MAF Demo Day 2

I am couple of days late with this update.  Yesterday was a travel day so it was a bit busy.

The weekend was a full one.  The demonstration started with a breakfast from 8 am to 9 am and then the demo ran to about 4 - 4:30 pm with a lunch.
I can't say enough about the club in Holly.  A great facility and a great organization.  And Rudy was a great demonstrator.  He has a few different techniques that we normally see and I am itchy to try a few of them out myself.

For reverse chucking,  Rudy like to use products from " Rubber Chucky Products " rubberchucky.com
Don Doyle was there both days with his products, and of course I bought some of them.  I'll bring my purchases to the next club meeting.  Hopefully I will have tried them out by then.

The club has 9 Jet 1640 lathes for hands on training.  Of course the hands on workshops was full.



Below are some iPhone shots of day 2.

Rudy Lopez Demo

On a spur of the moment decision, I am at the Rudy Lopez demonstrations at the Michigan Association of Woodturners Club in Holly Michigan.
The club , an AAW club like ours, has a great set up.  I have included a few pictures of the room this morning before the demonstration.  As you will see in the pictures, they have a great AV set up for their demonstrations.  They have 6 monitors showing 3 camera views.

Rudy comes form the Tampa area and will be demonstration at the National Symposium next month. He does a great job.  I have included pictures of the projects he demonstrated today.  There is another day of demonstrations tomorrow and hands on workshops Monday and Tuesday.

I was told by the club president that Gary Weiermiller has presented here,  I am guessing it was before they bought the Powermatic lathe, because I did not see his signature on it.

Look for updates tomorrow night.

Interesting Bowl Making Video

https://www.hollandbowlmill.com

The above link is to the Holland Bowmill website.  If you look in the right hand column of the home page there is a video of the process they use to manufacture their bowls.  I found their process very interesting.   In particular their drying process and the fact they they really don't turn the bowls twice despite starting with green wood.

We are in Holland this weekend I'll be looking for their bowls while here to seed them for myself.

Sorry I'll be missing the May meeting tomorrow.

Tom C