Not as Horrifying as it May First Appear!

– which is completely irrelevant except for, I suppose, nails are… kinda like teeth? (Only not at all really; see previous post) Irregardless! With punches newly arrived from China, I set up the workbench for the final steps!

First up was cutting out the blanks – the brass flats I had were thicker, but could take an impression on both sides, whereas the steel stock was thin enough it couldn’t be double-struck but could be threaded two-per-ring for race info and nail location. After the tiny chop-saw I found proved wholly unsatisfactory for anything more strenuous than wooden dowels, and figuring I’d be cleaning them up by hand anyways, I went with the Dremel.

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IYI, Tony Poe is famous for tossin’ severed heads onto enemy locations and, on one occasion, when his superiors questioned his body counts (this was during the Vietnam War, which makes me figure he must have been paid on a per-kill, piecework basis because this is possibly the only time in that entire conflict where someone on the American side said ‘There’s no way you killed that many of the enemy’) he calmly provided hard evidence to verify his claims.

… By which I mean, of course, he mailed a bag of fuckin’ ears to the US Embassy in Vientiane. Possibly more than once. His personnel file must look like Ed Gein’s Rolodex.

This isn’t that grisly, of course, but – okay, fine, it’s a charm bracelet where the charms are human toenails. There’s some context for this, of course, but if you’re somehow the type who found this, read with bland, placid face about Tony Poe, Ed Gein joke, got to the toenails, and then decided that nope, no context makes that palatable, well… Probably don’t want to make the jump.

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