Looks like we have your attention.
We are setting on your every word. We had several visitors, three from Mobile one from Colorado lives off Nine Mile road.
Al is standing in for Fred who was at his 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration with wife and family.
We had several loads of wood from our club members and our visitors from Mobile brought a trailer load for our members to auction off.
And the winner is, pay Mike!
Mr. Brad Swiger from Mobile talked about forming a Greater Gulf Coast Symposium in the next few years. We have several clubs to choose from to help get organized. Brad is looking for a board member to represent our club and help in the planning this endeavor. If you would like to help please let Fred know.
Show and tell table with some very nice turnings. Keep up the good work.
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Good show fellows.
Bo holds up his entry for show and tell, this is also his entry for the July challenge. Nice finish.
Bill keeps the turnings coming, he hasn't missed for a while.
Frank Dubose has ventured out some making a nice walnut bowl. says George McClure is his mentor.
Another vase from Frank.
Here Durk shows a segmented bowl made from Purpleheart and Poplar
Another segmented bowl from Durk, I didn't catch the type of wood.
Jack holds up a segmented bottle. I think he is working on the still.
James holds up a large button, you should see the jacket he made this for. Good job James.
Mike is amazed how this wood goes from brown to purple when you expose it to sunlight.
Here Mike holds up a Tagua nut glued to a tenon. This is how they are held to turn.
Ralph shows a bowl with an inclusion of bark that makes the wood very unstable, his answer to this problem use a biscuit cutter and make your own biscuits from the wood of your choice.
Nice natural edge bowl with a round bottom.
Here Ralph's version of the safety minute. Be careful when in the finishing stage. All he wanted to do was dress up the opening of the bowl and he got a catch that was disastrous, he now has two clam shells.
He says they cannot be glued together because he hesitated some time and now they are shrunk in different directions.
Darnell has produced the worlds largest jewelry box. Nice Idea.
Here he tries his hand at woodburning one of his lidded boxes. Really nice.
He said he liked what George was doing with his wood burning but didn't like the time it takes to complete a project, so he devised his own method. Using a burning tool with a fine point he started burning one dot at a time and there you have it.
A bowl made from a piece of wood I believe it was called Pepper Wood.
Darnell sure has been busy turning.
Another one of his famous clocks, very nice look.
He says this is a baby rattle for a new baby. It must be a huge baby and a strong one at that. Keep your lathe running Darnell. I am anxious to see what you bring in next.
This is the part of the meeting where the members bring in their own home made tools and attachments to show to the rest of us what is helpful to them.
Here James holds a rear support for a hollowing rig.
James holds a tool he made using some info he received from David Ellsworth.
The rig in the foreground was made by Bo and Ralph to hold a laser light for their hollowing rig.
Jack shows a jig he uses to turn pen blanks before he glues in the brass inserts, he wants to make sure he likes what he turned before gluing in the brass.
AL holds a center saver tool that he added a laser light to so he could tell where the tip is at, in the wood.
Here Al shows a #2MT with a pin vice tip for holding wood for bottle stoppers.
Next he shows a steady rest that is used on a Midi lathe and fits into your tool rest, he uses it with his duplicator when turning long spindles.
Mark McClain had a demo on finishing using different types of finishes from matte finish to hi gloss. He says the finish is a personal choice. Most of the finish he uses comes from a spray can. He says he don't have the volume so he uses the cans.
This is a turning he made for his wife. She likes this look matte, finish is a personal thing. We had a nice discussion on finishing.