Sunday, September 11, 2011

My Scythe is Gone

         Earlier this year I did a post  about a scythe I had. I wanted to sell the scythe but wrote about my life time experience with scythes Little did I know that my scythe was pretty rare.

        I had the scythe advertised for several months and had a few enquiries. With my very literal mind I envisioned somebody buying the scythe and cutting grass. Now I should have known that nobody would cut grass with the thing because I've had it for forty years and I didn't cut grass with it. All that time I've never seen anyone else cutting grass with a scythe. It took up space and collected dust in my garage rafters.

        Someone made an enquiry recently about the scythe and today they came and bought it. He only wanted the handle but I sold the whole thing. What's it going to be used for? A piece of art. This fellow creates Gothic art  and he wanted the authentic curved scythe handle. He then said that he could use the blade for another art project.He told me that they were very hard to find. When I stopped to think about it it made sense.  I don't know how long scythe handles have been made with aluminum. It was too difficult to make handles from wood. The wood had to be soaked for some time. Then it was put in a jig and steamed. When it came out you had a curved handle which stayed curved forever but it had taken a tremendous amount of time and effort to make it that way.

       So today I parted with one of my treasures and stupid me finally got it around my head that my scythe would not be used for cutting grass.

8 comments:

  1. Mine has disappeared also...but I'm not sure where it went ...

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  2. It sounds like it will be put to good use, Red. Glad to know you found its next place in the universe.

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  3. I'm amazed at how I thought it would be for cutting grass but it will become a piece of art. I'm going to have to widen my imagination.

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  4. Judy, I had stuff like that. I usually had to look at my daughter's place.

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  5. Not stupid. Good for you for selling ti. Your children will thank you!

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  6. We've been selling a lot of stuff that we haven't used for a while. It's surprising how much stuff we haven't used.

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  7. It would be interesting to see what kind of art is made from the scythe. I'm making sculptural kitschy garden art from odd glassware and items I've found at garage sales.
    I am working on four presently and will post when completed. Its fun to re-purpose things into unusual art. have a smily day, hugs!

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  8. Yes Tess, I can go along with art made from material tha is not useful anymore. I will probably post it if the guy sends it to me. Nice to see you back on the blog.

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