The club met at the LaSalle High School for show and tells, bring back raffle and a demo on turning ornamental birdhouses.
There were many show and tell items on display and talked about.
Here are some of the show and tell items on display.
Three natural edged bowls.
Jim carved some birds on a branch. Very realistic looking.
More birds by Jim along with a carved orange for the birds.
More bows, a vase and a box.
Same brought so of his work. One is a resin and wood vase and another is resin stabilized wood.
Another natural edge bowl.
This is the bring back section of wood raffled off during the meeting.
This is a cross section of a hollow tree. Note the cracks forming as it dries.
Jim explained that the cracking can be greatly reduced if the cross section is cut at a something like a 15 degree angle as this reduces the length of the each grain and fewer cracks as it shrinks and dries. This example was cut at 90 degrees to the grain allowing each grain to run from outside to inside.
After a discussion of what people had made band brought for show and tell there was a discussion of the demo and then everyone moved to the shop to watch Steve make ornamental birdhouses. The movie has been edited to remove pauses and sections have been speed up to reduce the overall size of the movie. Here is the video of Steve Promo making ornamental birdhouses.
https://youtu.be/33QwcuwHn80
