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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?
. . . 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
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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
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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
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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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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 Roosterman on
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Hehehehe
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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
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This is the most hilarious thread in some time.
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CBG action news update: Dead Clowns . . . still dead. Film at Eleven.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Stephen Eklund on
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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.
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Permalink Reply by Penny Nelson on
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lmao.... I'm scared of clowns.... so for me dead clowns are a good thing..... Clowns with tools..... sorta like Cows with Guns.....
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'Cows with Guns'...
i frickin love it!
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