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Brian G

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The Pretty Wood Pen Contest is off to a great start.

Don't be shy, enter your Pretty Wood Pen. You could win one of these fabulous prizes, and everyone wins the admiration of their peers:

Prizes

First Place - A $50 Gift Certificate from Robutacion
Second Place - A $25 Gift Certificate from an Anonymous member
Third Place - A BOB from member stonepecker

I know from experience that Robutacion stocks excellent blanks that make pretty wood pens, and stonepecker has a stash of pretty wood blanks. Who couldn't find some pretty wood blanks with a $25 gift certificate?

Thank you George, Wayne, and Anonymous for donating prizes.
 
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10 horrible reasons not to enter the Pretty Wood Pen Contest

#10: Can't afford Petty Wood Blanks: Nonsense! You can find pretty wood in a ditch, in the firewood pile, or in your offcut bin.

#9: Picture-taking skills stink: Okay, so you know that relative that always has a camera around his/her neck at family reunions? Make two pretty wood pens and give them one for taking pictures of your pen.

#8: Don't have any fancy-pants kits So what? A pretty wood pen doesn't need fancy kits to be pretty. In fact, sometimes the kit only serves the purpose of showing off the pretty wood. Think complementary, not feature. Even a Slimline can make a pretty wood pen. Just don't tell Derek; he'll get all weepy, depressed, and think the Pretty Wood Pen Contest is an attempt to oust the Slimline Unlimited contest.

#7: This Zika virus thing is scary because the shop is in a swampy area teeming with mosquitoes: Marinate in DEET, fire up the citronella candles, and turn on the bug zapper. Problem solved!

#6: Won't win, so why bother? It's not about the winning, it's about the trying. You'll step up your game, take a little more time, slow down, and the pen will be so pretty you'll HAVE to enter it. Sure, winning is nice because there are some great prizes. You're not out anything because you have a pretty wood pen regardless of where you place.

#5: This whole contest thing is too stressful What better way to relax than turn a simple pretty wood pen? Use a Zen kit and achieve the Zen of making a Zen! No fussy casting, no tedious modifications, no stressful segmenting, no heartbreak of stripped threads on kitless. . . it's just a relaxing turn.

#4: Not good enough yet: Yes, you are. Why? You're good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like you!

#3: Not enough time: You just read 8 horrible reasons not to enter the Pretty Wood Pen Contest. You have time to spare.

#2: Lathe is broken: Buy a new one! Tell the CFO that you need a dedicated Pretty Wood Pen Contest lathe.

#1: The Olympics are on: You needed a shop TV anyway. Picture yourself on the Pretty Wood Pen Contest podium, your National flag rising, your National Anthem playing, and tears streaming down your face as the pen turning community admires your fantastic result.
 
Attaway, Monty.

Curt, that's not true, but if it was, as the song says "two out of three ain't bad"

Bob, you'll have to visit Mark James' living room floor. There's a whole bunch of it there.
 
Keep them coming! I now have to remove one shoe and sock in order to have enough visible digits to count the number of entries.
 
Yeah, but the one that got stepped on by a cow a long time ago barely qualifies.

Wonder if I should throw in an extra prize, like a goat or something.

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I throw in a goat as well Brian :biggrin:
 

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EBorraga said:
I throw in a goat as well Brian :biggrin:
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Thanks, then somebody can get your goat.

Hope it's not one of those Kentucky Sidehill Gouger Goats, which come in two varieties: left-handed and right-handed (also known as counter-clockwise and clockwise gougers).The legs of a left-handed gouger are shorter on the left. As a result, it can only travel around a hill counter-clockwise. Right-handed gougers are just the opposite, with legs shorter on the right. They always move clockwise.

This business of always moving in the same direction is the source of the gouger's name, because they gouge a path in the side of a hill as they endlessly circle it. If gougers do try to reverse direction, they inevitably topple over.

Right-handed and left-handed gougers, can breed together. However, the incomplete dominance of this dihybrid cross result in offspring with mismatched legs (a long leg on their front left and a second long leg on their back right, for instance) making them rather tippy. Such hybrids usually don't survive long.

A lesser frequency results in offspring with either two short front legs, or two short rear legs, meaning they can only graze either going uphill or downhill. Mating becomes a problem.

Anyway, thanks for the added prize.
 
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