3 questions

[KerikM]

1st, did everyone die or something? In short, where'd everybody go?
2nd, does anyone have anything interesting planned for Snohomish and/or Burlington?
3rd, how does one find the best auction house or other specialist for [after my death] finding new homes for well-crafted miniature trebs? A maker friend suggests that people will take better care of something if they had to spend some money on it. My trebs are of pretty good quality if I do say so and one is the first of its kind. I expect them to last long after I'm out of here, and want them to go to a good home[s]. I don't expect to die real soon but it's a good idea to make a will and this has been the impasse. Ideas?

[madmattd]

1 - well, it never was all that busy here, but yes it has definitely been quiet of late. I check in most days (though I've been gone the last few hence the latish reply), but haven't been working on trebs much lately. I have been working on a project to figure out how much force we're putting on our pumpkins though with NASAW. All in the on-going quest to stop pieing!

2 - I'm no help there, wrong coast, haha.

3 - One idea might be to talk to some local schools. If there is a teacher there in the math/physics department that gets into it, they might be interested in using them as a teaching instrument for their classes. I know my old high school recently had a "mini-course" where the students learned about, designed, and built trebuchets and catapults, and it always helps to have something to inspire oneself when designing. Just a thought. I don't know how the market is for pre-built trebs/cats, but I guess there must be some interest since there are a few kits selling out there.

[KerikM]

Thanks. A dear friend has expressed interest in the treb family, with the prospect of their next going to an engineering school on the event of his own demise; of course I hope both he and I are around for a good while longer.
The local high school physics classroom is awash with crude trebs made and abandoned by students. I sense that mine would be neither welcome nor well cared for there.
Good luck with the magnificent NASAW. Maybe you could devise a roundish object of same weight as a pumpkin but with accelerometers and so on inside? I hope there is a national event this fall.

[madmattd]

[BobP]