The pen contest

[Scott Hackler]

I find it incredibly disheartening to check the voting on the pen contest and see that only 26 folks have taken the time to vote.

Come on people, take 1 minute and click on the link on the top of the forum and support out fellow turners.

...rant over

[John M. Smith]

I've looked. I can see the pens but not the poll???? Maybe I need to look on computer and not phone.

[Brian Kent]

Thanks for the reminder. I automatically look below the stickies.

[Brian Tymchak]

Thanks for the reminder. I automatically look below the stickies.

+1. I do the very same. Thanks for the post!

[Brian Kent]

Thank you for the reminder Scott. Since yesterday we went from 26 to 71 votes.

[Scott Hackler]

Yeah, I saw that! I think that the "stickies" get lost/ignored sometimes and folks don't realize that there is a contest going on. 73 votes now...is pretty good.....unless you figure in that there are 81,728 members of Sawmill Creek! Of course that number includes the non-turning bunch and the spectators.... but, just in the turning forum (the most active one) we probably have enough folks to easily see a vote count closer to 5000+.

Exposure is the key and if tis thread helps garner more attention to the contest...great. Good luck to the contestants and thanks to those who took the 1 minute to vote.

[Grant Wilkinson]

Tks, Scott. I have been following it and was discouraged to see that only 4 of us entered and then that so few voted. Your post clearly changed the voting numbers. I'll use this post to wish my fellow entrants good luck.

[Doug W Swanson]

This reminder must have helped because it seemed to take forever to get 20 people to vote. When I checked today I was surprised to see how much the vote total had jumped!

[allen long]

Actually, five of us entered. :-)

[Grant Wilkinson]

Sorry, Allen. I only see four.

[John Terefenko]

I voted early in this poll and I too was actually thinking it was over already but I missed the winners announced. I so wanted to enter this contest but the winter here in NJ has been brutal. I am in construction and have been working outdoors this year and it took its toll on me for sure. I have no energy left when I get home to go in the shop. Then all the shoveling of snow has added to the aches and pains. I am not making excuses but I do sure hope this contest will again appear at a later date and maybe abit more public push to get more entrants. I have seen some very talented pen turners here and I am sure this could be even bigger. If not a pen contest maybe other turning contests. I do not do many things but pens would have ben up my alley.

Anyway great entrants and all should take a bow. There are no losers for sure. Would be proud to own any one of them. Good luck to the entrants.