I won FWW's turning contest.

[Bill Wyko]

I entered the piece I made called Monsoon in FWW's "What have you turned lately" contest. I was thrilled to have made the top 15 but to win is a real honor. The competition was extremely talented so to have come out on top really blows me away. IMHO everyone in the contest was deserving of winning, I'm just the lucky one. I'd like to say thanks to FWW and everyone that voted for me.:)

[Tom Henry]

We need some pictures of the winning piece!

[Steve Schlumpf]

Bill - congrats on your win! Absolutely beautiful work! You really had some stiff competition - so to win a contest of this caliber is quite the accomplishment! Congrats!

[alex grams]

I presume it is ok to post a link to the FWW website with pictures of his work. I hope this is also your work, unless someone else liked the Monsoon name :) Very nice piece of work.

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[curtis rosche]

when are we gonna see your new one to rival this? typhoon?

[Joe Aliperti]

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Nice work. Congratulations!

[phil harold]

congrats!

I like it!

[Irwin Fletcher]

Holy crap! How do you even begin something like that? As a newbie turner, color me very, very impressed!

[Brian Effinger]

Congratulations, Bill! :D
And you're welcome. I was worried you wouldn't win - when I voted you were second or third. I tried stuffing the ballot box, but the darn website was wise to me. :)
So, what did you win?

[alex carey]

Congrats! and joe i love the Keanu poster.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Congrats Bill. It was well deserved. What a beautiful piece.

[Dan Hunter]

Holy smokes! Amazing work! How many hours did it to make such a beautiful piece?

[Alan Trout]

Bill, Congratulations

It is no surprise you always do wonderful work. It was very much deserved.

Alan

[Tim Malyszko]

Bill,

Congrats. You deserve it.

[Dan Forman]

Congrat's to you Bill. Looks like an incredible amount of work went into that piece.

Dan

[Jameel Abraham]

Congrats Bill!

[Toney Robertson]

Now that is the mother of all gloats!!!!

Congratulations.

Toney

[ROY DICK]

Bill, as always very impressive. And well deserved.

Roy
Double (\'S ^

[Pete Jordan]

Congrats Buddy!

There were some very nice pieces in that competition.

[Bill Wyko]

Thank you guys so very much. To win this contest in itself it the biggest prize. The archive DVD set sure is some nice icing on the cake though. I can't believe I won this prestigious contest. That will go right at the top of the Ol resume'.
I know I haven't done anything to top this yet. I've been making a little money building humidors lately. When I catch up on them I'll get back in the saddle and try to out do this one. I do have some ideas but they give me nightmares thinking about the complexity.:eek: This is definitely motivation to go for it though.
Thanks again to all my fellow wood workers for your support. My piece is definitely in the company of greatness. Everyone in the contest is extremely talented. I feel humbled and blessed to have been a part of this incredible group of turners. God Bless and keep turning. :)

[Mike Golka]

Bill you are much too modist. That is a fantastic peice and you deserve to win.

[Steven DeMars]

Fantastic . . . great . . . beautiful . . .:)

Geeeeeeeze . . . I need to watch 10,000 more videos just to figure out how you did it . . . .

Congratulations . . .

Steve:)

[Mark Burge]

Congratulations. Stunning work. Well deserved.

[Gary Herrmann]

Very impressive, Bill. Congratulations.

[gary Zimmel]

Congratulations Bill.

Now that is one stunning piece!
As another newbie turner I can't even imagine the hours that it took.

[Larry Marley]

that is amazing Bill.
congratulations on First prize

[John Keeton]

Just trying to understand the underlying process of preparing the blank is a challenge for me!! The planning and assembly is masterful enough, and then throw in the actual turning process - and that is how masterpieces are born!!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Bill,

Beautifully done Sir!

[Bill Wyko]

Fantastic . . . great . . . beautiful . . .:)

Geeeeeeeze . . . I need to watch 10,000 more videos just to figure out how you did it . . . .

Congratulations . . .

Steve:)


HAHAA I need to rember how I did it.:D Thank you all very, very much.

[Mauricio Ulloa]

Awesome Bill! Congratulations!!!!!

[John W Dixon]

Beautiful work Bill! Congratulations on getting top honors!

John

[Don Orr]

Congratulations and well deserved.

[Brett Baldwin]

Well, not a huge surprise really given the inate talent you've shown from the beginning. Congrats on the recognition of it.

[Rick Moyer]

I don't venture too often over here to the "round" forum ('cause I'm skeerd of the vortex:D), so I didn't realize you had these talents as well. I was immensely impressed with your exquisite humidors and thought you had to concentrate all your efforts into those to make them so beautiful.
You work is fantastic. Congratulations.

[Bill Wyko]

You guys are too kind. I'm always motivated and inspired by all the talent I find here as well. Thank you for that.:)

[Jarrod McGehee]

Congratulations! I saw that on there when I was browsing the site. I love the work you put in there.