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Good idea, but no sir. The oldest dated stone in Jamestown is like the 1680s or 90s. Not a lot of native stone worth carving. Across the River at Westover Plantation some date back to 1650s but haven’t weathered very well at all.

No we don’t I’m sorry to say! Try regency revisited

No we don’t. Try regency revisited

Low water absorption rates and longevity proven over the centuries

Great!

No sir. Trade secrets!

Nobody is dying to know but some are interested. Maybe not you, but 6,800 people have been interested. That’s enough to justify the video methinks.

I whittle my own kalamos from River cane. I use Higgins eternal black ink, but tried to make my own with carbon soot and gum Arabic with mixed results

Glad it was helpful!

You can do it brother! I find it very relaxing and rewarding. It also makes me slow down and consider what I am reading and writing. The Lord be glorified!

Became a stone carver out if necessity. Had a lot of kin folks with no grave stone! Lamson family carved skates from Charlestown Mass. While restoring gravestones please do not scrub or abrade them ever. Spray D2 and walk away

I am familiar with it. My 6th G Grandfather Benjamin Merrill was a member of that very church! Great stones aren’t they! Thanks

If you are related to Cotton Mather you have an amazing heritage to be very thankful for. Have you read any of his books or sermons?

@@pumpkintown Just stuff about the witch trials, and when Benjamin Franklin wrote about him in the Silence Dogood letters!

Glad you enjoyed it! Miss you both!

That’s clever! I am folding these from historical examples before the advent of modern postal processing machines. When I mail these I slip them into bubble mailer envelopes

Thank you kindly

Very helpful thank you

Greetings! Thank you!

Glad it was helpful! Thank you!

Thank you kindly!

Consider me interested brother!

You certainly could. The bigger the mirror the bigger the area on the stone it will light up though. Flashlights not so good unless after dark in which case you shouldn’t be in a cemetery after dark unless you are allowed to. Great question! Thx

May the Lord bless you as well

Indeed. This is our first setup as described. We all start somewhere. That is something I am working on next Lords willing. Getting the car on the road was my biggest challenge! Thanks Steve

Yes sir all that glitters isn’t gold is right! Thank you for the kind comments

Thank you! First real time out in the car after a 3 year restoration. It still has a long way to go but starting to be functional is a blessing of the Lord!

@@pumpkintown My father's first car was a Model A. He was 14 years old and paid $50 for it. That was in 1950. He loved that car.

Amen! Thanks for watching brother. Still lots if work to do on the model a but at least now I am getting miles on it to God be all the Glory

A 28 would be fun to own. I love the look of the Coupes. Thanks brother

Thank you! I gave you a shout out too on the video at the end! Thank you for all you do to promote our hobby brother

You are so welcome

Yours too brother

@@pumpkintown thank you

Indeed it would!

Amen

300 for $14

@@pumpkintown okay

Amen

eBay of all places! Thanks for all your comments. The Lord be magnified!

@@pumpkintown you are welcome. amen

You are so kind thank you. I praise the Lord. It’s been a lot of work to get it to this point.

Thanks Matthew and thanks for watching brother

Thanks for the sub! Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for watching brother

Well said! Couldn’t agree more

My friend Jim Fairchild did a fantastic job on ours! Highly recommended!

@@pumpkintown I would think a lot of Model A guys at a car show would love to set this up. Thanks for the video.

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching

Many thanks brother!

Glad you enjoyed it!

I have used mine for over a year! Then they can be also resharpened also. Thanks!

What other videos would be of help to you?

@@pumpkintown I'm 68 years old. I grew up in the city of Atlanta and a typical Beaver Cleaver neighborhood in the 1950's and 60's. I often tell people I would not trade my childhood of that era for anything that kids have today. Even though we live in the neighborhood, some of the propertied boxed in land that a house could not be built on and those are the woods the children played in, explored and created. The standard way a boy dressed in the Summer months when they were out playing the South was bare belly, bare foot and cut off jeans. I was Tom Sawyer! I moved away from Atlanta for most of my adult life, but recently move back. I volunteer at the Atlanta Botanical Garden on a regular basis and get to meet thousands of people from all around the world that come to visit the garden. A few years ago I was doing my thing in the Children's Garden for Earth Week. They had set up several 15 gallon plastic bins that they grew carrots and radishes in so the kids could see how they grow and pick them. I was doing a Worm Bin. The tub had lose soil and hundreds of worms in it. The kids could dig through the soil and find a worm. I did that for two days, saw HUNDRES of kids - and not one of them had EVER seen a worm ! ! ! ! What's worse. After going through the Women's Rights movement of the 60's and 70's and inspiring women to stand up and fight for their rights, I'd say almost 80% of the girls would pick up a worm and giggle while it wiggled in their hand. Almost NONE of the boys would even touch it ! ! ! And I remember listening to public radio about 12 or 15 years ago and the interview was about the fact that they were going to stop teaching children cursive writing. I just smirked at the radio and said that will NEVER happen. I don't need to tell you how that played out. And they are already realizing the great mistake that was. The brain reacts, evolves and develops when you have a thought, the signal goes down the arm, into the hand and to the pen, then paper. When I was in high school and college, when I studied and wanted to remember certain facts, I didn't just read it, I wrote them down and it embedded in my mind. YOU DON'T GET THAT FROM KEYBOARDING ! ! ! The point of all of that is that we have been moving away from all aspects of our HUMANITY at an accelerating speed for many decades. The GREAT SERVICE THAT YOU ARE DOING with this podcast is showing people how to RECONNECT ! ! ! And I must be clear too, I appreciate many of our modern conveniences. I love being able to go to the bathroom indoors and flush a toilet. I LOVE being able to have a cool home in the Summer. I'm in a wheelchair now and love that I have a motor I can clip onto my axel and zoom all over the city. We've made many missteps and had to make course corrections. The gasoline engine in tractors and plowing up thousands of acres of "Prairie Grasses" that had adapted to droughts with their 24" deep root systems. They plowed all that up and triggered the "Dust Bowl" in the 1930's and 40's. I heard a recording of a Franklin D. Roosevelt speech where he said "This isn't the wrath of God, this isn't the Locust coming, we did this - and we can fix it!" Now we've done it again and call it Climate Change. I could go on for hours on that alone. Here is the REALLY scary thing about that.... I have not found a person in their 20's and younger that know what the Dust Bowl is ! ! ! We don't teach our history anymore ! ! ! If we know where we came from, we know not to go down that path and find the better path. Same with a scientist that discovered massive lead contamination on a global scale. His discovery was an accident, he was trying to carbon date a meteorite and kept getting lead contamination. That discovery evolved into having to switch to "unleaded" gasoline. NOW we have "Micro Plastic" contamination on a global scale. "If you don't know your history, you are doomed to repeat it." And again - I love "spell check". But I own books I hold in my hand when reading them. I LOVE that I was able to see your podcast on my computer in my living room. We just have to find a balance. I believe what you do is a reminder of where we came from and there are parts we need to cling to to preserve our humanity. Some may call what you do as entertaining. And I somewhat agree with that. BUT I believe what you are doing is a critical component to our survival as a human race. I've taken this on as my mission at this stage of my life to try and reconnect people - mainly the KIDS. My generation screwed up a lot of things and it's not fair to just dump the mess in the kids laps. I have a favorite saying. "We didn't inherit the earth from our parents, we borrowed it from our children." So - I'm sure you didn't expect a reply like this one. What do you think? I want to figure out some way to connect you and your podcast to kids. Since I've seen this video, I've looked at many others. A great author from the 1940's, James Baldwin, said "Children will seldom do what we tell them to, but they will always mimic us." I'd love to see kids experience the joy in exploring and learning how to mimic you.

My wife can read my 18th century inspired handwriting but it has taken 18 years! She still has a hard time at times. Thank you for your kind words

Craig great questions! Believe it or not slate stones in New England from the 1650s are as crisp and sharp as the day they were carved! Yea it is an extremely durable material otherwise I wouldnt carve with it. Secondly many of who do this full time are on a one to 3 year backlog as their aren’t enough of us out there to meet the demand. So yes! Preorder or leave in your will what exactly you would like. That way you get the last word! lol