Thank You Fellas...
I'm a Terrible Wood Pack Rat.
Specially Osage, Black Walnut, Mesquite, ERC, Pecan and the like.
If there is clean grain in a cut off I'll clean it up and stack it till I need it.
I came up with the Hummingbird design years ago for my Mother.
And have been carving them ever since...

The Coat Rack is my first try at Nice Furnature.
Christmas gift for the Missus...
She putts up with my "Wood Addiction"....

You made me Chuckle Stickbender...

I've used the Ykusa story a time or two along with others...
I lost the fingers when I was two years old.
Pump House Accident.
The Doc was able to save my Index Finger.
They never found the end of my middle finger...
I use it to my advantage during bouts of Spontaneous Sign Language...

-gus