GP Series by VapourArt - Official Thread for GP Spheroid, GP PAPS, X, GP Piccolo, GP SnP and more - Part 2
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So I think I had the best idea ever!(probably not the first to have it)
Since I have 2 paps x1.5, I like running 18650 I put one of them with two half size extension tubes, so if I forget spare 18650s I can use what ever 18xxx that I have.
Since I have 2 paps x1.5, I like running 18650 I put one of them with two half size extension tubes, so if I forget spare 18650s I can use what ever 18xxx that I have.
See. I had two. I was cleaning one last night and some "gifter" took it back. Hasn't been seen since.
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That sucks, I decided to get a second SS because I didn't like the lux ring on the Ti... If it would have been all Ti I would have been all over it!
it would have sucked. But the funny thing is that Jojo was the gifter. And she loves the X. 
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I feel a story coming on......
A while back the topic of other passions came up. This post brings up three of mine. Talking long walks at night - the ADC I did on our properties/for other landowners and the animal calls I made for doing all from about 1955.
Part of the enjoyment I get taking walks during the wee hours of the night is the night sounds of nature. In the city when around the neighborhood, and when I drive out on the desert to walk. Depends on the time of the season, but I hear things like crickets, a katydid, sometimes cicadas, the nocturnal catterpillars that munch on tough/dry plants like scrub oak or salt brush, larger beetles, moths and bats flying by, the sharp call of a night hawk, a soulful mourning dove, an alarm call from a quail at roost that I disturbed, an occasional owl, unseen creatures digging for dinner or surrying through dry plants, a jack or cottontail I jumped out if it's form, a grey fox yapping at me, a bobcat on the prowl, coyotes - the singers of the night vocalizing and now and then the warning that I've wandered into a rattlesnake.
I did ADC and made animal calls for it from when I was just knee high to a grasshopper until 8-9 years ago, not as a business, as a passion to help landowners save livestock from predators and crops from those varmints that feed on them. So on my walks I usually take one of my calls along to "talk" back to the coyotes and fox with, or try to lure a bobcat to come back in to me. If there are any dogs around in the city that usually gets them going too though, so the most fun/longest sessions are when I am out on the desert. Unfortunately there are also some of the sounds of a city that never sleeps, but usually far off when on the desert.
While my first calls as a lad where just blades of rushes or leaves tight between my thumbs, I soon carved simple bite calls with my jackknife and bound them with mule deer sinew.
I made and scrimed this antler howler around a deer camp fire almost 50 years ago with my grandfathers jackknife that he gave me before he died some years before. It's made from a tine off the big muley buck I shot that year with his Win 94 that I still have. I still have his knife too, my son has the howler.
Some of the enclosed reed calls I made about 10-12 years ago.
I feel a story coming on......
A while back the topic of other passions came up. This post brings up three of mine. Talking long walks at night - the ADC I did on our properties/for other landowners and the animal calls I made for doing all from about 1955.
Part of the enjoyment I get taking walks during the wee hours of the night is the night sounds of nature. In the city when around the neighborhood, and when I drive out on the desert to walk. Depends on the time of the season, but I hear things like crickets, a katydid, sometimes cicadas, the nocturnal catterpillars that munch on tough/dry plants like scrub oak or salt brush, larger beetles, moths and bats flying by, the sharp call of a night hawk, a soulful mourning dove, an alarm call from a quail at roost that I disturbed, an occasional owl, unseen creatures digging for dinner or surrying through dry plants, a jack or cottontail I jumped out if it's form, a grey fox yapping at me, a bobcat on the prowl, coyotes - the singers of the night vocalizing and now and then the warning that I've wandered into a rattlesnake.
I did ADC and made animal calls for it from when I was just knee high to a grasshopper until 8-9 years ago, not as a business, as a passion to help landowners save livestock from predators and crops from those varmints that feed on them. So on my walks I usually take one of my calls along to "talk" back to the coyotes and fox with, or try to lure a bobcat to come back in to me. If there are any dogs around in the city that usually gets them going too though, so the most fun/longest sessions are when I am out on the desert. Unfortunately there are also some of the sounds of a city that never sleeps, but usually far off when on the desert.
While my first calls as a lad where just blades of rushes or leaves tight between my thumbs, I soon carved simple bite calls with my jackknife and bound them with mule deer sinew.
I made and scrimed this antler howler around a deer camp fire almost 50 years ago with my grandfathers jackknife that he gave me before he died some years before. It's made from a tine off the big muley buck I shot that year with his Win 94 that I still have. I still have his knife too, my son has the howler.
Some of the enclosed reed calls I made about 10-12 years ago.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! Very interesting.. I like you..
Very cool, Spydro!!
It's fascinating that you know how to mimic an animal's sounds and acoustic characteristics just by carving out a piece of wood (excuse my ignorance for the art...I am sure MUCH more goes into it than that!!)
Pretty amazing indeed...
It's fascinating that you know how to mimic an animal's sounds and acoustic characteristics just by carving out a piece of wood (excuse my ignorance for the art...I am sure MUCH more goes into it than that!!)
Pretty amazing indeed...
Those are beautiful..... Ive always been fascinated by animal calls , especially bird calls. My very limited ability is with Crows/ Ravens ( can figure out the difference ) We have tons of them in the area and they gather in the early morning and early evening.
I love them , they are so entertaining and I think beautiful birds. One of my secret wishes is to either befriend one or find a baby and raise it semi wild. I cant see keeping a free one in a cage unless it was injured and not make it in the wild.
They are related to the Minah birds and are very intelligent and have a great capacity in mimicking voices and sounds.
I love them , they are so entertaining and I think beautiful birds. One of my secret wishes is to either befriend one or find a baby and raise it semi wild. I cant see keeping a free one in a cage unless it was injured and not make it in the wild.
They are related to the Minah birds and are very intelligent and have a great capacity in mimicking voices and sounds.
I feel a story coming on......
A while back the topic of other passions came up. This post brings up three of mine. Talking long walks at night - the ADC I did on our properties/for other landowners and the animal calls I made for doing all from about 1955.
Part of the enjoyment I get taking walks during the wee hours of the night is the night sounds of nature. In the city when around the neighborhood, and when I drive out on the desert to walk. Depends on the time of the season, but I hear things like crickets, a katydid, sometimes cicadas, the nocturnal catterpillars that munch on tough/dry plants like scrub oak or salt brush, larger beetles, moths and bats flying by, the sharp call of a night hawk, a soulful mourning dove, an alarm call from a quail at roost that I disturbed, an occasional owl, unseen creatures digging for dinner or surrying through dry plants, a jack or cottontail I jumped out if it's form, a grey fox yapping at me, a bobcat on the prowl, coyotes - the singers of the night vocalizing and now and then the warning that I've wandered into a rattlesnake.
I did ADC and made animal calls for it from when I was just knee high to a grasshopper until 8-9 years ago, not as a business, as a passion to help landowners save livestock from predators and crops from those varmints that feed on them. So on my walks I usually take one of my calls along to "talk" back to the coyotes and fox with, or try to lure a bobcat to come back in to me. If there are any dogs around in the city that usually gets them going too though, so the most fun/longest sessions are when I am out on the desert. Unfortunately there are also some of the sounds of a city that never sleeps, but usually far off when on the desert.
While my first calls as a lad where just blades of rushes or leaves tight between my thumbs, I soon carved simple bite calls with my jackknife and bound them with mule deer sinew.
I made and scrimed this antler howler around a deer camp fire almost 50 years ago with my grandfathers jackknife that he gave me before he died some years before. It's made from a tine off the big muley buck I shot that year with his Win 94 that I still have. I still have his knife too, my son has the howler.
Some of the enclosed reed calls I made about 10-12 years ago.
PRICELESS!! thanks for sharing that!!
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! Very interesting.. I like you..
Thanks girl, I like you too.
Very cool, Spydro!!
It's fascinating that you know how to mimic an animal's sounds and acoustic characteristics just by carving out a piece of wood (excuse my ignorance for the art...I am sure MUCH more goes into it than that!!)
Pretty amazing indeed...
Thanks. I grew up in the outdoors, spent most of my life in it, often in the back country. So when you hear the predator and prey sounds all your life you know what to mimic, and you learn what they mean. So when you also make calls most of it too you learn what you have to "build" into the calls to duplicate those sounds. Since the resonance of woods worldwide varies greatly by family, grade and even habitat they grow in, I had to learn by trial and error what the sound chambers for each wood species had to be, and how to make/tune reeds that worked with those chambers for true to life sounds. For the latter decades I made all of my calls out of exhibition grade woods from around the world. I traveled to harvest them myself, had sawyer friends in many countries that I got others from direct and imported. Still have a lot of wood.
Chris,
what's up my brother?
I was waiting for some sassiness today...
you feeling okay?
what's up my brother?
I was waiting for some sassiness today...
you feeling okay?
Spydro, thank you; a fascinating insight into a world I know nothing at all about. I found that really interesting. In my ignorance I will have to look up some of the references/words & creatures, which I shall enjoy doing. Great post, thank you.
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