Klingspor Show and NCWW Gathering '06 - Page 7

Klingspor Show and NCWW Gathering '06 · 08-30-2006, 04:53 PM

Klingspor Extravaganza Woodworking Show

Friday Oct 27 & Saturday Oct 28, 2006

More details at Klingspor's Web Site

Hickory Metro Convention Center
Hickory, NC
(directions here)

Gathering of NC Woodworkers to follow (further details TBA). Be sure to mark your calendars and set aside time for this event! Start making carpool plans now! We had a great time last year! (click here to see pics from the 2005 Extravaganza)

In an effort to obtain a reasonable estimate of how many will attend this event, please submit an RSVP if you plan to attend. Click here to see this event announcement in the Calendar, and you will see the link to RSVP. (you can undo this if you find that you cannot attend)

See you there!

Monty · 10-28-2006, 07:13 PM

Thanks to all who helped make the gathering a success! It was a great time. The woodworking show is not as big as the Charlotte show usually would be (but there is no Charlotte show this year), but it's still worthwhile. The gathering is the main event, of course!

Some quick highlights from the show....

mmmm.... barbecue!!!
lots of good fun and fellowship
lots of interest in the web site from show visitors
total of 16 pens turned at the pen-turning demo - with even more to be contributed by some show visitors who wanted to help out!
many people got some "goodies", including free cups and hats (courtesy of Steve) and some cool SlickSaw stuff (courtesy of PeteM)
fantastic display of some of the fine craftsmanship of the members of NC Woodworker
an exclusive "sneak preview" of the all-new gallery collection of cskipper trivets
Steve was spotted actually doing woodworking!!!
and of course, NO ONE was able to resist playing DaveO's bongo box!!!

Special thanks to Klingspor for providing the space, and to Micromesh for their donation of a couple of Micromesh starter kits to help with the pen turning event.

Pics to follow... I'm too tired right now...

NZAPP1 · 10-28-2006, 09:07 PM

It was a great day for food fun and fellowship

Thanks Monty, Clay and Steve. I got to meet a lot of the people today that post on this wonders site of ours

for the first time. I also would like to thank Dick and his wife Rita for picking me up and getting me to the event

A good time was had by all

cskipper · 10-28-2006, 09:36 PM

Thanks for Monty and all for coordinating the event! Good food and great fellowship. I had a great time - meeting new folks and visiting with those I already knew. All in all, a delightful day!

DaveO · 10-28-2006, 09:42 PM

I really enjoyed myself. The food was great and meeting friends old and new was the highlight. I am glad I was finally able to turn a pen to contribute to the effort. To all those that I met, too many to name individually...I'm a slow typist, It was great to meet you, and a honor to to put a face with the name. Thanks to all that came out and made it a great afternoon.
Dave

cskipper · 10-28-2006, 09:44 PM

Did I read that correctly -- DaveO is a slow typist??????

ccccarving · 10-28-2006, 11:12 PM

Hello everybody had a great time. It was nice to meet everyone. Thanks for the encouragement on my attempts at carving.
Thanks Charlie

DaveO · 10-29-2006, 12:17 AM

Attempts at carving,

the Red-Tailed Hawk carving that won the 3rd place wasn't an attempt, it was a success. I got home and that was the first thing I told my wife about. The level of detail you put into that piece was astounding. Beautiful work, period!!
BTW, it was very nice to meet you

Dave

D L Ames · 10-29-2006, 01:02 AM

Looks like I missed a great gathering. I am glad to hear everyone had a wonderful time and I look forward to seeing the pics. Someone did remember to bring a camera..............right????

D L

jeff... · 10-29-2006, 01:06 AM

Sounds like everyone had a great time any pictures?

cskipper · 10-29-2006, 08:20 AM

Several folks had camera's - hopefully pictures will majically appear today.

McRabbet · 10-29-2006, 09:37 AM

Okay, Cathy -- I uploaded some pictures -- see the new Klingspor Extravaganza 2006 category in the Photo Gallery for more pictures, but here are a few:

Monty takes his "Turn"

Roger (Sapwood) and Mark (Tarhead) exchange war stories

David Fenton's beatiful coffee table

Cathy discussing her Trivets

Chris Mathes turns a pen

Some of DaveO's beautiful work

We all sure had fun!

Rob

walnutjerry · 10-29-2006, 11:14 AM

Originally Posted by jeff...

Sounds like everyone had a great time any pictures?

We did have a good day there Jeff!! I finally got to meet a few more of the members and see some of there work that has been shown on the site. The pictures just do no do justice to the examples of their work. I did get to talk to Michael Brown and see his beautiful chairs-----he is a master craftsman.

The food was excellent--------many thanks to Monty, John and any others that worked to put the event together. It was indeed an enjoyable day. We even got to see a lot of toys...........er tools.

Jerry

sapwood · 10-29-2006, 12:52 PM

Hugs and applause

for all who came and mostly for the hard work by Monty, Clay, Steve, John, the Klingspor folks and other "unknown" contributors. The Hickory members did an awesome job of providing fun, food, and a great venue for NCWWers. A wonderful reunion and a few new faces matched up (Gregg, Greybeard, Jerry, April, Chris, et. al.). And it was free!!!!

Hope everyone returned safely.

BTW WG, when do I get the Krenov plane . . . I bought 3 raffle tickets

Appreciatively,
Roger

clowman · 10-29-2006, 02:11 PM

I had a great time. I do hope that everyone that wanted a turn at the lathe actually got a turn. We had a signup sheet, but it turned out that the lathes were never idle (cept for lunch) and if someone felt like turning they did get to. I think it was a big success, and fun was made by all. I think we got some people that wanted to try get their chance.

woodguy1975 · 10-29-2006, 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by sapwood

Hugs and applause for all who came and mostly for the hard work by Monty, Clay, Steve, John, the Klingspor folks and other "unknown" contributors. The Hickory members did an awesome job of providing fun, food, and a great venue for NCWWers. A wonderful reunion and a few new faces matched up (Gregg, Greybeard, Jerry, April, Chris, et. al.). And it was free!!!!

Hope everyone returned safely.
BTW WG, when do I get the Krenov plane . . . I bought 3 raffle tickets

Appreciatively,
Roger

You'd have to fight for it from the winner of the plane. LOL A very nice woman won the ticket and was present. She was really excited about it and the upcoming classes she signed up for. Folks coming to the finishing class will meet the lucky winner.

The show was awsome and I had a great time although wore myself out pretty good. I knew I was getting tired when I was doing my dovetail demo and was seeing two lines. I just sawed down the middle of them. LOL.

The gathering was awsome!!!!!!!! I only got to stick around for about an hour because I was getting a lot of traffic by the class area and had lots of folks asking questions and wanting more info on classes. I did get to stick around and take a seat in Jerry's Windsor's and see Cathy's table-o-scrolling. Everyone's projects looks first rate!!!!!!! I wish I could have mingled around more to get to talk with everyone in person.

Let's give it up for Monty!!!!!!!!! He did an awsome job on the arrangements, pen kits, food, and even dinner friday night. April and I had a great time out to dinner with Monty and his wife and Steve and his wife. I can't remember a better time. I'm glad we decided to go. I was out like a light about 10 minutes after getting home though.

If only we could do this more often.

I'm up for a gathering in China if anyone wants to come on over. LOL!!!!

I'll process my pics too and get them up soon.

Thanks,

John

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