Words of wisdom from our President. Welcome everyone to our world, We have some new visitors please stand up and introduce yourself.
Here he is and you guessed it, I can't remember, but hope we impressed you enough to come back.
Are auction is almost always very good and this one was no exception. As you can see three members holding up a partial turned bowl, the turner Leland has given up on these three partial bows and he has challenged the winners who bid on these items to finish them and return them back next meeting turned and finished.
Starting off our show and tell is Al McCoy holding a segmented bowl he created by using some wood that he received from a vender at the IWF show this September in Atlanta. The vender was Dickey Seed International, Inc., My question to the VP was "what does this wood have to do with seeds" he replied "he wanted to branch out and try something different." His company is contractors of: Plantation Paulownia. This wood is very light weight, but strong. It grows almost any place, and grows very fast. They are talking about plantations here in the USA and in the tropical climates, were the growing season is longer. It does grow in the USA as verified by one of our guests. Ask me about it.
Al holds up a cluster of bowls he created a few years ago they were fluted and his story was, they were created different than Alan Stirt's. Ask me how to do this if you would like to make your own some time.
Durk is holding a lidded box that he made and frocked the inside with a little problem, but he over came it as you can see. Good Job!
Good job Durk.
Mark holds a very nice platter that he created at Al Stirt's hands on demonstration.
The story goes like this, he turned the maple and painted the black gesso on the wood, for carving the design in, and he was having a time figuring out how to do the carving and decided he needed a very expensive carving tool to finish the job. His wife got interested in the project and you guessed it, she does a great job with the carving. My prediction is this, the club will have a new member and these two will be doing some collaborating in the near future.
Ralph Thomas had this for S&T held up by a supporter. A piece of dyed mulberry natural edge.
Another Ralph Thomas turning. I don't recognize the hand.
S&T table a very nice collection.
More S&T...................................
Jack shows off his slatted birdhouse. His Sue says "That birdhouse will never see out side".
A very nice birdhouse Jack.
Bill Hoff turns another piece of funky wood looks like the worms didn't leave him much to work with.
Nice looking footed urn, good job Bill.
I believe this is Ralph's Gathers first S&T since Ivan destroyed his shop in 2004. Great job, I missed the wood type.
Here Ralph shows off a piece of Norfolk Island Pine he got from a friend in south Florida, nice turning. Keep bringing them in.
Darnell sure has been busy making Christmas presents for his relatives in Russia
A unique dip set made from cherry with a ceramic bowl for the dipping sauce. Great design.
I believe he has been busy wood burning from the looks of the rims on these bowls.
Some one will really receive a nice gift "made in America".
Nice platter the wood has a very nice grain pattern.
Leland has his own S&T corner of the room shows his latest creation I just wish that I could remember what he was telling us about this turning.
He made this table out of this man made pattern, says this wood would be good for someone that does segmenting turning. I wonder who that might be?
Norm auctioning off the turnings made by Al Stirt they are signed copies to be finished by the person winning the bid.
Now that I have your attention do I hear a $20 bid.......................
Some of Leland's prized wood scraps up for auction. Fresh out of his kiln.
Ralph our demonstrator for this month is truing up this piece of wood to shape. I believe the wood is Magnolia.
Its getting there. What Ralph's goal is to show you how to do a hollow form two different ways thru the bottom and the normal way thru the top.
This tool that Ralph is using has a special cutter for doing hollow forms. If you are interested in this tool ask him at one of our meetings or call him.
Here he is using a laser light to adjust the thickness of the wall of the vase.
Here Ralph is using a tapered plug to align the vase in the vacuum chuck, he will then turn on the vacuum pump to hold the wood in place while he hollows out the bottom.
Here he shows how he uses a vacuum chuck to hold a long necked vase to remove wood from the bottom. See the view ahead to see what is inside the vacuum chuck.
I believe he is preparing for the fitting of the bottom plug.
Here is the plug that is used for the bottom.
You can now see what Ralph had sticking in the long piece of PVC on the vacuum chuck. This shows how he holds between centers for gluing the bottom. A long turning like this would be almost impossible to hollow from the top down
Some of the members wanted to see how he dyed his turnings. Ralph says that you may want to come to his shop for a one on one session. He is one of our mentors so call him if your interested.
He uses water based aniline dye and an airbrush and the rest is imagination. After you learn that different wood react to the dye differently, so Ralph uses his knowledge about what he has done to choose the wood for dying. He likes Magnolia.
Incase you are interested I found in my Woodworker's Supply catalog an economy airbrush kit for $36.79 complete with all the bells and whistles check it out catalog # 882-308 See you Saturday the 20th.