Celebrating all things "Old School" here in Northeast Kansas...trying to live a self-reliant life in accordance with God's Holy principles. I'm always wanting to learn new things and figure out how to do things on my own...sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
It goes alot faster if you coarse grind it first then run it through at a finer grind then run it one more time to get the final product. First grind speed try it at eight then as you go to a finer setting drop the machine speed down. Doing it this way will take less than three minutes to grind a cup of grain.
The negative is supposed to be loaded into the holder "with the film's base side facing down", according to my Epson manual. I have a different model than yours (Perfection 4870), but it should be the same for both. That's why your scan is backwards and you have to flip it.
In that scanner, the film is supposed to be emotion, side up and smooth side down to the glass. The camera shoots from the bottom, and the top is only a backlight.
I recently finished at walking stick from an osage branch. I used an angle grinder with a 80 grit disc to get the rough shape, works pretty well. Thanks for sharing, nice walking stick.
Thank you so much for this video the lady reminds me of my daughter when I have her in pictures and videos. Great reminder to use my kitchen aid for grinding corn. I’m doing it now with my kitchen aid works great! We normally grind barley’s ❤
I enjoy your videos but i dont think your wife is too thrilled about making them, your videos are very informative and i like to see both of you in them.
A now deceased friend of mine - actually my late ex-wife's grandfather but a friend, as well, made treenware. He made two-tine forks (think something that looks like a meat carving/serving fork) out of Osage Orange. He said it was one of the few woods that you could get really sharp, thin pointed tines from without them just breaking off. He also said he had found out that Osage was very popular for making the pins to assemble water wheels for mills back in the day because they didn't rot easy and could get wet, swell, get dry and shrink over and over without giving out. He had some forks he had made decades before that were still sharp. I used one or two of them on occasion because, as he would tell people when he sold his various treenware pieces at shows, they could be used for decoration if you wanted but they were made to be used.
I've been carrying an Irish Blackthorn stick for many years. IMO the ideal dimensions for any walking stick is, long enough to come up to your hip, in my case 39 inches. The top should be a knob approx 2" in diameter, primarily as a hand stop to keep an human attacker from pulling it out of your hands. Diameter just below the handle should be about 1.25 to 1.5 inch. At the tip of the stick, diameter should be about 1 inch or a little less. Cap the tip with a metal cup of some sort, e.g., shotgun shell base, followed by a rubber foot. Total weight depends on the tree, but in Blackthorn it would be about 18 oz. My personal stick is thinner and lighter at 11 oz, real easy to whip around with one hand. Warded off a vicious dog with one backhand swipe, once upon a time. - Z
I’ve settled on making a stout hedge wood staff for myself, but I’m out here in southern California so I have to find how to get a piece to work with. I really like the ones you make, just the sort of kind I have in mind.
I've watched two of three of these now, and the others say you can't get it fine enough to make cornbread, that this machine is just for chicken feed. But you seem to be doing alright. Would it be easier to do multiple runs - like a coarse grind first and then go through again to get it fine? I mean, would it be easier to crank? Thanks for the video.
#cornertalker - I would Definitely do the first grind looser/easier, then put it back thru a time or 2 and tighten some more each time if necessary until I had the desired fineness. My Rotator Cuffs will no longer allow me to even Try the fine grind up front. Look How Strong our Grand Parents were who had to do This life... I'm looking for a grinder I can handle And afford.. =^..^=
Problem I have is finding a straight piece long enough to make a walking stick. I have Osage orange trees on my property in Tennessee but they're curvy branches.
Thank you for sharing ... I was search for this information. Beautiful Lesa, that looks good. Maybe a video how she is making? Recipe?? We need to learn from them... They have great ideas.
