Truckee Thursdays

It's official, I'll be doing Truckee Thursday tonight.

Our Schedule . . . . LOL

Yes boys and girls, I post here the flyer for the

one show we're doing this year. And there really

no "WE" to it. This show will be a one man

show .... Me! I promised Sue this year off, and

maybe from now on. I'm not quite ready for

that yet, so it will just be me, one time, this year.

Not only that, but I'll be trying the show in

Graeagle, California. That's about a 50 mile trip

north. It will be in a nice park setting. It's

supposed to be a crappy pack it in set up, but

what the heck. I'll only be hauling in half the usual.

The best news is none of these people have seen my stuff. 

Satellite View Of Our Last Show

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I thought I would look at a satellite view on Google Maps of the Homewood Ski Resort. Much to my surprise and delight one of last years Pacific Fine Arts Shows was set-up the last time Google took the photo. It was the weekend of August 11-13, 2017. I know this because the boats at the corner of the lot and my motorhome parked behind the lodge. I'll post the address here also. 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Homewood+Mountain+Resort/@39.0850672,-120.1607217,210m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x80997fda4762005f:0x73b0c46aa0c1068d!8m2!3d39.0855833!4d-120.1605391?hl=en

Our 2017 Schedule

Such as it is, Huh. We keep getting closer to retirement.

Originally Sue and I were going to take this summer

off, but I jumped in with both feet. I have plenty of

inventory without making anything this year .......

But you know I will.

Our last show ends on August 13th, so I'll have some

great weather left to do some fishing with my buddy

Jim. There's no hurry right now trying to get things

done up here because there's still close to 6 feet of snow

on the ground at the time I'm writing this.

Our Next Show . . . .

Here's a link to the promoters site with artist's information:
http://pacificfinearts.com/2016-show-schedule/homewood-fine-arts-crafts-festival-august-12-14/

A New Pen Design

I thought I would start a new pen design. 

Here's a photo of 4 that I've just finished. 

I'm pretty sure they're going to sell for $75.00. 

This design is called the "Steampunk".

A Purse For A Special Blogger Friend

I thought we would start with the finished purse.

This was made for our blogger friend "Always On

Watch".  You can find her blog by clicking on her

site on our sidebar to the right.

 Here are a few photos of progress made by Sue (Lint).

 Always On Watch loves cats and pink.
Her previous Purse (LINK) 

Walnut

 Well being Winter and it's snowing and blowing out 

there, not too much is going on. BUT my neighbor, 

Dave, is a dirt construction guy and he's always running 

into "You won't believe what I found you" moments. 

Two days ago was no exception. He shows up at my 

place with the bucket of his loader filled with Walnut 

turning blanks. Seems yet another guy around here is 

going through a nasty divorce. He had to get rid of 

everything so they can sell the house ... NOW! Another 

load followed by trailer driven by the guy's friends. 

This load wasn't as near as nice. The 1st photo is the good 

blanks. The 2nd photo is the not so good, and I'll have to 

go through it all and heat the house with a lot of this pile. 

The 3rd is two blanks that are almost 5" thick and 13" in 

diameter ... What a find. It looks like the guy took good 

care of these and will make two very nice salad bowls.

Thanks Dave!

A Look At Pen Making . . .

 This photo shows 5 designer pens, turned and finished.

 This photo shows those pens removed from the pen Mandrels.

There is a pair of blanks, on the right, ready to put onto this

mandrel.  

 Here are those blanks mounted on that mandrel.

 Here it is mounted on my mini-lathe. About 15 years ago the

little woman thought it would be nice if I turned pens. I told her

I didn't want to. I was doing enough building boxes at the time.

This was given to me, for my birthday, shortly after. Don't tell

her, but she was right. 

 Here are three pens assembled. The clamps are holding the

decorative rings in place while epoxy glue dries.

 Here's what they looked like before the last photo.

This is the devise I made to compress the pen pieces into the

brass tubes that are glued into the pen blanks. OK, let's get

out there and make some pens.

Fellow Artist's Display Finished

Well "THE" Special project is over. 

My fellow artist loved it. He picked 

 it up around the 1st of July. 

Here's a photo of it finished.