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   Shep | Mar 25, 2009 12:16am | #1

   That's pretty cool!

   Do you know what that crown is made of? Some kind of composite?

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 12:19am | #3

   Nope , I didn't ask the builders. I do know the "lobstahs" were glued on individually after the crown was installed.

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   splintergroupie | Mar 25, 2009 12:22am | #4

   Oh, Laura...

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   TileGal | Mar 25, 2009 12:50am | #6

   Very fun . . . I need to give those folks a call.

    

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   ruffmike | Mar 28, 2009 03:09am | #36

   You could probably set them up with some tile, bet they would jump on it!                            Mike

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   TileGal | Mar 28, 2009 04:16am | #38

   Thanks . . . anyone got their number?

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   Shep | Mar 25, 2009 12:25am | #5

   I wonder how the lobstahs like being painted. And glued.

   LOL

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 01:56am | #11

   Probably no worse than being boiled alive !!!

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   Piffin | Mar 25, 2009 01:46am | #9

   That used to be done with plaster and PofP casts and using PofP to 'glue' them in place.Wouldn't surprise me if it is urethane foam like Fypon stuff is now 

    

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   Sphere | Mar 25, 2009 12:18am | #2

   Thems arthopods, not crustaceans.

   Cool either way.

   EDIT: I was wrong they are crustaceans, back to the dunce cap for me.

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 01:58am | #12

   They look more like crawfish being that small.

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   TileGal | Mar 25, 2009 12:54am | #7

   I love the festive flourish of the antenae.

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   splintergroupie | Mar 25, 2009 12:56am | #8

   Lobster calligraphy.

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   Piffin | Mar 25, 2009 01:49am | #10

   Looked more like a primitive crustacean mating dance to me, reminiscent of some Indian art on the walls of old temples in the subcontinent 

    

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 01:59am | #13

   I thought folks might get a kick out of seeing something different.

   Lobstahs are our State bird you know !!

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   Piffin | Mar 25, 2009 02:14am | #14

   OK, I missed it!When did they take the title away from mosquitoes?;) 

    

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 02:17am | #15

   Where you been boy . Youze guys don't have skeeters down on the saltwater do ya??

   We grow 'em big inland here !!

   Can't wait to get back out to Vinalhaven to get a couple 2 - 3 lb. selects to munch on. Lobstahs that is not skitters !

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   Piffin | Mar 25, 2009 03:24am | #24

   I oughta get some bugs eaten this summer. Been a couple times I've "rented" tools to fishermen on crustacean credit.darn few skeeters here and almost no black fliesWe make up for it in deer ticks though 

    

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 03:26am | #25

   So you'll have enough for next years fest on Islesboro ????

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   FatRoman | Mar 25, 2009 05:15am | #26

   If he starts catching them now, he ought to have plenty by next August!What's this island you grew up on?'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 12:12pm | #27

   Steve,

   A small 2 or 3 acre island in an inland lake in Maine.

   We'd move up in early June and live there until Labor Day.

   A fun way to spend one's Summers.

   Walter

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   JohnT8 | Mar 27, 2009 08:09pm | #28

   A small 2 or 3 acre island in an inland lake in Maine.

   Sounds pretty neat to me.  Boat the only way in and out? 

    jt8

   lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort

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   theslateman | Mar 27, 2009 10:21pm | #29

   That or a plane on floats which we did not own.

   14 ' boats with 10 hp and up motors. 50 to ski behind  - back when gas was 40 cents a gallon and you mixed it with oil.

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   JohnT8 | Mar 27, 2009 10:50pm | #30

   fiberglass, aluminum, or wood?

    jt8

   lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort

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   theslateman | Mar 27, 2009 11:01pm | #31

   Some of each.

   We ran a sporting lodge in the Fall for deer hunters so we had a variety.

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   smslaw | Mar 27, 2009 11:05pm | #32

   Spring is officially here. Yesterday we picked the first tick off one of the dogs. Today, the first groundhog emerged.

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    Piffin | Mar 28, 2009 12:24am | #35

    mud season started for me as of yesterday 

     

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    smslaw | Mar 27, 2009 11:09pm | #33

    Can't wait to get back out to Vinalhaven to get a couple 2 - 3 lb. selects to munch on. Lobstahs that is not skitters !

    The best chowder I ever ate was about 15 years ago on Vinalhaven, made by Ada Thompson, wife of Frank, then the ferry captain. We have the recipe, and it's great, but not quite the same.

    Plenty of skeeters on VH as I recall.

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    theslateman | Mar 27, 2009 11:16pm | #34

    Yes there are some , but not like where I live inland.

    I don't know the Thompsons , but I'll ask when I'm out this Spring.

    It's a friendly spot to work.

    Walter

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   FatRoman | Mar 25, 2009 02:19am | #16

   So if I'm sitting down at a Lobstah fest, do I have to cut those things upside down and backwards? :)

   Very neat! Be kind of fun to try that with crabs down this way.

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 02:25am | #17

   The guys working there told me the owner , who is also an architect and designed this home , Glued those beautys on himself.

   I'm not sure how you miter a lobster ! Upside down and backwards works as good as any I betcha.

   Is that a hint for Pif to host the Fest next Summer ?

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   mike_maines | Mar 25, 2009 02:50am | #18

   PifFest?

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 02:52am | #19

   As long as those middle letters aren't  s's !!

   I suppose if too much beer is served   ------

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   calvin | Mar 25, 2009 02:53am | #20

   With all his admirers, the damn island would tip over, no?A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 02:54am | #21

   You're better qualified to answer that I bet !

   Thought any more about being invisible and looking down from the ceiling !

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   calvin | Mar 25, 2009 03:01am | #22

   Heck, I live on a hill above the floodplane........don't know nothin bout islands.  I can tell you with a cloudburst, we didn't slide down the hill..................well, not us that stayed up top.  Some of the "trolley" riders did some slippin and slidin I think.

   And yes, think of invisibility quite often.  Keeps the blood flowing.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.

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   theslateman | Mar 25, 2009 03:06am | #23

   I grew up on our private 2 acre island on a pond  - spent all my Summers there till 18 or so.

   Swam , fished , water skiied , went barefoot and had no idea we were poor !

   But that was freshwater not salt.

   I think thats one reason I love to work on Vinalhaven here in Maine.

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   JDRHI | Mar 28, 2009 03:25am | #37

   Much as I like the idea, I gotta say, I'm not crazy about the finished product.

   If it were a "stock" item, I suppose I might be a bit more forgiving as to the final layout of the detail.

   But something designed specifically for this project should have had more thought put into how the lobsters would "meet" at inside and outside corners.

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   theslateman | Mar 28, 2009 12:20pm | #39

    I agree completely  - I'm just the messenger here. Stuff you don't see everyday.

   Walter