Jim Underwood
06-14-2016, 11:35 AM
I attended the AAW symposium in Atlanta this past weekend, and saw plenty of good demos, neat gadgets and tools, and some extremely impressive work by turners around the world.
In addition to driving the hour and fifteen minutes daily to Atlanta from Watkinsville, I made the mistake of parking a mile from the venue and had to hoof it back and forth each day. Some of this went past some pretty sketchy areas... although I couldn't help but gawk at the architecture on old churches. I got some neat pix along the way...
I spoke with Nick Cook, David Marks, Beth Ireland, Alan Trout (nice to meet you Alan!), Mike Mahoney, and several others.. Alan helped me buy some tool handles from Doug Thompson... I stopped by Johannes Michelson's booth (Hannestools.com) chatted with his significant other, and threw my name in the hat.
Also at the symposium they were raffling off a Oneway Lathe. I tried to buy a ticket with all the money in my pocket ($4.00- mostly quarters!) but they weren't having any of that! I meant to borrow a fiver from my buddy, but kept forgetting to ask... By the time I remembered, they'd raffled the darn thing off before lunch on Sunday.
So, I got a hamburger from one of the inside vendors and was chowing down when my phone started ringing... I dug it out of my pocket and saw an unfamiliar number from.. Vermont?!! Geez! Durn telemarketers... "click".
Later I noticed that whoever it was had left a voicemail. Ok, says I, lets see if I need to block this number...
HOLY MACKEREL!
It was Johannes Michelson congratulating me on winning the drawing for the new Stratos CO-230!!!! When I told him I'd ignored the call because I thought he was a telemarketer, he just cracked up laughing...
I kept looking around for friends to tell them the good news and share my excitement with, but all I could see were complete strangers- so I told 'em anyway!:p
Not sure when they'll ship it to me, but it sure will be an upgrade from my Jet EVS 1642 which has been giving me trouble anyway...
Here's the only picture I have of the Demo Lathe, and a few shots of the brochure. Wish I'd taken more pix...
Oh, and the only information I can find out about this lathe is on this website:
http://www.hopewoodturning.co.uk/lathes_29.html
In addition to driving the hour and fifteen minutes daily to Atlanta from Watkinsville, I made the mistake of parking a mile from the venue and had to hoof it back and forth each day. Some of this went past some pretty sketchy areas... although I couldn't help but gawk at the architecture on old churches. I got some neat pix along the way...
I spoke with Nick Cook, David Marks, Beth Ireland, Alan Trout (nice to meet you Alan!), Mike Mahoney, and several others.. Alan helped me buy some tool handles from Doug Thompson... I stopped by Johannes Michelson's booth (Hannestools.com) chatted with his significant other, and threw my name in the hat.
Also at the symposium they were raffling off a Oneway Lathe. I tried to buy a ticket with all the money in my pocket ($4.00- mostly quarters!) but they weren't having any of that! I meant to borrow a fiver from my buddy, but kept forgetting to ask... By the time I remembered, they'd raffled the darn thing off before lunch on Sunday.
So, I got a hamburger from one of the inside vendors and was chowing down when my phone started ringing... I dug it out of my pocket and saw an unfamiliar number from.. Vermont?!! Geez! Durn telemarketers... "click".
Later I noticed that whoever it was had left a voicemail. Ok, says I, lets see if I need to block this number...
HOLY MACKEREL!
It was Johannes Michelson congratulating me on winning the drawing for the new Stratos CO-230!!!! When I told him I'd ignored the call because I thought he was a telemarketer, he just cracked up laughing...
I kept looking around for friends to tell them the good news and share my excitement with, but all I could see were complete strangers- so I told 'em anyway!:p
Not sure when they'll ship it to me, but it sure will be an upgrade from my Jet EVS 1642 which has been giving me trouble anyway...
Here's the only picture I have of the Demo Lathe, and a few shots of the brochure. Wish I'd taken more pix...
Oh, and the only information I can find out about this lathe is on this website:
http://www.hopewoodturning.co.uk/lathes_29.html