Maybe yet another one!
I am switching my health insurance from Blue Cross (don't get me started on why) to the group plan through the AAW, and was talking to the Agent in Kansas City. He went to Alburquerque. He can't wait to get started turning. I warned him about how easy it is to get sucked into the vortex. I think it is too late for him.
robo hippy
At the Members Meeting on Sunday morning, when discussing the insurance policies available to AAW members, Board Member Tom Wirsing described this insurance agent as "the only guy in the Trade Show with a white shirt and tie"...... I didn't talk with this agent, but he
did seem to be fascinated with the process, and all the tools [read: 'toys'] that go along with woodturning!
This is an example where 'total immersion' in woodturning can readily sway almost anyone. The Symposium, and especially the Trade Show, is about as good as this gets.
On the drive home from Albuquerque yesterday, I was talking with a guy in Michigan via amateur ("ham") radio, and we were was discussing the purpose of my trip. While we chatted, I directed him to my gallery web site so he could get an idea of the kind of of work I do. After giving it a look while we were talking, he seemed really interested that you could do "that kind of woodworking", and make things such as those I had done that he had seen on the web. When he started asking questions about specific pieces and what tools I needed to make those things (mostly hollow forms and the tools needed to hollow them), I knew it was getting close..... but when he asked how much money it would take to buy a lathe, I think I had gotten even closer! Today I will be sending him all of the necessary contact information for a local AAW chapter near him [outside of Detroit], and some additional beginner's information about turning.
The vortex continues.....
Rob Wallace (...who was operating 'WA0RW mobile zero' on 20 meters for most of yesterday....)
