Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

September 2007

Our president, Joe Smith presided over the meeting.

We are very saddened by the loss of Bob Fleming, one of our charter members. He will be very much missed by our organization, and all those who knew him.

About 20 persons were in attendance. Visitors were Tom Schottle’s nephew and a member of the newly organized Lewisburg AAW chapter. We were also glad to have new member, John Sheets, join us.

• Joe Smith proposed that a plaque be placed on the Powermatic lathe which would state that it was the property of Mountaineer Woodturners - - in memory of Bob Fleming. This is a bit ironical in view of his feelings about Powermatic lathes.

• We have an opportunity to have Alan Lacer to give a demonstration. He will be passing through the area on Monday, October 8^th. A motion was made and passed to have Alan Lacer give a demonstration at Cedar Lakes Monday evening (October 8^th) starting at 4:00 pm. Expenses are to be taken out of the club treasury. Tom Schottle will make the arrangements.

• The Valley Woodworkers is still planning to have an exhibit at the "Museum in the Community" in October. (See www.museuminthecommunity.org). Our group has been invited to enter items. These may either be designated for sale (30 % of the sale going to the museum) or not for sale.

• The Valley Woodworkers will also be having their fall festival on October 27^th, to which our membership is invited. It was a fun event last year.

• Remember - - The October meeting has been moved to the First Saturday.

• Jim Morrison made a motion that an additional duty of the president be to act as auctioneer for the annual tool and wood auction. This was a function always carried out in the past by Bob Fleming. The motion was passed.

• Jim Morrison brought to our attention that Trans Allegheny Books in Parkersburg is opening a gift shop. They will be in the market to buy local art and craft items to sell in this shop. This will not be a consignment situation. For information contact Mike at Trans Allegheny Books at 304-422-4499.

• Clarence pointed out that there is a new arts and craft shop, Downtown Depot, in Huntington, which is also in the market for turned items to sell.

Clarence Clarkson presented shop tips for the month.

• Sanding: He uses an old hole saw, with the teeth ground off, in a drill press to cut out sanding disks.

• Glue: He showed us the glues he prefers. He also likes to use the glue dispenser bottles for dispensing Watco.

• He has good luck with water based polyurethane.

• He showed us a neat chuck that he uses for making jar lids.

• He showed us a nice handle for "burning wire".

• He had several jigs he uses for making perfume bottles and pens.

Tom Schottle showed us a remarkable large 18" natural edge bowl from "a burl from a rotten Oak tree".
Clarence Clarkson brought in two nice natural edge Walnut bowls ( 1 2 )
and two nice natural edge Osage Orange bowls ( 1 2 )
Jim Morrison showed us five ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) of his famous segmented bowls.
Byron Young brought in a beautiful footed Cypress bowl and couple antique Acme Paint cans. Acme went out of business over 100 years ago because of a lead poisoning problem.
Ervin Jones brought in a really nice shallow natural edge bowl from spaulted Maple.
Jim Meyers had an attractive segmented lidded vase, and a Walnut dish with a pedestal.

 

The auction as usual was a lot of fun, and a lot of bargains were to be had. The club treasury took in about $300.

Byron Young presented a short PowerPoint description on the lungs and pulmonary function. He described how the lungs function to deliver oxygen to the body, and how the pulmonary function tests are carried out and what they mean. After lunch he carried out a pulmonary function test on all those interested. We all checked out in the normal range.

We really wish to thank Byron for all this.

• Tom Schottle had a stack of Hartville Tools catalogues and information on their discount for our members.

• 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 available on the website.

Jim Smith, Secretary,

Phone: 304-342-1755

e-Mail: mountain@mountaineerwoodturners.com

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