Artisticwoodturners

March 2007 Newsletter

  We will be hosting Bill Grumbine on March 17th for a club demo and March 18th for a hands-on workshop it will be at the Woodman location at 9am Sunday.  If you are not familiar with Bill and his work, please visit his website at http://www.wonderfulwood.com.  We are very excited to have Bill and I’m sure everyone will learn a lot from him.  The fee for attending the demo is $20 for members and $25 for non-members.  The hands-on workshop is full.  If you have signed up for the workshop, please pay the workshop fee by Saturday, March 17th if at all possible.  Bill’s club demo will be a series of bowls.  He will do a finished rim bowl, a natural edge bowl, and a winged bowl.  He has also offered to conduct a “bowl gouge clinic.”  Everyone who attends the club demo is invited to bring your own bowl gouge for Bill to evaluate.  If changes are necessary, Bill will modify your gouge and then let you try it out on a piece of wood at the lathe.  This is a great opportunity, so don’t pass it up.  The meeting will start at the normal time of 9am.  We will take a 45 minute lunch break at 11:45 and Bill will resume the demo at 12:30pm.  You can bring lunch or run get something and come back.  For those attending the hands-on workshop, we will get started at 9am.

The next “Turning Exchange” will also take place at the March 17th meeting.  We will do the exchange after the announcements and before Bill starts his demo.  If you are not familiar with the exchange, all you have to do to participate is bring a turning that will be exchanged for someone else’s turning.  The turning should be of the quality that you would give someone as a gift.  This is similar to what we did at the Christmas party, but the exchange item must be something you made (no purchased gifts).  We had dozens of great turnings at the Christmas party so I am looking for more participation this time.

 The next Steering Committee meeting will be April 5th at 6:30pm.  The location will be at AL McCoy's place 6211 East Shore Dr. if you are planning to attend,  please call Al at 434-1687.  All club members are invited to attend the steering committee meetings.  This is where we plan the upcoming meetings, discuss changes and enhancements to the club, and decide on what demonstrators to try to bring in.  Please come if you are interested in getting more involved with the club.

James laying out the info for the next Meeting.


More of the same different direction HOHum lets have the demos.


And now this message from our sponsor. Mr. Teschel of the Woodman.


Mr. Teschel presents George a US Flag for the club from the Woodmen of the World. Thank You Larry!


The show and tell table has some great stuff Thank You All for bringing your turnings.


Time for Show and Tell. The club is getting quite a few of new turners participating. If you are turning you are learning.


Darnell turns in some more different turnings starting with this pine log with a history.


A great looking natural edge cherry bowl, good looking, nice for anyone's collection.


Two more nice wormy bowls hope the worms found a new home.


Al turns in a cherry winged bowl, thanks Ralph for your Demo on the winged bowl. It is fun everyone needs to try to turn one of these at least once.


This is Al's finished hollow turning from his last demo, he fluted the bottom and added the segmented top. The top was part of the presentation for this month on segmenting with Mike and Al.


Chuck Ward shows his rolling pin he made as a gift.


DrJ. shows us a piece of eucalyptus he just turned. Brought some for the auction.


Great story about the thing your holding. No one can have that much bad luck on one piece.


Looks like Durk is going into the offering plate business. Great looking collection plate it should hold plenty of money. They keep getting better. Keep them coming.


Gary shows a different way to make bracelets, as Bill said there is many ways to make one. Good job Keep the turnings coming.


A bowl full of bracelets different sizes.


George does a thin walled pierced bowl, look out Ben. Here comes George.


Very thin turned bowl about 3/32 ready for piercing.


James holds up a turned cherry bowl that was cut just last week so far so good. A real beautiful piece.


James shows off his fiber non scratching jaws he made for his chuck great idea for holding s piece you don't want to mar. 


Jennifer's first S&T very nice job. She said she wants to learn how to finish the  bottoms of her pieces. 


Jennifer turns in three good jobs.


This is Russ's first bowl a piece of spaulted wood purchased at one of the club auctions. The bowl was made on the Powermatic lathe he bought from Bill Bryan after the last meeting. Great exchange.


Mike shows off a camphor and segmented bowl. The camphor came from a tree that a group of us cut down in Warrington compliments of Ivan.


Mike holds up a very delicate segmented bowl made from purple heart too bad Al is still learning to focus his camera. Background is sharp Ha Ha.


Ralph showing his Mesquite turnings. Wants to know if some of you need Mesquite for your grill.


More Mesquite turnings nice wood. Too good for the fire.


A nice texture for a bowl. Ralph is a turning machine. He cores everything in sight. Be careful around Ralph.


Then comes the demonstrations James shows how he makes a handle shape with a roughing gouge.
Good job.


James shows the copper fitting he gets at Home Depot's plumbing department he used the thicker couplings because they are thicker and can be tapped for set screws to tighten on your tool.

Part of Al and Mikes demo was done on a computer, Al showed everyone how he made the segmented top for his turning of the hollow cored vase he had for show and tell. Al also showed another aspect of the program called sketch-a-bowl. With this method you can sketch a bowl and then convert in into a bowl which can be printed and then cut into segments and turned into a bowl. The web site to order the program is a follows. www.segmentedturning.com  for the ones that asked.


Mike uses a computer also a hand held one to calculate his sizes and uses a pencil and paper. His turnings are outstanding. Different strokes for different folks. They both work well.


Getting ready to install another ring. Mike will reface the ring prior to gluing the next ring in place. Both he and Al use Tightbond II for their glue of choice. The both claim that they have never had a bowl come apart while turning.
Preparing for the next ring by re-facing this ring making sure is perpendicular to the prior rings. This is a must for a good segmented bowl. Hope this  demo piqued your interest in trying to turn a segmented turning. If you need some help feel free to contact Mike or Al for help starting a project. Happy turning.