so because of the low melting point, the pewter liquifies when placed in the sand under plywood on the beach?

he should replace the plywood with some clear plastic so the workings are more visible

It's amazing and sad at the same time... the craftmanship required to make this piece still exists today among very specialized instrument makers, but very very few can afford this kind of custom work anymore. Quality has become too expensive for the average joe. Sorry folks, a plywood box with wood screws is all you'll get. I operate a small model shop, and I'm not pretending I could build this, but if I could, the chest only would be worth 50k$. Plus I'd say 100k$ for the handmade tools. A year's work full time... Who's interested?

@WKB

True, but when the Columbine school shooting was perpetrated, conservatives were quick to point the finger at Marilyn Manson's lyrics. I'm not saying they were right, and I'm not saying that Fox deserves all of the blame here either.

I do think though, that the people pumping that kind of rhetoric onto the airwaves deserve SOME responsibility for atrocities like this. Allow me to compare the Woodstock of 1970 to the Woodstock of '99 for an example.

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>>>>>>The 1970 Woodstock (billed as "3 days of Peace and Music") resulted in reports like this:

"The New York Times covered the prelude to the festival and the move from Wallkill to Bethel.[13] Barnard Collier, who reported from the event for the Times, asserts that he was pressured by on-duty editors at the paper to write a misleadingly negative article about the event. According to Collier, this led to acrimonious discussions and his threat to refuse to write the article until the paper's executive editor, James Reston, agreed to let him write the article as he saw fit. The eventual article dealt with issues of traffic jams and minor lawbreaking, but went on to emphasize cooperation, generosity, and the good nature of the festival goers.

When the festival was over, Collier wrote another article about the exodus of fans from the festival site and the lack of violence at the event. The chief medical officer for the event and several local residents were quoted as praising the festival goers."

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>>>>>>The 1999 version of the event (featuring bands like Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock and the Red Hot Chili Peppers who are all, dare I say, a bit angrier [lyrically speaking] than the likes of Arlo Guthrie or Joan Baez) is painted in a much different color:

"Some crowd violence and looting was reported during the Saturday night performance by Limp Bizkit, including a rendition of the song "Break Stuff". Reviewers of the concert criticized Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst as "irresponsible" for encouraging the crowd to destructive behavior.

Violence escalated the next night during the final hours of the concert as Red Hot Chili Peppers performed. A group of peace promoters led by an independent group called Pax had distributed candles to those stopping at their booth during the day, intending them for a candlelight vigil to be held during the Red Hot Chili Peppers' performance of the song "Under the Bridge". During the band's set, the crowd began to light the candles, some also using them to start bonfires. The hundreds of empty plastic water bottles that littered the lawn/dance area were used as fuel for the fire.

After the Red Hot Chili Peppers were finished with their main set, the audience was informed about "a bit of a problem." An audio tower caught fire, and the fire department was called in to extinguish it.

Back onstage for an encore, the Chili Peppers' lead singer Anthony Kiedis remarked how amazing the fires looked from the stage, comparing them to a scene in the film Apocalypse Now.[12] The band proceeded to play "Sir Psycho Sexy", followed by their rendition of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire". Kiedis later stated in his autobiography, Scar Tissue that Jimi Hendrix's sister had asked the Chili Peppers to play "Fire" in honor of Jimi and his performance at the original Woodstock festival, and that they were not playing it to encourage the crowd.

Many large bonfires were burning high before the band left the stage for the last time. Participants danced in circles around the fires. Looking for more fuel, some tore off panels of plywood from the supposedly inviolable security perimeter fence. ATMs were tipped over and broken into, trailers full of merchandise and equipment were forced open and burglarized, and abandoned vendor booths were turned over, and set afire.[13]

MTV, which had been providing live coverage, removed its entire crew. MTV host Kurt Loder described the scene in the July 27, 1999 issue of USA Today:

"It was dangerous to be around. The whole scene was scary. There were just waves of hatred bouncing around the place, (...) It was clear we had to get out of there.... It was like a concentration camp. To get in, you get frisked to make sure you're not bringing in any water or food that would prevent you from buying from their outrageously priced booths. You wallow around in garbage and human waste. There was a palpable mood of anger."

After some time, a large force of New York State Troopers, local police, and various other law enforcement arrived. Most had crowd control gear and proceeded to form a riot-line that flushed the crowd to the northwest, away from the stage located at the eastern end of the airfield. Few of the crowd offered strong resistance and they dispersed quickly back toward the campground and out the main entrance."

>>>>>>See also, this poignant response from a person in the crowd: http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/08/17/woodstock-legacy/ (crowdmember comments @ 2:20)

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Now now easy there big fella, before you start telling me about how correlation does not imply causation consider this: an article recently published by the American Journal of Psychiatry concluded that:

"Childhood exposure to parental verbal aggression was associated, by itself, with moderate to large effects on measures of dissociation, limbic irritability, depression, and anger-hostility." Furthermore, "Combined exposure to verbal abuse and witnessing of domestic violence was associated with extraordinarily large adverse effects, particularly on dissociation. This finding is consonant with studies that suggest that emotional abuse may be a more important precursor of dissociation than is sexual abuse."
See: http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/163/6/993

Maybe not the best example I could have found but I've already spent WAY too much time on this post. The point is, WORDS carry a lot of power. Even if the pundits (right OR left) never came out and said it, the implication of violence was certainly there at times.

I KNOW Fox has lead the charge of fear mongering in the name of ratings but anyone else who subscribed to that level of attack should share some of the blame as well. Again, not saying that they should take all or even a lot of the blame, but they should be responsible for the violent laced rhetoric they spout.

I say STOP THE AD HOMINEM ATTACKS and we'll see less violence against PEOPLE and (hopefully) more enthralling arguments where the IDEAS are being attacked (which I'm all for) :-)

p.s. sry for the huge post but i was on a roll

Plywood is amazing stuff. I wonder if he'll remember what he learned about it today.

I don't trust you. You seem to know an AWFUL lot about plywood carrying, mgittle! (if that is even your real name)>> ^mgittle:

If you're doing it a lot, it's gonna be generally bad for your elbow to carry plywood like that if it's 3/4", and especially bad if that plywood is wet or treated with anything. 1/2" or smaller dimensions are already easy to carry for most humans. Not to mention you'd have to line that thing up in the center every time or it'd be tippy. Seems like a useless tool to me. I'll stick with carrying it by hand...and not wearing womens' clothing either.
Although, they do have those things that are a foot long or so that you can hook under sheet goods...those let you carry the stuff lower so you can go under doorways and such without stooping. Those things rule. These are not those.

If you're doing it a lot, it's gonna be generally bad for your elbow to carry plywood like that if it's 3/4", and especially bad if that plywood is wet or treated with anything. 1/2" or smaller dimensions are already easy to carry for most humans. Not to mention you'd have to line that thing up in the center every time or it'd be tippy. Seems like a useless tool to me. I'll stick with carrying it by hand...and not wearing womens' clothing either.

Although, they do have those things that are a foot long or so that you can hook under sheet goods...those let you carry the stuff lower so you can go under doorways and such without stooping. Those things rule. These are not those.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

PLYWOOD DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! Good night!


Ya, I guess his rules don't a"ply" to that kind of wood, Muhahahahaha!

PLYWOOD DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY! Good night!

I believe he missed the lesson here.

The actual lesson is that all the confidence in the world cannot overcome reality.

Let's analyze. That was fucking plywood. Plywood was pretty much designed for the sole purpose of being head-proof. Your confidence in yourself will not change the nature of plywood...or the limitations inherent in "heads".

Believing in yourself is a valuable quality but it should always be tempered by reality.

They ruined it with the last slowmo shot. You can see the edges of the plywood.

Even the old folks never knew
Why they call it like they do
I was wondering since the age of two
Down on copperline
Copper head, copper beech
Copper kettles sitting side by each
Copper coil, cup o'georgia peach
Down on copperline
Half a mile down to morgan creek
Leaning heavy on the end of the week
Hercules and a hog-nosed snake
Down on copperline
We were down on copperline

One summer night on the copperline
Slip away past supper time
Wood smoke and moonshine
Down on copperline
One time I saw my daddy dance
Watched him moving like a man in a trance
He brought it back from the war in france
Down onto copperline
Branch water and tomato wine
Creosote and turpentine
Sour mash and new moon shine
Down on copperline
Down on copperline

First kiss ever I took
Like a page from a romance book
The sky opened and the earth shook
Down on copperline
Down on copperline
Took a fall from a windy height
I only knew how to hold on tight
And pray for love enough to last all night
Down on copperline
Day breaks and the boys wakes up
And the dog barks and the birds sings
And the sap rises and the angels sigh, yeah

I tried to go back, as if I could
All spec house and plywood
Tore up and tore up good
Down on copperline
It doesn't come as a surprise to me
It doesn't touch my memory
Man I'm lifting up and rising free
Down on over copperline
Half a mile down to morgan creek
I'm only living for the end of the week
Hercules and a hog-nosed snake
Down on copperline, yeah
Take me down on copperline
Oh, down on copperline
Take me down on copperline

As a former half-owner of a used mobile home, I find that dude's blunt sales pitch to be refreshing and entertaining at the same time. Your average trailer house "realtor" tries to dress up and distract you from the fact that you're about to buy a decaying particle board and plywood box, with weird hardware (all screws are square head, not phillips or flat, etc.) and a thin aluminum skirting to hide the axles and keep racoons from living under your house (unsuccessfully, in my case).

In spite of those problems, it was a nice place to live and share with a buddy as I was going to college. Cheaper to own and then sell than to rent an apartment for 4+ years, and vastly more comfortable and private than a college dorm building.

should've put a piece of plywood over it to make it blast up more.....

I'd like to see the whole song carved out of plywood.