March 2004
We had 25 members and 2 guests present at this meeting. Guests were Floyd Underwood from Charleston and Bob Lett from Rock Branch.
We understand that former member Bill Stump is at the Cleveland Clinic. We have really missed seeing Bill at our meetings.
NEXT REGULAR MEETING April 10, 2004 Spindle Turning Workshop Cedar Lakes |
Business
The meeting was called to order by our president, Dave Jones. Several items of business were discussed.
Program
| David Hout from Ohio gave a very interesting program with lots of hands-on interaction by members. The program started with a demonstration of metal spinning. |  |
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Members were invited to try
spinning. Dave Shombert took home an Aluminum bowl he had
spun. Other parts of the program dealt with vacuum chucking and a technique for clean cutting of bowls. All members were invited to give it a try. |
Show and Tell
| Mike Wade showed us some SEM photos of wood showing Tyloses, which can be used in identifying wood. He also brought back a very small Pine hat from last meeting. I could not get a decent photo of Mikes SEM pictures, but here are spme other picyures of Tyloses. |  |
| Jim Morrison showed us a wonderful large bowl turned from structural Plywood and Walnut. |  |
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He brought in an interesting segmented bowl. |
| He also had a bowl from Swamp Oak. |  |
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There was also a very nice segmented dish. |
Zeke Holliday, brought in a Maple pot.
| Bill McKay showed us a nice shallow Walnut bowl |  |
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and an attractive large Walnut bowl. |
| Dave Jones brought in an interesting chain (jewelry) storage urn. |  |
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He also had a couple of vases, one from Water Oak |
| and the other from Cherry and Bradford Pear. |  |
| Paul Weinberger showed us an attractive segmented covered dish. |  |
Dave Shombert brought in a piece of Maple board with interesting gain pattern, which he said people had attributed to "ingrown bark". Bob Fleming thought it might be due to something in the soil. Mike Wade attributed it to insect infestation.
| Tom Schottle brought in one of his Alabaster bowls, pink with a wooden lid |  |
| Dick Esker brought in his first bowl and a nice bowl from a shrub root. |  |
April 10th Meeting There will be a workshop on basic spindle turning. The workshop will be led by Charlie Brown. Charlie says to Bring your tools – especially a skew chisel. |
Miscellaneous
Dave Shombert in February was accepted into the Southern Highland Craft Guild, which operates out of Asheville, NC, and has a total of five galleries. There are two galleries in Asheville, one in Blowing Rock, NC, one in Gatlinburg, TN, and one in Cumberland Gap National Park in Kentucky. It is the second oldest craft guild in the country.
Dave also now has a very nice website: www.woodspunworkshop.com .
Remember that the URL for the webpage is now www.mountaineerwoodturners.com, and the email address for the webpage is mountain@mountaineerwordtuners.com.
Jim Smith, Secretary,
Phone: 304-342-1755
e-Mail: mountain@mountaineerwoodturners.com
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