Calling for Volunteers to man the Woodwork Forums stand at the Brisbane T&WWW Show!!

[Christos]

Have Munruben & artme turned up yet weighed down with pen blanks & kits.??

I ended up buying a couple of bandsaw blades, a few pen kits and couple of blanks.

I am not going to say the obvious.






Yeah I am, He guessed right. Good to see that you had a good time.

[tea lady]

I've got your purpleheart sorted and I'll add something for your flute too

tell I'll pay him back when he gets back to Tooradin. I hope someone is keeping him supplied with tea, He gets a bit dehydrated if he doesn't have a cuppa ever 1/2 hour or so.

I got my virtual hug from ....

virtical hug? :dunce: :mindboggle:

I ended up buying a couple of bandsaw blades, a few pen kits and couple of blanks. 3 bottles of Ryobi PVA glue for $10 a 7mm drill bit and some pen bushes. Nothing major this year but it was a great day.

couple of blanks? A couple is only 2 you know.

[Cliff Rogers]

...virtical hug? :dunce: :mindboggle:

Like a Claytons hug 'cos there was no way he was going to hug me, or me him.

[munruben]

couple of blanks? A couple is only 2 you know.

Weeeel maybe 3

[dai sensei]

Had a ball yesterday meeting up with heaps of forumites, new and old

Many of the members hung around to socialise and take advantage of the Forum Lounge's seating, tea & coffee facilities. Early birds also got to have some of my home made banana and chocolate with choc-chip muffins I brought along .

Strange how we had more foruminte visitors than volunteers, although some were convinced to hang around and help out

Afterwards a select few got to go out to dinner at Hoggs Breath for hearty steaks and outragous deserts . From left myself, John (Gawdelous), Neil (Ubeat), Chris (Chris Vesper), Pauline (Mrs Ubeaut), Julie (Mrs ) and Ian ()
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Cheers

[ForumDemo]

Funkychicken reporting from the Brisbane Woodshow. It's the last day here but the crowds are still thick and sweaty. The forum stand has had more than a few people interested so you might see some new faces on the forum soon.

Wendy, Wizened, Enfield Guy, Blackhole and a few others who I've forgtten are here at the moment. It's one big sawdusty party here

Signing off,
Andrew

[wheelinround]

So do Chickens drive or are they still driven oh foul one

[Enfield Guy]

Just got back from the show. A good day seemed to be had by all. Like the feathered one says there should be a few more forumites soon. It was nice to meet Neil and as well as all the others. Just bought a couple of books, a vesper square and a bottle of he who shall be obeyed's shellawax. Now Wendy will have to put the pics up to show that it REALLY happened.

Anyone who gets an opportunity to help out at one of these type of events will find it to be a great experience. If ya don't, ya would be a dill!!!!

Cheers
Bevan

[Chesand]

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Anyone who gets an opportunity to help out at one of these type of events will find it to be a great experience. If ya don't, ya would be a dill!!!!

Cheers
Bevan

We told you that you would enjoy the experience

[tea lady]

Afterwards a select few got to go out to dinner at Hoggs Breath for hearty steaks and outragous deserts . From left myself, John (Gawdelous), Neil (Ubeat), Chris (Chris Vesper), Pauline (Mrs Ubeaut), Julie (Mrs ) and Ian ()
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Cheers

's shaved again. No pics of the deserts though, so they never happened.

[RufflyRustic]

Not much can compete with your choc ripple cakes TeaLady, so we didn't even try 's got some timber for you

Chesand - you were so right! Everyone who turned up/helped out had a wonderful time.

Maybe next time Cliff


I got a few more books and some interesting pieces of timber - yes, I did go back and get the spalted silver ash - yellowbox, spalted silver ash, leatherwood and lightly-spalted red ash. I also had a wonderful time asking questions of Stuart from the Sturt School of Wood. Stuart has given me some very good instructions on how to further my design studies and to start pushing, nay, exploding the self-imposed design boundaries in my woodwork. It certainly is making me view my boxes in a completely different light.

Pictures!! Here they are!

[Groggy]

Well done Ruffles, I'm sure you enjoyed yourself. I hope all the volunteers found it enjoyable too; a chance to meet some faces and it is good to have a place to leave things and get a cuppa while thinking about your next move.

The cleanup should have taken a lot less time than the initial setup, hope you had helpers for that too.

Good job!

[tea lady]

Not much can compete with your choc ripple cakes TeaLady, so we didn't even try 's got some timber for you

Yayy! Pressies.



I got a few more books and some interesting pieces of timber - yes, I did go back and get the spalted silver ash - yellowbox, spalted silver ash, leatherwood and lightly-spalted red ash. I also had a wonderful time asking questions of Stuart from the Sturt School of Wood. Stuart has given me some very good instructions on how to further my design studies and to start pushing, nay, exploding the self-imposed design boundaries in my woodwork. It certainly is making me view my boxes in a completely different light.

Pictures!! Here they are!

L look forward to seeing the new faze of Ruffly boxes.

[RufflyRustic]

Visited the stand on Fri.
Wendy I appologise for not saying g'day . You were computing busily away and I had a 'hot deal' to seal at the Carbatec stand with Wayne for the Tormek T-7.
Great bargain, saved over $300 but it took some arm-bending .
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Hi Lyle, that is some bargain you wangled for the Tormek!! I heard you in the background but when I'd turned around, you'd already hotfooted it off to seal the deal - Smart man Never let a deal like that grow cold. Glad it worked out for you

I'm looking forward to seeing the new designs too, TL
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And now the Thank yous.

Groggy - for your advice, support and powerpoint display
DJ - for fixing up a couple of my monumental stuff-ups before anyone else noticed.
Bob38s - Sir, you are a Gentleman! It was an honour to have worked alongside you on the stand.
Bevan - Such fun, as always
journeymanMick - you should have seen what the Festool guys did on Sunday!
dai sensei - muffins and fun and helping me find that special piece of leather wood.
blackhole - a very deep & heartfelt Thank You. It was a pleasure sharing the time together.
To everyone else who dropped by and said hello, to everyone else who manned the stand, to everyone who appreciated the Forum Lounge.
To Liz for organising the Forum Lounge, the tea and coffee, and for rearranging the area so we could have the Forum demo'd at the front of the stand.

But most of all, thank you Neil, Pauline and .

[Cliff Rogers]