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                                    December 2006 Newsletter

  The woodturners 3^rd annual Christmas party will be sooner than you expect. Mark your calendar for the 16^th of December starting at 9am Saturday at the Woodman of the World Lodge.

  Remember to bring the food you signed up for. Ralph Thomas will be doing the BBQ. If you were not at the last meeting to sign the sign up sheet you can bring a desert or a vegetable.

  We will dispense with the Dirty Santa game as it takes up to much time and you the members voted not to have it this year, instead we will have a special show and tell for the ladies. You are asked to bring anything that you would like to show off old or new. We will still have our auction, so bring in some special wood for Danny to sell for the club.

  The plan for the gifts that you bring will be wrapped and we will place them on a table or around a Christmas tree if we have one. We will count the gifts and then place the same amount of numbers in a hat from one to whatever. The person with #1 will start by selecting a gift and unwrap it show it off and it will be theirs to keep.

  Please do not bring a gag gift as someone did last year. The turning that you bring is up to you; remember to bring a gift for your spouse if she wants to participate. You are permitted to buy a gift valued at least $20.00 which must be related to woodturning. Please wrap all the gifts.

  Keep this in mind; we are having Bill Grumbine for a demonstration in March. The committee would like some input from the membership as to whether you want to attend this demo at our regular meeting, and who want to attend a hands on session on Sunday, or would you like to do a one on one with Bill. Let the committee know what you prefer.

  Another exciting event will be taking place after the first of the year hosted by OB at his place. It is an Old Time Gathering of turners from all over the South East US and some outside this area. For more info contact OB at ob-obrien@mcnsi.com.

  Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

The November 2006 Meeting
Photos

Who is in favor of not having the "Bad Santa" game this Christmas party, raise your hand. The negatives have it, we will just draw numbers to see which gift you will get. Do I hear an A-men.  AMEN!


We had a very successful auction taking in $87.00 for in the clubs treasury. This portion of the meeting is becoming a good money maker for the club, keep the nice wood coming in to support our projects.

Show and Tell is starting to increase with new faces belonging to new members bringing in their projects and such, please keep them coming it makes this portion of  the meeting very interesting.


Chucks offering for S&T a replacement bowl for his granddaughter to replace one that was damaged in hurricane Katrina. 


Danny's contribution was a staff he made for Halloween, made from several types of wood including some King Wood.


Mike is back in the segmented mode. Nice job.


Another contribution. Part of the bowl is some of the Camphor that we received from a tree cutting party that all members were invited to, with very little turn out. 


Durk's first ornaments for S&T sorry to hear that you destroyed your jig that you got from Jack. Turning sure is fun something new around every turning.


Frank Strong trying his hand at something new The ornaments and the hanger made out of safety wire. Nice Display.


Fred's first attempt at a large bowl. Nice job. He didn't realize that you could dig so many shavings from one piece of cherry. I believe Fred will be getting a center saver for his next project.


George turns in a nice piece that he used his woodburner on. George says that there is two bowls here. Some of you new turners may see that George is using some of the techniques that Dixie used last month, proving that the demonstrations are influential in our turnings. This is the reason we have the demonstrators come to our meetings to help inspire each one of you.


Lorin turns in two more excellent turnings "he says he used his parting tool" looks like a winged bowl and a pepper mill. Watch out John Jordan here comes Lorin Later.


Charles Toner must have the hottest lathe going he is turning a large collection of segmented bowls, is his theme " so many bowls so little time?" The earring holder is a very good idea along with the lidded box.


Jack uses a new technique for putting a feature ring on an ornament, glue it on. The ring comes by the foot and looks good in place, another idea from JD.


Darnell Jackson turns in another good month of turning. Several pieces made from a Pear tree rescued from his mother's home before it was sold. The candle sticks he made for himself the others for brother and mother.

More from Darnell, great job keep bringing them to S&T.


James turns in a natural edge bowl without the bark looks like cherry.


Mark McClain turns in another great piece. This is a piece of a Palm Tree, he won in the raffle from, Mascoll our last demonstrator. This makes you want to turn a piece of palm, if you could get your hands on a piece of it.


Our Show and Tell table.

The following series of pictures are from our last demonstrator Ralph Thomas. I will attempt to give you all the instructions you will need to complete your own Winged bowl.

Before you attempt to do a winged bowl you need a piece of wood that is symmetrical for the best results. I will be describing a square bowl at this time. Ralph says to make sure your piece of wood is square and the sides are parallel to start with. You can use a planer, sander, or band saw or place on the lathe to true-up. Ralph says cut to the desired shape, square, rectangle, triangle, or natural edge.

Mark the center, drill recess for chuck or use a faceplate, Note: faceplate should be attached on top face to minimize waste.



Ralph turning a tenon on the face of the wood which will be used later once he turns the bowl around to finish the other side. Remember you will be using your own chuck so make the tenon to fit your own tooling.

Once you get the tenon cut turn the wood around and mount it to your chuck. Now start forming the wings to the form you have chosen for yourself.


Ralph uses a medium slow speed to  try and avoid the gaps between the wings.


This is what you are looking for, four (4) feet the same size, for this reason you should make sure the blank is square and parallel at the very beginning.


You now draw a line on the wood as a reference for your wing thickness.


Make sure you mark all four sides of your wings. This gives you a reference to see how you are doing.


Ready to start the top of your project after turning around.

Ralph starting close to the wing while shaping the top of his winged bowl


Turn the bowl till your satisfied with the shape remember to use sound judgment and good turning techniques during this portion of your project. Remember while you are turning this type of bowl you will be able to see things beyond the turning wings, try not to reach for items in this area of your lathe top, because  you may come up missing some fingers or if your lucky just bruised a finger or two. You won't be the first turner that has tried this feat unsuccessfully.


Here Ralph holds up his un-sanded winged bowl. If you have a question about this demonstration please call Ralph Thomas at 934-3259 or talk to him at one of our meetings.

The order that Ralph uses to do this turning comes from the hand out he gave to us to take notes on and use as a guide.

a. cut tenon or recess on bottom.
b. make decision to work bottom or top first; Ralph starts from bottom.
c. from the bottom begin by shaping bowl and wings.
d. use black marker to outline shape.
e. reverse chuck and turn top of wings: check form; reverse chuck and sand bottom of wings and bowl.
f. reverse chuck and turn inside of bowl; sand top of wings and inside of bowl.
g. turn off tenon or recess which ever you used from the bottom.
h. use your own method of finishing.

GOOD LUCK!!!