Ken Fitzgerald
08-16-2006, 10:40 AM
Folks.........I don't think you'll ever understand totally what effect you had on my family when you gifted me with the Bomb!
In the last two weeks, the LOML has encouraged me to spend over $1000 in turning accessories. The Trend Airshield was the most expensive thing I've gotten. But then....I now have everything I need to turn pens, bottlestoppers and salt and pepper grinders.
I'm supposed to pickup the engraved glass goblet today for my latest project. I took the stem over to show my neighbors last night and the guy's wife followed me home. She's claiming that tigerwood is now her favorite wood. My neighbors insisted that it was only fair that I make similar things for my two other kids and their spouses. I listened as my wife told her that it was almost magic. You take a piece of wood that looks bland on the outside and turn it ...and expose the beauty that is hidden within. This was especially true in the piece of box elder given to me by Forrest Price.
SWMBO was shopping and found these Christmas craft flowers. She brought some home......put a few in a weed pot that might have been my first turning project after the bonker.......She said.....You turn these pretty quick don't you?.......Could you make ....say a dozen of these for Christmas presents at school?.........My first commissioned turning..........
I don't find myself vegetating in front of the television much these days. Instead I'm reading and figuring out how to make my next project.
Thanks!
In the last two weeks, the LOML has encouraged me to spend over $1000 in turning accessories. The Trend Airshield was the most expensive thing I've gotten. But then....I now have everything I need to turn pens, bottlestoppers and salt and pepper grinders.
I'm supposed to pickup the engraved glass goblet today for my latest project. I took the stem over to show my neighbors last night and the guy's wife followed me home. She's claiming that tigerwood is now her favorite wood. My neighbors insisted that it was only fair that I make similar things for my two other kids and their spouses. I listened as my wife told her that it was almost magic. You take a piece of wood that looks bland on the outside and turn it ...and expose the beauty that is hidden within. This was especially true in the piece of box elder given to me by Forrest Price.
SWMBO was shopping and found these Christmas craft flowers. She brought some home......put a few in a weed pot that might have been my first turning project after the bonker.......She said.....You turn these pretty quick don't you?.......Could you make ....say a dozen of these for Christmas presents at school?.........My first commissioned turning..........
I don't find myself vegetating in front of the television much these days. Instead I'm reading and figuring out how to make my next project.
Thanks!