Fifty people showed up for this month’s meeting including five guests.
A short business meeting included:
- Mark Noete with an update on the wood show and upcoming events this summer.
- Paul Schroeder talked about Shell Lake.
- Trent Watts reported that Elio Menis is in the hospital in Lloydminster.
Demonstration
Richard Pratchler did a fine job of demonstrating some surface design options.
The first one was based on work by the Tiny Turner using pigments and flakes to colour the rim of a bowl. https://www.thetinyturner.co.uk/pigments-and-flakes.
Richard brought a bowl with a carved rim, painted black and coated with sizing material.
He then showed us how to apply the coloured flakes that stick to the sizing.
The result was a magnificent coloured rim.
The second part of the demonstration showed us how to use the Richard Sorbey texturing tool for making decorations on both end grain and side grain.
Richard passed around a sheet showing the positions to put the tool to get different results.
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Richard cleaned up the endgrain and then showed various ways to use the texturing tool. After each one he parted off the ‘cookie’ and showed another spiral form.
A huge Thank You to Richard for an excellent demonstration and tutorial.
Show and Tell
Gordon Munn
Multi axis turned ladies and a gentleman.
Mark Noete
Hollow vessel with lid and finial.
Richard Pratchler
Segmented Epoxy Bowl.
Paul Schroeder
A hollow turning and a bowl of eggs.
Steve Kroeger
Maple Burl Bowls from ‘Burl Class at Glen Friesen’s’
Andy Erza
Hexagonal Poplar bowl and winged bowl from maple
Herman Michael
Wormy bowl and bottle stopper
Mel Genge
Two Pepper mills for part of a wedding gift.
Todd Brandt
Two burl pieces from ‘Burl Class at Glen Friesen’s’
Dean Weldon
Various handles and tools
Robin Reynolds
small bowl with eggs from leftover segmented pieces
Michael Humble and Bethany Humble
Sugar Maple bowl, Wych Elm Bowl and Cottonwood bowl
John Luross
2 maple burl bowls from ‘Burl Class at Glen Friesen’s’
Trent Dament
One small maple bowl and one lidded box with laser image
Scott Dyck
Pens made from various blanks made from Blue Jeans, antlers,
coffee beans a Celtic Knot and other materials.
Next Meeting
Join us on May 12th when acclaimed artist and Hub City Turner member
Deb McLeod presents colour wheel ideas and different ways to
create embellishments to your wood turnings.