Certificate Wood Raffle *Winner* CaptG

[Rmartin]

<center>Certificate Wood Raffle</center>
<center>WINNER</center>

<center>CaptG (Gary Nicholls)</center>

Note: Scroll down to the bottom of this post to see how the winner was picked

Wow! WE had 148 tickets sold and raised $740.00 for the IAP!

Once I double check everything, the drawing will be held Monday!
Good Luck!

<center>Raffle Entries as of 20-Jan-08</center>
3 Tickets Robert Miner
7 Tickets airrat
2 Tickets Phil Townsend
2 Tickets MDWine
4 Tickets John Britt
4 Tickets anonymous donor
2 Tickets Tea Clipper
2 Tickets Rincewind03060
2 Tickets Bruce Kauffman
10 Tickets Skiprat
5 Tickets Jim15
10 Tickets UKpenmaker
2 Tickets Ron Raymond
5 Tickets ed4copies
4 Tickets RixStix
5 Tickets VisExp
2 Tickets Great12B4ever
5 Tickets Woodlvr
2 Tickets oldelmer1
5 Tickets cutterwoodjoe
4 Tickets rhahnfl
2 Tickets RKing
5 Tickets 1080Wayne
1 Ticket philbaldwin
5 Tickets jkoehler
5 Tickets Gketell
1 Ticket Yourdon's Pens
5 Tickets Clarence Wilkerson
5 Tickets CaptG
1 Ticket BlueStingray
1 Ticket les smith
2 Tickets Dale Pillar
2 Tickets Nolan Harris
5 Tickets jimbobtucson
5 Tickets kgwaug
2 Tickets rlharding
2 Tickets Michael Kennedy
1 Ticket Tanya Lynch
2 Tickets N7BLW
2 Tickets pssherma
2 Tickets Jarheaded
5 Tickets Shawn Naranjo

Not only is January the Birthday Bash of the IAP, it's also my first anniversary as a member. I have learned so much during my short time here, so I wanted to give back. All money collected will go to help support this great website.

<center>Rules:</center>
Tickets are $5.00 each
Buy as many as you want
(25 dollars will put your name in the hat five times)

Paypal is the payment method of choice
Be sure to add your IAP name in the comment box
Entries will be posted/updated here each day

I will pay the shipping!
(I will cover the cost of shipping WORLDWIDE up to $50.00 USD)
If you win and it costs more than $50 to ship, I will ask you to cover the rest, fair enough?

Raffle will end Sunday 8:00PM EST January 20, 2008
Winner will be announced Monday 8:00PM January 21, 2008

<center>Prize</center>

Rappahannock River Crib Dam Wood
3 Blue Oak (these are best quality)
4 Best Pine

This wood has been featured on the "New Yankee Workshop", and was excavated from underwater of the Crib Dam circa 1854. I have seen these blanks selling for $10-$20 dollars each




Ancient Kauri wood
4 Kauri burl blanks
(these are from a block of burl that I purchased and have much more figure than the standard Kauri blanks)

This is the world's oldest workable wood! It has been featured on the History Channel's "Modern Marvels"




Bethlehem Olive Wood
6 Bethlehem olivewood blanks

The vinaigrette aroma given off during turning makes this wood a joy to turn



Heartwood Pine
6 old barn southern yellow heartwood pine

These are local wood blanks I reclaimed from a 100 year old barn. They may not seem as spectacular as the exotic wood blanks we are used to, but they are some of my best sellers.






Last but not least:
These blanks do not have certificates, but they are hand picked from the best of my collection. (I believe most if not all are stablized)
Left to Right:
Amboyna burl with sapwood
Curly Hawaiian Koa
Redwood Burl
English Walnut (exceptional grade)
Curly Mango, brown
Oliepod
Double dyed Boxelder (Berea Hardwoods)




Just Added; Trustone Blanks!

Thanks to the generous contribution of Richard DeArment (randbcrafts) I am pleased to announce the addition of these gorgeous Trustone blanks!







in the pics are 3/4" Tru-Stone Blanks:
#40 Turquoise w/ Gold Matrix
Azurite Web
Persian Turquoise
Blue River Agate
White Turquoise
Bloody Basin Red Jasper
Around a $50 value

We have to work out the logistics and such because the winner may be of the far far away variety. I may have Richard send the blanks to me so I can mail all at once, but I'm very afraid they may get lost in the mail, never to be seen again, well, until I post pictures of them in the post your pen pictures forum.

Thanks very much to Richard DeArment!

For the computer geeks out there, here's how I picked the winner:

I created a single file list of each ticket. If you purchased more than one ticket, your name was on the list multiple times according to how many tickets purchased. This list was then run through a random list generator at Random.org twice (like suffling a deck of cards) This created a number for each name ( 1-148) Then, I went to www.mdani.demon.co.uk/para/random.htm which picked number 37 between 1-148 with no repeats. 37 matched CaptG on the random.org list of names. And there you have it, and soon CaptG will have it!

[gketell]

who do we paypal our funds to? Direct to IAP? Or to you (if so, what address)?

GK

[Rmartin]

Hey Greg,

My paypal address is listed in the post as:

rmartin@fountaincityfurniture.com

Log in to paypal and use this email address; it should work, but if not let me know.

Thanks for your IAP support
Rmartin

[Randy_]

Richard:

Thanks for organizing this raffle. That is an awesome collection of pen blanks!!! Normally I don't participate in raffles; but this one is very tempting!!

BTW, with respect to the following:

...25 dollars will put your name in the hat five times...

Is that a typo?? Many raffles offer bonus tickets when folks buy multiple tickets.

[Rmartin]

No, it's not a typo. I didn't know about the extra ticket thing. This is the first time I've done one of these, so I'm learning. All the money goes to the IAP, so I'm not sure I should be giving tickets away. Hope the paypal links work. If not, I'll have to sort it out tomorrow evening as I'm working a 10 hour shift from 7:00 till 5:30 Monday

Goodnight,
Rmartin

[ed4copies]

I have been asked to help with this thread - so here I am.

I'll start more aggressively pushing it tomorrow, but for those who read my silliness, this will be one of the sources.

The MATERIAL presented is REALLY a nice package!!!!! And, at $5 a chance, whaddayagotolose????

Thanks for allowing me to help, Richard!!!:D:D

Just have to read through the "Rules" part to get to it, but it IS worth it!!

[airrat]

Ed is this another way to get your post count up?

[ed4copies]

YOUBETCHA!!

Wait until Cav has his fingers in some poor slob's wisdom teeth - I'll be posting furiously!!!

[airrat]

Richard very nice of you to do this. Those blanks are fantastic.

sent paypal for couple tickets.

[airrat]

In their teeth? OUCH just pushing on it should be bad enough. I bet he does not even use the novacaine.

Patient " OUCH Doc my tooth really hurts!"
Cav "take it like a man son, walk it off! Spit....nurse drill please"