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WoW this is great.I have first hand experience with what you and your wife are doing.I have 2 part time jobs for 2 different non-profits.One of them I work one on one in the same enviroment as your wife.The other I am the project manager for a janitoral crew.All we hire are people with special needs.The way I look at is the God of my under standing has a plan for me.And it's not for me to ask what,it's to just do it.

All I can do right now is send some wood.I'll have to see just what I've got.I wish I could do more but right now I'm the only one working here.
PM your address and I'll get it out as quick as I can.

Happy Turning,
Robert A.
 
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Hi Dion, Im very happy to see this working out for you and just wanted to say what a great person you are for being so giving. I live next to a friendship house that helps special needs people and have a few friends that come to visit me from there. My wifes uncle, who lives with us, used to go to there, when he was physically able, for their work program. He and I work on projects (mostly diecast cars... his passion), and it is a great bond for us. You are doing a great thing and Im sure they love you for it. I would like to send you a care package to help out. Please pm me your address and I will get something on the way. Thank you!
 
Dion,
As I opened your post I noticed three pages of replies, now I am replying after reading the last and there are 5 pages. Holy cow! what a response! These people are great, and so are you for waht you are doing. I am greatful for not needing your assistance in that way but would want YOU there if I did. Please pm me and I will send a package of "stuff".
 
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Dion,

I don't have a lot of resources, but I'd be happy to come up with some things to send (not sure what yet) if you let me know where to send them.

-Barry
 
Dion,
I would be happy to send you some things for your workshop. Please send me your address. I think that your work is very important and you are blessed to have such a wonderful opportunity. Thank you for all that you and your wife do to enrich the world by helping people reach their full potential.
 
Dion,

I have some blanks I can send. I might have some pencil kits, or are you just doing pens? Should they be shipped to the address on your posting?
Thanks
Angela
 
Barry, Cindy & Angela,
Thank You very much for your donations! My wife use to think I spent way too much time on a silly site! Now she is asking "did anyone respond?" She is amazed (as am I) by how kind and generous everyone is!
 
Dion

Expect a PM from my wife. She wants to see if she can give a hand teaching here and there when she is in Houston waiting for my course to finish.
 
I've got an extra lathe, table saw, drill press and a belt disk sander, plus all of my bushings that I had for mandrels, some blanks and I will come over and help you teach.
Ok Guys, all of you that went to mandrelless turning, how about you donating the bushings because this is really a worthy cause and Dion needs lots more things. Anything that you have that you are willing to share will be greatly appreciated by all these mentally challenged adults. And Thanks to all of you that have already committed to donating what you have. So come on...I know times are hard for everyone, but surely there are some things that you aren't using any more that you can send him.
 
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I've got an extra lathe, table saw, drill press and a belt disk sander, plus all of my bushings that I had for mandrels, some blanks and I will come over and help you teach.
Ok Guys, all of you that went to mandrelless turning, how about you donating the bushings because this is really a worthy cause and Dion needs lots more things. Anything that you have that you are willing to share will be greatly appreciated by all these mentally challenged adults. And Thanks to all of you that have already committed to donating what you have. So come on...I know times are hard for everyone, but surely there are some things that you aren't using any more that you can send him.
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Holy cow Robert that is great! I appreciate this and again I can't believe the responses I am getting. But like Robert said one thing that might seem cheap are the bushing which I anticipate going through as we train our clients. We are thinking we will turn: Slims, Anelli (what WoodNWhimsies calls them) & Cigars. So if you have any of these bushing gathering dust we would love to have them...
A BIG THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED US OUT!!!!!:bananen_smilies027::bananen_smilies022:!
 
Dion, I got the box ready and will have it out to you on Thursday. I included a couple of my personal pr blanks for you, as a thank you. Thanks for letting us help you.
 
Dion,
Early next week I'll get a box in the mail for you. I'll send a few dozen slimline kits, blanks, CA and what ever I can find to fit in the box.
Dave
 
Dion, what a great thing you all are doing there! I can't believe I missed this post the last few days. And now there are 7 pages.

I used to work as a job coach working my way through college. I had a few wonderful clients as Rehab Counselor. I'm not able to do either job now - brain degeneration. But what I CAN do is send you some things.

And I know no matter how much we all send you now, there will be times down the road when some supplies and stuff will "get thin." So even though I'm putting a package together now, I want you to know all you need to do is drop me a note and I'll send you another box.
 
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Dion, what a great thing you all are doing there! I can't believe I missed this post the last few days. And now there are 7 pages.

I used to work as a job coach working my way through college. I had a few wonderful clients as Rehab Counselor. I'm not able to do either job now - brain degeneration. But what I CAN do is send you some things.

And I know no matter how much we all send you now, there will be times down the road when some supplies and stuff will "get thin." So even though I'm putting a package together now, I want you to know all you need to do is drop me a note and I'll send you another box.
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Continued support be careful! :biggrin: you are now my best friend! :tongue::biggrin:
Seriously thank you very much and for the offer to help in the future!
 
Dion,
Be sure to take a notepad! Remember, you can't talk for the next week! Got any Rockler certificates? I'm going there for a tormek demo today!
Take care,
Vern
 
Received 3 more packages today this is so much fun even LOML is getting into this. I can't believe how generous everyone has been!:biggrin::eek: We get keys to shop this week I am dying to get it set up. Of course my wife wants it to be all neat and organized :mad: We are making charts for safety for each tool (although none can be used without one on one supervision to start.)
 
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Snowman56 (Robert) & his wife just left our house after dropping off:
Drill Press
Table Saw
Sander
Lathe
blanks & much more misc...
He even gave me some personal goodies!!!!!! :biggrin:

Thank You again Robert and will be calling you as soon as I can talk so we can get our first session underway with the wranglers. :biggrin::biggrin:
 
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Snowman56 (Robert) & his wife just left our house after dropping off:
Drill Press
Table Saw
Sander
Lathe
blanks & much more misc...
He even gave me some personal goodies!!!!!! :biggrin:

Thank You again Robert and will be calling you as soon as I can talk so we can get our first session underway with the wranglers. :biggrin::biggrin:
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Thank you, Dion, for the nice visit and for a great lunch. We enjoyed ourselves, plus thanks for the Arkansas oil stones and the large batch of antlers. Now I will be turning them into pens. I will be looking forward to helping you teach penturning to the Wranglers.
 
Two more packages arrived today:

Some very custom Finish Barrel Trimmers made by Larry (ribanett) with cool stand to keep them organized (wife likes that) :rolleyes:

Also second package contained kits, Pen Press, Pen vise WOW!!:biggrin::eek:
this was from Jim (Jim15)

Thank You both for helping us with this effort.

Still no keys to shop but I spent the day cleaning some of the tools from Robert (snowman56) so I am having fun while I recover from my surgery :confused:
 
Dion,

A package is going out today with about 25 slimline kits and 9 or 10 blanks with tubes in them. Better late than never, right?

Thanks!
 
This has me convinced that penturners are some of the most generous (if hardheaded and opinionated) people around! What a great response!!!


Dion,

Pm me your address. I have at least a flat rate box of blanks to send you, as long as you can make me one promise. Some of the wood I'll send you is either spalted, stabilized, or otherwise allergenic or similar (well they pretty much all are)--- and you'll probably get something like that from other folks as well. Promise me that you will keep a good stash of quality dust masks. NOT the cheap "comfort" masks sold for mowing the lawn, but a true NIOSH approved dust mask. You never know when someone will have a sensitive allergy to something like walnut, and especially for anything spalted.
 
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we are on vacation right now
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Dion, My wife and daughter are planning their pilgrimage through Conroe this week on Thursday. Will it be possible for them to deliver the drill press and couple of boxes of stuff??

Tom
 
dntrost said:
Of course my wife wants it to be all neat and organized :mad:
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I know this has already been commented on thoroughly, but send your wife over to arizonasihouette.com and tell her that if even that company can't keep their website organized, lol, there's no way a pen shop's gonna stay halfway organized.

So far the closest thing to organized I have is:

1 big 3-drawer Rubberaid bin about 3 feet tall that has one bin for unused pen kits, one bin for unused pen "parts" (tubes, spare parts, etc....) and one bin for cut-offs that I plan on never:rolleyes: using for custom center bands and finials:redface:.


Also, I have one 24"X24" board with long nails driven through it (taken from an idea someone gave me here) with all my bushings on it, and the board is labeled for every pen.


Other than that, it can only be described as the "Hurricane Hugo special".
 
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Update;
Two of our vendors have also contributed to our special project and I wanted to recognize them for all of their support

Tracey & Tim at WoodNWhinmsies:
Pen Press
Rounded off my gift certificate!
Over stuffed the box with freebies (thing they thought we could use):biggrin::eek:

Woodcraft Inc:
6 sets of bushings
5 Packs of 10 Pen Kits
2 Bags of Wood blanks
2 Gouges 3/8 Spindle
2 10oz Glue
2 Packages of Sanding Product
2 Packages of Finishing Product
All I had to do was ask and they also opened up.

The shop is up and running (well I started training the staff) Wranglers start on Monday with safety then might get to make some pens later in the week.

Again we would never have got this far without the tremendous support from all of the folks here that have been so kind and generous!

My plan is to introduce some of the higher functioning wranglers to IAP and hope they will join and share with everyone what they make!
 
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