Bodgers Ball

I have just been to England for The Bodgers Ball´s 21st anniversary. It was held in Herefordshire in a very beautiful country setting, like something out of a film.
I met a lot of nice and interesting people and old friends. I also bought an old wooden spokeshaver and saw a demonstration on how to sharpen a saw. I saw another demonstration on how to carve a bowl with a crooked knife on a stick.

That same weekend I went to my first book launch. It was for Mick Abbott's third book:

Going with the Grain. I like the book. It describes how to build chairs and the gadgets that go

with chair building.

I am going to build Mike's new shaving horse. The shaving horse has featured in an aticle in Living Woods Magazine.

The book is like having nicked the clever student's notes from a chair makers course.

The book launch took place in Mike's work shop. Two of his helpers were making pizza and there were flapjacks and local apple juice. I took a photo of his oven to dry chair parts, the same photo as is in the book, just with the oven open. The guy in the picture is one of the pizza makers.

When you have been to an event like the Bodgers Ball you are full of new ideas and impressions but frustrated that there is not enough time to carry them out.