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General discussion => Gun Building => Topic started by: E.vonAschwege on July 31, 2009, 08:24:55 PM
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What a great weekend... still recovering here! Here are a few last photos:
Tom (Acer) giving his engraving seminar
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Taylor Sapergia, Bill Shipman, and Tom
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L to R, Dave Peelgren (not an ALR member), Eric von Aschwege, Taylor Sapergia, Daryl Sapergia, Roger Fisher, Dave Rase, Bill Shipman (never without a drink in hand), and Tom Curran.
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Eric,
THank you for the photos. I appreciate the captions too. I need faces and names. This was a hard Dixon year to miss.
Regards,
Pletch
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Thanks Eric now I can in fact prove to Barbara where I was those 3 days... ;)
The average age of that bunch not too bad if you kick out that ol geezer in the middle....... ::)
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Boy - talk about the "Rat Pack"! ;D
I sure wish I could have been there with you guys. Great picture!
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Hey, that's just lemonade.
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WOW! i seen some of you guys there. did not know it till i got home and went on line.
Anthony
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Eric thanks for showing me your newest! It is always a pleasure to talk with you. Keep at those books inschool. Brian D. will you be making the event next year? I missed chatting withyou this year.
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Well, I see that you got my best side in the top photo. I'm sitting to the the left of the person in the red cap. ;D
Hmmm, that's what I get for distributing the handouts at the beginning of the seminar. ;D
God bless
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For some strange reason, my camera trigger finger was lax at Dixon's - I was somewhat overwhelmed by the vareity of 'stuff' to look at along with constantly meeting people both from this site and 'others'. I merely fell down on the camera stuff, although as some noticed, the camera was at my belt every day I was there and that was every day until the fair breakdown - never a dull moment nor a moment I wasn't meeting the fine people who frequent this site. Many of the ALR shirts I met were contributors, while some identified themselves as lurkers, gleaning all they could from the various threads throughout this site's excellent prose. The number of ALR shirts at Dixon's was amazing.
Here are some of the shots I took.
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Second gun rack at the Chamber's Booth. Third gun down, a .32 Ten. rifle is no longer for sale and will be a flint when it arrives. ;D This rifle kept calling me back - although I wanted the William Moore 12 bore percussion pelter in Chuck Dixon's shop, it was this plain little beauty that finally 'caught' me.
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"Harry' dropped by at the pig BQ.
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ALR 'boys' out for supper and refreshemnts. Sorry, I don't have nor can remember the names that attach to the ALR shirts. - happens when I abibe - and when I don't.
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Nicholas Hawke's Gun shop- I recognise Frank house only.
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Tools on display in the gun shop. I suspect they are original to N. H./ gun shop..
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Taylor with his Kuntz. Too bad the judges didn't know about the Kuntz rifle Taylor copied. Many of it's most notable features are not typical for a Lehigh Gun and it was marked according to this lack of knowledge. We were all rather shocked at their judging - such is life.
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Daryl, congrats on the 32 Tenn. I looked at that rifle and to me it was the nicest rifle on Jim's racks, great looking, sweet rifle, hope it shoots as well as it looks.
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Too bad the judges didn't know about the Kuntz rifle Taylor copied. Many of it's most notable features are not typical for a Lehigh Gun and it was marked according to this lack of knowledge. We were all rather shocked at their judging -
What exactly did the judges have to say??
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I've just gone through my photos of Dixon's, and though I have some images of guns, most are of people. The guns are simply the glue that binds us...it's a super adhesive for a super fellowship!!
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@!*%! I so wish I could have been there. :(
Alas, time, funds, and the requirement to keep clients satisfied (and thus continue making a living) precluded it this year. Maybe next year.
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UH OH...A. Martin drank so much only one eye works.....
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Oi... Harry Potter, I get it all the time, I don't understand it. Anyway, that was for a charmer who wanted to show her grandchildren who she'd met.
Taylor's gun is an outstanding piece of craftsmanship and study. His gun was spot on for a Kuntz, a pleasure to handle (and I hear it's a tack driver).
-Eric
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I want to thank all who were there for their generous hospitality and friendship shown to Taylor and I. I was like a kid in a candy store for the first time - what a great experience - loved it all. Eating with the 'crowd' was certainly a highlight & I treasure my time with you all.
Thankyou, Dennis and ALR for bringing us together. What a treat!
Tom - you are a hoot!
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Daryl....I too enjoyed meeting you. As Steve Martin used to say, "you are one wild and crazy guy". It got to the point
where I didn't know if I wanted to shake hands with you anymore, that's a big paw you got there. Now I can see why
you and Taylor talk about shooting all of these tight patch/ball combinations, and saying they are easy to load.....yeah,
easy for you to say, but what about us "normal" sized people? Anyway, it was a real enjoyable weekend, and was a
pleasure meeting you, and good to see Taylor again......hope you guys can do the trip again. Maybe next year you could
wear shorts, buy T-shirts that say "I love my daddy" and come along as Dancey's kids...........Don
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You are right, of course Don - one must use 'sufficient' force to load a descent combination. It was indeed a pleasure to meet you and get to know you and John, if for a brief moment in time.
Here's some more shots taken at Dixon's and at the hog BQ.
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Some more tooling at the N.Hawk Shop. Boring, Reaming & rifling rods.
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shop interior- a small shop for sure, but one Don said "I could build rifles in that shop". had a most pleasant sit down and chat with Don on the bench outside the shop. What fabulous 'grounds' for the 'event'. Terrific hosts, all. Horners are terrific people for sure and made us feel most welcome.
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Guest of Honor at the BQ
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John Getz praying for more beer! Dave Rase's not so ssssssuuuuurrrre.
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Geez,Dave!
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Ah, he's sober as a Judge! He's just day dreaming about the guns he's going to build with all the parts he bought at Dixon's this year. ;)
Course, if his missus gets hold of his credit card receipts he'll lose that dreamy look in a rush ..... :D
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Was just going through some stuff that came up when I googled my gmail account. In case any of you blokes haven't been to Dixon's THIS is SOME of
our experiences there. I see it was 2009 - 10 years ago - WOW. Me thinks we have to make arrangements to do this again, Taylor.
We surely miss those not with us any more, but relish in seeing their smiling faces, and reminisce once again, remembering Don Getz and Roger Fisher.
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The photobucket pictures at all blurry and can not be opened.
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the thread was started in 2009
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the thread was started in 2009
Way to throw a wet blanket on a thread.... ;)
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The photobucket pictures at all blurry and can not be opened.
Download the pics. They download at full resolution.
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The photobucket pictures at all blurry and can not be opened.
Download the pics. They download at full resolution.
I can not download them. Maybe they are from before the Photobucket greed fest? At an rate, it is better to add photo to the post as instructed at the top of the page.
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the thread was started in 2009
Your point?
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The photobucket pictures at all blurry and can not be opened.
Download the pics. They download at full resolution.
I can not download them. Maybe they are from before the Photobucket greed fest? At an rate, it is better to add photo to the post as instructed at the top of the page.
What do you see if you click on the pictures? when I click on them, they enlarge and become clearer.
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the thread was started in 2009
Your point?
Even Don Getz came back from the grave to comment....
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I spent perhaps close to 1 1/2 hours, talking with Don on the bench outside NHawke's gun shop. I snapped the picture
of Mel. Hankla and Frank House, from close to that bench.
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the thread was started in 2009
Way to throw a wet blanket on a thread.... ;)
just want to be like Mike....
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the thread was started in 2009
Your point?
it's 10 years old
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...but it does seem like yesterday. For folks like Daryl, Brian, Cody and I, here in the longrifle desert, doing to Dixons was a life changing event. Among my fond memories: meeting Joe and Carolyn Flemish, Ron Gabler, numerous fine contributors to ALR including Roger Fisher, Don Getz, Allen Marin, Mark Weder, John Getz, Frank House, Mel Hankela, Eric Von Auschwege and his dad, John, Rich and Susan, Ed, Tom Curran and his kids, The Chambers family, Don Stith, Mark Wheland, Art DeCamp, Bill Shipman, a host of vendors from whom I purchased gobs of stuff, David Price, the Dixons, Jason Schneider, and dozens more.
I remember Brian Dancey laying on his bed in his gonch and T shirt in the Hampton, with the air conditioner throwing snow on us to keep us at decent temperature, going through the stuff he had purchased, and saying, " My mind is porridge!" Drinking GOOD American beer, eating steaks that overflowed the plate, watching my brother melt like an ice cream cone from the humidity and heat, and so much more.