Our September meeting was attended by 27 members and 4 guests.
The president’s challenge was to turn a hollow vessel. Winners in the advanced category were Eric Blom and Das Madhavan. Winners in the novice category were Tim Parker and Jim Plotts.
Alfred Schembri from the Detroit Area Woodturners gave a demonstration on turning miniature birdhouses. It was a very informative presentation. Alfred also brought examples of his turnings for the show and tell. He is a very impressive turner.
Upcoming shows:
- The Mid Atlantic Woodturners Symposium is October 28 & 29 in Lancaster, PA. Here is a link to their website: www.mawts.com
- The Northeast Indiana Turners and Chiselers in Huntertown IN, are hosting Cindy Drozda the first weekend in Nov. Saturday Nov. 4. She will be doing an all day demo. Admission for visitors is only $20.00. Their address is 16471 Lima Rd, Huntertown, IN 46748. Huntertown is NW of Fort Wayne. Here is a link to Cindy Drozda’s website: www.cindydrozda.com. You can see a gallery of her work on the website.
- Tennessee Association of Woodturners 30th Annual Symposium – Franklin, TN 1/26/201- 1/27/2018. Here is a link to their website: www.tnwoodturners.org
Our October meeting will be on Saturday, October 14. Rich Enders signed up to bring cookies.
Our presentation will be by Wayne Huff. He will give a demonstration on turning a wooden hat.
The president’s challenge is to make a spindle turning. This could be a miniature birdhouse, candlestick holder, etc.
We are working to get our website up to date. Once that is accomplished, I will be learning how to maintain the website so I can assist in that effort. AAW has recently started adding weekly tips and techniques to their website. I will add links to those. Many are rather large to attach to an email so I think this will be a better solution.
Len
Happy turning