“Lets Help Dave Fleet to the Finish” Pt1
Recently, I attended Podcamp Toronto, and I met an awful lot of wonderful people there. One of the people I was able to meet face-to-face was Dave Fleet. Dave is one of those guys that just lifts your energy being around him. Many of you might not know but Dave is running and training for the Boston Marathon coming up in just a short five weeks.
Dave being the stand up Englishman he is has been raising funds for cancer research on his blog as he logs and tracks his runs everyday for the whole to see. The funds he raises go to the 
The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
to fund Cancer research. Oddly enough Dave and I have both been affected very recently by family members passing from this horrible disease.
My thoughts in helping Dave were to design and turn a beautiful art inspired piece that could be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Bidding will take place for approximatly two days and updates of the highest bid will always be posted. The dates for the bidding are as follows:
Begin: Tuesday March 25th at 9AM
Ending: Thursday March 27th at 9PM
(Dave will be in charge of updating a page that is currently being created by our friend Tommy Vallier. This site will auto update after sending your bid to davef@davefleet.com –page location to be announced)
The winner of the piece will be notified just after 9PM March 27th and if he/she wants to be recognized, both Dave and I will link through and recognize that person in a post auction blog post and will as include in any other post auction listings that we are a part of.
So what is the piece that will be auctioned off?? Well, I can tell you it will not be a bowl. It will be a decorative art piece that I will update the process of production on my blog. The piece consists of four major turnings and separate pieces that will be assembled at the end. I began working on the project and here are a few pictures of the process so far.
Thats all folks for today :)…. As you can see a piece was mounted to my lathe and turned into the shape of a squished ball. The piece is turned from a burl section out of an Australian tree. Keep checking in as I will be updating the progress on this multi step piece daily, and of course get ready to bid on Tuesday March 25th, beginning at 9am sharp!
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