ArtisticWoodturners
                                                                        Newsletter
                                                                    November 2008

  Here it is again, seems just like yesterday I did this chore, ya know it must be old age creeping up on the turners like a tornado. They say time flies when your having fun, I  think your having too much fun.

  Our meeting for this month will be sneaking up on us a few days sooner due to the first being on a Saturday. We will meet on the 15th at the same time and place.

  Coming up on 20 December we will have our annual Christmas party. Ralph will be cooking his world famous BBQ the rest of the members will be asked to bring a covered dish baked beans, potato salad, buns, potato salad, potato chips, nacho chips, Fruit tray, vegetable tray, sodas, ice, or what ever you want to fix and bring.

  We have not had a professional turner since Alan Lacer in February. The committee would like some in put from you the members as to who you would like to have come and show us some new things for a little inspiration and excitement.

  Our meeting for the 15th will be dedicated to the Optimist club to help them raise money for their favorite thing, the children of Escambia Co. Their Christmas trees go on sale the same weekend as our meeting. You can bring your finished ornaments to the meeting to give to Lee Howard.

  At this meeting we will have several lathes set up for turning ornaments. You can bring your own lathe if you would like. The club will furnish the spray lacquer, to finish these completed ornaments, so we can give them to Lee after the meeting. See you there.




Eagerly waiting for the meeting to begin.


Waiting for some words of wisdom from Mike.


Bill Brian shows his completed goblet he turned for the club last month during his demonstration.


Another odd turning from Bill.

Bill is turning again thanks, for your effort and inspiration.
    


Darnell hard at it. Making gifts for Christmas.





Durk completes a segmented bowl.


Frank Strong adds three more bowls to his collection of turnings looks like he segmented them. 


Jen turns a medium sized bowl, I didn't catch the type of wood she chose.


Here she holds up a huge rattle for an extremely large child. Jen said she got the plans out of a magazine for this project. A very good job, one might ask "how did you do that".


Margaret Jones one of our newest members shows off a bottle stopper she made for every member of her daughters wedding party and had the top inscribed for the occasion. One of the attendees was from the Royal family, the wedding was in England. Margaret now has one of her turnings in the hands of royalty. Good show matie.  


Mike shows off his segmented ornament.


Here is a bowl turned from a large camphor tree a donation from Ivan. Mike added his touch with a feature ring of his own.


Mike holds up one of his electronic lighthouse creations. He may be making them to be sold at the gift shop in the lighthouse aboard the Naval Air Station. 


Al turned this turning from a slab cut from a cypress knee harvested by Max in a swamp in Alabama. Al made legs from the knees for the table the slab is setting on. The table top is a large piece of burl from a  California red wood, given to Al. Ask Max about the harvesting of the knees. I don't recommend turning cypress, too soft.


Show and tell table. Looks like some of you have been slacking off. If your not turning you are not learning. Weather is cooled, off so your shops are not hot, start producing.

Norm conducts the auction for the absent Ralph. Thanks to Dr. J for the donation of all the woodturning books and magazines.


George McClure had the task of presenting a demonstration on wood burning on different shapes of wood.

Here is a sample of his work on different types of wooden turnings, piercing and platters. A very nice collection.


Very good job.



George was very well prepared to show you how to get started, if your thinking about trying this endeavor follow his lead.


Here he shows the material he used to transfer the images to the blanks.


George says it is a must to start out on another piece of wood so you won't ruin your master while getting up to speed.


George uses plywood blanks to practice on before switching to the real thing.


George says you need to have some way to remove the smoke from your working area. An exhaust fan or a self contained dust mask such as a Trend or Triton. He uses a small non oscillating fan blowing away from the work area towards an open window on his sun room.


He recommends taking breaks  to get away from the tedious tasks, to rest your eyes, and to get away from the smoke.



Here he burns thru the transfer paper using one of the many tips he uses to get the results he is looking for.

Thank you for an excellent presentation, well prepared and thought out with plenty of examples to see. If you are interested in burning call George, he is in the mentor program and will help you.



                             Leland's Woodcutting
                                Party Oct 25, 2008





The small portable sawmill set up to slab your logs if you wanted to bring your own logs.



Leland's 24" band saw cutting a log in half suitable for cutting bowl blanks. Larry Sauls looking on, I believe that is his piece.


Darnell assists in cutting some of his blanks. Most of the wood was spaulted and nice and ready for turning.


Don't try to saw logs unless you have some way to keep the log from turning. This rig works well to stabilize the log, and most of all helping to prevent injury to the operator.

 


Larry, Darnell, Dink and Gary taking a break.


Dink brought a load of wood to be cut up. He had Maple, and River Burch.


A good time was had by all. Afterwards the group went to Kirin for Japanese Buffet very good.