Foo - My avatar... the guessing game...

Hello all,

As a fun game for april fools day lets play the avatar game...

I will start,

My avatar has something to do with me... lets figure it out!

Mandy

fondu?

Huh, well, I thought they were little cigars standing up in an ashtray, but, what the hell do I know, right?;)

Kinda interesting to see how different people perceive the same thing.

You are six times smokin' hot?

Next?

Looks like a hand.

Did you recently take up or quit smoking?

Caligraphy tips!

paintbrushes?

I hear music...

Reeds!

Stick figures socializing in a spa?

reeds soaking in water? is that something you do to new reeds or something? i don't play any woodwinds

crack pipes waitin' for action?

is it this?

Reeds!

Yeah!

This is stage three in making an oboe reed - those are reeds soaking in water, upside down, after they have been made into blanks (what we call the reed at this point), after the cane is tied to the staple (the little tube shown in the pic...

The "just scapping by" is refered to the way we make the reeds vibrate... we scrape them in a particular way, the tip becoming less that 0.01mm (4 um sometimes). I get varied responses when I ask people questions like this... one time I was actually stopped by a cop who thought it was a crack pipe, as I was "wetting" the reed on my way into a lunch rehersal...

Good Job!

Mandy

Oboe reeds!

Oh...am I too late?

:(

YEAH! I WIN! I WIN!


That's pretty cool. Do you make them all from scratch?

now guess my avatar :rolleyes:

A Headtube that needs a shave?

now guess my avatar :rolleyes:
It's the head tube of a Norco Bigfoot w/ a broken rear derailleur and broken brake lever.

It's the head tube of a Norco Bigfoot w/ a broken rear derailleur and broken brake lever.

I think we have found the mortal version of god...