Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

May 2005

Our president, Dave Jones presided over the meeting.

There were about 22 persons present. Visitors were Marvin Faber, Fred Cornwell, Bill Sands, Sterling Simonton, and Jim and Elizabeth Love.

We were sad to hear that Jim Copen’s wife’s brother died and also that Joe Smith’s wife’s brother died.

We were happy to have Myke Hymes back with us after the recent death of his wife.

NEXT REGULAR MEETING

Irene Gafert from Denmark

June 4, 2005

Cedar Lakes

Business

There is $1963 in the treasury.

Arts and Crafts Fair: Dave Jones and Tom Schottle will be co-managing our booth this year. We still need shelving.

The meeting in June and the picnic in August are scheduled for the first Saturday of the month.

According to Dave Jones, AAW is working on an insurance program for those in the business of woodturning. Nothing is available yet on their website about this.

We are working on a new source for nametags.

Tom Schottle has the kits for the Freedom Pens Project “turnathon” which is planned for 10:00am on Saturday, May 21, at Cedar Lakes. For those who are participating in the "turnathon", please bring everything you will need to turn the pens on that Saturday. Please address any questions to Tom.

Show and Tell

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Mike Wade brought in a wonderful Camphorwood bowl and a spaulted Live Oak bowl.

Gary Gibbs showed us a natural-edge Cedar bowl and a 3-cornered bowl from Osage Orange.

Jim Morrison had a couple of attractive vases, one from Maple and the other from a spaulted Root (maybe Pin Oak).

He also showed us three wonderful segmented bowls.

Tom Schottle brought in a couple of really nice Alabaster hollowforms with Ebony lids

Paul Weinberger had a wonderful bowl turned from an 80-year-old piece of Oak from the glass museum in Weston. Paul explained how he had constructed the oddly shaped bowl, but I am afraid it was a bit over my head. The bowl was really special.

Ezekiel Holliday brought in a nice Cherry bowl and a fine spaulted Maple bowl.

Program

Alan Leeland gave an interesting demonstration directed mainly toward making of his fine stools
	and mini-stools.
He carefully demonstrated each phase of construction,
	showing us the techniques and tricks.

Our guests the Loves were students of Alan’s at the Campbell Art School.

Alan was kind enough to donate one of his Workbooks to our library, and one of his mini-stools to be auctioned off – the proceeds to go to our treasury.

Miscellaneous

The June 4^th meeting will feature Irene Grafert. To see some of her beautiful work, check out her website at www.woodturndeco.com/index.html.

According to Bob Fleming, Alan Nesselrotte’s wife is looking for a buyer for his Oliver lathe. For information contact her in Dunbar at 768-1321. We don’t know anything about the condition of this Oliver, but knowing Alan’s talent with machinery, I expect this lathe runs just great! A price I think I heard was $1500 – a real deal!

Craft Supplies presently has a deal where you can get 20% off any order of less than $75 if you mention Mountaineer Woodturners when placing an order. They also have a deeply discounted price on mini Jet lathes for club use only. Contact Dave Jones about this, as nothing is available yet on their website about these items.

There is still time to make reservations to go to Turning 2005 presented by the Ohio Valley Woodturners Guild. All the on-site housing is gone, but housing is available at nearby motels. Information and registration forms are available on the web at www.OVWG.org. For those without connection to the web, contact me for a copy of the registration form.

Don’t forget the 19yh annual national AAW Symposium in Kansas City on July 22 – 24, 2005.

The Newsletter will be sent by email to those members who have given me their email address. Those who do not have email 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.

This email contains links to pictures of the "Show and Tell" items. The Newsletter with pictures is also available on the website.

Instead of trying to add photos of all the show and tell items to the members’ gallery, I will rely on photos sent in by the members. So please send me pictures of your work so that I can add it to the gallery.

Jim Smith, Secretary,

Phone: 304-342-1755

e-Mail: mountain@mountaineerwoodturners.com

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Mike Wade brought in a wonderful Camphorwood bowl and a spaulted Live Oak bowl.

Gary Gibbs showed us a natural-edge Cedar bowl and a 3-cornered bowl from Osage Orange.

Jim Morrison had a couple of attractive vases, one from Maple and the other from a spaulted Root (maybe Pin Oak).
	He also showed us three wonderful segmented bowls.
Tom Schottle brought in a couple of really nice Alabaster hollowforms with Ebony lids

Paul Weinberger had a wonderful bowl turned from an 80-year-old piece of Oak from the glass museum in Weston. Paul explained how he had constructed the oddly shaped bowl, but I am afraid it was a bit over my head. The bowl was really special.