Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

May 2006

Our president, Joe Smith presided over the meeting.

According to the roster, there were about 30 persons in attendance, although only 24 signed the attendance register.

Visitors were Mac McMillian, Stu Humphreys, Jim Sowards, and G.W. Shark. Mac and G.W. decided to join. Glad to have you two as part of the group!

Business and Show and Tell were kept short to give as much time as possible to our demonstrator, Don Olson.

• Joe Smith mentioned that there were some specials from Craft Supply. He brought some Craft Supply catalogs and a gift certificate. For more information on the specials see Joe.

• Joe told us about a call for turned Christmas tree ornaments to be collected during the AAW symposium for a children’s hospital in Louisville. All ornaments made by our group will be collected at the June meeting and transported to the symposium by E.J. Ulland. Please bring what you can to the June meeting.

• The treasurer’s report showed $1675 in the bank.

• Tom Schottle told us that the Valley Woodworkers have extended an invitation to our group to join them in a Fall Wood demonstration on Saturday, October 7^th in Hurricane. More information will be forthcoming. They also extended an invitation for us to join them at their Christmas dinner meeting on December 14^th.

• Tom polled the group to see if there would be interest in Mountaineer Woodturners hats (cloth, not wood). He thought the price would be about $10. There appeared to be considerable interest. Tom will have specifics at the next meeting.

• Mountain State Arts and Crafts Fair:

• There will be some planning at the next meeting.

• Dave Jones had sign-up sheets for set-up and shelving and for participants.

• The fair will be held July 1 – 4. Set-up will be on June 30^th.

Show and Tell

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Joe Smith showed us a fine Oak burl nested bowl set. I think it was a nest of 5 or 6 bowls
	Warnie Lore brought a really nice natural edged bowl from, we think, American Elm.
Warnie also showed us a Christmas tree top ornament he had turned from Box Elder with a white spindle. The spindle was not supposed to be white, but the spray-on lacquer turned out to be a can of white spray paint.
Dave Jones showed us a nice natural edged Cherry bowl.
Jerry Smith brought in an attractive bowl from a Sumac crotch.
Jim Morrison showed us a nice White Maple bowl with a Zebra Wood laminate band.
	He also had anther smaller attractive bowl with a laminate band.
Jim also brought in one of his wonderful little segmented bowls.
Don Olsen, our demonstrator, had some really interesting pieces, all from crotches, to show. There was a 3- legged bowl from Chestnut.
	A hanging work from Crab Apple was titled "Stealth 2", part of his Floating Series.
Don had 2 pieces, called "High Parab" 1, from one crotch.
	Finally there was a piece called "Kansas Twister" from a Walnut crotch on a Kansas-shaped base.

Don Olsen came from North Carolina to show us some of the things he has been making from crotches.
He started off with a slide show of some of his pieces –
- - before and  during construction,
- - and after.
He then proceeded to develop a slab of a crotch into a large shallow bowl, which he described as a "canvas" from which a finished work could be crafted.

On June 10^th the program will be split into two sessions, AM and PM. One session will be a discussion on sharpening, grinds, and sanding. The other part will be a talk by Tom Schottle about the workshop he attended at the Campbell Folk School.

July – Arts and Crafts Fair

August – Annual Picnic

September 9^th or October 14^th – Bob Rosand

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 also available on the website.

Jim Smith, Secretary,

Phone: 304-342-1755

e-Mail: mountain@mountaineerwoodturners.com

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