Not sure if it’s understandable, but the title of this thread is supposed to be a pun with Walter Hill’s western “The Long Riders”, starring the Carradine brothers, about the life (and death) of Jesse James; Great film, probably the best western I have ever seen. One where guys shoot what they were supposed to shoot at the time, i.e. cap and ball black powder guns and not Colt SAA that shoot hundreds of bullets without reloading… OK, enough of that and back to this thread’s topic: big gliders. I show you mine, you show me yours.
Starting with the latest I made. I picked it up from the glasser’s just this afternoon. I wish I could say I glassed it but the truth is that this outstanding job is Paul Lefevre’s work. Paul is a young and talented glasser who works with Axel Lorentz (remember “The Enterprise” thread?) and he really understood what I wanted this board to look like. It was glassed with double 6oz top and 6oz bottom silane cloth and volan patches were added to the top (from the tail to the curve of the step-deck) and to the bottom (around the fin-box), cut about 2" inside from the rail in both cases. In spite of all that glass (and quite a lot of volume), the board is surprisingly light for its size. Photos:
Don’t forget Shane and True Grit. Both good books, too. And, Hombre, Valdez is Coming, and the original 3:10 to Yuma. All three Elmore Leonard stories. Oh yah, The Professionals with Lee Marvin and Lancaster are great. Mike
Wow, she’s a looker. The “ton sur ton” effect with the glass is nice - can’t wait to see that one live if she’s still there next week when we come through.
Can’t remember how to say “ton sur ton” in English - that’s a bad sign…
Yeah Balsa, Now that’s a stick! Long Riders is one of the best with the slow motion effect on the sound of the shooting,great flick. Outlaw Josey Wales is tough to beat. Best (realistic) shoot out; Open Range with Duval/Costner. Of course, Tombstone is equal to any.
I saw "Tombstone" and liked it. What was weird was that it came out at about the same time as "Wyatt Earp." It was as if the same writer sold the script to two different studios at the same time.
I always like Doc Holliday's line, "It apppears my hypocrisy knows no bounds."
By the way Guilhem - that's a fine stick! I like the crescent shaped step deck.
Did you see “The Assasination Of Jesse James by the Coward John Ford?” I thought was a good movie. Jesse James as seen through the eyes of the man who kills him, but mostly about the man who kills him.
Colt's Single Action was on the market 10 years before Jesse James was killed.
Jesse James however favored a S&W Schofield.
Lonesome Dove is The Greatest Western Ever.
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During the Civil War, when he rode with Quantrill, Jesse James' best friend was John Thrailkill, who was one of Quantrill's captains. There is a good book on the subject, ''Grey Ghosts of the Confereracy.''
I knew that this thread would turn to a “western” topic… Well, I looked for it…
John, what about those bad (or should I say rather nice) asses:
Now, let’s not forget “The Professionnals”, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (one day I will write/shoot/produce the number 2: “The Return of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. I’m sure they didn’t get killed at the end of number 1…), “Jeremiah Johnson” (not a true western, I admit.), and the best of the “Spaguetti Westerns”: “Once Upon a Time…” and “Duck, You Sucker”.
Hello Mr. Mellor, yeah Wyatt Earp came out at the same time by Costner (a homeboy) but wasn’t as good as Tombstone, I thought. Both Doc Hollidays were well done. Dennis Quaid was Doc in the Costner movie. The scene in Tombstone with Doc and Johnny Ringo in the saloon, Where Johnny shows off with his revolver and Doc is drunk and starts twirling his shot cup is a classic. Lonesome Dove is up there too, like Kokua said. There aren’t too many bad westerns in my opinion.
Balsa, any shot of Brigitte B. is a welcome sight. The boards ain’t bad also!
Balsa Better get to work on your screen play Butch and Sundance did not die in Bolivia. butch was seen in Utah and Wyoming by many of his old friends in the late 1920's and early 1930's. Sundance is said to have lived in Mexico with Etta Place.
I have often thought that there needs to be a better film made of the life of Butch Cassidy.
my Great Grandfather settled in Wyoming in the era that Butch and the Wild bunch were furthering their careers in Wyoming and Utah. My grandfathers baby photo was taken in Deadwood South Dakota the closest townof any size to Cambria Wyoming where he was born. Cambria is now a ghost town
Jeremiah Johnson is an excellent movie on the Mountain Man ear of the western expansion,a western but not a " Cowboy movie. Lonesome Dove very good. How the West was Won, great Hollywood epic. Open Range very good movie
