hello together,
a happy new year to you all!
first of all let me say ´sorry´ for my silence until now-
we had a heavy up and down in our family-life here.
three days after a happy xmas together my father in law, healthy and active, died by an apoplectic stroke-
forty minutes, and he was gone.
two days later- at new years eve- was the 60th birthday of my wife and today I come from my father in law´s funeral.
but now to ´BEST BOWIE 2011´:
a big thanks to john w. for posting my knife, at that time I still hesitated to throw it into this ´champions-league-competition´.
... then my name appeared among the finalists,
I needed some second before I realised: six master- or journeysmiths and a newby in this pool.
I felt like in an unreal (but fantastic) dream.
I must confess:
from this moment my family had no more my sole attention... :-(
and then this result-
thank you all for this overwhelming number of votings for my ´FAT HOOK´!
this is a huge honor for a not so wellknown maker like me.
a competition here means more to me than a ´best of show´ in an exhibition!
a big compliment to you gentlemen here, this is a great community- sophisticated but still open-minded, always willing to share knowledge and experience with newcomers, frankly speaking to faults (my foto-skill or ´notskill´...
...)
it´s a big thing to be a member of BF.
finally a ´thank you` to roger and lorien for their work with this competition, it is always the highlight of the year!
best regards
gerhard
