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Dont know how many of you LJ’s support some of thoese folk not so luck as ourselves.
Our Sth Auckland W/turners Guild has for many years had several ongoing projects suporting variors groups.
This is my latest contribution to the Guilds collection.
Butterfly Boxes,
these are given to the little girls with terminal cancer, one of our lady members makes little butterflies for inside the lids, they are only 90mm dia.
Wig Stands,
these are handed to the Breast cancer foundation for the ladies who loose their hair thru Chemo, they store their wigs on thes & use them to dry out & care for the Wigs, The guild makes in the order of 300 to 400 per year
Spinning tops
These are also made for the “Kids Can” (Can being Cancer), the little boy patients love these & are also used by all the “little” visitors who get bored hanging around Hospital wards, they get spun all round the Hospital floors, we make hundreds of these each year. Once you have roughtout a say 1 metre blank you can wack these oout at about 1×3 mins straight of the skew.
I would probably do about 5 or 6 little runs of these a year. Lot of fun & a great way of keeping on top of your skew,
Do any of you guys or Gals get up to anything similar, should have maybe put htis into a forum or blog format
-- Pete G: If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got
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shipwright
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#1 posted 540 days ago
Good on ya Pete.
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grizzman
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#2 posted 540 days ago
oh these are great, wonderful job…like paul said, good on ya
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sedcokid
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#3 posted 540 days ago
Good Work Pete!! Makes you feel good when you help others, don’t it!
Thanks for sharing
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Loucarb
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#4 posted 540 days ago
Well done Pete. I’m sure they will be well appreciated.
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#5 posted 540 days ago
Great work Pete, they will bring joy to those receiving. Congrats to you and your guild members on a job well done. .
-- Bob C, Australia. I love sharing as long as it is not my tools
Shawn K.
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#6 posted 540 days ago
Excellent, inspiring work. Think I might look around here to see if anything similar is being done.
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#7 posted 540 days ago
these are an awesome idea…well done…. the cancer kids certainly would get hours of fun out of these
-- just get stuck in and have a go!!!
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#8 posted 540 days ago
Good one mate… keep up the good work… Inspiring…
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Jim Jakosh
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#9 posted 540 days ago
Pete, that is so nice of you guys to do that. I’ll bet it means a lot to the kids, too.
Great going..God bless you for doing it!!!!!!!!............Jim
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Ken Fitzpatrick
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#10 posted 540 days ago
What a wonderfull way to share your work. I haven’t heard of this being done in my area, but now I’m going to look. Thanks for sharing.
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#11 posted 540 days ago
: ) You are really one of the good ones!
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#12 posted 540 days ago
what a great idea
and a wonderful gift
for all in need
thank you all
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#13 posted 540 days ago
What a great thing to do. Bravo my friend !
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#14 posted 540 days ago
Great work for a great cause…kudos to you and your guild!
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#15 posted 540 days ago
Very generous of you.
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