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About to do my second knife. I thought I would try a Celtic knot design. I had to learn how to draw one. I also had to deal with a curve in the knife. What do you think about my first knot? Masonic designs and a pistol are coming next. Anyone want some custom lodge jewels?

Willy Wonka

Need to be careful. Texas lodges are not 501c3. The Grand Lodge is... Check with a CPA.

About 10 days

Betty Ford

Osama Bin Ladin - good riddance.

Nancy Drew

Payback plus... August 16th is not far away!

You did better than just OK. Looks like I will be working in your degree. Buddy said he was going to pick up a special mountain goat for you on his vacation in Colorado. I think it's appropriate, guys our size would make a normal goat faint.

Ollie North

Most lodges I have visited in other jurisdictions are as interested in what we do as I am in what they do. I do it our way. The difference sometimes starts a conversation about differences. If I was going to work in one of their degrees I would definitely want to do it their way (you could throw...

Some other jurisdictions have no left turns, even in their work. They do not have some of the things that we have. For example: In Kansas and Antigua there are no left turns, but the walk all around the alter. There is not a tradition of not breaking the light between the alter and the east...

Grace Kelly

For anyone interested in Prince Hall and AF&AM relations, check out my blog number 15. At the end of the BLOG I talk about a lodge visit I made in Kansas that has to do with Prince Hall.

Sounds like a great paper.

First knife: done with a basket-weave pattern.

The Grand Lodge Library has a full shelf of papers written by TLR members. It is some of the best reading about Texas masonry.

Texas had about a 2% drop. Considering the economy and the pre-Vietnam membership starting to expire, I think we are doing ok. California is approaching 10%. That seems like an issue.

Yes it is. The major difference is depth. Scrimshaw uses deeper lines to get dark areas. Engraving uses more lines.

Thought I would attempt to engrave a portrait. This is my son's senior picture.