We are back from our winter respite. Last month the are was struck by freezing rain and high winds and many members lost power or worse suffered damaged to their homes or property. Even with these troubles many of the members showed up for our 12 April meeting and brought many Bring Backs (items to auction off to fellow members) and many Show and Tell items the members created during the winter break to share with fellow members. Below are the Bring Back items:
A section of a tree was brought in (small log), several slabs of hard wood along with several finished or partially finished projects. By the log is a carved bowl with a carved father on the lid. Front is a plater, a small cherry bowl and two partially turned cherry blanks. Many members bought a large number of tickets in the hopes their ticket would be drawn and they could choose the item they wanted. All funds raised by the auction go into the club's treasury. Some of the funds raised by this method were used to replace our 10 year old HP AMD A-10 processor laptop with a 5 year old HP Zbook with an eight core i9 processor and an Nvidia graphics card. This improve the clubs ability to record, edit and post pictures and movies to the club's blog.
Here are some pictures of the members items brought in for Show and Tell. Each member explained the item and any unique features or turning lessons related to their items.
From front to back are some interesting items. The large front item is flower holder and used double axes turning to obtain its unique shape. There are three bowls and two lidded vessels. The large one has segment contrasting wood in the sides. In the center is a flower with a humming bird. All are well done.,
Here is a better picture of the humming bird. Behind it is a practice piece used to learn offset turning.
Wood turners and not limited to just turning bowls and boxes. Here are two side tables. The left one is epoxy resin with leaves embedded. The right one is wood and resin. The shafts were turned as well by the member.
Let's go down the table from right to left. A section of wood was turned to preserve the outer beauty of the wood. This require turning the wood with protrusion spinning round to get the inside bowl shape. Center is bowl that was died to add a different character to it. A small box with a finial. Lower left is complex approach as a natural edge bowl is turned and then a section of wood is turned thin, soaked in water to soften the wood and then placed inside the bowl. A rubber glove is then inflated inside the bowl to hole the this wood in place. Glue is used to bond the thin inner wood to the natural edge bowl for a unique creations.
Here is a close up of the bowl where color has been added creating a stunning bowl.
This is a few moving down the table. Below the bowl with a finial is another natural edged bowl with a thin wood insert. In the center is a large platter and to its left is another platter.
Moving farther down the tables are some fantastic platters and some small bowls.
The large object is a ceramic bowl where the member turned wood legs. Lower right is a natural edged bowl. To its left is a wood bowl with bird legs on the bottoms.
Here is a unique bowl with a textured inside to look like a basket with a owl painted in the texture. A really fantastic piece. Now Jim Rutledge like to carve the bowls he turns and below are some where the bowl looks like a basket and the lid has a carving. Some are birds and one is a black bear. Fantastic work.
Here Steve Promo is explaining the up coming meetings. The high school will be remodeling the wood shop this summer so the club will hold meetings else ware. The June thru August meetings will not be at the high school. The July and August will have guest presenters. The September thru November meets will be back at the high school.
Here is a video of Steve Promo turning a platter/shallow bowl while pointing out some production turning methods.
The members thank Steve for not only the demonstration but also for being the club president.
