more grumbine video

Re: more grumbine video

Bill Grumbine, Kutztown PA

>Hi Tony

Thanks for your very kind words! I appreciate your taking the time to post your impressions. It was a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun too.

We did film a segment on coring a bowl. However, by the time we got to editing, we could not even come close to fitting it in. The folks at the film company wanted to keep the video to a maximum of 90 minutes, but despite an entire day of four of us working in the editing room, we could not get it shorter than the 2+ hours you saw without cutting parts we thought were important to the entire process. This caused them to do some hunting around for an index that would be compatible with the length of the film, but they were successful, and we were able to keep the length, which to the best of my knowledge is the longest DVD out there. If this is successful and we do another, the coring segment is still on the list to do.

Thanks again!

Bill

Coast to coast for a lesson.

Dave Smith, Longview, WA

>Perhaps now, after viewing the DVD, people will understand why I traveled coast to coast to take a lessons from Bill. I know I am among the first to take private lessons at the now famous Five Barns Complex(FBC). It is likely that no one else has traveled as far to be shown how well Bill's ear muffs work. Sorry, Bill, if I ruined anything for future students. In time, with the release of his first turning DVD, my long distance pilgrimage to the FBC will be eclipsed by other turners living on the correct(left) coast when they travel to the incorrect(right) coast in search of turning knowledge. Bill and I are on opposite ends of many subjects that separate too many people. However, we share some very common views that transcend our differences. Bill towers over me physically, intellectually and in turning ability. But, from the time I shook Bill's hand on that first day of instruction and subsequently throughout our friendship I have always felt equal as a human being. I had the unusual feeling during the turning lessons that we were at eye level. Since I had already gotten to know Bill, from years of posts on Badger Pond, I had no trepidations when I stepped up to his huge blue machine in the shadow of a giant. The only thing I had to look out for was the shock wave from his bellow when I was about to do something really stupid. Have no fear you can hear Bill over any machinery noise conceived by man.

I have not watched the DVD yet. Perhaps I will get a chance to view it this weekend. I have been disappointed in all the previous turning videos I have seen. I have seen the real McCoy and as Jim Shaver said, "Bill is a full size man." If the video captures the essence of this full size man then it will certainly be worth watching.

Dave Smith

I have got to get over this cold, I am sounding really weird in Longview, WA.

Re: Coast to coast for a lesson.

Tony Costine

>I can certainly understand. And you don't really appreciate the size of the "big blue machine" unti you see it standing next to Bill...I have to say I was almost as impressed by the Poolewood as I was by the content of the video.

Okay, Bill...it's time for Woodturning DVD part 2!

I'd like to see the KM work, as I never have...and I'd also like to see how you did...how many was it? Something like 10 or a dozen pens an hour?

That'd be really cool.

Thanks again for the DVD!

--T.

hoping I didn't sweep my chuck key into the shaving pile in Contoocook, NH.

(actually, I'm hoping it's not in the compost heap...d'oh!)

Re: more grumbine video

Carole in VA

>Well that makes me feel good! I ordered the video this morning and my lathe should arrive on Tuesday. Hopefully the video will arrive at or near the same time.

Re: more grumbine video

Mark Kauder. Phenix City, AL

>I got mine yesterday, and watched it today.

It is great. I think it a must for every turning club lending library.

Great Job Bill!!

Mark