A pic taken by my daughter while we made a cross country jaunt..  Taken from the interstate at 65 mph there in St. Louis, MO with a point and click Kodak camera…  Not too bad, and the composition itself is showing either a little promise or some blind luck… either way it turned out pretty good, even after resizing it down.

An older one.. but damn if it isn’t still funny. A news cast (sort of) that was fixed up and made the rounds shortly after the Iraq war kicked off. Watch it all the way to the end

Found some more Pin-Up  (87 images) mostly colored pencil and charcoal drawings.  VERY well done…  I’m not sure of the artist right now, but they were authorized for use on an old Fantasy postcards site that I started over 10 years ago…so the email from the artist is likely buried on on of my retired Sendmail servers.

Might have to dig up the the old perl code I wrote for it and update it to PHP and re-post the site…. when I find a weekend with nothing else better to do…

Here’s some samples and a link straight to the Photo Gallery

Enjoy, and let me know if you like them!

Okay, I guess I still had my chainmalle weaves (aka patterns)how to instructions posted on an old domain, but here they are… Depicting the European 4 in 1, 6 in 1, and 8 in 1 weaves, Oriental 4 in 1 and 6 in 1 weaves (these are really cool, time consuming, but cool). Also what was known as king’s maille, and the spiral weaves.

Take a look at Dakar’s Armory.

I’ll post my how-to’s for making the rings themselves. Not sure how the price of metal these days will impact this fascinating hobby. Although I did make a few thousand bucks selling them in bulk on eBay a while back over a year or so, the workload trying to actually turn a profit was enormous. I do have the 4 in 1 chainmaille shirt that I made from 14ga galvanized steel in storage, dang thing weighs around 50lbs! Have to dig that out sometime and get some pics.

Just some pix of things made in chainmail that I found on my hard drive…  I’ve mastered all of the weaving techniques to replicate them, some I’ve replicated in the past and others I hadn’t even started on.  There are a number of posts from years ago (mostly salvaged from old webpages I had up at some point) located under the chainmaille category.  One of these days I’ll find the rest of my archived pages and pics to make them into real WP pages.  I created detailed weaving instructions for most of the popular weaves to share with all you would be steel and aluminum weavers out there!