PenTurner
16th December 2007, 05:53 PM
As reported in the past, it is great to meet up with fellow woodturners and today was no exception, from 10 AM onwards we started "turning up". Looks like was there first and made chief instructor of the day, also his job was to talk the leg off a chair and scare away any females that turned up! he did fine in all areas, except one lady was brave enough to stay, only to run for her car when Skew arrived! some of these turners are built ugly!:rolleyes:, kind but U--Y!:D
A tall fellow from Emerald Qld, took us for our word, he thought it was down hill all the way, nice to meet up with Vern, his job is Turning wood into Toothpicks. he failed with some of the wood and brought it to us in the form of Pen Blanks-----whoosh, Skew's hand reached out smartly, but was knocked over in the rush for Gooramurra, thanks Vern, and Thumbsucker, if you are not going to turn a pen you had better send that blank you took to me.
Talk about eager, while all and sundry were talking wood, Helmut was constantly busy preparing for his big show, he was no.1 student of the day, a mullett in the making, and not just any old mullett, it had to be to his liking, very particular, he will produce good items in the future, he knows what he wants and is not preturbed by old gruffy teachers like , very humurous indeed to see teach him; Helmut wore earmuffs and couldn't hear instructions like "switch Off!" or "move the Skew this way!".
Meanwhile a group of lads were down the back of the shed looking at a demonstration of a Fesstool, pricy but worth it!. Another group were discussing the vissitudes of life and two "professinal" chefs went to the BBQ to cook. Now the cooks took a liking to the two dogs, and some sausages and hamburgers went over the edge "accidentally", not that any body would know, the dogs demolished any fall off and even licked the veranda boards clean:rolleyes:. Now the cooks were evenly balanced, Sean burnt the sausages on the left side of the barbie while yours truly burnt the hamburgers on the right side, but one thing was done perfectly together-the steaks were well done:oo::oo:and both too blame.
Mr. and Mrs. Big Shed were there, Fred and wife(because I have forgotten her name):-,
Then again, by the time I went around twice asking the same questions, I started getting sympathetic looks.
The Pavlova was great, half was eaten, the other half DJ whisked away to his fridge to "rescue" it from the flies!!:) and from any Rodent that was nearby. that made Grumpy John Grumpier, and what's the name of that other tall fella, it will come back to me I hope. Allan of Wallan may not have been there, but the story of his "trip", triggered a whole lot of talk about 's "trip" in the Northern Territory. Then, late in the afternoon, a few of us tried our hand at the Skew, as my knuckles turned white, I heard a voice say "Relax", yeah , sure mate, but I don't want a skew for afternoon tea!. :) Thoroughly enjoyed myself, forgive fellas if I have not mentioned you (Scooter came late), I try and post pictures and you can say, "hey , that is me!" and then add your name. Amos
photos 1. TTIT 2. David ( CALM) 3. DJ 4. and Grumpy John 5. Sean and Bruce (Kiwibrucee)
A tall fellow from Emerald Qld, took us for our word, he thought it was down hill all the way, nice to meet up with Vern, his job is Turning wood into Toothpicks. he failed with some of the wood and brought it to us in the form of Pen Blanks-----whoosh, Skew's hand reached out smartly, but was knocked over in the rush for Gooramurra, thanks Vern, and Thumbsucker, if you are not going to turn a pen you had better send that blank you took to me.
Talk about eager, while all and sundry were talking wood, Helmut was constantly busy preparing for his big show, he was no.1 student of the day, a mullett in the making, and not just any old mullett, it had to be to his liking, very particular, he will produce good items in the future, he knows what he wants and is not preturbed by old gruffy teachers like , very humurous indeed to see teach him; Helmut wore earmuffs and couldn't hear instructions like "switch Off!" or "move the Skew this way!".
Meanwhile a group of lads were down the back of the shed looking at a demonstration of a Fesstool, pricy but worth it!. Another group were discussing the vissitudes of life and two "professinal" chefs went to the BBQ to cook. Now the cooks took a liking to the two dogs, and some sausages and hamburgers went over the edge "accidentally", not that any body would know, the dogs demolished any fall off and even licked the veranda boards clean:rolleyes:. Now the cooks were evenly balanced, Sean burnt the sausages on the left side of the barbie while yours truly burnt the hamburgers on the right side, but one thing was done perfectly together-the steaks were well done:oo::oo:and both too blame.
Mr. and Mrs. Big Shed were there, Fred and wife(because I have forgotten her name):-,
Then again, by the time I went around twice asking the same questions, I started getting sympathetic looks.
The Pavlova was great, half was eaten, the other half DJ whisked away to his fridge to "rescue" it from the flies!!:) and from any Rodent that was nearby. that made Grumpy John Grumpier, and what's the name of that other tall fella, it will come back to me I hope. Allan of Wallan may not have been there, but the story of his "trip", triggered a whole lot of talk about 's "trip" in the Northern Territory. Then, late in the afternoon, a few of us tried our hand at the Skew, as my knuckles turned white, I heard a voice say "Relax", yeah , sure mate, but I don't want a skew for afternoon tea!. :) Thoroughly enjoyed myself, forgive fellas if I have not mentioned you (Scooter came late), I try and post pictures and you can say, "hey , that is me!" and then add your name. Amos
photos 1. TTIT 2. David ( CALM) 3. DJ 4. and Grumpy John 5. Sean and Bruce (Kiwibrucee)