Thread: Woodies BBQ Gold Coast QLD

Originally Posted by dai sensei

If I have my slabbing rig up and running I could also do that, or if not, perhaps DJ can bring down his if he is free.

Methinks you might mean TJ, unless you're paying for my airfare

Neil, put me down as a tentative yes. As long as there are no school commitments that interfere I'll be there!

Great idea Neil.

I will see you tomorrow and hope I can convince my wife and daughters as to the benefits of these outings and see if they can lend their culinary expertise to balance my lack of wood working talent.

I had a great time at Tee Jays and appreciated the behind the scenes work of the ladies. I hope our Gold Coast girls will at least meet the bench mark that was set at Petrie otherwise you will all have to survive on " The mean burnt sausage that I can cook on a bar b que. "

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Sunday 24th February 2008 say 10:30am onwards

If you can change it to Saturday the 23rd I would love to come as I'll be on the Gold Coast then, unfortunately Sunday is for family commitments and can't be changed.

BTW I'll pay my own airfares, unlike DJ.

Peter.

I'm there!!!

cheers
Wendy

Neil, please put me down as attending. Can you PM me your address?

I don't really have anything to demo, although I suppose I could bring the Veritas Mk II sharpening jig if people wanted to see how it worked ? Or maybe a scraper demo?

Originally Posted by RufflyRustic

I'm there!!!
Wendy

Wendy,

Looks like I might have to PM you; or Other, re
Chauffer or Taxi

dai sensei,

I might have to Grovel, after I PM Wendy

Originally Posted by Sturdee

If you can change it to Saturday the 23rd I would love to come as I'll be on the Gold Coast then, unfortunately Sunday is for family commitments and can't be changed.

BTW I'll pay my own airfares, unlike DJ.

Peter.

Love to have you Sturdee, but Saturday means I'm in a big rush to get things ready and buy the produce. A lot of SEQers work Saturday also.

Any chance of calling in before or after your family thingy. You are more than welcome to call in on Saturday anyway, just the others wont be here.

Originally Posted by Dion N

Neil, please put me down as attending. Can you PM me your address?

I don't really have anything to demo, although I suppose I could bring the Veritas Mk II sharpening jig if people wanted to see how it worked ? Or maybe a scraper demo?

I'll PM the address closer to the date. Always plenty of wood and blunt tools to do demos on here

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Any chance of calling in before or after your family thingy. You are more than welcome to call in on Saturday anyway, just the others wont be here.

Sunday afternoon is my FIL 90th birthday party and is the reason for the clan gathering up there.

I'll see how things develop and let you know closer to the date.


Peter.

I think I could make it.

Pencil me (and SWMBO) in for starters. I can bring more blunt tools for show and tell and probably manage a cake or a dessert.

I've been looking at the flotsam on the beaches the last couple of days. There's some pretty large unidentified trunks out there, I've wondered about picking up one or two for experimenting on but decided I'd get a hernia before I'd manage to move one. How do you go about moving trunks for a slabbing demo? Is the idea of recovering driftwood for slabbing realistic?

I wouldn't bother with the driftwood, but that's me.

Big slabs come from big trees, and unless you have penty of room with big trucks and cranes for moving etc, most slabbing is done at the site where the tree falls.

I have a number of small logs here (300 to 500mm dia x 600 to 1800mm long) and a few burls for slabbing demos.