New turners challenge. Tyler and Frank this is for you

[Frank Chaffee]

Frankly Frank Fusco,
I’m freaked from fviewing your frightful fbonker!!!

“Is there any way outta here?”

fFrank

[Andy Hoyt]

Oh my gawd! What have we gone and done?

We've created Frankenfrank's Monster

[Ken Fitzgerald]

fFrank

Hey Andy......did you notice?......Frank Chaffee is so excited about being Abysserated..............he's stuttering on his keyboard!

[Frank Chaffee]

Fe fi fo fum.
fI fsmell fthe fblood fof fa fvanquished fturners fthumb!

fYum, fYum fYum!

fFrank

[Henry C. Gernhardt, III]

Juft remember, Frank, one muft:

Fhed a tear,
For fad eyed Fal,
Remember in your handf you hold fomebody'f...

Heart.

[Frank Chaffee]

Juft remember, Frank, one muft:

Fhed a tear,
For fad eyed Fal,
Remember in your handf you hold fomebody'f...

Heart.

Thank you Henry,
For understanding the frailty of the human heart.

I have released many tears in gratitude to those who have nourished me with the spirit of the Creek.

Frank

[Vaughn McMillan]

OK Tyler and Frank, we all understand you're both busy, and we empathise. Still, I have a few questions:

Was Washington too busy to cross the Delaware?
Was Ben Franklin too busy to go kite-flying in the rain?
Was Abe Lincoln too busy to attend the theatre? (OK, maybe not a good analogy)
Was Michelangelo too busy to paint the ceiling?
Was Al Gore too busy to invent the Internet?

I'm thinkin' no. 'Nuf said,

- Vaughn

[Andy Hoyt]

Hey Vaughn!

Didn't Al invent "both internets"?

[Lee DeRaud]

OK Tyler and Frank, we all understand you're both busy, and we empathise. Still, I have a few questions:

Was Washington too busy to cross the Delaware?
Was Ben Franklin too busy to go kite-flying in the rain?
Was Abe Lincoln too busy to attend the theatre? (OK, maybe not a good analogy)
Was Michelangelo too busy to paint the ceiling?
Was Al Gore too busy to invent the Internet?

I'm thinkin' no. 'Nuf said,

- Vaughn

Yeah, but at some point in the process, I suspect all of them stopped and thought,
"I'm beginning to wonder if this is really that great an idea after all."

[Frank Chaffee]

Darn Lee,
Do you really have to give me pause to double cross triple second guess myself?

Inexorably Yours,
Frank (Goin’ down down down, Goin’ down down…)

[Dale Thompson]

Frank (Goin’ down down down, Goin’ down down…)

Hey Arena,
I'm here for you - AGAIN!! I'll try to help but just remember that I finished 158th in a field of 46 the last time REAL bonkers were on the line. Even "Ice Cream Al" beat me out by a gallon and a half.

Whatever, lets think about cigarette "bonkers". I'm trying to quit and have reduced my consumption from about 50/day to about 10/day. Anything that we can do to "Bonk" those last ten would be GREAT!!

By the way, you should quit also. You are WAAAY too smart to mess yourself up the way that I have!!

Dale T.

[Frank Chaffee]

Or,
Could this be love?

I had thought I would wait for Tyler to have turning time too before I put the metal to the woodle so we could both initiate our Jet Minis at the same time. However, as I leave for two weeks in AZ tomorrow am I could not resist picking up a tool that looked like it would do the job of turning a square post into a round one and firing up the lathe.

Normally, and especially when I have no Boss exhorting me towards insane deadlines, my MO is to study a subject or process to death before getting my hands dirty. Well in truth I tried to do just that, but the Robert Sorby CD locked up my virile computer and I do not have a DVD player to view the Bill Grumbine dvd.

So what to do?

I dove, admittedly into the shallows of the Abyss, and have been rewarded with the sounds of tic tic tic and tock tock tock, as my blank gave up its shoulders to my gouge!!!

But then, the whispered whirr that emitted from this walnut blank as it became round under my gouge was so seductive it brought tears to my eyes.
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Thank you all, and Tyler, I expect that your first time, at Five Barns, was as good as mine here.

Frank

PS: I see that when I return from AZ in two weeks I will spend a lot of time turning!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Ah Frank! You have the good beginnings of a nice bonker!

[Keith Burns]

Frank, you are off to a great start, well you are off to a start, which is more than I can say about Tyler. Why did you stop, there's still daylight left. Can't wat to see it complete

[Don Baer]

Great start Frank. Tyler he has clearly alid down the gauntlet. Whers your offering to the turning gods..