Artistic Woodturners March Newsletter

Hello Woodturners! Hope your summer has been a good one. We are moving into hurricane season and they seem to be coming one after the other. One thing about hurricane season is the contribution to our wood supply. I hope they all stay at sea.

Our next meeting will be on the 18th of this month at our usual place starting at 9 A.M. There are some exciting things taken place. One of our members Leland Leonard has donated a TV and built a cabinet to store it in, there is enough room for the storage of our two club lathes and their accessories. We have ordered a TV camera to use for our demonstrations so that you have a better view of what is going on. We should hopefully have it in use this meeting.

The AAW has two medium size lathes that were used at the symposium in Orlando last month. They will be having a drawing to give the lathes away. The way to get your name into the pot is by joining our club or renewing your membership in our club. Your name will be added to the drawing up until December. It will be to your advantage to join or renew prior to that. The winner will receive a lathe and his home club will receive the other one.

Jack Diamond will do the September demonstration; he will be showing us how to make a captive ring on a turning. Next month the Presidents Challenge will be "Turning a Captive Ring". The club has gotten a little out of sequence, so we are attempting to get back to doing the demo, then the following month the Presidents Challenge will have been demonstrated the prior month. The challenge for October will be a captive ring. James McClure, "Turning a Ladle", is doing the October demo, something he learned in Orlando. The month of November's challenge is you guessed it turning a "Ladle". The club would like to keep this order so that we can hold down the confusion.

We will have a new feature at our meetings "Question and Answer" If you have a question and need an answer just ask one of our panelists, we have selected four of our members that have been turning for a few years. If the question is related to something turned on the lathe and it can be demonstrated on the club lathe you will be shown at that time how to solve your problem and have your question answered. The other questions will also be answered before you go home.

Chuck Ward will be bringing in his Vacuum Chuck that he has built for his own use, to show you how it works, and where he got the pieces to build the chuck.

There will be a discussion on turning some Christmas tree ornaments. The ornaments will be placed on a tree for Hospices if we are not to late for this year to complete the project.

Do not forget to bring in your turnings for "show and tell". This part of the meeting has started to yield some very nice turnings. Keep them coming.