Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

There were about 40 persons present. Visitors included Tom Vensel from Ohio and Michael Offutt and Martin Douglas from WV. Other visitors preferred to remain anonymous. Three former members re-joined.

We had the new video system set up, which made a tremendous improvement, especially with such a large attendance. Many thanks to the AAW grant for financial assistance and to Joe Smith for obtaining the equipment.

Business

• There was a proposal, which passed unanimously, to reimburse Joe Smith for the projector and screen

• Tom Schottle is still looking into lights for the lathe. Our demonstrator suggested considering the One-Way lathe lights.

• An email from John Hill of the AAW to Tom Schottle pointed out that under present law an artist may only deduct the cost of materials for any art work donated to charity, etc., no matter the real established value of that work. Someone who bought the work, however, may deduct the current fair market value. There is a pending bill to allow artists to deduct the full market value amount when donating to a museum and non-profits. To lobby in support of this bill, follow this link and type in your zip code. http://capwiz.com/artsusa/issues/bills/?bill=9680576

Show and Tell

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David Gaines showed us three nice Walnut bowls he had turned.
Byron Young brought in a wonderful large Catalpa bowl,
a couple attractive vases,
and one of his famous lidded boxes.
U.K. Dawson brought in some items he had turned from Cedar; a couple lidded dishes
and a couple lidded vases..
Bob Lett brought in a beautiful textured Cherry plate.
Gary Gibbs had a nice natural edged bowl
	and a wonderful Walnut bowl.
Dave Jones showed us a Tree of Heaven vase,
	a Box Elder natural edged bowl,
a note holder
	and three nice little hollowforms from Holly, Dogwood, and Cherry.
John Crede brought in a beautiful segmented bowl.
Tom Vensel showed us a wonderful large segmented vase containing 624 pieces.
Joe Keeler had a wonderful carved Cherry hollowform
	and a rectangular bowl.
Stan Cook brought in a couple of beautiful inlayed plates, one from Walnut
	and the other from Brazilian Cherry.

Clarence Clarkson showed us a wire hanger to use in drywall.

Warnie Lore had a couple of nice vases, one from layered rings and the other from spaulted Maple.

Program

John Jordan demonstrated hollowform turning. After lunch he gave an hour slide presentation of his work before resuming working on hollowforms.   It was an extremely interesting demo.
Some of his work.

2008 Schedule

Next Meeting

The meeting on Saturday, May 10, 2008 will feature:

Charlie Brown - Basic Spindle Turning and

Tom Schottle – Tool Handles

Miscellaneous

• Don’t forget the AAW 2008 National Symposium in Richmond, VA, June 20-22, 2008. Byron Young reports that available lodging is getting hard to find.

• Some turning symposia of note coming up are:

  • "Turning Southern Style" sponsored by the Georgia Association of Woodturners.
  • The Utah Woodturning Symposium which has moved to Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah. From my experience, this is a really well run symposium.