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11th January 2016, 09:50 AM #151
Highlights from the Cooroora Woodworkers Club
Hi Fellow Woodies,
I trust you all had a nice Festive season and that all your woodworking projects this new year will be perfect.
Here are a few highlights from the past couple of months at the Cooroora Woodworkers Club in Cooroy Queensland and in my work shop.
The newsletter I edit has gone ahead in leaps and bounds. It's now published in full colour with a larger distribution and more copies. It is now catering to the locals, tourists as well as the club members. It has stories from Cooroy's timber history and information about the club and our activities. The hope is to increase our public profile and visitors to the clubs gallery and the heritage buildings on site. I've also produced a 3 fold brochure for the club that will soon be published for distribution to tourist info centers and the like.
So to the highlights
rocking horse 001.jpg The raffle prize for the wood show this year made by club members Alex Findlay and Alan Warner. Tickets available at the club.
IMG_6601 - Copy.JPG Donations to the Salvos for Christmas.
12303968_980868238654910_4025278463255576609_o.jpg Our float in the Christmas in Cooroy Parade. The theme was fairy tales. We did Hansel and Gretel. Billie Jan Campbell a wood turner was the witch.
IMG_2813.JPG My contribution to the Salvos.
IMG_0081 - Copy.JPG A couple of new prototype toys I'm developing.
IMG_0065.JPG A request from the Public. No , it's not a coat rack but a multi Didgeridoo stand. Only in Australia !
IMG_2916 - Copy.JPGa new jeep design I made
IMG_0054.JPG A display of my toys and other woodwork in the foyer of the Cooroy Library over the holidays.
IMG_0057 - Copy.JPG My toys on display at the library
IMG_0059 - Copy.JPG My toys and other club members work on display at the library art gallery this month.
IMG_2921 - Copy.JPG The president of my club gave me this band saw for nothing as it was taking up space in his work shop. A Very generous Fellow. I gave him a couple of good lengths of beautiful silky oak from Nth Qld I'd been carrying around for 25 years. He then turned it into a display cabinet and donated it to a local community group to raffle. nice bloke.
IMG_0076.JPG ""My"" little space in the Cooroora woodworkers club workshops. It's every bodies really but I use it a lot.
pic of brochure page 1.jpg The cover of the new club brochure I'm working on at present
pic of brochure page 2.jpg The center of the brochure, it's a work in progress, I'm getting help to enhance, rearrange and maybe choose pictures that better represent the club
Well that's all folks.
I'll see you in while with more news from the Noosa hinterland in sunny Queensland
regards
The Cooroy ToymakerHandmade Wooden toys Sunshine Coast Queensland
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11th January 2016, 10:11 AM #152
The Cooroy Woodworkers Club Newsletter January - downsized
Hi Woodies,
I've attached a downsized copy of our newsletter for you. I had to remove 4 pages, some photos and all the advertising.
3 of the pages removed were the back page which has club details and a 2 page story on the history of the old mill kilns by an ex mill employee.
Regards
The Cooory Toymaker and Newsletter Editor
NL 221 Janurary 2016 - downsized Copy.pdfHandmade Wooden toys Sunshine Coast Queensland
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11th January 2016, 05:13 PM #153Skwair2rownd
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I always look forward to your posts and you never disappoint!!
Again, great examples of the wonderful work you do!!
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13th January 2016, 07:25 PM #154GOLD MEMBER
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Really like the cars and all your work
Regards
Keith
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13th January 2016, 08:11 PM #155
That looks like a very fruitful and generous club you belong to, with fantastic facilities to boot. You always have very interesting toys in your collection to give us inspiration.
Good luck with your brochure, it's coming up a treat.Dallas
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13th January 2016, 09:16 PM #156
Piano in a box
Thanks for the compliments guys, much appreciated.
I just had a request for a piano smaller than 1/12 scale. Managed it ok but if they get any smaller I'll be fitting them in a match box.
Who knows, I might just try it to see how small I can make them.
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15th January 2016, 05:49 PM #157
Hi Woodies,
Things just stranger and stranger.
An order this morning for 10 zen mini rakes for mini zen gardens.
I dressed them up a little with some accessories and took a few pics. I hope to get $5.00 each for them. They're about $10.00 each online.
I'm feeling calmer just looking at them .
IMG_0229 - Copy.JPG Rakes, sand smoothers and a shovel made from bamboo
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IMG_0231 - Copy.JPG Japanese seat and bamboo bucket
84b5f6f710064d8b0a67c84d99a6e3ed.jpg this is the sort of mini garden they're used in.
Keep Calm measure twice and cut once.
Regards
The Cooroy ToymakerHandmade Wooden toys Sunshine Coast Queensland
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15th January 2016, 06:31 PM #158Skwair2rownd
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Nice work if you can get it!!
Lovely pieces sire!
There is something strangely relaxing and mesmerizing about these gardens.
One of the many Japanese exchange students we had over the yeas gave us one as a gift.
I don't often rake it or rearrange it but it certainly is a pleasant way to relax.
I have watched young children playing in the garden and they are always surprisingly gentle
in how they approach things/
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19th January 2016, 07:50 AM #159
Really nice work on the rakes.
I am wondering if you were going to french polished the grand piano?
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15th February 2016, 08:22 PM #160
Hi Fellow Woodies,
News from the sawdust cave under my house.
Valentines day is over and ""the one who should be obeyed"" is happy with some cute wooden love trinkets.
A couple of orders filled with the completion of the 2 educational toys and a lot of work making toys for the Clubs Wood Show in May.
And of course the never ending job of creating the newsletter for the club.
and so to this weeks photos.
IMG_0292.JPG A new style of woolen scarf pin.
IMG_0293.JPGIMG_0294.JPGIMG_0295.JPGIMG_0296.JPGIMG_0297.JPG New hearts
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IMG_0301.JPGIMG_0307.JPG More items for the Zen gardens. A bridge and a Japanese Tori Gate
A couple of educational toys ready to be painted, both of camphor laurel. I'm sure you've seen this type of toy online somewhere brightly painted in rainbow colours.
IMG_0329.JPGIMG_0330.JPGIMG_0334.JPG Mushroom puzzle house
IMG_0331.JPGIMG_0332.JPGIMG_0333.JPG A rainbow
Until next time,
be safe out there
and don't get captured
Regards
The Cooroy ToymakerHandmade Wooden toys Sunshine Coast Queensland
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22nd February 2016, 02:42 AM #161
A new neighbour at the back of the house with 2 children and a request for toys guns along with some fairy furniture for the little girl.
I'm not a big believer in making toy guns for children but boys will be boys.
So, 4 hours of sanding later.
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An iconic Thompson Sub Machine Gun and a 45.
A little alteration on the original design for more strength and scaled down of course. Made from Red cedar finished with sanding sealer and coated with Tung oil.
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A little while ago during a visit from the grand daughters I was asked to make real stick people. The girls decorated them.
Ever been asked to make a wooden head band 3 cm wide to fit on a stick lady? No? You probably never will.
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The grand daughters are living in England now and still collecting sticks. Chips off the old block.
Their Mum makes fabric and woolen toys for the girls as well.
As my grand daughter says , " We don't buy toys in our family, we make them."
All the best till next time
The Cooory ToymakerHandmade Wooden toys Sunshine Coast Queensland
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27th May 2016, 11:58 AM #162
The Rise and Fall of a Wood Workers Club
Hi fellow Woodies,
Well, where do I start? There's good news and bad news. Firstly the bad news, it's always nice to end on a high.
As you all know I've been the newsletter editor for the Cooroora Woodworkers Club in Cooroy Queensland for a few years and a member for 6 years. While the club secretary was on holidays recently I covered that position as well. The bad news started a couple of months ago when a few hard working and honest members of the management committee made inquiries about timber being stolen from the club. The backlash to the president and other committee members from a few "concerned " members was disturbing, unjustified and nearly came to blows. As a result of the unrelenting verbal abuse the Club President and three other committee members resigned from the club, including me. What I witnessed was a complete disregard for the objectives for which the club was established and blatant breaches of the N.P.O. constitution. In the last 60 days 45 members have not renewed their membership. From a club boasting over 110 members it now has 70 financial members. Quite a number of whom are honorary members (wives ) and life members who have given their best. As is the norm the 10 new members who just joined will fall by the wayside and leave because of lack of support. The remaining members in control have no time or desire for shepherding new members.
I personally witnessed homophobia, anti antisemitism and bulling of men who suffer from depression and other personal issues. Nothing was done about any of it. There is a reason why nothing was done, but I can't state it here in a public forum.
I could not remain in a club that condoned such outrageous behavior. The controlling members have now seriously upset the local council, the club sponsor and other Associations and Clubs associated with the Cooroora Woodworkers Club by refusing to cooperate with them in a civil manner. The club is now collapsing from within with infighting, disharmony and disillusionment.
I can only say, they brought it on themselves and will reap what they sow.
You have heard just a little of the ongoing problems the club has faced over the past few months. I've restrained myself by highlighting just a few incidents.
On a more uplifting note the Men's Sheds of the Sunshine Coast are having an influx of new members with a corresponding increase in funding and infrastructure.
I have now joined the Pomona Men's Shed and will teach toy making there. Additionally the Camphor Laurel Group , a club situated next to the C.W.C. in Cooroy has offered me membership, a dedicated area to work in and supplied me with all the bench top tools I'll need to teach them toy making as well.
Further to all of this I'm now partnering with another woodworker to sell our wares online Australia wide. It's the way to sell your product these days. The overheads uncured selling at local markets is prohibitive and from personal experience, putting your wares on consignment in local shops is problematic.
So onwards and upwards.
Recently I've been concentrating on the Waldorf style of toys to sell online. Pretty much what I've been doing for the past 5-6 years.
13239193_492773300920294_9025987838318861603_n.jpg Puzzles
20160524_141304.jpg Barn
That's all the news to date, the good and the bad.
Thank you for allowing me to vent a little and listening to a sad story about the demise of a once good woodworkers club.
best regards
The Pomona ToymakerHandmade Wooden toys Sunshine Coast Queensland
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29th May 2016, 08:29 AM #163Skwair2rownd
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A great disappointment to see the club collapse, especially ib such a way!!
I have never been able to understand any of the sorts of behaviour you describe
and you are well to be away from it!
Hope your new niche provides you, and us, with the same levels of past satisfaction
that should be had from wood working!!
Cheers mate!!
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29th May 2016, 10:17 AM #164
Thank you for your thoughts.
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29th May 2016, 07:50 PM #165Senior Member
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It's a shame that woodworkingclubs disappear because of reasons like this. Where I live, these clubs are already very scarce, I don't know of one in the neighbourhood.
I hate to hear that people are discriminated because of race, religion, gender or sexual preferences. People should be judged because of their actions, not on anything else.
Focus on the positive and don't let the negative drag you down.
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