North Georgia Symposium

[Rojo22]

Is anyone going to the Gainesville symposium April 27th-29th?

I am doing two 2 hour sessions on the rotations there both on Saturday!

If anyone is coming, please stop by and say hello...My first time as a symposium speaker....

 

[Steve Busey]

Got any links? This is the first I've heard about it.

Never mind - found it: www.southernstatessymposium.org

 

[Rojo22]

Steve

Very interesting weekend for woodturners. You see all kind of stuff there.

Southern States Woodturning Symposium - Gainesville, GA

Robert

 

[Steve Busey]

Really want to go, but can't handle the fee out of my shop budget right now - still digesting the new lathe... :frown: Seeya next year fer sure.

 

[leestoresund]

Wow.
I agree Steve.
Maybe if it were something that I would go to for all three days, but I can only make Friday.

Lee

 

[Russell Eaton]

No charge for the vendor area, or the gallery. Should be worth the trip just to look.

 

[Rojo22]

Had a great time up there this weekend. Saw lots of penturners up there!

Russell was in the petting zoo when I saw him (he was patting a 2 horse motor on a Robust lathe...LOL), what a beautiful machine.

Jim Underwood was around, and several others!

 

[underdog]

Yep. Sure enjoyed that symposium. Robert sure puts on a good demo.

...and he's a heck of a nice guy. I showed him one of my carvings that I carved on the spur of the moment with just a utility knife, and a scrap piece of wood. The next day he brought me a starter carving kit - two real honest to goodness carving knives (yowsa!), a carving glove, thumb guard, several basswood carving blanks, and several patterns.

He musta thought I needed some real carving knives.

Thanks Robert! That was very generous of you, and made my whole weekend!


By the way, if anyone "can't afford" these symposiums, they don't charge full admission if you just go on Saturday/ Sunday. That's the only way I could afford it... I have to say, I made up for it in pen-turning related purchases. Now it'll take that much longer to save up for my shop addition!

 

[Rojo22]

Jim

It was good to see you up there! I had a professional heckling session up front, so it was good to see a friendly face in the crowd!

If you can do great work like the face you showed me with crappy wood and tools, I am hoping with the new equipment you can do some really awesome things! The face is awesome!

 

[underdog]

Sent you a PM.

 

[Rojo22]

Tag you are it!

 

[Russell Eaton]

OK Robert... you need to learn your lathes. It was a 3 hp. not 2 and I refrained from buying it...this time. I am proud of my self control. That and they did NOT have any ready filled out divorce papers. Maybe next year.

 

[Rojo22]

If you didnt buy it, I cannot see how they are going to sell it to someone else, with all the "rubbing" you were doing on it....LOL.....

 

[Russell Eaton]

They finally got the DNA test back...the fluid found on the machine seem to belong to a Robert Johnson!

 

[Rojo22]

imagine my embarassment...LOL...it was actually super glue that I put on it.....