Thread: Turners wanted

Originally Posted by Avery

Very happy to help out with 10, maybe 15.

I have plenty of blanks

Cheers Avery PM me your address

Many thanks and welcome aboard

Originally Posted by Gloriac

Thanks for that Amos - your pens are beautiful! I have a long way to go but I keep trying

I have pm'd Simonata my address and I have blanks to turn.

Gloria

Hi Gloria

Welcome aboard i have your PM this morning and have sent you a reply, well said Amos

Good morning all, I have just recieved the shipment and will post out later today.

Due to David from Timberbits cominh onbard as a sponsor we still have 130 kits still available for turning, any takers

Lest we Forget

All posted today kits that is

Avery I think I have missed this post canu please PM me you addy

Cheers Sam

Sent from my GT-P7500 using Tapatalk

Received my kits today in the mail thanks - all in good order and now waiting for me to complete them.
Gloria

what's a GT-P7500 - sounds like you have an entry in V8 supercar comp next year

PS Mine arrive as well - thanks

Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

what's a GT-P7500 - sounds like you have an entry in V8 supercar comp next year

PS Mine arrive as well - thanks

The new Samsung 10.1 tablet just like an IPad

I was asked just recently ( in a very friendly manner ) if it was appropriate to make pens for the troops out of timber not native to Australia. I replied how my thoughts were on the matter, but after thinking about it through the day, I thought it may be best to bring it up here and open it up for general discussion. As some people may have different opinions.
As some may be aware, I sent Sam a box of surplus timber blanks, among some native species were 2 exotic species, namely Khaya ( African Mahogany ) and Teak ( Tectona Grandis ) both of the trees that these blanks came from, grew in Weipa N/Qld, planted by Comalco to either regenerate mined areas, or as trees for the township.
I thought about the same issue when deciding if I would include these blanks in with the others for distribution to other penturners, in the end I decided as Australia is a very multicultural Nation ,that I would include these blanks with an exotic background.
In my reply to my friend who asked the question, I said if he felt it innapropriate to use them, then please dont, keep them for himself and use some of his own blanks.
I extend this to anyone else who has recieved any of these blanks, use them as you see fit.

Any comments, good or bad, for or against, will be appreciated.

Isn't it also that these are made by us as a gesture of support? I came to Oz in 1952', permanent resident but still technically a Pom. Doesn't disqualify me as a pen maker ( I hope). I think it's the effort and thought that's important not the material. Where would acrylics sit? But probably Oz native timbers would be the first, but not only, choice. I am firmly on the fence.

Originally Posted by Grommett

I think it's the effort and thought that's important not the material.

Well said Grommet.

I feel it is the thought that counts, even tho Aust timber is prob prefered. Remember that it is to show the Troops that they are thought of. A pen is a pen made with those Troops in mind. My thoughts only. Do not mean to offend anyone.
Cookie

P.S. Sam got my kits today. Thanks

I think here that it is the heart that goes into it, and I think the troops will take it as that, Amos

I made amd sent quite a few acrylics in the Christmas one, I thought that the ladies may like them