Welcome back!
Very close to 40 members showed up for a jam-packed meeting. President Jim Beebe started the meeting off with an introduction of the guests, then moved into a few business items, show and tell, a break and a demo.
What we did over the summer!
Michael Humble brought some of the projects he did while at Shell Lake. Lots of pens, some small bowls and some stories of how the various woods turned.
Trent Watts brought a piece of Juniper that was intended for another project, was too small so it was turned into a small flat bottomed bowl. The title of the piece is ‘Choose your Gender Wooden Bowl”.
Gord Munn brought a hollow tuning made from a piece of Manitoba Maple and a winged bowl out of Yellow Cedar, with some future design decisions to finish it off.
Earl Eidem has been working on beautiful Walnut bowl with lots of figure, two pepper grinders with some unique designs for colour and shapes.and two shallow bowls made out of Big Leaf Maple.
Dave Lennox shows one of his signature pens.
Paul Schroeder hates to throw out a cracked piece of wood. This piece of Green Ash had a bad split so he used his ‘Bow-tie’ technique to make a beautiful platter.
Vic Schapansky had a number of pieces made from Manitoba Maple that a friend gave him.
Mel Genge says this was a full summer’s work to make a salt and pepper shaker out of Maple and Cherry.
Rick Hounjet brought one of his dyed bowls featuring a graphic using a duck design.
Dean Weldon brought a nice sized bowl that he decorated with a burning pattern.
Bernard Nagle had a tree in his yard break off in a windstorm and so he salvaged some branches and made a number of vases, candle holders and small bowls.
Gerry Unrah laminated some pieces of walnut to see how large he could turn a bowl on his lathe.
Robin Reynolds brought an innovative tool that she developed. It started with a desire to make a coffee mug for her father. She poured an epoxy block to stabilize some wood and then needed to hollow it. She had two carbide saw teeth welded onto a steel tube with a Morse taper to fit in the tailstock. It worked remarkable well and hollowed the piece ready for the coffee mug, leaving another cylinder for future use.
Demo with Randy Sawchyn
Randy Sawchyn did a great job of showing how to add a unique design to a bowl using shaving cream, liquid (analyne) dyes, squeegees and a balloon.
Yes, I it sounds crazy but wait till you see the results. After the demo everyone who wanted to try this technique was able to experiment on bowls they brought to the meeting.
Thanks Randy for such a great demo with audience participation.
