George Guadiane
07-24-2010, 6:41 PM
ALOHA!
A word with many meanings, all of them applicable here.
I am currently in Hawaii on a "working" vacation. We will be vendors at the Hawaii All Collector's Show next weekend, but I GOT here in time for the Honolulu Woodturners meeting, where I picked up a nice piece of free wood from Dougie Bowen. I also have some local friends here. One of them had some Koa log shorts that I could manage to get into my van.
With no chainsaw and not knowing where or if I could rent one, as a non-local, I called Any Cole for suggestions... He immediately offered to have me come over there so that I could use his saw and bandsaw to get my finds "flat rate box ready."
When I arrived, he started out by handing me a NICE box ready piece of Formosan (acacia) Koa. We went right to work as he had a lunch date with his beautiful wife and I was keeping him from that.
We cut four nice pieces out of some (what turned out to be) sketchy logs with punky spots in places. I also got one yellowish softish crotch piece of "dunno wood" that smells like pumpkin.
He didn't chase me out, but he wouldn't even let me stay to clean up.
I am humbled by the Aloha spirit that I find here... If you can imagine, it is even stronger than the general friendly/helpfulness that we find in the general turning community (if that is even possible).
I got a picture of the wood before it was wrapped and put in boxes.
Aloha Andy,
Mahalo!
A word with many meanings, all of them applicable here.
I am currently in Hawaii on a "working" vacation. We will be vendors at the Hawaii All Collector's Show next weekend, but I GOT here in time for the Honolulu Woodturners meeting, where I picked up a nice piece of free wood from Dougie Bowen. I also have some local friends here. One of them had some Koa log shorts that I could manage to get into my van.
With no chainsaw and not knowing where or if I could rent one, as a non-local, I called Any Cole for suggestions... He immediately offered to have me come over there so that I could use his saw and bandsaw to get my finds "flat rate box ready."
When I arrived, he started out by handing me a NICE box ready piece of Formosan (acacia) Koa. We went right to work as he had a lunch date with his beautiful wife and I was keeping him from that.
We cut four nice pieces out of some (what turned out to be) sketchy logs with punky spots in places. I also got one yellowish softish crotch piece of "dunno wood" that smells like pumpkin.
He didn't chase me out, but he wouldn't even let me stay to clean up.
I am humbled by the Aloha spirit that I find here... If you can imagine, it is even stronger than the general friendly/helpfulness that we find in the general turning community (if that is even possible).
I got a picture of the wood before it was wrapped and put in boxes.
Aloha Andy,
Mahalo!