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Most of you know me as the pigeonwatch muppet...something akin to the village idiot.......i like making stuff...and in particular i like doing it for other people...i dont charge...i just like my materials costs covered......... i first got this hankering in africa (when i lived there)...my mate Olaf who worked for DANIDA..(govt aid org')...imported his hunting rifle and stuff for his hunting in the Selous...he came to me in tears one thursday afternoon saying his shooting had to be cancelled...because when he assembled his rifle...they hadnt sent the scope mounts with the gun and ammo and scope....... i had a well stocked workshop...so inbetween his sobbing..(the Danish are quite emotional)...i had a think and said leave yer gun and scope withy me and i will have a go at making a scope mount.... anyway to cut a long story short i made a couple of scope mounts out of soft steel stock...and blacked them in old engine oil....and to be quite arrogant i made a fair dinkum job of them.....the look on Olafs face was payment...and he started to sob again... so thats how i started making stuff......i do it for my own pleasure as i know how nice it is recieving stuff...it really gives me a nice fuzzy feeling so now the embarasing bit...........DEAD EYE ALAN......hope you are listening.......old farriers knife was rebuilt with some of the loverly wood off cuts alan has sent me...they are really nice bits an all....its really nice to recieve them....so i built him a knife as you know.......now for some reason he likes it...cause 20 mins ago there is a bang on the door.............................. .....................a full crate of nice New Zealand red wine...totally unasked for but gratefully recieved........and whats more he isnt the only one to have done this.......this has happened several times from my electronic friends i am truly blessed to have people like that on the end of my keyboard.............. have a nice day

i would just like to thank alan and his helpers for an excelent day at this event as always. pity about the wheather. many thanks again.