Dirt Cheap Handtools! M-WTCA Meeting and Lunch in Hillsborough Jan 17
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OK folks! Tupelo's can accommodate up to 20 peeps on Saturday at 1:00pm. The manager said he'd set aside the area near the bar :icon_thum for us. All we have to do is call between 11:30am and 12:00am that morning with a firm commitment and number. Sound good?
Laissez les bons temps rouler :eusa_danc
Bob
Had a blast this morning! Thanks Tarhead for the invite!! I really enjoyed seeing everyone. Here's a few pics (sorry, my photography skills are like my woodworking skills). To Ozzie-x and Toddler... I'm very sorry I missed y'all in the pics. I forgot to get the camera back out... dohh :eusa_doh:.
l-r: nelsone, SteveW, cpowell, sapwood, peteb301, ScottM, dpsnyder
l-r: Tarhead, James Davis
l-r: cpowell, nelsone, sapwood, SteveW
l-r: peteb301, dpsnyder, ScottM
hope I got all the names right :dontknow:
l-r: nelsone, SteveW, cpowell, sapwood, peteb301, ScottM, dpsnyder
l-r: Tarhead, James Davis
l-r: cpowell, nelsone, sapwood, SteveW
l-r: peteb301, dpsnyder, ScottM
hope I got all the names right :dontknow:
Man, that was fun :banana:
Tools, talk, and good grub.
In the interest of accurate documentation additional members at the meet include: Jerome Bias, Ed Hobbs, and Bill Anderson . . . oh yeah, someone said Little John Reeves came late, but I didn't see him. He is quite small you know :gar-Bi
Hope I didn't leave anyone out.
Roger
Tools, talk, and good grub.
In the interest of accurate documentation additional members at the meet include: Jerome Bias, Ed Hobbs, and Bill Anderson . . . oh yeah, someone said Little John Reeves came late, but I didn't see him. He is quite small you know :gar-Bi
Hope I didn't leave anyone out.
Roger
Really enjoyed the lunch. It was nice to be able to put faces with handles. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together.
James
James
It certainly was good to see some of my NCWW friends and meet some new ones. The lunch was good and I appreciate Bob and Mark orchestrating it. Bob, don't worry about missing my picture, I wouldn't want anyone to get turned into a pillar of sawdust. The tool meeting was a lot of fun and several NCWW's got some nice old tools. The progam on levels was very interesting and informative.
Not meaning or wanting to hijack the thread, but the woodworking hot topic for the day seemed to be stringing and inlay work, the topic kept coming up all day with lots of different people and groups. The relevant old tool content is that about all of this type work is done with hand tools, many of which are not readily available today. John Reeves and his friend (another NCWW who I apologize for not remembering his name) had been to the Willaimsburg Conference where stringing and inlay was the topic. I happened to find a book at the tool meet titled "Charleston Furniture 1700-1825" written by E. Milby Burton that has some of the most beautiful old antique pieces in it with intricate and elaborate strininging and inlays. One of the MWTCA members Ron Campbell was there yesterday, and Ron was a career furniture builder before he retired, and had built a lot of reproduction pieces similar to ones in the book, and Ron had met the author many years ago before Mr. Burton's passing. Some of Ron's pieces are a work of art. If I can get up to speed on taking some pictures and posting said pictures, I may start another thread on stringing and inlays.:icon_thum
Not meaning or wanting to hijack the thread, but the woodworking hot topic for the day seemed to be stringing and inlay work, the topic kept coming up all day with lots of different people and groups. The relevant old tool content is that about all of this type work is done with hand tools, many of which are not readily available today. John Reeves and his friend (another NCWW who I apologize for not remembering his name) had been to the Willaimsburg Conference where stringing and inlay was the topic. I happened to find a book at the tool meet titled "Charleston Furniture 1700-1825" written by E. Milby Burton that has some of the most beautiful old antique pieces in it with intricate and elaborate strininging and inlays. One of the MWTCA members Ron Campbell was there yesterday, and Ron was a career furniture builder before he retired, and had built a lot of reproduction pieces similar to ones in the book, and Ron had met the author many years ago before Mr. Burton's passing. Some of Ron's pieces are a work of art. If I can get up to speed on taking some pictures and posting said pictures, I may start another thread on stringing and inlays.:icon_thum
It was great to see all the NCWW'ers at this meeting and, of course, the lunch afterwards! This is my second year at the Hillsborough meet and the second year in a row where I had a blast!
I picked up a couple of "different" handplanes (Stanley 103 and an S&S 130-type) plus a plumb bob. The prices there are quite reasonable and most of these old tools are better than a lot of the new ones (excepting such items as Lie-Nielsen, etc.).
Tupelo's is one of my wife's and my favorite places. For such a small town, Hillsborough has a good selection of places to go eat. We've been hoping for more mom & pop places here in Mebane but Hillsborough's not a bad drive from here.
:kermit: Steve
I picked up a couple of "different" handplanes (Stanley 103 and an S&S 130-type) plus a plumb bob. The prices there are quite reasonable and most of these old tools are better than a lot of the new ones (excepting such items as Lie-Nielsen, etc.).
Tupelo's is one of my wife's and my favorite places. For such a small town, Hillsborough has a good selection of places to go eat. We've been hoping for more mom & pop places here in Mebane but Hillsborough's not a bad drive from here.
:kermit: Steve
All I see are pics of lunch...no tools...didn't happen ;-)
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