At the 2012 Colt Collectors Association show, last month, the "Greatest Generation" Colt 1911 won the Howard Dove award, and also ...

Hellooo, sorry for not blogging more... I'm back and forth between two computers, with no photo/website software on one and tempermenta...

This was from a few days ago. This is the last WIP pic that you will see. It's soooo close to done right now (right now being much far...

The end is in sight! I say that not out of relief, but just excitement. :-) I spent some time last night figuring out what to do with the ...

This was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I'm having software problems up the wazoo. I recently bought a brand new shiny iMac (yes ...

Okay, the planes are done! (unless I need to tweak something... always a possibility). I more or less know what I'm doing with the bac...

Oh boy, I've been so caught up in shooting more video footage that I nearly forgot to take some photographs! I've started on the oth...

FINALLY! I've been trying to upload this thing for days! It was too big and wouldn't upload properly, so I had to make it a bit sh...

This is the first "layer" of dots making up the cloud formations. I will be working back into it and deepening the shadows and re...

Ooookay, let's see if I can get back on track with blogging and scrimshawing and everything else. When I was a kid I had a toy airplane ...

Okay, oh my goodness, December is a really busy month. No, I'm not getting much scrimshaw done lately, I'm afraid I just have 43509...

Okay, this is the beginnings of part two of the Greatest Generation project, a very large knife. Here's a pic I posted months ago befor...

Woo hoo, the grips are done! I am really, really, really thrilled by how these turned out. This is a tremendous project to be involved in ...

Oooooohhhh my goodness this takes a long time. It is my own fault that I fell behind, so I'm working very hard to catch up. 12 hour da...

If you are not familiar with the size of a Colt 1911 grip, here's my hand for scale. And yes, those are my pajamas. ;-) And no, these...

Not the prettiest stopping point tonight, but my wrist says "time to stop!!!" and one does not ignore one's wrist when it says...