Thread: Timber offer + challenge

Having only had a late for less than a year, and the majority of my turning has been to try and make handles for the chisels, could I please try for lucky 13 !

Hello peoples,

You're on Soren, thanks for the address details.
I hope you are not superstitious, cause log 13 on 13 entry place #, is kinda spooky, huh?. Maybe it means something...! we will soon find out!

PARTICIPANTS LIST :
Name --------------------------- Blank #
1- ss_11000 ----------------------- 7
2- Frank&Earnest ---------------- 9
3- Pat ---------------------------- 1
4- Tankstand --------------------- 8
5- Robyn2839 ------------------- 12
6- Switt775 --------------------- 3
7- Harry72 ---------------------- 6
8- HappyHammer ---------------- 10
9- Funkychicken ----------------- 2
10- Benji79 ----------------------- 4
11- Weisyboy -------------------- 18
12- Slopech4 --------------------- 5 [*]
13 - Soren ----------------------- 13

[*] - waiting for postal address

If anyone has any questions, please don't be shy.
I would advise and/or recommend you to practise a bit before you start using the real thing. You should try to practise on similar type log. Look for tree branches around 3" diameter with thin bark and approx 6" long. Any type of fruit tree is good as also some gum, wattles, and many of native timbers, there are not to light or lack of density. Turning green would be easier to get the "how's to".

The logs still available are; from the first lot #11, from the second lot, #14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, and 22.

Another issue that I will be discussing soon, is how to set up your photographic stand, lights, background, etc., cheaply and quickly, so stay tune.

Cheers
RBTCO

G'Day You lucky lot

My little bit of help a link that is very helpful
http://www.woodartbydan.com/projects/goblets2.pdf

I look forward to seeing your efforts.

Cheers
Bernie

Hi BernieP,
Thanks for your link, the guys will appreciate it.

Cheers
RBTCO

As an Australia Post regular user, I can let you all know that a plastic red postal bag that can be loaded to 3 kgs, costs $9 and can be sent Australia wide. All the timber we bought in Tassie was sent this way and proved the most economical. Hope this helps all.
I am very interested in the concept put forward. I have not yet tried a goblet and I guess this is a good way to get started.
Regards,
Shirley

Oops - I have just read the posts right through and the criteria puts me out. I have been learning for 2 years. Have fun all you beginners. I will try a goblet though, just for the hell of it.
cheers, Shirley

G'day RBTCO

I got your PM today.

The reason I decided not to enter is, although I have been turning for only a comparitively short time I have done several goblets. I would never dream of placing myself anywhere near the league of turners such as SKEW and CLIFF ROGERS just to name a couple. But I have turned some fairly nice goblets so in that vein I think it would not be fair to others who have not done any goblets at all.
See pics

Cheers
Shorty

Mrs Woodpecker,
I've been hoping and waiting for some expression of interest from some of forum ladies, and your first post, gave me great satisfaction. I would like to request that you forget the second post, and reconsider your decision. I am sure that your participation would be greately appreciated by all the other participants, as it would be my pleasure to supply to you the timber for that first goblet. Sorry, but I'm not going to let you go that easier, so I will add your name on the list, and wait for you to let us know what log number you whish. Don't forget also to send me a PM with your postal address details, thanks .
PS: I will be using COD and that AUS. POST bag, but the cost will be $9.30 not $ 9.00.

Thefixer,
You obviously did understand what I'm trying to do, your decision the stay out of the challenge, follow the concept of self modesty I expressed/requested previously, therefore your decision is appreciated and will be respected.
Thank you also for responding to my PM.

PARTICIPANTS LIST :
Name --------------------------- Blank #
1- ss_11000 ----------------------- 7
2- Frank&Earnest ---------------- 9
3- Pat ---------------------------- 1
4- Tankstand --------------------- 8
5- Robyn2839 ------------------- 12
6- Switt775 --------------------- 3
7- Harry72 ---------------------- 6
8- HappyHammer ---------------- 10
9- Funkychicken ----------------- 2
10- Benji79 ----------------------- 4
11- Weisyboy -------------------- 18
12- Slopech4 --------------------- 5
13- Soren ------------------------ 13
14- Mrs Woodpecker ------------ 11



Cheers
RBTCO

Originally Posted by thefixer

I would never dream of placing myself anywhere near the league of turners such as SKEW and CLIFF ROGERS just to name a couple.

Thank you for the compliment but I'm far from being an expert. Trust me on this. I just like to experiment a lot and find out why things work (or not) and try to pass along what I've learned so others don't have the same catastrophic failures.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Thank you for the compliment but I'm far from being an expert. Trust me on this. I just like to experiment a lot and find out why things work (or not) and try to pass along what I've learned so others don't have the same catastrophic failures.

This from the guy who has just won a prize for a... wait for it... goblet!
(Congratulations, by the way.) We would appreciate more your modesty if it did not imply that we are so much further from being experts...

Skew ChiDAMN - Frank&Earnest,
I knew that Skew was doing a piece(s) for some competiton, but I didn't know anything about the results, so Skew, what was the prize, and what was the piece (goblet, according to F&E) that got awarded?
PS: Sorry Skew, I've just seen your thread about Lilydale show.

Expertise, is not something that easy to define, and most of the time gets very confused with experience. Both work well together, but mean completely different things. Recognition of one or the other, by others, is never a easy task, and is our fatal mistake to under estimate ones own capabilities. Better again, the human necessity to be "petted on the back" by others, tents to overcome the simple fact that, one deserves more often than not, to pet himself on his own back, unfortunately we don't do enough of that !

Cheers
RBTCO

No 11 thanks.

I can donate a couple of Central Qld blanks as a prize/s. Was thinking I could send them direct to the winner/s to save double handling.
Beefwood. Emu Apple, Sally wattle etc. Sized by prize level perhaps!?

Thanks TTIT,
Your donation is most appreciated.
I wouldn't accept it in any other way, I will accept as much as people are willing to donate, on the competitors behalf, but donations are going directly from the donor to the prize winner, it wouldn't make any sense not to.


Cheers
RBTCO