Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

Our vice-president, Tom Schottle presided over the meeting in Joe Smith’s absence.

There were about 28 persons present. Visitors included Randall Heath from Ohio and Melvin Ashbrook and Martin Douglas from WV.

The new video system set-up has made a tremendous improvement.

Business

• Plans are being made for the Mountaineer Woodturners booth at the Mountain State Arts & Craft Fair. There will be a sign-up sheet for workers, demonstrators, and sellers at the next meeting.. Those who would like to demonstrate must be members of the AAW, for insurance purposes. Members who will have items to sell should remember that the future of our booth depends on being represented by high quality items.

• There was $2,241.92 in the treasury.

 

Show and Tell

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Byron Young brought in a nice large Walnut vase. He claimed he cut the vase in half to hollow it and then glued it back together. I could not tell it was glued together.
Tom Schottle brought in a hollowed vase to show what can happen during hollowing. First he went through the top and then through the bottom. My question is why did it not fly apart; mine do.
John Sheets brought in a beautiful Red Oak natural edge bowl.
Jim Morrison had one of his wonderful segmented vases from Walnut and Maple.
Dave Jones showed us a cheese plate he had turned from Walnut,
	and a nice Walnut box with a Cherry lid and Ebony finial.
Ervin Jones showed us a wonderful "square" lidded box he had turned.
Paul Weinberger brought in a set of very small items and some captive rings, which had been turned from European Spruce by his uncle 85 years ago.
	He also had a really nice lidded dish he had turned.
Howard Naylor had a Plexiglas depth gauge he had made with a laser.
Dave Shombert brought in an amazing segmented vase from Black Palm and another (Unknown) wood from Kermit McCartney.
	He also had a nice Mahogany plate, which was grooved on the top with off-center turning for inlaying.

Program

Tom Schottle started off the program by demonstrating some spindle turning (and skew) basics.
Then he showed us how to turn a candleholder,
which he finished with a black potena.
Jim Morrison gave Tom a break and showed some more spindle turning basics.
	He demonstrated how to turn a captured ring (using a skew).

2008 Schedule

Next Meeting

Miscellaneous

• Don’t forget the AAW 2008 National Symposium in Richmond, VA, June 20-22, 2008. Byron Young reports that available lodging is getting hard to find.