Just as an addition to that, I became a little bit fascinated with Cosman's Wood-Hinge earlier this year, seemed like the answer to everything I'd been looking for in Jewelry/small box design. I mastered his dowel making jig, bought the appropiate core box router cutter from Wealden's, made some prototypes and Voila! it Verked!
Except for the hinge pin. This requires drilling a 1.6mm hole absolutely dead centre on a piece of 6mm dowel, despite months of thought and numerous jigs, i just could not get it to work perfectly, Rob of course doesn't have this problem, he came up with a rather ingenious wee jig that solves the problem, trouble is it's £50.00 (roughly)
After a few more weeks of getting nowhere, I ordered one. ETA 5-6 weeks, fair enough.
About 4 weeks later, the Monday before MayDay, I got a call on the mobile phone, unknown numbers I always answer the call, but say nothing, if it's one of those automated scam calls, the line disconnects almost immediately, but this one said "New Brunswick" in the display, after a second of wondering to myself why that is familiar, a voice pipes up,
"John?"
"Yeah?"
"Hi there, it's Rob Cosman, just wanted to thank you for placing an order with us"
"How is your Bank Holiday there in England?"
Took me a second or two to roll my jaw back in, then once realising what the hell was going on I politely replied our B/H is NEXT Monday, our Canadian cousins celebrate Victoria Day apparently the week before our MayDay.
Anyways we had a really interesting chat for about 10 minutes or so, about the Wood-Hinge, offshoots from that topic, and just generally two Woodworkers having a natter.
Afterwards I tried to work out what happened, and came to the conclusion that he must randomly phone a few punters/donations/buyers to thank them personally, fair enough and all credit to the man for making the effort!
