Blank Swap?

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davinci27

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I'm new here, but I was looking through the past posts and saw a couple of mentions of blank swaps. I did some searching and didn't see that many blank swap threads. I notice that the swaps seemed to be run a little different from what I expected. It looks like members would swap with one other member at random.

Has anybody ever tried a coordinated blank swap? We used to do this with flies in various fly tying forums. You set a limit to the number of participants, say 12. Then people sign up for the swap. Each person picks a type of fly to make, make one for each member of the swap and sends the 12 flies along with a return shipping envelope to the coordinator. The coordinator takes one fly from each person and sends each participant 12 different flies.

Anybody ever try this with blanks? Might be a fun way to get various samples from different folks. You could set a theme like locally harvested, or castings only, etc, etc.

Just a thought

Ben
 
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I like the idea. Especially the locally grown woods or home castings. We have done a finished pen swap but I think swapping blanks would be cool.

(How 'bout it, Activities Director Cav?)
 
I saw that posting. I thought it was neat, but you only got 4 blanks from one person. I thought swapping and getting one blank from each person in the swap might be interesting. It would give you a diversity of blanks.
 
I do it fairly often with people in the Ubeaut group. There's pen swaps too, but
often I'll just send off a box full of blanks and I get a box full of Aussie timbers in
return.

Pretty cool ..
 
One one of the other woodworking blog sites have a pen swap going. This is the second one that they started and is currently making it's way to CA through the South, NE, I believe it made it to Canada, then through the MidWest. The way they are working it is they start with a box with assorted blanks and kits. The next person takes some and adds some, then sends it on. It ends with the first person and they use whats left to seed the next trade.
 
All it needs is for someone to get it started...collecting names, addresses, mapping path, ect. I like the idea of local woods too...I'd play
 
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