Jim's Work

Here it is,  Jim's piece o display at art prize.    i think it shows pretty well.
Well done Jim.  Congratulations.

I am overwhelmed

1,453 works of art in 170 venues at the Grand Rapids Art Prize.
Our  club and the woodturning community is well represented by Jim Rutledge's piece "Ancient Arrowheads". I think I recognize one other UP turner J Marc Himes.
I hope to get a few pictures of the turnings on display later today.

Video System Update

After our meeting last Saturday Steve and Tom got together and started working on the cage that will hold the cameras and lights.  It will also have a shield to protect the audience from "Unguided Missiles".  The frame is 1" square steel on casters.
Below are a few snapshots of our work in progress.

Below is the material that is left over.  Steve figures the jobs pretty close.

September Meeting Continued

At the August meeting Charlie Wilson described the holding system he uses to chainsaw cutting blanks.  For the September meeting he brought the device.  See Picture below.  Thanks Charlie, but some of use were hopping it was going to be in the "Bring Back" raffle.

September Meeting

Below are some pictures from the "Show and Tell Table" at the September meeting of the Hiawatha Woodturners Club.  This months meeting was a continuation of the August meeting, where the demo was "From a log to the lathe".  Members where encouraged to bring in work from th blogs that were cut up in August.  Then talk about how the process went.  

Stev Promo's third drum.

Aug 2016 Mtg

The topic for our August 2016 meeting was " From the Tree to The Lathe".  It was about looking a a piece of wood and then deciding what we can make form the particular chunk of wood.  Members were encouraged to bring in wood that they were having trouble seeing the art inside.  Most who brought wood brought burls,probably because most of us struggle seeing what we can do with a burl.

The discussion was led by Steve Promo and Gary Weiermiller.  Gary and Steve did a great job of showing us how to evaluate a piece of wood and visualize the shaped we can get from them.  After a brief "chalk talk" led by Gary, it was outside to play with chainsaw.

Some pictures are below, starting with the show and tell table.  Notice in the pictures from the show and tell table, 2 of the drums that Steve Promo stated working on at our last meeting, which was held in his shop.  I think you will agree the look pretty spectacular.