To Bill D: Info Request

Subject: To Bill D: Info Request
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 06:43 PM

G'day Bill D,

I'm sorry that I need to use a thread for this, but I tried to send you a personal message from my Personal Page and it falls over during loading. At ~100 Kb I get a message that Netscape has run out of memory and I should close some other applications ... and there are none running.

I just downloaded the more recent thread (last entry ~12 August 1998)on the Woodturner's Lovesong to show to the author, Phyl Lobl. There is mention of (and I vaguely remember) and earlier thread and you say that it was yourself that posted the words. I notice that you were able to give a link to Barbara, but it is not visible on the thread.

Could you give me the thread name and date - or a link that I can access - so that I can download the contents and give the whole shebang to Phyl - who I will see at the National Folk Festival, at Canberra, over Easter.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: To Bill D: Info Request
From: Ferrara
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 03:13 PM

Hi, Bob. We can't send personal messages either. We get the message, "Netscape is out of memory." Bill's out right now but will tell him you called. I can't do a forum search, either. It says it times out after 90 seconds. Don't know if that will be a problem. It has never been urgent enough so far to try to get it fixed.

By the way, there's an alternative to the "Send a Personal Message" option. Go to your personal page. Under the list of traced threads, etc, there's a horizontal list in small print of additional options. One is "Send an E-mail." If the recipient has given permission for Mudcat to post their e-mail address, you can send a personal message that way. - Rita F (spouse of Bill D)

Subject: RE: To Bill D: Info Request
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 04:18 PM

Bob...threads have been wasted on much more trivial things!! *wink*...and that 'out of memory' thing is beginning to wear on me!..thought it was me, but maybe it is Netscape, and maybe it is Mudcat...we need to know..

anyway...here are the threads where the song and such have been mentioned...

http://mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=3130

http://mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=5475

http://mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=8583

and here is the thread where I got educated about her name and such...http://mudcat.org/thread.CFM?threadID=2032#7556

I would love to know more about the song..inspiration, history, whether I have it 'right'..etc...(I still have no idea how it got to Oregon, USA, where my friend found it).So, if you DO see Phyl, convey my appreciation for such a great song.

Subject: RE: To Bill D: Info Request
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 04:20 PM

ooops...didn't need that #7556 at the end there, but it is in the right thread

Subject: RE: To Bill D: Info Request
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 05:21 PM

G'day Bill D & Rita F,

Thanks very much for your assistance in tracing all the threads. I'm sure that Phyl will enjoy the full story.

I first met Phyl when she was Phyl Vinnicombe, a school teacher in Melbourne, 800 kilometres or so south of Sydney. We met on the special train coming back from the 1971 National Folk Festival in Adelaide (another 800 km west of Melbourne). Phyl later married Geri Lobl and came to Sydney.

The song uses an old goldfields tune The Cry Look Out Below and the wood-turning experience of Neil Bollingmore, a friend from my teenage years (1960s) - who I will also see in Canberra over Easter. I have always loved the song because it seems so close to describing my father, another wood craftsman with a love for wood and a quiet way with words.

BTW: I notice that at the end of one of these threads I mentioned 'bones' made from hard desert mulgas (acacias). Last weekend I came across small slab of another such wood from the Margaret River region, 3500 kilometres away in Western Australia. This is not quite so hard or heavy (although it is still 1.1 relative density, about 50% heavier than American Oak) but I love the official name: Raspberry Jam (scientific name ). Apparently the freshly cut, rich red-brown wood has a distinct sweet smell like raspberry jam!

My rough working of a side piece with sapwood stillin place suggests quite nice properties and I look forward to working on the select pieces marked out from the heartwood. This is a small, limited timber found only in what is now the wine-growing area of WA.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: To Bill D: Info Request
From: Barbara
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 10:39 PM

I can't tell you how the woodturner song got to your friend in Oregon, Bill, but it got to me in Oregon from a tape by a wonderful Vancouver BC group called Three Strong Winds. They recorded it maybe 10 years ago now.(And I haven't been able to get their tapes in this country, but you can order them from Zeke Hoskin.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: To Bill D: Info Request
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 12:06 AM

Bob...I have had one small sample of Raspberry Jam wood.. Acacia acuminata, I believe it is.....lovely smell!If you ever want to trade..*smile*...I can come up with some interesting woods from this area... interesting hard woods for bones

I do appreciate knowing more about the song...it will add to the feeling when I sing it for people.I do like to give the story as well as the music...thanks..

Subject: RE: To Bill D: Info Request
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 12:25 AM

in fact...after I posted I went looking...and I found thispage of Australian woods!! best pictures of samples I have ever found! the main page is http://www.netspace.net.au/~pjr/wood.html...there are 30 pages of them..wow!!gotta find space to copy some pics!