Mountaineer Woodturner Jan Newsletter

We had a great picnic. About 30 persons were present for wonderful food and conversations. The weather was kind to us: it was not even hot or wet! We want to thank Dave Mays for all the work he put into making this picnic a real success!

We were happy to hear that Paul Payne was to be going home from the hospital soon. Paul and his wife renewed their wedding vows (50^th) while at the hospital.

Our president has appointed a nomination committee for new club officers. We will plan to have the election at the October meeting, in order to give the incoming officers time to prepare a program for the next year.

You will have to forgive various omissions and errors, as I was enjoying the food and company.

Dave Jones brought the holey spaulted Maple bowl that won a red ribbon at the Arts and Craft Fair.
	He had a small Oak vase with a "CA glue finish".
There was a wonderful spaulted Oak hollowform with an Ebony rim.
	Dave also brought a nice vase with stopper,
and a natural edged bowl (Osage Orange I think).
John Crede showed us a Maple bowl with matching candlesticks
	and one of his wonderful inlaid bowls. I believe it was Gum inlaid with Holly.
Tom Schottle brought in some of his wonderful Alabaster turnings. He showed us the pink Alabaster bowl that had won a blue ribbon at the Arts and Craft Fair.
	He also had a white Alabaster bowl
and a multicolored Alabaster vase. All of the Alabaster turnings were rimmed with (I think) Walnut.
	Tom also had a wooden bowl he had turned using a vacuum chuck.
Jim Morrison brought along a very nice bowl turned from a large burl.
	Jim also brought the artwork he had made from Steel on a Rosewood base.
Dave Shombert brought one of his fine segmented bowls.
Warnie Lore brought a large Sycamore plate
	and a nice Chestnut vase.
He showed us the hollowing tool and a texturing tool he made and used on the vase.
Paul Weinberger described some of the restoration work going on at the old Weston hospital. He showed us a Mahogany newel post he had made as part of that work.
Joe Smith brought some of his fabulous natural-edged bowls. Three bowls were all from one Maple burl. Each was really nice on its own,

but the three bowls as a "nest" was a real treasure.
He also had three other bowls from Maple, which I really can not even describe. You had to be there.

Cedar Lakes. On September 13^th
.We have been fortunate to get Linda VanGehuchten from Pittsburgh as our demonstrator.

Tom Crabb (from Richmond) will be with us in December. He's will talk about multi-axis turning and has done some beautiful work.

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Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

August 2003