hold it against the piece as it's turning, go all the way across it and then hold a rag against it till it gets burnished in. Just a quick thing to do, there are 2 rouges that you use sort of like an abrasive, burnish them in and then run over it with a clean soft cloth and you're done. The hard part is getting to sanding marks out before you do the wax. I'm not too good at that but i'm working on it. I tend to have a heavy hand with the scrapers and so I get a lot of tear-out to clean up. Light finishing touches with the scraper, and I don't always have the touch. I'm building a jig right now to finish up the bottoms of several bowls I've done. A very clever fellow from Australia I believe came up with a chuck just for that kind of thing and it's so simple in function if you want to look it over,HERE'S the plans. Hey Fnuser!! are you building the gunstock from the ground up? That would be a chore! I'll send some photos of the bowl when I get the bottom done. It's not really very golden, kind of blonde really but the colors vary from grey to black and blonde and tan. I have more of it to try out too. The slab I got has harder wood in it than I thought. There is a treatment you can use to firm up the spongy stuff, I know some guys use it on their heirloom driftboats that are rotting. You paint it on and it hardens the punky stuff sort of like super-glue I guess. Anyway keep up the good work your guns are beautiful!

Suz

Yep