This print is one of my favorites a blast form the past Commander Cody. He could fly to the scene of a crime with the aide of an early back mounted jet engine. This image portrays his hand held electric crank fired sonic blaster, a very rare find.

The ideas have been flowing recently, which is always a good thing. They range from print ideas to front bubble shape and mount fabrication for my latest recumbent. The flow contains many thoughts, I just simply pick and choose the good ones, the ones I wish to pursue.

Handy Man: These tools were formerly my fathers, and the parts are form my rental hot water pipes, water heater was just re-placed. Shimmed a door with re finished chisel last week tools are very handy things to have.

I have for longtime been fascinated with the iron period of American naval history Where we went form wood to iron in a very short amount of time, after decades of naval ware fare and conquests with wooden ships

Day dreaming and making paper planes, in this one is I was experimenting with bending, but it ended up as an image on my studio floor, then a print

A through back to wodden boats,a time mow long forgotten

The wife is cold, she wants more heat, and I have been burning driftwood but its smells. Although its free and quite plentiful it often contains cresol that once burned creates a very strong order within the studio and house. May have to buy some coal it will cost me but it creates better heat, burns hotter in the old enclosed stove.

This is the germ of the idea; good ideas tend to haunt they are the ones that will not go away. That is until I go into the shop and bring them to light.

Once in the shop I draw from my neatly labeled spare parts boxes, and quickly layout the vision that the voices in my head are telling me to create.

Local island legend has it, that sometimes when the moon is full, and the planet is in aliment that “old number 408” can be seen roaring down the now abandoned seaside tracks. At the fiery throttle is the devil himself taking his passengers of lost souls, priests and politicians to the gates of hell itself.

Put my new poster up but not many people here at the beach in winter. My agent says that with the hours I keep I would be better suited to sell fish at the fish market. Recently I completed a job survey personality match and considering all the years I have spent alone in he studio, I seem best suited to be a Shepard, not bad, but you get paid in cheese.

The Prentor Expander (England 1912) This early Hydrogen Electric gun is believed to have been developed for the Kelly gang in England 1912, its actual origins are still a bit fuzzy. The police theorize that it was still under construction when the raid occurred, and the weapon was confiscated. The gun is extremely advanced in design The Prentor Expander could generate its own hydrogen from compressed water and an electric impulse. A small electric charge sparked from a hot coil would ignite the hydrogen gas and fire the weapon. This gun is believed to have been able to fire several types of projectiles; several darts, and several lead shaped projectiles were found when the weapon was confiscated by the Liverpool police department.

The Duchess (1504) Carried aboard all ships of the line this early Dutch naval weapon was an excellent short-range protection weapon. The Duchess and could fire almost anything it was loaded with nails, chain, lead balls, a black power crank operated flint lock weapon. Extremely well crafted and very reliable she was a standard side arm on all the Dutch West Indies ships for over ten years. The weapon was much favored by the early Dutch sailors on boarding parties, and rumors were that this weapon could slay a sea monster with a single burst. A much sort after and prized weapon only a handful still exist in the world today.

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