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266342 galoot@l... 2018‑08‑13 Re: Trip report: Pennsic 47 fun and games
Quoting Darrell & Kathy :

> Galoots
>
> Last week we were at the Pennsic War (gv).

> One of the recent fun pole lathe exercises I was working on
> was to reproduce the needle cases found on Henry VIII's ship
> the Mary Rose.  These look like a double thread bobbin (to
> hold two spools of thread as it were) that has a stopped hole
> bored through the axis to hold needles.  A whittled stopper
> plugs the hole.  These things are VERY well received,
> especially by threadworkers, and doubly so when they see
> that I made them on a pole lathe.

Very very well received....

>
> One of the people in our camp (Barony of Thescorre) asked
> me to make him a leather texturing tool for a project he was
> trying to complete on site.  He packed light so was missing
> a tool he needed for the job.  It took me about 10 minutes
> to split, whittle, and file the tool to shape.  Project completed,
> wife happy.

He was talking about going shopping and I said it could probably be 
made faster than he could fetch a vehicle to go buy a 1/4" dowel.  I 
was expecting it to be turned or would have done it myself.
>
> Then I was tasked with producing a low, angled foot stool.
>
He neglected to mention using a throwing axe to clean off the bark side.

I was scheduled for 2 hand tool petting zoos, the first had scheduling 
problems (times changed) but got a number of folks including a king 
camped across the street who brought his (early grade school?) son over 
in complete incognito.  Clearly a galoot and teacher, son used to metal 
spoke shave was trying a wooden one with daddy asking questions to get 
him to figure out why he was having trouble....  A guy who did 
Darrell's spoon class last year tried some planes this year.  I hope to 
get a couple porch newcomers, including a gentleman from Seattle 
"temporarily" in Akron OH caring for an aging relative trying to figure 
out local wood sources.

I managed to build the close grain blog take on St. Roy's folding 
workbench on site in galoot time (took 3x the time expected).  Only 
apprentice was a tailess electrickery drill driver.  For me a proper 
bench is table height so it is multifunctional and lives in the trailer 
waiting for next year.

Esther

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