A woodturners Weekend
I have my eye on something shiny and new and I am asking you all for some help. In the last year or so I have been turning my wood art and selling it via online, art shows, and my Etsy store. In that time I have also engaged in social media, spoken at Podcamp Boston 3, Co-founded a local twitter meet-up group, and Co-founding the Niagara on the Lake Meetup coming in August.
This weekend I am hoping to bring the world of my art and the world of social media back together again for an event I am calling “The Woodturners Weekend”. Like any other creative endeavor, as one grows in their art they tend to need new tools, and tend to wear out their old ones. My lathe (the major tool I use) has been good to me over the past few years, but signs of wear are starting to become apparent as my need to increase my productivity and artistic vision rises. It’s just about time for me to retire the old lathe and purchase a new one. Luckily for me a local woodturning friend has a nearly new lathe that he is selling . This lathe will offer me years of good service and literally quadruples the capacity and power of my old lathe. he is selling the lathe for $750.00 which is a literal steal, so I know it won’t be around for long before someone else snatches it up! This leads me to my woodturners weekend. I will be producing wonderful pieces of my woodturned art all weekend, starting this evening and will continue through Sunday afternoon. I will be streaming much of this live through my macbook so that you may watch and ask questions if you so desire.
Do you have a person that is always hard to buy a gift for? A graduation gift that you need? How about a wedding? This weekend I will be taking any requests that you might have, and I will do my best to make it happen as long as I have the materials. Do you know anyone that might be interested in a piece of my handmade work? If you would like to buy a piece, make a request or commission, blog about it, tweet about it, put up a facebook message, or connect with your channel of choice I would be forever grateful.
The power of new media has never ceased to amaze me and I am going to put it to the test this weekend with my Woodturners Weekend. Anyone that I promised a bottle stopper to will get those as well this weekend as promised in my last post.
I am going to get busy setting up the shop for video, and a weekend of art bliss! Thank you ahead of time to anyone spreading the word or that makes a purchase. I will update this post all weekend as I get closer to my goal. Thanks Again. Feel free to connect via email for any requests or leave a comment here in the blog. Keith(at)magicwoodworks(dot)com
Keith Burtis
Etsy Storefront
Items being turned:
Bowls
Sushi Dish Sets
Wine Stoppers
Commissioned Art
Livestreaming Schedule (Will update as weekend progresses)
Saturday Morning 9AM-10AM EST
Saturday Morning 11AM-Noon EST
Saturday Evening 6PM-7PM EST
Saturday Evening 9PM-10PM EST
Sunday Morning 10AM-11AM
Sunday Afternoon Noon-1PM
Sunday Evening 7PM-8PM
I will put a big RED Check next to the milestones as I reach them:
$100 — Thank you to Sooz! We met at Podcamp Boston 3! She Purchased the Gourmet Chefs Set.
$200
$300
$400
$500
$600- Final Goal
KeithBurtis- Broadcast your self LIVE
This is my Live stream, If you are interested in asking questions or interacting with me via chat room you have to go to my Blog TV Page.
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