Our July 7th meeting was attended by 29 members and 1 guest
Tom Jones and Lynn Southward did demos on turning a basic bowl. Tom’s demos involved using a dummy board to mount the blank and turning with carbide tools. Lynn’s demo involved using traditional lathe tools. Both presented a lot of useful facts.
Upcoming shows:
The Ohio Valley Woodturners Guild Symposium will be October 13-15 at Higher Ground Conference Center in West Harrison, In. Because we have advertised this event, we have been given one free registration. We will have a drawing from the list of interested people. I sent an email asking who might be interested in attending. To date I have only received responses from 3 people who are interested. You still have time to let me know if you are interested in being in the drawing.
The Mid Atlantic Woodturners Symposium is October 28 & 29 in Lancaster PA. Here is a link to their website: www.mawts.com
Tennessee Association of Woodturners 30th Annual Symposium – Franklin, TN 1/26/2018 » 1/27/2018. More information will be available soon.
At our last meeting it was suggested we get a bulletin board where members could post buy/sell/trade information etc. I have purchased a corkboard and will bring it to the next meeting for that purpose.
Our August meeting will be on August 5. Jim Nickless signed up to bring cookies. We will have the first half of the meeting at the church. After our break we will go to the Adrian Center for the Arts where Pi will give a demo. Pi works in clay, but a lot of the concepts used in molding clay are the same or similar to those for woodturning. I hope to see all of you there
The president’s challenge for August is to turn a ‘basic’ bowl.
Len
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I recently found a list of “You might be a woodturner if…” one-liners. Here are a couple more of them:
You know you’re a woodturner if….you clean your shop with a rake!
When there is thunder, lightening, and the electricity goes out, and you say, “Great news– a tree just fell and knocked down a power line and I’m going out to look for it,” everyone is convinced you’re a woodturner.