WoW! Vern's bobber arrived in yesterday's mail. After a few minutes of panic (I had forgotten it was en route and the way Vern had crafted it (and packaged it) precipitated a cry to Justin, "What IS it Honey? Do I need to call Home Land Security???" After three or four minutes, Vern's piece coalessed into the recognizable form of a bobber. But WHAT a bobber! I greatly prefer bobbers that have a straight, uncoiled, bobbing thing-a-mabob. I had an awfully nice one in that style that I used all the time up until at the end of my last class when I felt sorry for a young girl who was begging to buy it off me for 4x what I had paid Joe Smith. I have other bobbers I can get by with so just gave it to her; what goes round comes round and see that *that* really proved out! The bobber I gave away was just stuck in a hardware store dowel. Period. But even that simple, kinda ugly, bobber was preferable to the three I have that are also inserted into plain hardware store dowels but are the coppe
r wire dohickies with the loop-de-loops at the base.

Vern's was not the loop-de-loop copper wire style AND far from using a hardware store dowel, had the bobbing portion set into an "art handle" that looks to be whittled and makes a curve that perfectly fits my hand. I think mine is willow - it's a very white wood - just LOVELY! There's a spot of gold where my thumb hits and another of silver at the butt of the handle. I'm personally not a believer that one bobber or pendulum WORKS better than another, and have used a paperclip & a thread in a pinch, but I really do appreciate aesthetics in the tools I use and most highly recommend Vern's bobbers which I hope he makes for sale because I want to buy a spare oak one for me as well as an oak one as a gift for Justin :) When you get around to reading this Vern, drop me an email to give me the price for two of these beautiful tools - or better yet, if you have more you're willing to sell, why not post the prices right here. Everyone in the tribe would want one if they only knew (feel free
to post photographs if you'd like :-)

Tools that do the job AND make your heart sing! Heads up Tribe Members!

Jai