Friday, March 14, 2008

1955 Quite a year! #9


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Posted by Buckles at 3/14/2008 05:42:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Robert "Smokey" Jones. How often did Smokey use a whip? In the Ballantine story he seemed to prefer it to the hook or maybe it was the number of elephants he had in that herd.

14 March, 2008 14:53
Buckles said...

I don't recall him ever using one, he sure enjoyed making them tho.
He said that when they had a Sunday off on the Dailey Show, Reed wouldn't let him go off the lot. One reason was to keep him out of trouble but mostly to teach him how to make hooks and plait whips.
Smokey said that he had to hold the opposite end as Reed intertwined the strips of leather which meant that he learned everything upside down.
I once saw him splice two thick pieces of cable together end to end using a pair of pliers.
He said he would work long and hard to finish a bull hook and then take it to Reed for approval who would then take one look at it, hurl it as far as he could and say, "No good!".

14 March, 2008 15:21
Anonymous said...

Smokey was excellent at platting and weaving leather. He could make those little endless leather cubes. plus holsters, bracelets, etc. I always liked to "rib" him when he would be at our house that he learnede these skills in the reform school and he never denied it.

14 March, 2008 16:54
Anonymous said...

I can't imagine smoky popping a bull whip. I have to go along with Buckles. Funny how things get "discombobulated".

14 March, 2008 16:57
Anonymous said...

John Milton,
Speaking of "discombobulated", Lou Regan was twice the leather man, platting or weaving, that Smokey Jones was. LOL
Wade Burck

14 March, 2008 17:20

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