11 November 2023 Club Meeting & Discusion

 There was no demonstration for this meeting.  Instead after Bring Backs there was an extended Show & Tell where member brought in pictures and discussed their projects.   Here are some of the Bring Backs that were auctioned off.

There were two slabs of Ash, bulk wood and a bowl brought in for auction.

In addition Steve Promo finished the honey pot Dave Rife made at the October 2023 meeting and build a stand for it.  This too was auctioned off. Here are some of the Show & Tell items.

This bowl was made using colored pencils and a solid wood base.  Jim Rutledge and others talks about making a colored pencil bowl in this video.

Here are three bowls that were cut in half with a section removed and the remaining two halves glued together to make sort of an oval bowl.

The dark bowl in the upper left is a solid wood bowl and not part of the cut bowls.

On the left is a bowl with a copper lid added.  The lid has a copper feather attached. On the right is a bird house that has a protrusion on the bottom so it is setting on a wooden bowl. 

This is the front of the bird house.

This is a close up of the bowl with a copper lid with feather.  Below is a discussion of the bird house and copper lidded bowl.

Also on display were these coaster of burl and resin with cork on one side.

Below are some additional discussion that took place at the meeting.

Steve Promo received a commission to turn replacement posts from local cedar for the railing of a hotel on Mackinac Island.  Here is his discussion.

This is Steve's setup to duplicate the posts.  The old post is used as a master in the background.  Demarcation lines are drawn on his tool rest.

Here is a happy Steve with one of his finished posts.  Only nine more to go.

Here are the finished posts ready to be primed and delivered.

During the club meeting Steve talked about ridding the bevel while turning and here is a short video clip of Steve riding the bevel using a skew to turn a round section of the post.

Well done Steve.  Thanks for sending in the pictures and thanks to your camera person.

Below Sam Staffan discusses the making of Tree Ornaments,  turning bowls with cracks and turning a bowl from a tree that stood outside a lighthouse.   Here are his discussions.

 Discussion of making bowls with cracks.

Discussion of make a bowl that cracked.

Discussion of making tree ornaments.

Discussion of his witch center piece.

 

Dave Rafe Demostrates making a Honey Pot at 8 October 2023 Club Meeting

 Dae Rafe from the Traverse City wood turners club visited out club meeting on 8 October 2023 and demonstrated turning small honey pot on the club's lathe.  

This is Dave Rife explaining how he is going to turn a small honey pot on our lathe.

Side view of the semi-completed honey pot.  

The top looking inside the honey pot.

This is a side view showing the mounting flange on the bottom.

Here Dave is reverse mounting the object in the chuck to turn off the mounting block area on the bottom.  

 

Here is the finished product surface finish by Steve Promo and a stand furnished by Steve Promo.

 

Here is the video from his demonstration.