{"id":161,"date":"2013-02-05T22:42:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T03:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westerntrailrider.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2013-02-05T22:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T03:42:03","slug":"just-ruminatin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westerntrailrider.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/02\/just-ruminatin\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Ruminatin’"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\r\n\t

Had a bit of a lazy day today. It was cold outside and not conducive to going out and getting anything done. \u00a0Or maybe I was just lazy. \u00a0I finally got up the gumption to go out to the workshop and piddle around. \u00a0I lit a good fire in my Virginian iron stove and looked around for something I could accomplish with not too much effort. \u00a0Funny how just accomplishing something\u2026anything\u2026can make you feel pretty good. \u00a0So, when I\u2019m like this I just look for some little thing I can get done. \u00a0Sometimes it leads me to get something else done, and before you know it I\u2019ve ruined a perfectly good lazy day and gotten some work done.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, there I was in my shop, when I spied the farrier\u2019s hoof stand I welded up last week. \u00a0Needed paint. \u00a0Well, it was too cold to paint.<\/p>\n

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Better wait until it\u2019s warmer\u2026maybe April, or May.<\/p>\n

Aw, hell. \u00a0I\u2019ll just set it on the stove and let it get warmed up, and then I\u2019ll paint it.<\/p>\n

So it began. \u00a0I warmed up the stand, then warmed up a can of Rustoleum primer and a can of paint, and painted my hoof stand. \u00a0I left it sitting by the stove to dry. \u00a0Looks pretty good. \u00a0It\u2019ll make folks think I know what I\u2019m doing while I trim my horses\u2019 hooves.<\/p>\n

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Then I picked up a rifle and revolver that I had fun shooting a few times on New Year\u2019s Day, and spent a few pleasant minutes cleaning them. It was kind of\u2026I don\u2019t know, meaningful in some way, I guess, that the rifle was a new, modern Ruger Model 77 in .17HMR, and the revolver was a copy of an old 1873 Colt .45 in a cowboy holster I made myself. \u00a0The old and the new. There\u2019s probably some great, very impressive word, with deep meaning for that… but I can\u2019t think of it.<\/p>\n

So, what next? Well, there\u2019s that block of wood I glued up last week for a pony saddle cantle. It needs to be cut out and carved to shape. \u00a0I guess I can do that.<\/p>\n

So I put it on the workbench and marked out the pattern. \u00a0Then I carried it over to the band saw and eyeballed, checked, rechecked, then checked again, to make sure I had the angles right, then told myself, \u201cWhat the heck? If I screw it up, I\u2019ll just glue up another one!\u201d<\/p>\n

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So, to cutting I went. \u00a0It actually turned out pretty well. \u00a0Sanded off the rough edges on the belt sander I have mounted upside-down on my workbench, and it looks pretty good. \u00a0Now I need to carve out the concavity of the seat with an angle grinder with a carbide carving blade\u2026which I don\u2019t have. I\u2019ll have to pick one up tomorrow.<\/p>\n

So, what next? \u00a0Hmmm. \u00a0Yep,\u00a0there\u2019s the cantle for the old \u201ccactus saddle\u201d, the Visalia I showed in my previous post. I still need to glue up the Poplar pieces for that.<\/p>\n

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Visalia cantle glued up<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

There we go. All clamped up and curing. It will be ready to cut and carve tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I was so satisfied with myself that I sat in my soft chair by the warm stove, made an entry in my personal journal, and had a bite of chocolate.<\/p>\n

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Nice day. Time for dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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