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    Pride cometh before disaster

    Any turkey hunters out there? Yesterday I was turning a turkey trumpet. I have made lots of them for friends. But this one was going to be special. I was making it out of Mopani as it has a good tone. It was coming out beautifully, but there was one little place that I was going to make better. Should have left well enough alone. I just wanted it to be perfect. As soon as I touched it with the tool it disintegrated. Pride certainly does come before the fall. I’ll start again Monday and see if I have learned anything.
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    Pride cometh8

    Don’t know where all the extra words in the title come from.'io

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    I find my moderator skills are a little rusty - is that any better?
    Oh - just thought - do you want 'pride cometh before a fall?'

    I had a Primitive Methodist grandmother - we lived with her when I was very young and from time I find I know rather more biblical quotations than I realise...

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    Quote Originally Posted by stickman View Post
    Any turkey hunters out there? Yesterday I was turning a turkey trumpet. I have made lots of them for friends. But this one was going to be special. I was making it out of Mopani as it has a good tone. It was coming out beautifully, but there was one little place that I was going to make better. Should have left well enough alone. I just wanted it to be perfect. As soon as I touched it with the tool it disintegrated. Pride certainly does come before the fall. I’ll start again Monday and see if I have learned anything.
    Is a trumpet the same call as a yelper? I have a plastic one from primos is so.

    I’ve seen some pretty amazing yelpers made from actual turkey bone.
    Descendant of the Gillises and MacDonalds of North Morar.

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    Yes, much the same thing. Gave one to a friend from church last year. He told me he made one call on it and the Tom came straight to him. I also used to make slate calls.

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    Quote Originally Posted by stickman View Post

    I should have left well enough alone. I just wanted it to be perfect. As soon as I touched it with the tool it disintegrated.
    "Don't allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good."
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post

    I had a Primitive Methodist grandmother - we lived with her when I was very young and from time I find I know rather more biblical quotations than I realise...
    My Methodist grandmother came to live with us when she got older, her family were all Methodist miners from Cornwall. There are only two species of humans where I'm from, Methodists and Baptists, and our tiny town had one tiny church for each. About Primitive Methodist I don't know, they're whatever sort of Methodists the Victorian Cornish miners were, no alcohol, no swearing, no card-playing, modest in dress.

    Abraham Lincoln quoted the Bible often.

    Being shown a modernist painting, and asked for his opinion, Lincoln said

    The painting is a good painting and the artist is a good artist, for he follows the commandment: You shall not make any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    OC, I am sure since you have Cornish miners in your family you must have enjoyed many pasties. You got me thinking of them, haven’t made any in a long time. Might just make some soon.

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    Methodists and Baptists

    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    There are only two species of humans where I'm from, Methodists and Baptists, and our tiny town had one tiny church for each. [/I]
    I am reminded of a quote from the film; A River Runs Through It.

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