I think JB is going to make the publishing a New Years present to us all!  (I hope...)

GreenGiant already said exactly what I wanted to say, so I'll second his statement.

God is still our only hope. He always has been, but it's becoming more obvious by the day.

I have a good feeling that there could be a publish date...

But what do I know?

I'm excited to see the commercial success of the book. I believe it will do well.

Here's to 2019!!!

Aye!  Here's to the commercial success and bags o' filthy Lucre to DCB in 2019!

@stimpsonjcat Stimpy what's the ID of the pritchel hole on your anvil?

0.45"

I had a good day yesterday in the forge.

I turned a piece of 1045 and a piece of firewood...


Into a hammer.


It took me 3.5 hours.

Making the tools to make tools. Awesome.

What is the thread's purpose in the weave?

So the Game is, Once Again, Afoot!  Over 4 years ago this thread started and today, the first post has been "EDITED FOR CONTENT JANUARY 01/2019-- Final text .re publication."

Dare we hope for publication this year?  I hope so since my hope springs Eternal.

Thanks DCB and Happy New Year to you, may we have a Blessed and Quiet one.  (I can hope right?)

And the anticipation mounts (even more)....

Happy New Year, fellow Librarians.

GENERAL NOTE:

--reading comments, catching up, very very good to see so many still here.

--STJ the hammer is freaking AWESOME!!!

--text has been done for "quite awhile" although tinkering occurs--pretty much everyday--

--publication (understanding I should/do/must have zero credibility on any schedule) is imminent--

--I am pulling text from this/any forums to meet EPUB TOS all of which require "no more than" 10 percent
of text available on public forums/free--this takes awhile--

--there will be a 'master' document of 'original'/as posted text--for forensic review for those who want/maybe/someday--

--bunch of stuff how/when/why on publication will be in blog/someday--many many many issues--The Big River--life stuff--
and dominant: I am not a writer in any way shape form, geography lifestyle habits other relationships etc.---
--so, many many obstacles.  But--it is done.

--Ok, will read comments here after many many months--very freaking cool--pull text--publish--continue.

True joy to see continuing momentum here.

DCB

--STJ--"thread/s purpose in the weave"--catching up here--your hammer/knife/etc.--
very very important on many levels--wait til publication--the Gentleman's Bowie
is heavily featured/described as made/delivered--important family symbology, etc.

--STJ and:

GENERAL NOTE:

This is adjusted/new/as published text .re STJ/s knife in particular and future knives in general:

You wanted a war, Sylvia.

And that is one of our many talents.

Here, at Gehr and Sohne Waffenfabrik and Design.

You wanted a war, Sylvia?

Let's have one.

Billy studied the objects arranged on his grandfather's desk.  His grandfather would move and shift and illuminate with various lights any and all of the various artifacts from the extended Gehr Waffen libraries: his grandfather's desk displays were a kind of Rorschach motif of all things Gehr.

Artifacts.

And values.

Next to a faceted Acheulean hand-axe were two knives.

The first knife was a bone-handled glass slick Bowie forged from a harrier's rasp.  Forged by a Gehr Waffen artist in North Carolina.  Generations back.  A previous century.  Billy tried to imagine the complexity of a Gher Waffen ancestor ordering, and shipping, a knife, from North Carolina to Texas, in 1842.  The date inscribed on the yellowed bone handle as well as the maker's name: Clearwater Forge.  The Clearwater knife had been modeled on a Musso Bowie, improved, modified, adapted.  A killing tool for a gentleman of the era.  A dress knife, that could split a man, from spine to pelvis.  Billy knew the knife had been used, at least once.

He wondered if it would ever be used, again.

The second knife was a Gehr Waffen modification of the Randall 14 Attack, blade at eight inches instead of seven and half, the spine at a measured one quarter of an inch.  A little heavy, then.  Gehr Waffen had modified a number of Randall 14's.  And finally made their own.  The black micarta handle had a single finger groove, was dished and scalloped for the grip of one man.  His father.  The dull black micarta handle had been drilled twice for tool steel bolts, and once under the palm for an embedded Roman denarius coin.  Denarius knives, his family called them.  Commemoratives, of two thousand years of history, a great personal triumph, and the collapse of an empire

Next to the modified Randall was a Tokarev pistol.  The common weapon of Russian officers and tank crews in World War Two, flat and crude and lethal, notable for its lack of a safety mechanism...

He lives!

--DesignatedMarksman!!!!  He who got the ball rolling on Injured, lo these many....weeks?  Was it weeks?  Ago?
Or maybe a month or two.....

Good to see you.

Glad to see that you didn't forget about this DCB.

Honored.

But possibly more terrified of the incoming IMs.

Cool beans, DCB.

A small suggestion of correction, if you please...

“harriers rasp” should be “farrier’s rasp”

God Bless!

Happy New Year, DCB. Still here and glad to see everything is falling into place.

--DFarm I think about this every hour of every day.  Totally bizarre to re-read how
optimistic I was 3-4 years ago about when/how to finish this.  Wow.

--STJ much much thanks for heads-up/correction, big deal, and....more hammers.
And eventually--knives.

--highstepper that is HUGE--I have been looking/not seeing "harrier/s" for over a year
now.  And some other errors--my super proof reader won't read this text--a problem.
Will be published regardless.

--Happy New Year MNM.  And thank you.

Sweet progress. Glad to see you posting again DC.

--ZOE17 very good to see you.  And I owe someone your domain a hard copy.
Will get done.

--and Piddler, you out there?

Happy to see “alleged” movement toward publishing...

As I posted I don’t know how long ago, I’m in for a copy the moment I’m aware it is available. Ebook and paper!

Lol, you remembered. My son is 10 and reading on a college sophomore level. One day maybe he will get to read it. I am ready to contribute for your efforts, digital or print.

+1

I can't wait to buy a copy, and the sequels too!

It's good to see you back DCB...

Glad to see you back DC

Outstanding! I checked in here just after Christmas, which led to me reading the entire thing, again. Probably the fifth or sixth time. Now, I’m taking down lines that really resonate.

I’ve got a Western W49 standing by to be engraved with:

A Life  without Fear. Just Purpose. Duty. And Truth.

--CPN/RON good to see you.  Actually have a place to sit and work at this (relatively) uninterrupted....wow.
And "alleged" works for me real good!

--ZOE/17 I remember distinctly.  Real close now.

--gungyr much thanks and hello!

--greyguy good to see you again--been awhile...just....day-um.

--coontrapper, awesome,--been reviewing your trapping posts.  So cool.  Head north, and west, CT--
figure you've figured that out by now.

--Vaquero--I remember the Case knife displays when I was a kid.  The big Case bowie/s were the first
"real" knife/tool I remember marking as "gotta get that" in my understanding of awesome tools/weapons.
Some one wiser than my young self recommended something a bit more portable: my first fixed blade
was a camillus pilot/s survival knife.  Beat the hell out of that blade....

Traditionally, we are a family of Buck 119’s for general use. Not fancy, but functional and will last. I used my Dad’s from my teen years until it was stolen in my thirties.

I anticipate passing on many knives and many copies of your work. Real value.

This has been the longest, most-frustrating tease of my life!

Yet,

I

keep

coming

back

!

^^ TRUTH!  However, it is the truth that keeps us coming back for more and waiting to support DCB's efforts when we are able to.

I haven't been posting as much as I used to but I still check in here a couple times a week to stay up to date.

--Vaquero I worked in a stable when I was a kid and Buck 119/s pretty much only
knife anyone used except for Case sod-busters.  Great value.

--Former11/B glad you stayed and a five year tease was sure not my intention.  Day-um....

--GreenGiant--yep day-um....

--greyguy good to see you....re-reading old posts as I delete text--can feel nostalgia for
moments of composition?  Yep....

I've been following this for a long time. I cannot wait for the opportunity to purchase it in it's entirety.

Yet wait, we must!  And wait as long as necessary, we will, in order that we can pass on a Mite from our Personal Hoard of Filthy Lucre to DCB for his Herculean Effort.

Keep on Truckin' DCB!

GENERAL NOTE: "old" meaning original posted text will be preserved/stored in master doc.
as record of....something.  Might be useful someday.  Multiple/overlapping/adjusted versions
of this text exist--but the "first original" posted text is a kind of record.

--Industry very good to see you and sorry this took so long.

--GreenGiant much thanks and where appropriate/possible: tell your friends!

GENERAL NOTE: pulling text is irrevocable step, nuff said at this time.

Not sure if it was discussed in here, but the pulling of text is something many other net authors got into when trying to take their book to the next step.

I remember stuff from a decade ago and sometimes go looking and can't find it.  Often it can be found on amazon in modified form.  And sometimes there are follow on books to the original as well.

Glad to see movement on this even if I dislike the steps required to get movement on things.

I remember reading a book once and realizing a certain chapter was a short story I had read years before.

Hackles rise.

Odd part was I still had the short stories compilation.

I think it was an Orson Scott Card book.

--biere good to see you and text removal is not optional: Ammmzzznn/other
spiders/automated net scan detects/finds duplicate text on websites/any and
all websites pretty much instantaneously and WILL DELETE/REMOVE published
work without warning, including all ranking and COMMENTS--

--GENERAL NOTE: the self-publishing environment has changed SEVERELY in
the last five years--none of it good.  At all.

--STJ yep understood and may you receive many zillions of IM/s .re bladed
implements soon soon soon--

Check in bump. Waiting for purchase day.

.

you ever read "the same axe twice"?

No.  Link?

Bump. A publish date is near (I hope)

Where have you been? The publish date has been imminent for something like the last last three years...

Waiting oh so patiently.  The end is near.......

When the end comes, we shall all!!  Until then, we shall,.

you can find it on Amazon

full title:

The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age

Thanks!

What if there is no book and most of the posters in here are just DCB retreads in order to mess with a few real posters and see how long he can drag this out?