Guy Discovers His Neighbor is Cool as Hell

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Eric Lund
Dec 28, 2018 6:00 PM EST

Gene has tons of knowledge and a sweet collection of old stuff. He even hand-builds model ships! Gene is also totally down to show off his cool stuff and tell stories.

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    Drink - NAV PUSSER'S RUM P He invites me over 'to drink rum and sing shanties!!
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    Sailing ship - He hand makes each part of the ship, to 1/48th size of the real ship from the blueprints of the original ships! Not a 'kit' each part is handmade. This is a replica of the ship, Charles W Morgan - oldest sailing ship in the world! Sails out of mystic sea port (Nantucket)
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    Firearm - Authentic 1800s pistols, all functional
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    Vehicle - In process with this one HMS Pandora -this ship chased down the mutineers of the bounty, which was wrecked and sank with 8 of them and the Pandora brought the remaining 6 mutineers back to be hung in England!
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    Product - Over two dozen antique, fully firing, 1800s rifles in his hidden storage
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    Antique tool - ESTHTENEY Educated me that Eli Whitney made a name for himself making interchangeable rifles/parts long before the cotton gin made him famous...and he has an 1840 E. Whitney rifle to prove i...the ones above were made years after, by other gunsmiths, based on Whitney's design! NEW RA N 1840
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    Maritime museum - Another pic of his hand-crafted Charles W. Morgan ship (he has over 2000 hours over the course of three years into it)
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    Event - Additional figures he molded, cast, dressed, shaped and painted himself
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    Scale model - ONIe One of the whaling ships to accompany the ship above. All figures and parts were made by hand, including casting the pewter sailors and shaping them himself. ШЕ
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    Tire - SPIRODAG SFIRO HAT? ME The diving knife he used in 'Nam when he was a Navy Diver LA
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    Material property - A small portion of the 'mini-balls he has from the civil war URUNELLA A CORONA MINIATURE WARNING Te Paduct Contas Fraduces cecsk o Calo o Caae Carcet And Brth Deleca Dr Dthe arod Po MURIEL CORONELLA A CORONA MINIATURE WARNING: Th Produc CanPoduces Chemca e The Calaa Ta Case Cance And Bh Delects DrOe Tep H MURIEL CORONELIA
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    Sitting - Gene after serving me a few too many rums and sharing his collections and crafts with me till the wee hours!!
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