Looks like we have a full house do you think it may be the rainy weather that brought you to the meeting. Some faces we haven't seen for some time and a few new ones, glad to have all of you.
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Fred discussing the up and coming meeting with Michael Hosaluk March meeting 20-21st If you are interested in attending contact Bill Hoff at 572-6389.
Russ shows the sign he made for his brother. The sign was made on his CNC router table. The lettering was carved in the piece of Corian then sprayed with black paint then he sanded the surface leaving only the lettering. Nice sign.
Bo showing his two gouges that he just made one has a round tip the other a square tip. The round one is used inside a bowl, the other as a roughing tool. The tips are replaceable carbide tips ordered from most catalog venders. See Bo for details.
Here Bo holds up two of his new tools made from 1/2" square stock. One tip is for hollowing inside a bowl, it is the round one, the other is a square tip used for roughing out a bowl blank.
Bo shows his out rigger tool for hollowing small items.
Bill Brian holds up one of his turned goblets.
Bill likes turning small goblets, I think he enjoys turning them thin like china.
Bill Donahue has been turning some very nice hollow forms with some nice finial lids.
Keep up the good work.
A very good use of a nice piece of burl.
Something new Bill crushes calcite, turns the rings and cuts the hand drawn lines about 1/4 deep no less than 3/16 then puts the calcite in the cut lines then floods the calcite with CA glue. Then the grinding and sanding begins. Left Tree of Life, Right Kokopelli
Bill holds up one of his project that he makes on his lathe, the pendants are turned with a special chuck that he purchased for holding the wood so he can make off set turnings. The necklaces are put together by his two daughters. Very Nice.
Bill displayed the jewelry on a website www.sawmillcreek.org. and was contacted by the editor of Woodturning Design magazine and was asked if he would like to write an how to article for his magazine on how he creates the pendants.
Making the Pendant, jam the wood between two pieces of wood to turn it to size.
The wood is 1/2" thick.
Offset the chuck to drill the hole.
Bill uses a brad point bit to drill the hole.
Use a piece of paper to plan where you cut the arc design.
Use parting tool to cut design.
Bob Wolfe holds up a drawing for making a gage to set the angle to sharpen your tools. This gage is used in conjunction with the vari-grind from wolverine and other systems.
Here is a link to the website for the instructions. http://youtube.com/user/capneddie#p/u/7/_a2MxChZijQ
Ralph does it again makes show and tell exciting with all his different turnings every month. I hope that he inspires you to get involved in turning more.
His finish is very good.
Nice design.
Ditto on this one too. Zebra Wood from Mike Peters.
This vase is a piece of dyed China Berry. Looks very nice.
Believe it or not Mark and Ralph did not talk to each other and as you can tell turned similar looking bowls, very unique.
A different style of goblet, shape is in the eye of the beholder. Makes for a nice design.
Durk keeps his lathe running and manages a few turnings each month.
Another shape for on Tarla's display shelves that Leland made for them to be displayed, at this rate they will soon be full.
And the winner is................................
Al had a safety message. Sooner or Later we all have safety moments, no damage to the body, but got his attention. I believe that any time you change you method of operating you need to pay attention very closely. Al was his anti kick back device and it was blocking his ability to push the wood thru the saw blade And he reached over the front bracket with his thin metal push tool and was then hit by the blade, pulled the push tool into the blade cutting about 2" off the end, bent a tooth or two on the blade and bent the insert. Straighten out the insert thru out the blade and used the handle of the push stick for another wooden push stick.
Remember to think safety at all time. After the fact is to late, I am thankful there was no blood to stain my wood.
L to R: Darrell Kelly and James (Jim) Kelly guests. Jim the author of the book Build Your Own CNC Machine. Jim Burt used his book one chapter at a time while proofing the book. When he finished the editing, the CNC router table was ready to use. Darrell is Jim's father, he helped his son make two tables before he finished writing the book. Darrell teaches Chemistry at PJC and lives in Pensacola.
Jim explains how his Venturi vacuum system works and where you can order the kit. www. joeswoodworking.com
Jim explain the building of the CNC router table and how he got involved with the author.
Jim setting at his router rig in his shop to show you what it looks like.
One of the vacuum chucks that holds the material to be routed connected to the vacuum chuck.
More vacuum chucks to use. You can make the shapes you want to fit your project.
The back of the table. This project can be made with the book that James Kelly wrote with some mechanical ability and interpreting the instructions as written.
James Kelly the author of his book Build Your Own CNC Machine explains how he became involved and put his book together.