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Curtis probably could not tell that it was upside down if he was on the IAP from his iphone.

Great group of guys.... and had a great time showing people how to turn pens, most for the first time!

Dan
 
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I too will say Thank you first and foremost to Don Ward (its_virgil) for inviting me to go with him to the SWAT. What better than to spend a weekend with good friends doing what we enjoy most, Woodturning. I would also like to thank Craig and his employees from WoodWorld out of Dallas, Tx for generously donating so many supplies to help the "Hands on penturning" area. Thanks to (youthministerDan) for his help and patient with the many people that stopped by, including the lady that scalped herself:eek:(funny in hindsight, but not at the time I'm sure!) Ask Don and Dan if anyone is curious, I happened to have stepped away for the moment when it happened. Lots of thanks to Curtis for sacrificing his time with family to hang out from Friday afternoon till Saturday night with us. Good Times!! I encourage everyone who couldnt attend this year, to make arrangements now to do so next year! Its a blast.
 
Home sweet home...no place like home. It was an excellent symposium. The unofficial count was 720...not pens made but attendance at the symposium.:biggrin:

Thanks to Curtis, Seamus, YMD (youth minister Dan) and Keith Longnekker for the excellent help. I could not have handled it by myself. I would estimate there were 100+ pens made and most were first time pens. We had blanks cut and drilled for a couple of kits. Kits were purchased from vendors and we helped with the pen making process.

Thanks also to Craig and WoodworldTx for donating the blanks (afzelia xlay), sandpaper, finishing supplies and loaning us most of the tools we used....plus selling the kits and other turning supplies and tools for a nice show discount....

BTW...I'm ready for next year. The 100+ blanks Seamus and I cut and drilled were left in my shop at home. We had to hustle early Friday morning to get more cut and drilled before the pen area opened. Curtis called thurs evening and I told him what I had done and Curtis brought us some of his Tx wood blanks cut and drilled...he did them thurs evening. Thanks for that extra duty Curtis.

Thanks one more time for all of the help.
They all did several good turns for 3 days.
Don
 
I also forgot to thank Ken Nelsen at Kallenshaan woods for providing the free engraving on the pens that everyone turned while at the hands on area. Overall, I had an excellent time and learned alot from everything, hopefully it will give me a better understanding next year of being better prepared and in reminding Don to make sure we bring all of our supplies,lol
 
It really was a great weekend. Friday was a pretty busy day but for the most part on Saturday and Sunday we were constant from open to calo with people actually waiting for a lathe to open up in order to turn.

Contact me and I will tell you why I think that the lady got her hair caught in the lathe....she might have been daydreaming ....what do you think seamus? just kidding. I was suprised that we only had one person glue their fingers together.

We keep thinking of more people to thank...like was said earlier...
First and foremost Woodworld (who sponsored our booth)
Kallenshaan
Starbond
One Wood tool (or something like that...they let us try out those awesome tools)
The gentleman from Dallas who let us use one of his lathes, grinder and some other tools.
And especially Don and his club for their turning stuff and for inviting me also.

Once again ...a great weekend and experience!

Thanks everyone,
YMD..
 
I forgot to thank Ken and Colin who own Kallenshaan Woods. They were vendors with their incredible laser inlay kits. They brought their laser and engraved names on all of the pens made in the hands on area. A big THANK YOU to Kallenshaan Woods for their generosity.

The tools Dan mentioned were furnished by Craig Jackson and Easy Wood Tools. We were furnished two easy roughers and two easy finishers...the smaller ones for pens. The tools are incredible and all of those who used them had only good things to say. Thanks Craig for making these tools available.

Thanks to John Solberg for lending us his Jet mini lathe, grinder, and a few tools.

Do a good turn daily!
Don

YouthMinisterDan said:
We keep thinking of more people to thank...like was said earlier...
First and foremost Woodworld (who sponsored our booth)
Kallenshaan
Starbond
One Wood tool (or something like that...they let us try out those awesome tools)
The gentleman from Dallas who let us use one of his lathes, grinder and some other tools.
And especially Don and his club for their turning stuff and for inviting me also.

Once again ...a great weekend and experience!

Thanks everyone,
YMD..
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