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The Wizard

Out of 1275 forum members I owe one of you a huge thank you!

Yesterday I received a very heavy package from Steve F. It contained the fabric he promised for the icons I designed for the auction section of the forum. In addition to Steve's fabric there was a quantity of fabric that apparently a kind hearted soul on this forum had anonymously donated to me Shocked

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Whoever you are I would like to thank you for your genorosity. I now have enough fabric to last me a couple of years at least!

Each roll has a minimum of 1-2 yards of material and some have what looks like 8-10 yards on them!

It has been said before (and I fully agree) that the people on this forum make it the best kite related forum in the world. This is yet another example of kiters taking care of their own and being willing to share. Being disabled and on a fixed income buying kite fabric has always been a difficulty for me and I have had to get by with whatever scraps are left over from building kites for friends. Now I have so much fabric I don't know where to start, but I do have some ideas

. The kids have even given me orders for new kites despite the fact they rarely fly the ones I have already built for them Rolling Eyes

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Thanks to Steve for his genorosity and for creating such a great forum in the first place and thanks again to my mystery donor for being the person you are, I really appreciate what you did for me!
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Larry Green
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http://essexkites.studio1.net/

KiteSquid · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject:

WOW that is TOO COOL!!!!!!

Whoever did it, I thank them too!!!!!!!
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Grant L · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:35 pm Post subject:

Great bunch of folks here Applause

Thanks to anonymous for being so generous.

Now we all get to look at the colors and try to figure what combinations you will use Think

CJQ · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:59 pm Post subject: We thank YOU LARRY

Hi Larry, Wow, very happy for you, Your excitement shows. We all thank you for a lot of things . You truly are an asset and wonderful contributor on this forum. Each time I see your avatar pop up I read your posts as I know it will be an education. We also thank you for the inspiration and positive attitude you share with us. That makes us better people.And finaly tell us what your next project will be so we can follow it's progress.

CLIFF

The Wizard · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:42 am Post subject:

Thanks for the comments Squid, Grant and Cliff I appreciate them.

As to what I will build first well.............

I have a very special Rok I designed way back in January of 2003 that is still waiting to be built as I never had the right colours to build it. I needed several shades of blue, green and brown to do it justice and never seemed to get enough of the right colours to start it (and the brown has proven difficult to source until recently when Steve started stocking it). I now have the blues and greens I can use and I have thought about using 'The Squid's' dying techniques to dye some white in the shades of brown I need many times so that is a possibility. I also have a couple more Roks designed and waiting to be built too.

I was also inspired by this thread a few months ago.....

http://www.kitebuilder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1958

... and decided that I would design one of my own while waiting for the forum to get started on its project (what happened to that BTW did it just die by the side of the information super-highway?). I designed a sail, then re-designed it, came back to it a while later and changed some things again, then totally reworked it as I wasn't happy with the overall effect. Today I started on it again, from scratch (I am now at v.8 of the design

), as I still wasn't happy with the results. This time I think I am headed in the right direction as this one has a little 'twist' to it Wink

. I only have one of the 24 panels designed so far as I decided to give my brain a rest and came to check out the posts on here but I have a feeling this is going to be the first kite from my new fabric stash Dancing

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Rest assured that I will give you all a 'blow by blow' account of the build once I get started Wink

. I have a feeling the second kite is going to be a Rev copy for my wife seeing as she has already said she wants to build one this year after learning to fly mine last year. Gonna need yet another new kite bag at this rate and I only finished the last one a few days ago Laughing

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http://essexkites.studio1.net/

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The Wizard

kiteguy · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:23 am Post subject:

Larry, as many have said you are an asset to the forum. Speaking from experience, you are an asset to individuals as well! Wink

Thanks so much for all that you share with us. We are certainly the better for it.
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The Wizard · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:35 am Post subject:

Quad Nut · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

Congrats Larry. Smile

You did a nice job for the forum and deserve our thanks. Applause

Enjoy the fabric.

Keep those tips and suggestions coming.

The Wizard · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks Quad.

I intend to enjoy the fabric and the tips will keep rolling out whenever I can make a useful input (no point in spouting useless information Wink

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Larry Green
a.k.a. The Wizard
http://essexkites.studio1.net/