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Remember that you need wood that has been dried, split, and sawn specially for use in guitar construction. Lumber yard lumber is unlikely to be suitable, even if the grain is nice and tight (lumber is not sawn parallel to split lines, which means that runout will usually be significant, and...

Some one else started a thread with this topic about 18 months ago, and the answer is still basically the same: 1. If you insist on pursuing this idea, find a venom supplier with whom you can apprentice (venom suppliers are the source for the raw materials used in antivenin production and...

Don't be silly--I started the thread clear back in 2006 and I must have struck a nerve or two because it has thrived ever since with lots of input from lots of knowledgeable folks like you. I think that's cool but I never owned it and I thank everyone who has taken the time to share experiences...

Well, just one month this time. This past weekend I had a total surprise meeting with one of the Camp Columbus Callahans and her family who it turns out live not far from me in California, and I'm again inspired to unearth the times past in New Jersey. She had a camp photo taken during one of...

Yes, you shared that video with me last year, a kindness for which I will always be grateful. I tried the Masterpiece Crafts website last night and found it no longer operational, so on a hunch I Googled "churches for sale Marlton" and lo and behold up popped the Kresson property. The entire...

Sigh.... I see that Masterpiece Crafts, which occupied the Kresson Baptist Church on Rt 73 that my family owned 1961-1977, is no more and our old church and adjacent lots are apparently being offered for sale for redevelopment ("the value is in the land"). I guess the 150 year old church...

You're right--I misinterpreted information that I received earlier about the later days of Camp Columbus. 1968 was the last year the Callahans operated the camp for the Knights of Columbus, but the camp did go on for several years afterwards. Mr. Callahan accepted an administrative job in his...

So would I, but I think the real reason so few do anymore is not that the kids are a pain as that their parents (us) tend to sue the pants off anyone who tries to do or be anything more than mainstream computers/Las Vegas/Harry Potter/prime time/"get that degree and work a job you hate"...

After my initial post to this forum last summer I discovered that the Callahan family has endeavored to host at least one Camp Columbus reunion at Bamber Lake (in 2006). It was apparently attended by just a few campers, but I suspect that if more Camp Columbus veterans knew about the reunion...

- The first time I heard the term "Bug Juice" , but we sure drank a lot of it tho' Perfect! I remember that too--wasn't bug juice a grape juice derivative? - Saturday was "cleanup", moving everything out of the cabins, and the pine tar for the floors. Also perfect--I still remember the...

Common garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis, eastern subspecies, T. s. sirtalis. It's actually not very "common" in very many places but it does occur coast to coast and one of its several subspecies is the rare and spectacular San Francisco garter snake, T. s. tetrataenia. The snake in your...

The original two Pine Barrens specimens of the scarlet snake were found under a railroad station house (I've forgotten which) in the late 1930's, and a couple of decades went by before any more were found. They are indeed burrowers, and like most burrowing snakes they are also "active" (i.e...

The Barrens have been collected by professional herpetologists very thoroughly, and pretty early they turned up rarities (for those days) such as scarlet snakes, worm snakes, and ground skinks. Well-known early herpetologists such as Karl Kauffeld, Roger Conant, G.K. Noble, and R. L. Ditmars...

It's not for the faint of heart and it's also not for the average person who doesn't own an ultracentrifuge, lyophilization system, and lots of expertise in biochemistry. Antivenin (=antivenom) producers purchase their venoms exclusively from established suppliers--in the US, most established...

This reference is probably well-known to most frequenters of this forum, but just in case... Folks interested in Pine Barrens snakes should read Karl Kauffeld's 1959 book "Snakes and Snake Hunting" (Hanover House, long out of print, reissued in the late 1990's by Krieger, again out of print...

Well, I actually agree with you to the extent that it can be frustrating to discover that a taxon treasured primarily for its stability has suddenly found a new cladistic home and thus a new name--keeping up with the changes can try the patience of a brass monkey. To keep up with changes in...

I decided it was too much an exercise in pedantry so I removed most of it. I'll restore it tomorrow. Sean

Well, OK, but you left out Clemmys, now Glyptemys for a couple of species. We do get to keep muhlenburghi, andersonii, guttata, insculpta, sipedon. We also still have Elaphe (for the time being) for the big black version, but don't forget that the smaller blotched version is now called...

Caution, scientific comment ahead Now, now, I'm one of those "they," and Natrix as a New World genus fell almost 30 years ago so it's very old news. All anyone in the systematics business is trying to do is to figure out relationships and lineages so that we can gain a better understanding...

OK, since I'm in a storytelling mood and am besides that somewhat shocked and elated to see that old "family church" is still with us, here is our history with the Kresson Baptist Church. My family once owned the Baptist Curch in Kresson that now houses the "Masterpiece Crafts" local artisan...