Mountaineer Woodturner Jan Newsletter

We had 18 members present at this meeting. We would like to welcome a new member, Robert Lell of Nitro. Five members brought their wives, and Bob Fleming brought his daughter.

Our president, Dave Jones, sent get-well cards for the club to TK McClung and to Paul Weinberger’s wife. Carl Mercer visited Paul Payne who is now at home and is improving.

The meeting was called to order by our president, Dave Jones. Business was kept to a minimum. The Art and Craft Fair was discussed after lunch for those involved.

The Mountain State Arts and Craft Fair will be July 1, 2, 3, and 4. Set-up will begin at 8:00am on June 30.

We need people to sign up to demonstrate. Demonstrators must be AAW members. For the demonstrations we will be using the full sized Jet lathe.

Those of you who will be selling items at the Mountain State Art and Craft Fair at Cedar Lakes should contact Co-chairmen Dave Jones or Tom Schottle so that they can assign you a number to place on the price tags for the cash register. Dave also needs to know who will bring shelves and what is their size. We need shelves, plastic covers, table cloths.

Jim Morrison has a piece of Plexiglas from which Dave Jones will make a safety shield - -again.

Susan Poindexter of CAMC gave an informative talk on nutrition. She gave a discussion on each food group in the food pyramid. Her emphasis was on healthful yet practical aspects of diet.

Dave Jones brought in a real nice vase from Mahogany.
	He also had a large end turned Walnut vase.
He brought an attractive dish turned from Chestnut. Dave said that when working with this wood, everything was turned black – hands, tools, etc.
Jerry Smith brought in a couple of bowls from a Maple burl,
	both of which were really attractive.
Warnie Lore brought in a set of napkin rings he had turned along with the expansion chuck used to hold them for turning.
	He also showed us a dish made from that Redwood burl he has been working with.
He brought in a nice dish made from Cypress.
Tom Schottle brought in a couple of nice pepper mills, one from colorwood obtained from Craft Supply
	and the other from Maple.
As a member of Valley Woodworkers he entered their small box challenge. His entry was a turned ¼ inch diameter lidded box.
	Yes, that is a penny on the right
Joe Smith showed us a beautiful Maple burl bowl.
	He had a wonderful large platter made from the same tree. He set the thickness by allowing the sun to shine through the piece while it was on the lathe. When it was all the same color, the thickness was uniformly thin.
He also had a nice large bowl from Yew root.
Jim Smith: I brought in a hollowform turned from a piece of Maple burl obtained from Joe Smith.
	I also showed a small bowl turned from a Yew root.
U K Dawson brought in three bowls he had turned from Box Elder.

He had another very interesting lidded box from a Tree of Heaven trunk.
Jim Morrison brought in a wonderful segmented covered dish. The cover was off center and spirally segmented. You would have to see it.
	He also had a nice Walnut burl bowl
and a piece from the same Walnut burl with a couple eggs in it. You would have to see it too.
Jim has been doing some Pewter spinning, and brought in a couple of nice Pewter dishes.

TK McClung was back with us and brought in three attractive Elm bowls. They were stained dark and finished with TruOil.

He also had a nice Beech bowl.

Some changes have been made to the website, including expanded members' Gallery. Most of the photos of members’ turnings that are being added to the Gallery are from this year’s Show and Tell sessions.

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