I'm going to try to make it to Iron Fever this weekend. If you see a somewhat overweight middle-aged guy with graying hair, glasses, and a beard, please introduce yourselves. A better identification method will be to look for a beautiful and charming 13-year-old and find the old guy attached to her.
Has anyone else noticed the unusually high proportion of hairy faced guys in this hobby? Must be some kind of genetic predisposition.
Kevin Gallimore
Its the last great line of defense from flying hot swarf.
Gunner
_"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." - Ayn Rand, from "Foreign Policy Drains U.S. of Main Weapons"
I quit shaving when it starts snowing & start shaving again when I'm sure we've had our last snow (sometime around the 4th of July). Every year I receive numerous compliments about how much better-looking I am with more of my face covered with hair. People are so nice sometimes.
I'm not a real metalworker, just a putterer & rcm lurker, so this trait may be anomalous WRT the real metalworkers here.
R, Tom Q.
That sounds like a good identifier system.
I expect to be there too --- Saturday only -- with a Yellow "CAMS" cap (if I can remember to keep it on indoors), a Nikon camera hung around my neck, and a folding cart behind me with a canvas bag for smaller goodies.
My wife may be with me, or off looking for interesting things elsewhere in the show. If she is there, the top of her head comes up to almost my chin, :-)
My beard is now mostly gray -- unless I spill some barbeque sauce on it. :-)
My hair is also probably too long by others opinions.
People who don't care that much what others think of their hobbies are also not likely to care that much about what they think about the beards, too. :-)
Enjoy, DoN.
Just curious..........
Ya bringin yer squeezebox ???
Hey Kevin,
At NAMES, Scott Logan makes a good "reporting point". And he's a nice guy to chat with too.
Take care.
Brian Laws>
That question might be interpreted a couple ways....
michael
loaded...how 'bout you, busy?
OK, check just inside the entrance to the East hall, and look for a slightly short, slightly undertall (relative to width), slightly balding guy in his mid-forties, with a beautiful 16-year-old girl working the Logan Actuator booth.
Wait till you see the guys at the show! Abby used to say they all look like Santa. LOTS of white facial hair.
See you this weekend!
axolotl wrote in news:411970bb$1_7 @corp.newsgroups.com:
Who has time to shave when you can be *making* something?
My wife and I are going, we are the two giants :) I'm 6.2 and she is not much shorter than me. Of course I have a beard and glasses.
Les
Nah! The drool accumulates in the whiskers and provides a nice, steady source of cutting lubricants for us old guys who have to get real close to the lathe work to see what we're doing.
BTW -- I have found that spit is just about the best liquid to use on my white Arkansas stones for honing tool bits.
Boris Bewhiskered
Clear on the other side of the states, so I doubt I will ever make that one--but if I do, I surely will bring my squeezebox along......
Not bad--kinda slowed down a couple weeks ago, so actually enjoying it as much as I can.....theres calm before the storm is how it always seems to go for us.
Folks at ABANA (blacksmiths) conferences who are also on the email list put round orange dots on their nametags that have an @ printed on them. Works pretty well, noticeable and easy to wear. Somebody puts pages of dots on a few tables with a note and everyone picks them up.
Steve Smith
axolotl wrote:
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I hadn't planned to. It is just a bit too much to keep track of while I am wheeling around a cart which may get loaded with heavy purchases (if things go well). I also tend not to bring it to hamfests these days. I have to make do with the pair of tinwhistles stuck in my belt.
Maybe I'll bring it to the hospitality suite, if it does not turn out to take us too long to drive up there, with the nasty hurricane decay products coming through. :-)
Enjoy, DoN.
P.S. For those who fear piano accordions -- this is a much smaller instrument -- and English system concertina, and it has a noticeably different sound.
--Re: secret handshake: is that the one that begins by reaching for one's wallet?
Before or after ?
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 03:13:34 GMT, "Martin H. Eastburn" calmly ranted:
Always before. You don't want to get screwed twice, do you? ;>
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I was there today sat. I took 4 hours off work.I used vacation time i walked i looked i spent no money except to get in. I met fred of vector cnc. Talked a little he was bizzy and i looked some more and went back to work..I should use my free time and try to make some of that stuff .Some very crafty people.
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