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Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« on: December 22, 2015, 03:49:15 PM »
Wow, where has he been hiding this thing? This kid does some super fine crisp work. Pretty spectacular piece....and for sale too!
(I'm feeling quite inadequate again......)
http://www.neahkahnieflintlocks.com/fowlers.html
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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2015, 04:43:22 PM »
Wow

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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2015, 06:23:04 PM »
Maybe it's the bourbon. But I still like that Tennessee Turkey you just finished. Not that this one isn't anything I wouldn't want in my collection either. Jmo

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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2015, 08:46:21 PM »
Super clean work. Eric got off to a fast start then picked up the pace. He wil go a long way with work like that.
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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2015, 11:43:48 PM »
I met Mr VonA a few years ago at Dixons when he was still a teenager.  Now, he's teaching me stuff.
Not only does he build nice guns, but making great blueprints of them as well.
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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2015, 01:00:10 AM »
Hi Mike,
Yeah, Eric makes me feel inadequate as well.  But we can make excuses like "well, he works at Colonial Williamsburg". 

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« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2015, 07:02:46 AM »
I like the fowler but he nailed the Appalachian Mountain rifle!!

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« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2015, 08:24:26 PM »
Happy Birthday Eric!  Wonderful fowling piece.
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« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2015, 12:15:58 AM »
If you people feel inadequate. How do you think we feel!!! Any way Merry Christmas. But if yeah got any throw always out back let us know. So many of you on here do such fine work. An the knowledge your so very willing to share. Is VERY much appreciated.

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« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2015, 03:58:44 AM »
Didn't Eric spend time working under Ron Scott's watchful eye? He is rapidly becoming a wizard at this.
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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #10 on: December 26, 2015, 06:23:41 PM »
I like the form of a nice fowler and this is truely a great piece.
I just wish I had learned to shoot a shotgun ::) Something I never got the hang of, I think I stop the swing :-\ Its one of my failings.  I have killed more game birds with a pistol than with a shotgun. Dad on the other hand was a wizard of the game shot with anything. Now he is a little to worn out to hunt or shoot.


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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2015, 11:08:46 PM »
Wow!  Googly Moogly! That's a new one, sounds like the name of a muppet character! 

Thanks for the kind words on the fowler.  I never trained with Ron Scott - sure would love to learn some tricks from him though!  I've primarily learned from everyone here on this site, but especially Acer/Tom Curran and being able to handle original works at shows.  I did spend this past summer working at Colonial Williamsburg, and I hope to begin working fulltime this spring! 

I do hope no one actually feels inadequate when looking at this or the many other amazing pieces of work shared here - I sure still feel awed by many masters' work shown on this site and the contemporary makers blog.  There's always more to learn and be challenged by.

Back to work on a couple new projects,
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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #12 on: December 28, 2015, 12:02:56 AM »
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY
From an old Frank Zappa album circa "my wasted youth". I believe it was the don't eat the yellow snow song...... ;)
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« Reply #13 on: December 28, 2015, 04:28:38 AM »
I can't remember the discussion or where it was but they were talking about the greatest guitarists and Frank Zappa was one of the people they were talking about. Of course when he wasn't wasted away on various pill/alcohol concoction or some combination thereof.  
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« Reply #14 on: December 28, 2015, 05:11:16 AM »
From the online Urban Dictionary - "Great Googly Moogly:" Utterance of great surprise. Common in blues songs, made more popular by Frank Zappa in the song "Nanook Rubs It" from Apostrophe in 1974.
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« Reply #15 on: December 28, 2015, 06:11:26 AM »
Well crawdad you would be wrong about Frank being a user - Frank Zappa was clean - he abhorred the usage if drugs and alcohol - he was just "different" not a druggie or an alkie.
He was in fact a VERY talented musician who could play a lot of different instruments and much of his writing was on par with the classics in so far as complexity, etc. and yes he was a very fine but unsung guitarist.

PS great googly moogly was much earlier used in 1961 by Blues greats Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon, Zappa's usage just brought the term into the mainstream. An earlier variation googa mooga dates back to the 1950's.
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« Reply #16 on: December 28, 2015, 07:56:19 AM »
Are you sure about that? I knew that Ted Nugent another unsung guitarist of incredible ability was clean but Zappa? 

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« Reply #17 on: December 28, 2015, 08:02:03 AM »
Yea you're right burrows,

'Frank Zappa tried cannabis ten times, but without any pleasure, and "never used LSD, never used cocaine, never used heroin or any of that other stuff." Zappa stated, "Drugs do not become a problem until the person who uses the drugs does something to you, or does something that would affect your life that you don't want to have happen to you, like an airline pilot who crashes because he was full of drugs."'
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Re: Great Googly Moogly, Eric von Aschwege NE Fowling gun
« Reply #18 on: December 28, 2015, 06:25:24 PM »
Too bad Zappa never got into flintlocks.  He'd have probably enjoyed Eric's work.
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« Reply #19 on: December 29, 2015, 07:20:49 AM »
That is truly a great piece of work Eric.  I will be able to brag "I met him at Dixons one year - he's a friend of mine".
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« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2015, 10:20:33 PM »
"Breathtaking" is a good descriptive for that rifle.  The world better watch out, Eric, when you get another decade under your belt!
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« Reply #21 on: December 29, 2015, 11:17:13 PM »
http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/
It made the blog today. Lots more pictures.

Did you guys know Cab Calloway was doing the "Moon Walk" back in the 30's? Michael Jackson didn't invent it......
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« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2015, 11:57:51 PM »
Saw Cab Calloway in the early 1990's and he was still doing it then. He would do a couple of numbers (singing and dancing) then sit down to rest for a song or two while someone else sang. He must have been in his 80's and was still full of spunk. I hope I do that well when (if!) I get there.
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« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2015, 01:22:44 AM »
http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/
It made the blog today. Lots more pictures.

Did you guys know Cab Calloway was doing the "Moon Walk" back in the 30's? Michael Jackson didn't invent it......

MINI THE MOOCHER..............see the new movie the "Blues Brothers" at the end..... ;D

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« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2015, 01:46:27 AM »
I should have know you eclectic bunch of odd balls would know all about Frank Zappa and Cab Calloway..... ::)
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