Who's going to Yandles show on the 9th & 10th of this mo

[mark sanger]

Also I wanted to say a big thank you to George Foweraker who helped me during both days of the show.

George loaned me his Nova lathe and all the other hardware/extraction etc that I needed for the two days.

George also transported this to the show and took it away again. As well as giving me support through out the two days.

Thank you George for you kind support and friendship.

 

[George Foweraker]

No trouble mark i realy enjoyed the two days.


Regards George

 

[Terry Smart]

It certainly was a great show, very busy. Great to see so many of you there.

The pics look good, although now I'll be in trouble for letting other people do the work!

 

[mark sanger]

It certainly was a great show, very busy. Great to see so many of you there.

The pics look good, although now I'll be in trouble for letting other people do the work!

Good to see you there Terry.

You should not get into trouble for cleaver marketing, twice the people showing your products means twice as many products sold in half the time, I should think you should be getting a pay rise.

 

[frugal]

It certainly was a great show, very busy. Great to see so many of you there.

The pics look good, although now I'll be in trouble for letting other people do the work!

Good to see you there Terry.

You should not get into trouble for cleaver marketing, twice the people showing your products means twice as many products sold in half the time, I should think you should be getting a pay rise.

Tell me about it. When I was asking about Terry about finishes every other item we talked about had already sold out And that was about 11:30 on Saturday morning.

 

[wizer]

Les Thorn told me not to talk to Terry about stock levels. :shock: :lol:

 

[George Foweraker]

They were the same at Axminster strictly woodturning i wanted some lacquer on the first day and they had run out.
I really like Chestnut products which i usualy buy from Yandles but half the time they are out of stock.

Regards George

 

[Terry Smart]

Hi George

I understand your frustration and share it - it's annoying for us to miss sales!

Shows are always difficult to predict; the only certainty is that everyone will want the one product we're short of, regardless of the fact we only sold two bottles of it last time
We try very hard to get it right, we've started scanning sales into the computer so we can get a better idea of quantities but that's in its early stages at the moment.
What I will say though is that the show at Yandles was incredibly busy - to use our Buffing Wheel Kits as an example, by two o'clock on Friday (the first day!) we sold nearly twice the amount we sold in all three days at Ally Pally.
Sales surpassed our expectations by a wide margin which was good for us but obviously has its downside.

 

[George Foweraker]

Hi Terry
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
I use your products on most of my work and am always pleased with the results.

Regards George

 

[George Foweraker]

Roughing out some of the spalted Beech bought from the sawyer at Yandles

 

[wizer]

Is that a man with two lathes? Nice work space George. I take it they are bowls. What is your procedure for storing them?

 

[George Foweraker]

Hi
There are three lathes in the pic you missed the Graduate on the right with the sanding disc.
There are 18 roughed out bowls there somewhere they all get put in carrier bags which will be turned inside out every day until the blanks are dry.

Regards george

 

[head clansman]

hi tom

just out of curiosity , that tyvex paper i sent you months ago for your little experiment for your turning project how did it go was it successful or not, i never did here anything on how it went . hc

 

[wizer]

Thanks very much for that Martin. It didn't turn out very well because of all the problems I've had the past year. I still have two roughed out bowls in tyvek bags in my wood shed but as yet I have not finished turned them. Like so many things, I'll get around to it and will report my findings as and when. I also stopped actively looking for wet wood and as such most of my pile it probably compost by now.

My thoughts on it thus far are that it could be a better option than plastic bags as the moisture can pass through. But I'm hardly qualified to comment, yet.

 

[George Foweraker]

Hi
The advantage of using plastic bags is you can control the rate of drying.
If you want to slow up the drying time you just dont turn the bags as often it works for me.

Regards George

 

[Paul.J]

Nice mornings work George
The timber looks nice.
Do you keep them in a couple of bags or individual :?:
I have been trying this method,plastic bag meself lately and so far have had a mixed reaction,but it does looks promising
I will see if it makes any difference in the warmer months.

 

[George Foweraker]

Hello Paul.
That was 2 1/2 hours work to cut them out and rough out.
I also roughed out 9 hollow forms the same day and finished about 9 o clock nackered.
I put one in each bag and turn the bags inside out every day.
When there is no damp inside the bag they are near enough dry.
I also microwave to speed things up.
I rough out then microwave on defrost for two four minute sessions before bagging.
I did not microwave these as i never had time.

Regards george

 

[head clansman]

hi tom

it will be interesting , when you get round to turning these lumps of wood that are being held in tyvex paper it should allow moisture to pass out of the bag and not allows any more to enter into the bag where i would think plastic bags will keep all moisture already in there but wont allow any more into the bag in, let us all know when you get to turn them what results you get . hc

 

[George Foweraker]

Hello Martin.
I have been using the carrier bag system for about a year and it seems to work.
This Beech i am using now is very wet i am a little worried that it will spalt too much time will tell.
Mostly i use Ash.
In November last year i was given a load of green ash.I roughed it all out into hollow forms about 10mm thick and microwaved.2 sessions 4 minuts on defrost any more and it heat cracks.
They were all put into carrier bags and the bags turned about every 3 days.After about a month they were left in the bags with the top open.
I have just started using them .The two hollow forms i have just put up are from that batch.If i want to speed up the drying i microwave every couple of days for 4 minuts this gives the wood time to settle before each session.
This seems to be working for me but if there is an easier or quicker way i would be interested to know.

Regards George

 

[Paul.J]

GF wrote

That was 2 1/2 hours work to cut them out and rough out.

:shock: Takes me that long to do one :shock:
How do you hold the blanks George to rough em out :?: