Harrogate on Sunday

[TrimTheKing]

I wandered over just after 12 and saw Steve M talking to a bloke in the background, and 3 blokes talking, arms folded, at the front of the stand, was that you lot?

I wandered off as I wanted to speak to Mike Hancock and when I cam back (I was a while) but those people had all gone.

Sorry if that was you guys, I should have tested the water but you were deep in conversation so I left it.

Anyway, bought a 16TPI LV Crosscut saw and Blue Spruce marking knife from CHT and had a nice long chat with Mike H (nice bloke). Spent about 20 mins chatting with Nick Gibbs and took out a sub for BW, which I have been meaning to do for a while.

Had a good chat with the rocking horse bloke too as I am thinking of building one of his laminated ply jobbies for the bambino. FiL bought me his book and DVD to spur me on so guess I'll be working my way through them on the train to/from work this week...

Had a good chinwag with the blokes at British Hardwoods who were very complimentary about the forum, saying they get a good few clicks a day from through the forum ads. Was chatting to them about the fact that you generally get treated like crap by timber merchants unless you are in the trade. They were very complimentary about the hobbiests who goes in and orders two or 3 cube, so I will definitely be paying them a visit at some point.

Agree with a lot of the stuff about turning, too much for my liking, and the tat stalls ar so annoying, but as my FiL said, if there's something in there you want then they are great. Just wish they didn't take up too much of the space.

Anyway, far and away the best thing I saw was the girl with dark hair and red T-Shirt on one of the tool stalls. I took a sneaky snap which I will post tomorrow.

Some inconsiderate @rses stopped the M6 between J15 and 21A which left me stuck on the top of Thelwall Viaduct, 2 miles from home, for over an hour with the engine turned off so I'm off to lie on my back as I'm crippled!

 

[jhwbigley]

Anyway, far and away the best thing I saw was the girl with dark hair and red T-Shirt on one of the tool stalls. I took a sneaky snap which I will post tomorrow.

was that the Robert sorby/turners retreat stand? :lol:

JHB

 

[JonnyD]

I wandered over just after 12 and saw Steve M talking to a bloke in the background, and 3 blokes talking, arms folded, at the front of the stand, was that you lot?

I think that was me and matty trying to convince ed to spend his bonus on a domino

cheers

Jon

 

[TrimTheKing]

Anyway, far and away the best thing I saw was the girl with dark hair and red T-Shirt on one of the tool stalls. I took a sneaky snap which I will post tomorrow.

was that the Robert sorby/turners retreat stand? :lol:

JHB

Hmmm, not sure, it was quite a big stall, bright red name banner, on the furthest of the 3 aisle's from the entrance. At about 11 o'clock from where you walked in, is that the one you mean?

 

[jhwbigley]

Anyway, far and away the best thing I saw was the girl with dark hair and red T-Shirt on one of the tool stalls. I took a sneaky snap which I will post tomorrow.

was that the Robert sorby/turners retreat stand? :lol:

JHB

Hmmm, not sure, it was quite a big stall, bright red name banner, on the furthest of the 3 aisle's from the entrance. At about 11 o'clock from where you walked in, is that the one you mean?

hmmmm, i can't remember, i was there friday, we need pictures. ha, ha :lol:

 

[Dibs-h]

Anyway, far and away the best thing I saw was the girl with dark hair and red T-Shirt on one of the tool stalls. I took a sneaky snap which I will post tomorrow.

was that the Robert sorby/turners retreat stand? :lol:

JHB

Hmmm, not sure, it was quite a big stall, bright red name banner, on the furthest of the 3 aisle's from the entrance. At about 11 o'clock from where you walked in, is that the one you mean?

You mean on the stand selling Hardman tools, next to the one with the collapsable ladders. :wink: I preferred the less made up one on the Turners Retreat till!

 

[Lee J]

well I was there from 11am til about 2pm on friday. second time I've been and I thought it was brill. I went armed with a shopping list and I got everything off it, including some wood blanks for turning 2 vases I've been requested to do. 1x ash and 1x bubinga (or whatever it's called).

I also had a demo of the SIP mitre saw, the one that doubles up as a table saw if you lock it down. I would of bought one there and then had the missus not gone to work in my car (nice big estate) which left me going to the show in a 2 seater MR2. hmmmm.

I can honestly say I didnt see any of you guys but then, I wouldn't know ya if I fell over ya!

good show though.

 

[Steve Maskery]

I've enjoyed today (well apart from the 5-8pm slot which was spent at A&E on account of me converting a yellow pepper into a red one.....)

Sincere thanks to Ed for chauffeuring me. Great to meet up with a few forum bods.

I didn't buy anything, although when I first went round one of the market stalls, I though, ooh that would be useful, and that would be handy, When I went round later I couldn't find anything that interested me!

The biggest put-off was some big fat bloke (yes, even by my standards) who deliberately pushed me out of the way because I was standing in front of his stand talking. He was the rudest person I've met in some time. Zero marks for subtlety. We weren't even on "his" half of the aisle. Ghastly man.


The best bits were meeting up with old faces. Not just Nick, with whom I talk on the phone regularly, but Keith Smith & Judith, who have been helpful in the past and are generally Good Eggs, Richard on the Leeds stand and a guy from GMC with whom I had a conversation about distributing my DVDs. It seems I'd get about a penny per disk.....

Also John from the Starrett stand. We've talked on the phone, but never met. I'm trying to persuade him to support my latest film venture on bandsaws. We'll see. The problem is that he is a busy man.

Anyway, my point is that it was the people that made the day for me.

Cheers
Steve