@[email protected] I understand how it’s created and all, but the fine ash pieces have an attraction to me well beyond the simple physics involved… I especially like when the stuff build up around my anvil. I have no idea why, but I do! :)

@[email protected] 😂 Or maybe coughPEBKACcough… But seriously, I did get a lot of compliments on my audio with that mic. Much more so than my headphones with the slightly-tweaked “DX/pileup” element.

@[email protected] Haha, makes sense! Now I’ll think of that whenever I see your avatar… I like that my Heil headphone are mostly very long straight cord, but then there’s one coiled section that just about a foot long as insurance vs. stretching, but it’s not long enough to have the usual coil drawbacks.

@[email protected] I used a boom mic when I was recording voice overs etc. for training videos when I worked at Apple. They do also take up less space on your desktop… I think the audio is actually a little better from the speaker on my radio than on the Heil Pro-7 headset, but the headset has other options and my wife doesn’t complain about me cranking up the volume to try to hear a low voice among the noise on SSB. 😂

@[email protected] It’s been both. Most recently I’ve not been using it in lieu of using headphones, so my wife doesn’t have to hear the radio blasting at times. 😂 I also don’t have a lot of room in front of my radio on the desk, I recently shifted some things to make more space, so it may make a return to regular use, which I’d like.

@[email protected] Good word, you should patent that. :)

@John @archaeology Approximately, or perhaps “coincidentally.” :) Whichever was more fitting. Although I too strongly suspect the former.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Ah, the link was fixed… 1m is long, but not so unusual with the hilt and pommel included. Although it originally would have weighed a bit more, t’s still quite light, likely due to distal taper.

@[email protected] I’ll be very interested to read about the authentication of this piece… But sadly your link points to an altogether different article.

@Star12Mt The colors are quite mesmerizing! I can’t take too many close-up photos though or my iPhone (or the case at least) starts to heat up and will want to melt if it is too close. 😅 At least I can stare at the photos I do get.

@[email protected] That’s optimal.

@[email protected] Ha, as long as nothing flew off in a random direction I’d count that as a win!

@[email protected] At the time I was converting the screws to have 1/4" square heads IIRC, so they would match and be used with a couple of other pieces I had made. Also they got a black finish.

@[email protected] Love those, and any book store that has a lot of old pulp sci-fi!

@[email protected] Very much so, thanks!

@[email protected] Dutch & Germans have a lot of good sausages!

@[email protected] Yeah just a gravy/sauce under the rolls, no naan or other bread or anything.

@[email protected] I think what you are saying is naan is the nice gravy under the rolls?

@[email protected] Thanks!

@[email protected] Funny to see the mention of Helen Geake, who we were just watching on TV last night.