Melbourne BBQ/Swap meet?

[Cliff Rogers]

Fancy calling Grunt, Gumby..... I don't know who would be more insulted.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

I said I was having a brain fart, didn't I? (Almost as bad as my calling Zenwood Zed t'other day! )

[RufflyRustic]

To all plasticine in the world, I humbly apologise!! Sorry Iain, Watson, Gra, K S, Sturdee, DJ and, and.... nuh, forgot the last one again....

[watson]

Funny thing Wendy is that we all look cold.....and most are trying to grow the "winter coat" ......just like other non acclimatised ferals.
ps.....cross threading.....Love the curtains!!!

[scooter]

Skew (Andy), Groggy(Greg), DJ, Gra(Neil), Sturdee(Peter), ozwinner(Al), Grunt(Chris), Scooter(Sean), Iain, Johnc, K_S(Keith), watson(Noel)

Dai Sensei (Neil) took the shot.

DJs second shot has Kiwibrucee (Bruce) in the middle, he managed to avoid the group shot

Neil's first shot has Libby, Al's wife next to him.

Johnc travelled from Sale to Pakenham, where he and Iain & I headed off at 9am after loading up Iain's camphor laurel slabs.

Got to Sturdee's place at 9.45am, quick gday to Peter's wife Elaine, and on the road again, to Keith's place in leafy Eltham.

Keith showed us his workshop, triton & ext table, dusty, 2 grinders with different sharpening setups (one with abrasive coated laminated cardboard wheel (see recent cardboard wheel thread) & the other with laminated MDF (I think - Keith?) with a sharpening surface on the side face of the disk & compound charged leather on the rim for honing.)

He also showed us his whizz bang sharpener for sharpening clipper blades, essentially a humungous (bit over 2ft dia) horizontally rotating aluminium plate with a 1/4 degree curvature across the top - very trick & mean - a machine to be respected (Hope I got the details right there, Keith)

After some BS & a cuppa & some yummy muffins kindly cooked by Keith's missus, we hit the road again to Merrnda, getting there about 11.30ish.

Al had the bangers & chops on the hotplate over a campfire, with another fire going in a drum to keep us warm on a brisk Victorian day. Obviously recent events haven't put him off striking a match... the man has a penchant for fire...

Had a stickybeak at the Crapotorium, chewed the fat aplenty with old & new faces, had a toast to our departed friend Steve, & generally enjoyed the company of some forum mates.

Managed a couple of redgum blanks (thanks Greg), a nice scratch awl (thanks dai sensei Neil), a ubeaut pen (thanks ubeaut Neil) and a couple of well priced router bits (thanks John).

We hit the road a bit after 2pm, dropped off Peter on the way & got home at 4 o'clockish.

Nother very good day, big thanks to Al for hosting, everyone who contributed to the giveaways, and for everyone for making the effort to attend, especially Noel & John, who came from Avoca & Sale respectively, quite a hike.


Cheers.....................Sean

[Grunt]

the man has a penchant for fire

He's changing his forum name to 'Al da Torch'.

[ozwinner]

Twas a good day indeed.

I forgot to thank Scooter for the bottle of Red, and Watson for some more of his fine home brew.

Thanks guys..

Al

[dai sensei]

I still reckon you could've got away with taking home more wood, Neil... perhaps stuffing the pockets of an old Army great-coat wouldn't have worked..

I put the redgum along with some pen blanks, Huon blanks and my root ball in a back pack to take as hand luggage for the plane to minimize weight, but timber blocks are deemed deadly weapons and I had to put them in my suitcase . Then it was overweight by 10kgs and they charged me excess at $7/kg . I should have just posted them to myself, but I was in a hurry and just paid the $70.

Thanks for everyone for filling in the names. Good guesses Wendy, better than me

Thanks again to all those who came.

[K_S]

Gday Sean

Close enough - my pleasure.

Keith

Skew (Andy), Groggy(Greg), DJ, Gra(Neil), Sturdee(Peter), ozwinner(Al), Grunt(Chris), Scooter(Sean), Iain, Johnc, K_S(Keith), watson(Noel)

Dai Sensei (Neil) took the shot.

DJs second shot has Kiwibrucee (Bruce) in the middle, he managed to avoid the group shot

Neil's first shot has Libby, Al's wife next to him.

Johnc travelled from Sale to Pakenham, where he and Iain & I headed off at 9am after loading up Iain's camphor laurel slabs.

Got to Sturdee's place at 9.45am, quick gday to Peter's wife Elaine, and on the road again, to Keith's place in leafy Eltham.

Keith showed us his workshop, triton & ext table, dusty, 2 grinders with different sharpening setups (one with abrasive coated laminated cardboard wheel (see recent cardboard wheel thread) & the other with laminated MDF (I think - Keith?) with a sharpening surface on the side face of the disk & compound charged leather on the rim for honing.)

He also showed us his whizz bang sharpener for sharpening clipper blades, essentially a humungous (bit over 2ft dia) horizontally rotating aluminium plate with a 1/4 degree curvature across the top - very trick & mean - a machine to be respected (Hope I got the details right there, Keith)

After some BS & a cuppa & some yummy muffins kindly cooked by Keith's missus, we hit the road again to Merrnda, getting there about 11.30ish.

Al had the bangers & chops on the hotplate over a campfire, with another fire going in a drum to keep us warm on a brisk Victorian day. Obviously recent events haven't put him off striking a match... the man has a penchant for fire...

Had a stickybeak at the Crapotorium, chewed the fat aplenty with old & new faces, had a toast to our departed friend Steve, & generally enjoyed the company of some forum mates.

Managed a couple of redgum blanks (thanks Greg), a nice scratch awl (thanks dai sensei Neil), a ubeaut pen (thanks ubeaut Neil) and a couple of well priced router bits (thanks John).

We hit the road a bit after 2pm, dropped off Peter on the way & got home at 4 o'clockish.

Nother very good day, big thanks to Al for hosting, everyone who contributed to the giveaways, and for everyone for making the effort to attend, especially Noel & John, who came from Avoca & Sale respectively, quite a hike.


Cheers.....................Sean

[Cliff Rogers]

...they charged me excess at $7/kg .....

Struth!!!!!! At least I only got stung for $40 the time I went down.

[watson]

GHC Cliff!
You're supposed to get paid for that!!!!!!!

Sorry,

[Cliff Rogers]

GHC Cliff!
You're supposed to get paid for that!!!!!!!

Sorry,

Ooooooooooo...........

I meant the last time I flew to Melbourne with a load.... mmmm this is only going to get worse isn't it.

[watson]

I can feel "the strap" already!!
Geez Cliff you just made "six Bloody Thousand"

Well done!

[Cliff Rogers]

I can feel "the strap" already!!
Geez Cliff you just made "six Bloody Thousand"

Well done!

Ta... I have the feeling (a beer & 4 reds) that a few will get culled tonight so I'll do it again tomorrow.

[Groggy]

Ta... I have the feeling (a beer & 4 reds) that a few will get culled tonight so I'll do it again tomorrow.

Groundhog day, heh, heh.