Tony Cortese will be here May 20th for a club demo and May 21st for a hands-on workshop.  The charge for the club demo is $7 for members and $10 for non-members.  Tony will be demonstrating relief carving on turnings using a high-speed dental type drill.  Lunch will be provided.  The hands-on workshop will be at O.B.’s on Sunday.  The charge to attend the hands-on workshop is $100.  Let James McClure (jemcclure@bellsouth.net) know if you are interested in attending the hands-on session.  Space is limited.

 Since we will be having a demonstrator at the next meeting, the club challenge and wood auction will be postponed until the next meeting.  You can bring things for “show and tell” for display only.  We will not do our normal “show and tell” so I guess we’ll just call it a “show”.  We will have a short business meeting mainly to elect a new treasurer.  Ray Welsh has volunteered to take over the treasurer’s job.  If anyone else is interested in taking the job, then let James know and we will do a vote.  Otherwise, we will make Ray the official treasurer at the meeting. 

 The challenge for the June meeting is a long and thin turning.  Some suggestions are chop sticks, hair sticks, magic wands, knitting needles, conductor’s baton, etc…  The winner will win a $20 gift certificate from Packard Woodworks and will be judged based on originality, execution, and long and thinness.  The June meeting will also be our next wood turning exchange.  We had 11 participants at the last meeting and the pieces were outstanding.  We are off to a great start with the new exchange program.  George McClure summed it up best when he said, “there wasn’t a piece on the table that I wouldn’t be proud to own.”  Thanks to all who participated!

 Al Hockenbery will be here July 15th for an all day club demo and July 16th for a hand-on workshop.  Al does functional and artistic turnings.  His web page is:  http://www.hockenbery-woodturnings.com/.  The fee for the club demo is $10 for members and $15 for non-members.  The fee for the hands-on workshop will be based on the number of students, but will most likely be in the $40 - $60 range.  The hands-on workshop will be on how to turn a solid sphere (including how to make the cup chucks which are required to do this).  Please let James know if you are interested in participating in the hands-on workshop.

 If you are interested in participating in the club demo at the Pensacola Heritage Days, it will be on June 3rd at the Museum of Commerce starting at 9am. I believe this will be the 5th year in a row that we participated in this event, if you have participated in the past Thank You, if you would like to help again this year let us know. They furnish food and drinks to the helpers.

 

Attendees at our April meeting.
Members and visitors. I believe that we got three new members from the Blackwater meeting, which was a big success.
Bill Bryan's show and tell a lidded bowl for in the exchange.


Fred Bonds S&T with some details. Good Job.



Fred's exchange contribution. Great!


Durk's S&T I believe this was his exchange piece too. Great progress in your turning.


George has been doing some turning. Nice idea turning a basket. Isn't it amazing what an imagination can do. Keep them coming.
Jack turns in another great bowl. This one made out of staves. Jack showed Ned how to make a bowl that fascinated him from a picture he took while at his sons place.


Ned's Creation with help from Jack.


Batter up ! James. Great Idea hope you find a way to package it without any breakage.

James shows off his gold plated top, nice idea, very up scale. Great Job !!!


Bill Morris and OB show off their contribution to the S&T. OB's was placed in the exchange for his entry. This item was from his previous demonstration.



Ray had several entries for show and tell, made two gouges and a nice bowl, keep them coming. Great Job.


The table for the exchange items. The first exchange was a big success thank everyone that participated in this endeavor.


Danny showing off the wood burner that several members are involved in making out of a computer power supply. As of now it seems to be working fine. Question is this item going to be available for members to buy? Let us know.

The auction went well there were some different items for sell. This type helps the club out with money being put into our account for the good of the club.


Photos Courtesy of George McClure:  James McClure explaining how to use a bowl gouge during his session on Bowl Gouges.


Photo by George:  Al McCoy showing two jigs The wolverine vari-grind, and David Ellsworth's jig, for the fingernail grind on your tools. Al did the demo on tool sharpening with the Wolverine system. Al says that his demo was well received and some turners brought in their tools to have the fingernail grind put on their gouge.


Photo by George: OB shows members how to do spindle turning on the clubs midi lathe.


Photo by George: OB has prospective member trying out his skill on spindle turning. 

 


Jack Diamond and Al McCoy did a demonstration at the Longleaf Elementary School the 21st of April as you can see the children were fascinated with Jack making his spin tops.

Great job Jack. Keeping the students attention.