Utah Symposium Day Zero

Really it doesn?t start until Thursday, on Wed ?All? they have is, Super Wednesday at Craft Supplies, well, that and packet pickup with the Pen Makers Get-together.

Super Wednesday, well? The largest wood turning supply store in the US (maybe the world) has 10 demonstrations running, at a time, all day (well, except for lunch). Most of these demo?s are the maker/vendor showing off his product.

Craft Supplies has a ?sale? on every item they stock, just for the people attending the conference or Super Weds.

Craft Supplies also has a large area set aside for selling scratch and dent/discontinued and ?odd? items.

Lastly they donated several hundred dollars of items to be given out as door-prizes. Going by the numbers of the tickets, there were over

350 that attended Super Wed.

Oh, ya, they also feed you lunch

The packet pickup and Pen Makers get-together happen in the evening. After I got my packet I spent some time at the Pen Makers get-together and watched the setup for the Demo?s (10 tracks) along with the product demo area and instant gallery.

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The day?s events started with opening remarks by Mike Mahoney, and short intro from each presenter and a few comments from Dale Nish. This was followed by a light brunch, provided by the Symposium. During the brunch and I had a long chat with Russ Fairchild, whom I knew was originally from my area, but just how much I didn?t know until I talked with him. His wife went to school at the ?old? School that was just about 100 yards from my home, and he knew the people that planted the Apple trees in my and my neighbors yards, back from when it was a working orchard.

My first rotation was from Curt Theobold, on the history of segmented turning. The earliest piece he had been able to find was a stave built mazer, from Scotland cira 1700. A very interesting session.

The 2nd session was from Richard Raffan on bowls. While this was largely the same material that is in his DVD and Book(s) on Bowls, there was one interesting happening. Some joker, and it had to be a joker, put Rex Buringham?s personal tool sharpening station at this rotation location. The same one the Richard and Dale Nish would be using. The joke is, neither Richard nor Dale are what you call large men, while Rex, well, his name fits. I didn?t get to see Dale trying to sharpen, but Richard was on his toes, literally.

The 3rd session was by David Nittman on making a turned bowl look like it was made by basket weaving. A subject I have been every interested in and was thrilled to learn more about

The day ended with a Swap meet and a session from David Nittman and Cindy Drozda on the creative process. I?m afraid I spent the entire evening with the swap meet, and ended up with yet more wood?after failing to bring any of the large Big Leaf Maple I could have sold.

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