Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

Our president, Joe Smith, conducted the meeting.

There were about 26 persons present.

It was brought to our attention that Bill Morris is having complications due to his knee.

2009/2010 Challenge

Joe Smith said that there would be two challenge classifications this year: Novice and Professional (which includes sellers, previous winners, and advanced turners).

The challenge will be the making of three Christmas tree ornaments.

Show and Tell

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Byron Young brought several wonderful Christmas tree ornaments.
Byron also had a very nice Purple Heart bowl
and five wonderful large Maple bowls.

Byron showed us some very small tops he had turned as well as a "throw top" and a "tippy top". (These small tops did not photograph well. Sorry).

Dave Jones showed us an interesting art form entitled "Recovery"
	and a nice Honey Locust note holder.
Dave also had an attractive natural edge bowl from Honey Locust,
	and a very pretty Beech bowl.
Tom Schottle brought in a negative rake scraper to show us,
	and a very thin bowl turned using that scraper.
Gary Gibbs had an attractive Osage Orange bowl.
Doug Kemp showed us a beautiful Cherry bowl
	and a real nice natural edge bowl from Tree of Heaven.
U.K. Dawson is certainly one of our most improved turners. He has obviously really been practicing on his lathe! U.K brought in a couple of really beautiful Oak plates.
He also had a nice Black Ash bowl
	and an attractive spaulted Beech bowl.
Jim Withee showed us some attractive pens he had turned. One was yellow and black. The other two were from Bethlehem Olive; one of those was finished with the Beall buffing system.
Ervin Jones brought a really nice "nest" of three bowls from Maple.
Jim Morrison brought in a wonderful unique segmented bowl.
	He also had a hollowform sawed on half so we could see how uniform the wall thickness was.
Mike Ellison brought in a wonderful segmented bowl.
Warnie Lore brought a beautiful candy dish he had turned thick so as to show off as much of the beautiful wood as possible.
John Gregor showed us some very nice Christmas tree ornaments
and also turning tool he had made at the Joe Smith workshop.
Clarence Duncan showed us two turning tools,
	a couple candleholders ("tea lights")
and some very nice Christmas tree ornaments he had made at the Joe Smith workshop.
Ron Jones showed us two nice Christmas tree ornaments,
an attractive bowl
	and a weed pot he had made at the Joe Smith workshop.
Bill Sands showed us a revised design for his cutting board from Maple. This cutting board has a flat side as well as a curved side to be used with the Ulu knife.

This Month’s Program

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Joe Smith showed how he makes two of the three Christmas tree ornament types: Snow man icicle, and birdhouse. Then folks took to the lathes and began making ornaments.

2010 Schedule

Next Month’s Meeting

Joe Smith will conduct a workshop to practice the challenge

Miscellaneous