USA Nunchaku info about products

Im working up some info I want to hand out with my purchased nunchaku.

Thankyou for your purchase

Thanks for purchasing one of my nunchaku.  correction, it's yours now.  As martial artist being one with your weapons is highly effective.  My mission is to hand make these nunchaku and breath life into every one.
each piece is unique.  No two are identical.  I start with hand selected hardwood from either a mill, or raw pieces that I mill myself directly form the tree.  the weapons weight size and length  all are determined by the raw wood and it's availability.  once milled they are hand cut, sanded detailed, oiled three times and finished.  they are branded with fire made of the extra wood each come from.  finally I string each one with military paracord and they are numbered by batch  wood type and length.  each set comes in a handmade bag.
every process is completed  in house.  we purchase our woods from American small wholesalers and take pride in the fact that this product is 100% made by hand in the USA.

Mayan Apocalypse 2012 hurricane batch.

The batch is about 50 pieces made from Cocobolo, RedOak, Curly Maple, Locust and IRon Wood (ligniam Vital).  this set features locust and red oak in a octagon taper size as well as a slim straight octagon for the cocobolo.  the locust wood is from downed trees from hurricane Irene and a year later milled and created during hurricane Sandy.
just as ancient sword smiths chant and enchant the steel as its formed in the fire, as the wood is shaped and the weapon is formed,  we like to have fun while we work and create a positive energy in the shop.
these nunchaku were formed with a lot of Flo Rider and Fleetwoodmac on the iPad radio.  The wind nd rain of hurricane Sandy crashing on the roof and the spare locust wood fueling the wood stove and irons.
lastly, please keep in mind, deepening on what style martial art you study and what the practitioner is using them for, there are many types of nunchaku.   our nunchaku are traditional Chinese hardwood nunchaku.   they are not lightweight, made of foam, or forgiving in any way.  no one should attempt  use without the guidance of an experienced  martial arts instructor who is profishant in Chinese weapons.

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Hurricane donuts

I think they were left over from Saturday to tell you the truth. Driving around is a bit odd. It's funny how you can sense the feelings of drivers on the road when the weather is bad, or more over, before it gets bad. I guess people in general have a panic trigger.
I have been piling up firewood for two days but I'm starting to wonder if I have enough. That wood burns hot And clean but a bit faster than I would expect.
Well back to the storm!

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terror-cain

well I tried to not look at the radar image as long as possible.  There is going to be a lot of rain.  An epic amount.  I'm worried about the trees cutting down.  we have been here three years, and had three hurricane.  in total 13 tree down one way or another.  two of them went right into the pool.  I am worried there is one just positioned perfectly to land in there again.
it's raining now, the tip of the bands are starting.  They seem to think it will continue through Wednesday peeking on Tuesday at 2:00am. Three days of  50mph plus winds and no telling how much rain.
It's going to be an interesting Monday morning.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/28/travel/tropical-weather-transportation/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

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El stormo el de Sandy

Well it's about one year to the date that Irene put down three trees in my yards and pool. I'm hoping there are none left to fall.
Now I must get my shop fired up to cut the lumber from that storm and get my nunchaku listed.

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Eh.....

Why am I up at 3 am trying to sync my new iPhone so AT&T activates the sim? Why do computers hate me?

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T-Mobile Bait & Switch

I'm not going to waste too much time on this, as way too much time has been wasted on this joke of a company.  BEWARE!!!!!!!
Months ago, in August I tried to port my at&t number to T-mobile under what was labeled  a "Value Business Plan"  unlimited talk text and internet for $49 a month.  Sounds too good to be true?  That's because getting that plan is un doable.  They are simply doing the old "Bait and Switch"
A week later a sim card came in the mail, for the wrong plan.  I called, I waited.  After over one week and hours on hold they finally told me that I need to go to a T-mobile store to straighten this out.  There were unable to grasp the concept that they gave me 100% not what I paid for.  Not only was the plan wrong, they gave me a new t mobile number and completely botched the bringing my iphone with me.
Before I got to the store, I received a letter in the mail from T mobile stating that my credit was not good enough and that they were not going to do business with me.  A few days later, I got an email with a bill for 249.00.  Please keep in mind, I have not used or even have a phone that is on the t-mobile network.  I have no contract at this point either because I stated very very clearly over the phone when I placed my order that this is for the "$49 Business Value plan", and I made the woman on the other end repeat it over 5 times.
Ok, so I finally have time to drive to the T-mobile store.  They see I have an unused account and claim to have fixed it.  They then try to give me the plan I wanted.  To make the whole day, which is what I wasted there, a shorter story, I had to drive back there three times, because after each time, T Mobile came up with a new document that was needed to start the service.  After the third time in the store they came up with needing three months worth of business bills from any company to prove that my business was real, even though I had produced all my paperwork from the state of PA ect,  ect.   Needless to say, I left and did not return.  The choice to use T Mobile as a company was gone.  They simply are the worst company I have ever dealt with.
Shortly there after I received two more letters, stating that my credit was not good enough to be a T Mobile customer.  I saved those.  why you ask?  Because today, I got an email asking me if I need more time to pay my Tmobile bill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Please, keep in mind, I have never had a t Mobile account, phone, or service put in place yet.  So I call the number, they switch me around, and then put me on a conference call to which end a woman from India tells me that I need to go to the T Mobile Store with my Driver's Licence  yadda yadda yadda.  In my disbelief, I explained to the whole conference call, that me wasting one more second on this company was not going to happen, baring hiring a lawyer to sue them into the stone age.

That may happen.  Do not use T mobile. 

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Cyber Attacks

The amount of grief these cyber attacks have had on me alone is incredible.  You just don't realize that every time you use technology to get a task or thing that needs done to be done quicker or easier, you dig another foot down into a hole.  When the internet stops, or a provider gets attacked, the domino effect makes everything connected to the process look bad.
It's harder to draw the line on what goes wrong, and then as problems persist, people like myself, start to second guess everything.  We do the George Carlin, we keep going back to what we know is right, over and  over, each time, expecting there to be a change you missed the last time.  It's enough to drive you grey in four hours.
With the amount of stress this causes on a work day in live production, you would think that we were launching a rocket ship.

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Computers

Why is it that every time I go in to do an "upgrade" or fix to our home network if busy bots, the cords are always tangled in ways that I can't even conceive of? If there ever comes the day " 60 days from now" when a comet or solar flare smash us and take out all the circuit boards I will be the first one off the ship. We are slaves to our own technology.

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Wood shop

I have finally perfected a process that lets me make a product in my wood shop area. My own little factory in the garage. Now to start pumping out for Christmas time.

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Rain or no rain

I wish the weather was easier to predict. For the first time in my life, it's a factor that effects how much work can be done. I'm not used to yelling at the weather guy on tv.

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