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General discussion => Contemporary Longrifle Collecting => Topic started by: Ken G on March 06, 2009, 04:46:39 AM
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Below is a link you can click on to go directly to the Contemporary Makers Blog Spot that is so often referred to in the forum.
http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/ (http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/)
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are the items on the blogspot for sale?if so how doe,s one contact the maker?
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on occasion... but not often... we have tossed around the idea of a sale site, but no decision at this point...
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How do you find something on the blog? I looked for my friend Jack Haugh's Fowler and turned up nothing when I used search ????
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Hi Pete, I found it searching for Haugh. Here's a direct link.
http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/search?q=haugh (http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/search?q=haugh)
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Thanks Ken When I type in Jacks name it came back no match -- even spelled it right ;D
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How do you get to the "blog spot"?
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Use this link:
http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/ (http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/)
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Nice gun. Love the crown. ;D
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How do you add an item to the blog?
Hoot AL
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To the best of my knowledge, you can't do it yourself. To get an item on there, it must be emailed to Art or Jan, unless it is something they have found to put on there. So if you have something you want on there, take the photos & write up whatever you want to say of it & email it to them.
From what I have experienced, it could be up quickly or sometimes later on, seems to depend on the volume of things they have to put there, and also I think they like to keep a good variety as to keep it fresh & inspiring & cover all areas. I think it is an Awesome blog & look forward to looking at it several times a day.
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Who is "Art or Jan"?
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Who is "Art or Jan"?
Art and Jan Riser, the folks that own the Contemporary Makers Blog.
Randy Hedden
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Email address is??
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Email address is??
artriser@mindspring.com
Randy Hedden
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Thanx Ken I truly love this link. ;D
Rich
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Guys - you can also post comments on the items displayed on the Blog Spot below each posting and Art and Jan would welcome comments. If you enjoy the website, let them know that too - Art posts on here quite a bit so you can even pull up his profile for e-mail or send him a PM. Jan spends many, many hours photographing these items at shows and organizing photos sent to them by others, and it gives a chance for those of us who miss an event to get a good look at the highlights.
Guy
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Jan goes well above and beyond to put GOOD items on this site. Go to a CLA show, you will see Jan shooting pics,using the most primitive copy stand, the floor. If any one needs to be told thanks, its Art and Jan.
Ron Brimer
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Once again, great job Art & Jan. Truly enjoy your time spent photographing and posting of subjects selected for the blog. AJ
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So, how would a fellow go about searching this blog?
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Many powder horns on the site made by some of our friends. Is Jim Hays on the Contemporary Makers blog the same as J Stephen Hayes of Springfield KY?
Wish they had more information. Love the site and try to search it every day.
Linda
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no
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Just one more of his super guns. On another site a gentleman inquired about John Bivins. All you have to do is look
at Kibler's stuff, and say, this is what John Bivins did. I often told Jim that he is "Bivins" re-born......Don
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Scott............nice clean gun, it makes gunbuilding fun again, now you know why I do it..................Don
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I made the blog spot my internet homepage. I got tired of missing cool stuff so now it opens up when I turn on the internet and I see it when it's hot off the press.
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Bump
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What a gorgious firearm, that finish is mouth watering.
When first researching and nosing around for information on muzzleloading arms some months ago one of the sites I discovered was Contemporary Makers and I thought "Class act!" I continue to visit it regularly for the simple reason that it, along with ALR are the best out there by far and away. My hat is off to Art and Jan for their taste and continuing effort to document the makers of today, they have vision.
Dave
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Her photography is excellent and those pictures of a sometimes very complicated subject are second to none.
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When you pull up the Blog,look to the right, artist names are in the right hand column.
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So, how would a fellow go about searching this blog?
I know this is old news, BUT the most effective way to search any blog or website, look for and learn to use the "site specific" search option __IN YOUR FAVORITE__ normal regular web-searching engine.
NOT the site specific internal search.
What i describe below is the "manual entry" method. One can also bump around the buttons of most major search engines and find a ready-made window or somesuch for site specific searches.
This way you can use all those special combinations and exclusions as you've learned them without being limited to site-internal searching parameters (which tend to vary and be fairly limited).
e.g. a minus sign directly in front of a search term (-term) means "NOT" such that the search will not return items with that include that search term. Little stuff like this really helps when title-only search is so difficult when titles are often poorly worded.
Maybe you'd like to search XYZ.com for "muzzleloader" but don't want to pull up posts with the plastic stuff in it. Search "site:XYZ.com muzzleloader -inline".
Or specifically to this thread, here's what i might enter into the search engines i use:
"site:contemporarymakers.blogspot.com "Smitty Johanisburgensteinbrennen" -bag"
That search would pull references to "Smitty Johanisburgensteinbrennen" only, not "Smitty" only, not "Johanisburgensteinbrennen" only, and not to any "bag".
Confused? the name will be searched as one unit because it is enclosed in quotations. "Bag" will be excluded because of minus mark.
HTH somefolks, I know we cover a wide array of online experience.
cheerios
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Very nice Darrin. You should bring it to Kalamazoo if you still have it.
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I follow this forum mostly for the items listed for sale. I feel it would be beneficial if the Cont'p makers site also had some way of identifying featured items that ARE for sale. But probably most of the stuff there is already sold and just shown as a representation of the makers skill....and some skills they have. I don't visit it very often as the drool runs over and into my key board and messes up my PC and besides why look at stuff when you know you cannot have it. Same reason I don't walk the Ferrari dealers lot on Sunday.
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I recently noticed a section to the right side down a little that says "Sale Items" but as I recall there is nothing specific about the seller, the price, the maker or how to actually purchase them
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W e l l !
Draw me a picture will ya!
But that's bait and switch. Seems the rifle is not offered?
Will you be the only seller? I guess one spot for selling is enough.
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http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/2016/06/2016-tennessee-kentucky-rifle-show.html
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Yeah, 3 operating systems later, I gotta add the blog back to my set of tabs that open automatically when I start this machine.
That's my favorite way to keep up, and I've not been doing a very good job of it lately.
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Hello folks i came across this website while looking for something totally different. My name is David Decker and I built approximately 30 custom rifles using those great Getz barrels and a variety of locks, mostly flint. I am semi-retired and still have a few unfinished rifles hanging on my wall. I have been involved in shooting those nasty tactical black rifles and long range 1000 yard stuff of late. It was nice to hear good things about my rifles and I hope to get back to building them one of these days. I am impressed with the volume of new makers who are building great rifles. The Art lives on.