The Woodpecker Ep 306 - Spining Christmas ornement displays 

Thank you

I wanted to use a Forstner bit but the base was bigger than the space I have on my drill press. But it was a breeze using the CNC for that.

Christmas fairs are fun, we don't visit them anymore, we're too busy being there behind our table. I don't know about Christmas fairs in Germany but we hear a lot about the Christmas fair in Strasbourg, which is pretty close to Germany. As a mater of fact we always say that we drove on Germain road but never set foot there, and it was when we went from Switzerland to Strasbourg. I was thinking about you yesterday, some people asked if we sell our ornament on line, I said that we don't have a shopping site , at least yet, but Renée took pictures of all the différent ornament that we still have and numbered them, but we wanted to know how much shipping would cost, so I made a cardboard box weight it and figure out how much shipping would cost. We checked, obviously in Canada, but also the USA, Europe and Australia, I guess the price would be the same for new Zealand. The weirdest thing is that it cost WAY less shipping to Australia than it can cost me to ship to Montreal, which is 50Km from where I live....

@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker I guess Strasbourg was in Prussia only a hundred-ish years ago -- so that might explain the excellence of their "weihnachtsmarkt" (I'm sure that's what a Prussian would claim, at any rate). And don't get me started on the illogical nature of shipping prices! It regularly costs me more to get an engineering component shipped from China than it does to have it shipped from the North Island of New Zealand (which is only 500 km away). Does my head in! Incidentally I used to work with an engineer from Strasbourg -- a Dr Francois. She was always unhappy about her surname because she believed that it sounded so boring and commonplace. So when she married a New Zealander (which I can also recommend) she took his surname, and became Dr Brown -- which she thought sounded very exotic and exciting. So it all ended happily...

Nice to hear that everybody is happy. François is a nice name we named our son's François, but here in Quebec nobody can change their name anymore, even the woman who changed their name when they maries, now are called on their maiden name. I'm always amazed that it's not the same everywhere, but that's what make other places so appealing and different

​​​​@@LgosseuxDbois-TheWoodpecker Ha, I only found the 'ç' key (for François) on my phone after submitting my comment! Québec's system for dealing with married names sounds very sensible. In New Zealand there are numerous options for naming schemes when you get married: either person can take the other's surname, or you can both hyphenate both names together, or you can both have one surname as a primary surname & the other as a secondary surname. Or you can both keep your original surname. Plenty of choice! A wife taking a husband's surname is seen as old-fashioned but still happens a surprising amount...

This sound complicated, here they changed the way when they realized that too many couple opted for divorcing after some years and the woman wanted to go back to her maiden name, they found it was too much work and it was costing tax payer a lot of money. So now this doesn't exist anymore. As for our "ç" we have a special mapped keyboard on top of a normal English keyboard. On my laptop I d'on have the sign on it, it's a plain English keyboard, I have to know where the accents are, but most of the time they're written on the keyboard. But don't confuse our layout with the one they uses in France, their layout is quite different and I must admit a bit confusing when your use to the qwerty layout. So when my laptop got stolen in France and some subscriber gave me one of his laptop, we just stuck some paper on the letters and install the French-Canadian keyboard

Thank you. Everybody told us to do so, but we don't yet, at least.... We sold over 150 of them in the three fairs we attended this year and we still have today (which is our last day of fairs this year). The shipping is the big drawback, but we should check how much it can cost, maybe it's not that expensive we're mostly used to the cost of shipping a padlock, which is way bigger and weight more. We have about 30 different models that I've design in all over two years, my goal is to have 48 which will fill both our stands

Hi again, Renée took some pictures of all our remaining ornaments, so we can sell them online, in the future we will make a "real" store but for now if you want some, send me an email Renée will answered it (lgosseuxdbois@gmail.com)