Competition

[Noel]

Please guys, no need to fall out with each other.
It was I that wrote to Wizer voicing some concerns about organizing a turning competition. This is what I PM'd to Wizer:

Hi Wizer, hope all is well.
Ref the turning competition, I feel that this should have been officially sanctioned prior to gathering interest or at least discussed with the mods as you gathered interest. I applaud you and the others on your initiative but there is naturally some concern about seeking prizes from companies and suppliers and promoting/using the UKWW site in order to do this. Of course I understand that the competition is being organised for the best reasons but I think it best you or others open some discussion with the mods as soon as possible.

I can understand that turners may feel somewhat left out of the current competition but I must mention that one of the members put forward the idea and after some discussion between the mods it became official with the benefit of stickies and permission to use the site's name to pull in some prizes.

So let me know what you want to do, making it official will be of benefit to all concerned and you can either run it as a seperate competition, as a separate category in the turning board or defer it until the first competition is over.

Rgds

Noel


Now as far as I can see there's no ill feeling mentioned in the above. Simply a suggestion to talk to the mods. There's certainly no indication of heavy handedness or anything that might be construed as some sort of telling off. So please feel free to discuss the options that I suggested to Wizer.
I won't post Wizer's reply to my PM unless he gives me permission to do so.

 

[wizer]

My reply.

Noel I was ignored when I asked Rob about including the turners in his competition and I have been ignored by Charley.

I'm happy to drop it, it's just work for me.

Cheers

Tom

Noel I think you're just stirring up more debate here aren't you? I already said it was no big deal and the reason I was spoke to.

I'm not chucking my dummy out, I'm just not interested in working on this project anymore.

 

[big soft moose]

Please guys, no need to fall out with each other.
It was I that wrote to Wizer voicing some concerns about organizing a turning competition. This is what I PM'd to Wizer:

Hi Wizer, hope all is well.
Ref the turning competition, I feel that this should have been officially sanctioned prior to gathering interest or at least discussed with the mods as you gathered interest. I applaud you and the others on your initiative but there is naturally some concern about seeking prizes from companies and suppliers and promoting/using the UKWW site in order to do this. Of course I understand that the competition is being organised for the best reasons but I think it best you or others open some discussion with the mods as soon as possible.

I can understand that turners may feel somewhat left out of the current competition but I must mention that one of the members put forward the idea and after some discussion between the mods it became official with the benefit of stickies and permission to use the site's name to pull in some prizes.

So let me know what you want to do, making it official will be of benefit to all concerned and you can either run it as a seperate competition, as a separate category in the turning board or defer it until the first competition is over.

Rgds

Noel


Now as far as I can see there's no ill feeling mentioned in the above. Simply a suggestion to talk to the mods. There's certainly no indication of heavy handedness or anything that might be construed as some sort of telling off. So please feel free to discuss the options that I suggested to Wizer.
I won't post Wizer's reply to my PM unless he gives me permission to do so.

Noel - i'm sending you a pm re the compo as i'm taking over from wizer as the round world facilitator. (edit : could you also use your special mod powers to make this a stickie)

re the other stuff i really think its a matter of least said soonest mended and is water under the bridge now anyway.

 

[big soft moose]

Update - We now have official approval to run the competition. Well hurrah.

I will be your facilitator ( but not I hasten to add a judge) and Alun (Jenx) will be my "beautiful" assistant.

once I've had a chance to think about it (probably tommorow) i will start a new thread with rules, timescales etc - we'll be keeping things pretty simple as per the consensus higher upthis thread.

Ive asked for both comp threads (plus the new one) to be made sticky.

If anyone has ideas, questions, insults or whatever feel free to post them here or send me a pm.

 

[Jonzjob]

As a total novice of only about 12 or so years turning, on and off, can I join in pretty please?

Sorry to be so late on this, but I have only just found the thread and have been busy rotovating what seems most of our garden, well the bit round the pool anyway!

I think that it's a great idea and after reading the thread through I think that it would be a great shame if Wiser decides not to enter.

I have only been involved in this forum for a short while, but it has always come over as a good friendly place to be. Some of the other forums I am invloved with are not so. It would be a great shame if this one were to suffer because of what to me seems to be a misunderstanding.

Good luck with your medical situation Wiser. You have my sympathy especially when wet weather makes it difficult for me to write with the arthritis in my hands. That is one of the reasons we moved here and to rub it in it's bloody well raining now!

Just as a matter of interest this a monthly comp that we run on a wonderful forum I'm on. Members vote for the winner, 2 votes each, and the winner selects the next months photo theme. No prizes, just the satisfaction of knowing that the other members liked your photo best!

http://www.the-anglo-french-forum.co.uk ... pic=2207.0

A totally different concept, but I thought you may be interested? This months theme was Culinary Delight.

 

[Jenx]

Great Stuff Jon .. thats excellent.

Have mentioned in the other thread.. just back in, after an evening's fishing and a bit of 'fiddling with a weasel' ( another story ! )... :lol:

Sounds like we've got the sanction we need.... and that in itself is good news. BSM has already been in contact, and I will get back to him in a minute or two, and pick up 'proper' on it tomorrow. 8)

Just to mention... lads, have a wee cuddle and a nibble of an earlobe each,... we've got a really good thing going in this little corner of the "internerd" here, with a great bunch of people... and having read (not that long ago ) about how initially on the 'Spinney Bit', Chas and Graham basically kept it chugging along and nutured it into becoming something quite special... well, not to sound too 'soppy' or anything, but that kind of dedication 'speaks' to me ... and we all owe it to guys like that, and indeed to each other, to keep that kind of spirit alive and evolving.
Without all you fella's here... I'd be a lonely, very remote butcherer of nice timbers .... I cannot put a value on the assistance and encouragement that this place gives me ... and that means I can butcher the wood and then share the experience of doing so with all you fine gents ( and ladies ! ) :wink: :wink: :lol: ... so, if its ok, can we take it as read that 'all harmonies are fully restored' ? :wink: :lol:
Good !

Ok.. as said, apologies for my 'lateness' this evening .. the fishing opportunity was too tempting to ignore ! .

I'll go get a reply to Pete ( BSM ) sorted, and as mentioned.. we'll all collectively pick up on the thing tomorrow, refreshed, recharged, and overflowing with enthusiasm, as ever :wink: :lol:
Cheers all...
Live well. 8) 8) 8)

 

[Jonzjob]

Blimey Jenx, the way you were talking I thought that you were in the Shetlands and not the county of Aberdeenshire?

 

[big soft moose]

Just to mention... lads, have a wee cuddle and a nibble of an earlobe each,...

thats a mental image that i really didnt need :shock:

 

[miles_hot]

Just to mention... lads, have a wee cuddle and a nibble of an earlobe each,...

thats a mental image that i really didnt need :shock:

Frankly I'm pretty scared by "fiddling with a weasel" Thanks jenx!

MIles

 

[Jenx]

Blimey Jenx, the way you were talking I thought that you were in the Shetlands and not the county of Aberdeenshire?

He heh... good point, it could be worse !
Just me & Dick Morris up here, -- don't know if we've anyone registered on the forum from the Northern Isles ? .. here must be guys turning up there.. there's about 65000 people on Shetland, so there has to be one or two woodwhirlers there, you'd think !

There's definately one on Orkney.. I saw him in a magazine !



Miles- The weasel was, on reflection, a stoat !... I put a picture of him on, in another thread. :lol: ... aggressive wee devil, near took a chunk out of my dog's nose ! :lol: :lol:

 

[wizer]

Now I've had time to cool down, I'm really looking forward to the compo. I already have an idea of what I want to enter.

 

[Jonzjob]

"Miles- The weasel was, on reflection, a stoat !... I put a picture of him on, in another thread. ... aggressive wee devil, near took a chunk out of my dog's nose !"

Jenx, I thought that everyone knew the difference 'cause a weasel is weasily distinguished whereas a stoat is staotly different! :twisted: :roll: :evil:

 

[mrs. sliver]

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs! I haven't been on for a while and missed the whole thread.

However, I am chuffed it all is settled now and GAME ON! :lol:

I will try keep up this time
I look froward to the posting of the rules.

 

[big soft moose]

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs! .

what a strange place to keep the lathe ... well it takes all sorts

 

[mrs. sliver]

ee, we 'ave funny ways in these parts love! :lol:

 

[Paul.J]

Just to get it clear,for me anyway.
All we have to do now is submit our finished turned item. :?:
There is no design drawings required. :?:
Also is three piccys going to be enough of a bowl or hollow form.
If it is are there any particular shots the judges want to see,such as the base the inside,etc :?:
If it's a box do we need to show the above and the inside of lid,or will further piccys be requested :?:
I apologise if the answers are already in the rules.

 

[Jenx]

Hiya Paul ... not playing with that beast ??? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Moose will confirm the answers, no doubt when he comes on. :wink:

 

[big soft moose]

Just to get it clear,for me anyway.
All we have to do now is submit our finished turned item. :?:
There is no design drawings required. :?:
Also is three piccys going to be enough of a bowl or hollow form.
If it is are there any particular shots the judges want to see,such as the base the inside,etc :?:
If it's a box do we need to show the above and the inside of lid,or will further piccys be requested :?:
I apologise if the answers are already in the rules.

yes - you just have to submit your finished item - we are keeping this simple so no design drawings are required ( if you want to put design drawings on a WIP thread then please do so but you wont be judged on them - just on your submission)

there are no dedicated angles as the items submitted may range widely - just the three pics (or less) which best show the work . ( so for a box you might choose to show it closed, inside, and inside the lid - wheras someone who had made a goblet might feel that just a profile shot and inside the cup was sufficient.)

We are limiting it to three to make the judges life easy - they are all busy folk and no one wants to dig through half a ream of photos and text

I will put a guide to taking comp photos on the sticky thread tommorow - but all the usual points apply - neutral background , etc etc.

( btw I am going to request that the mods close this thread so that the unpleasentness can be put behind us ... any further questions please ask them on the sticky thread here https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/view ... hp?t=31909 )

 

[Paul.J]

That's great
Simple will do me :lol:

 

[mrs. sliver]

I have sorted a 'lump of log' that I have nominated for the task .. but not got clue what it s going to be! :shock: