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Dead Clown Tools

So I'm driving along the backroads near where I live, and I approach this particular place where a family of clowns used to live. (Yeah, that's what I said, a family of clowns.) They were once a staple of every area parade and festival around these parts. Their clown car was always parked out along the side of the house, and it always made me smile when I drove past. (presumably they had another 'regular' car for their ordinary comings and goings.)

. . . anyway, I'm just thinkin' to myself that I hadn't seen hide nor hair of these clowns in the longest time - when I notice some rusty ancient old tools that have been hauled out to the road with a 'FREE' sign taped on 'em.

Well never one to pass up free tools, I snatch 'em up and haul 'em home . . . and I'll be damned if they're not just the items I need to finish up my makeshift cbg workshop .

I scored this primeval scroll saw:

AND LOoK AT THIS MUTHA . . .

It's a homemade, cobbled together, clown-hacked drill press. I LOVE IT.

(The drill motor didn't come with it, and doesn't quite fit in the mount. I just sat it there to give an idea of how it would work.)

Anybody else got any scarfed freebie tools to showoff?

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Permalink Reply by RL Mott on July 18, 2009 at 6:25am

Guitar builders have a fascination with clowns ......
Here's a pic of Orville Gibson (really) ....

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Permalink Reply by William Bannier on July 18, 2009 at 7:40am

Orville was a different cat all the way around.

RL Mott said:

Guitar builders have a fascination with clowns ......
Here's a pic of Orville Gibson (really) ....

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on July 18, 2009 at 10:28am

Of course if it hadn't been for him and his brother Wilbur, we would never have the Flying V.

William Bannier said:

Orville was a different cat all the way around.

RL Mott said:
Guitar builders have a fascination with clowns ......
Here's a pic of Orville Gibson (really) ....

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Permalink Reply by RL Mott on July 19, 2009 at 8:15am

Knotlenny said: Of course if it hadn't been for him and his brother Wilbur, we would never have the Flying V.
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Yeah that collar mighta inspired it .... I'm wonderin' of Orville just got back or was on the way to a Cinco De Mayo gig in that sombrero ....

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on July 20, 2009 at 2:06am

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on July 20, 2009 at 5:38am

Hehehehe

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on September 9, 2010 at 7:21am

I jus realised that there may be a whole generation of new CBG builders who missed this thread - essential reading if you ask me

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on September 9, 2010 at 9:17am

This is the most hilarious thread in some time.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin Sprague (Knotlenny) on September 9, 2010 at 2:08pm

CBG action news update: Dead Clowns . . . still dead. Film at Eleven.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Stephen Eklund on September 9, 2010 at 2:53pm

have to agree with Dave Alexander. Totally dig the tittle of this thread. I have dead clowns in my attic. Part of a Halloween display I used to put up every year. A big graveyard that trick or treaters would walk threw.

They are all paper mache and hand made.