Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

December 2007

Our president, Joe Smith presided over the meeting.

About 30 persons were in attendance. We had a couple visitors. One was Ron Walker who had just moved from Idaho to Little Hocking, OH. The other was Ron Spencer of Long Bottom, OH, who has now joined our group.

• Our treasurer reported $2931 in the treasury.

• Remember, 2008 dues are being collected by our treasurer, E.J. Ulland.

• Election of officers: Bill Morris moved that the nominations be closed and that the present officers be reinstated for another term.

• We still have a few Mountaineer Woodturners hats for sale.

• Tom Schottle mentioned that the Provo, UT, symposium has been rescheduled to May 22-24, 2008, so as not to conflict with the National AAW symposium.

• The AAW symposium will be held in Richmond, VA, on June 20-22, 2008.

• Joe Smith made the observation that there were very few demonstrators of interest to him at next year’s AAW symposium. To this Tom Schottle recommended that folks check out the symposia given by some of the local chapters.

• Tom Schottle noted that AAW dues must be received by the end of December in order to get your name in the AAW Directory.

• John Crede said that Virginia Nesselrotte is selling Allen’s Oliver lathe for $1200. Interested persons should contact John.

• Jim Meyers said he had a shaving bench to give to any interested member. Gary Gibbs hardly let him finish. Gary has been looking for one for a long time. It appears it will be going to a good new home.

   

Show and Tell

Tom Schottle brought in a wonderful "three-holed" candy dish from a beautiful burl.
	He had a real complete Nativity Scene, using characters inspired by Linda Van Gehuchten.
Tom also had a nice coffee mug he had turned.
Dave Jones brought in a platter he turned from Oak as a trial collection plate.
	Then he showed us four final Oak collection plates. They all looked alike and looked so good that I almost wanted to put some money in them.
Dave also showed us a bowl in which he had inserted a stained glass bottom.
Bill Morris is trying out for the church choir as a percussion instrument player. He showed us the percussion sticks he plans to play, turned from Locust.
Stan Cook showed us a wonderful pen, which contained no metal parts on the exterior. For example, the clip was made from Maple.
Gary Gibbs showed us two natural edge bowls from Oak Burl.
He also had a very nice bowl from Box Elder, which simply would not photograph.
My favorite was a wonderful bowl from a Maple Burl.
Byron Young brought in a very large nice bowl from spaulted Maple.
He also had two really nice lidded boxes.
In one of these he had a very small top, which he had turned using a large skew!
	Byron showed us a bunch of acorns. The caps were not turned, but real caps glued on.

John Crede brought a beautiful bowl turned from Brazilian Cherry and plywood scraps. He did not wait to have it photographed.

The secrete is out – the Mountaineer Woodturners Challenge Project for 2008 will be a rolling pin. This is to be one piece turned between centers. The criteria will be accuracy of the piece to the measurements described in the plan distributed by Challenge Coordinator, Ervin Jones.

Twelve persons have signed up for the challenge.

Ervin demonstrated turning a rolling pin according to the specifications. He made it look fairly easy. I think I would have to use a lot of 80-grit sandpaper to get close!

After lunch we watched a video (courtesy of Tom Schottle) by Alan Lacer on the use of a skew.

The rest of the schedule has not yet been finalized.

The January meeting will feature Jim Morrison demonstrating end-grain turning and hollowing.

• The Newsletter will be sent by e-mail to those members who have given me their email address. This medium will contain an HTML document in which I have included links to pictures of the "Show and Tell" items as well as a link to the website. Those who do not have e-mail addresses listed with me will receive the usual hardcopy newsletter by US snailmail. Any others who wish a newsletter by mail should let me know.

• Please send me pictures of your work so that I can add it to the gallery.

• The Newsletter with pictures is available on the website.

Jim Smith, Secretary,

Phone: 304-342-1755

e-Mail: mountain@mountaineerwoodturners.com

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