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excellent bracers love the design

great design, well done

wow tom, this is so great...love the skulls and the backgrounding..got to get one of those tools..the colors really set it off.

Congrats Tina, you sure did deserve to win, that white furry purse is to die for.....

thanks, the customer is new to archery, but i think he is just using field points (i hope), if not he will have to put in a wooden plug himself. The side quiver is a new design, i think the belt setup will work well tom, the customer gave me the spelling...he had the double S in his original drawing.

Heres a couple of quivers i was asked to make, the person who ordered them wanted his name and viking title in runes as well as the two symbols, i didnt want to try and carve the writing as it was so small so i used the dremel to engrave it. One side quiver and one back quiver. The dye turned out streaky on the side quiver so i call it wood effect. Who can read runes?

creepy, in a good way, did you use a skull model or do all the hard work yourself, is it full size ? love the color

Welcome 276, hope to see more of your work soon

great mask, love the colors, i have thought about doing a double layer but havent got around to it yet, might be next on my list

Hey beav, the way we treat ulnar nerve problems is to move the nerve away from the groove at the back of the elbow to the inside part of the elbow. We call it an Ulnar nerve transposition. You know if you hit your elbow and it hurts like hell and people say you hit your funny bone, well this is the ulnar nerve, never funny for the person getting the pain. I have never heard of anyone cutting a nerve, i wouldnt let them do it either. To see how bad ulnar nerve damage is, put a piece of paper between your little finger and the ring finger..try to pull the paper out with the other hand...if you can pull it out easily the nerve is trapped, usually at the elbow groove. This type of damage is not as debilitating as the median nerve damage where the big thumb muscle is usually the first to go.

Today was Anzac Day in Australia. Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The acronym ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, whose soldiers were known as Anzacs. The pride they took in that name endures to this day, and Anzac Day remains one of the most important national occasions of both Australia and New Zealand. It is a day that we remember all our brothers and sisters that have fallen in defending our way of life. It is a public holiday across the nation and is marked by many rememberance services. My son who is 14 has recently joined the Airforce Cadets...a program for 13-17 year old kids which is run by the Australian Airforce. Today was his first big event and we all got up at 4.00am so we could have him at the Historic Fort for the dawn service. It was a very moving service and attended by thousands of people of all ages. He looked so smart in his dress uniform and had to attend 3 more services through the morning. He made momma so proud.

There have been a few posts about sore hands so I thought i would give some information about whether this may be carpal tunnel syndrome or something else. Carpal tunnel is just my field, i have been performing nerve conduction tests for 10 years with one of Australia's leading neurologists. In your wrist there is a carpal tunnel structure. Lets think of it as a u shape boney thing with a stretchy thing over the top. The tendons to the fingers and one nerve past through this tunnel. The nerve is the median nerve and it supplies the messages to the muscles in the thumb and fingers with the exception of the little finger and half the ring finger. Carpal tunnel syndrome is when this nerve gets compressed in the tunnel. Sometimes it can be the tendons thickening and taking up more room or the stretchy thing at the top of the carpal bone gets tighter. What ever the reason the symptoms are usually pins and needles or numbness in the hands. It is usually worse at night or when the hands are elevated. There are lots of reasons people blame for their condition, but in my experience the biggest group are people are those that have a lot of vibration happening to their hands....power tools, jack hammers, motorbike riders, lots of HAMMERING..but of course there are lots of people who dont do these things. It tends to run in families, so your inherited wrist structure has a lot to do with it...some people have small tunnels to begin with. Here is the tricky bit.....The symptoms of carpal tunnel are due to the irritation of the nerve, not so much the damage....you can irritate a nerve without damaging it and you can get severe symptoms which may include sharp pain in the wirst , pins and needles or numbness in the fingers.. It is only when the nerve has been damage that something needs to be done about it. This is the reason that a nerve conduction test is so important...you can have severe symptoms with little or no damage and very little in symptoms with severe damage. If the damage is severe it is VERY important to get it fixed. If the pressure on the nerve is not released the muscles that are supposed to be getting input will begin to waste away.. once this wasting gets really bad there is often no recovery, your hands will be disabled for life. Swelling of the hands or pain without numbness are not typical symptoms of carpal tunnel. However if your hands are swollen this in turn will compress everything in the wrist and may give you temporary symptoms of carpal tunnel. If numb hands are waking you at night, its time to get a test. Hope this helps, i have seen too many people leave it too late...imagine trying to lace when you cant feel the lacing needle!!!

hey travis, if you get stuck for a supplier i know www.leffler.com.au here in australia have silver and gold roo in 3mm, 4.7 and 6mm. They also stock black, brown, burgandy, green, natural, navy, red, tan and yellow. It comes in a 23 metre hank and the basic colors in 100metre rolls. I pay about $60 for 100 metres but i dont know what they charge for overseas delivery. Their website is terrible but a phone call or email should get you some prices.

wow, we dont have wide deer here, let along albino, thanks so much

very nice work, looking forward to seeing more of your work

welcome grumpy, hope to see some of your work soon......most people i know called grumpy are just the opposite!!!!!

wow!!!

love these masks, what sort of paint are you using....is it acrylic? do you have to water is down?

sweeet work, love the colors....i also love my airbrush..have some new stencils arriving this week

thanks myriam, very professional tutorial

great work, i love the coloring on the flowers and the tooling on the dragon is great...what color is the dragon going to be?

hey beav, i have read this before and it is beautiful...what i get from this is when the father asks if his child can play, he is "not expecting much".....isnt it amazing if we give people the chance to do something wonderful they will often come thru.....

wood face is my favorite here, very subtle!!

there was a full size skull on ebay, i thought it would be good to form a skull mask on. Not a real skull, plastic one that med students use.

freak, great work as usual, i love the skulls....