Past Events
Summer Social – 18 July 2009
Mike Shuler Demo – 25 July 2009
Ventura County Fair – 5-16 August 2009
The usual suspects. The Christensens may now take their seats in the front row.
Steve Leblanc talked about his early functional turnings
Al Geller reviewed the County Fair experience and notes from the judging
Raffle. Chuck Stevenson is back from mission trip
Ralph Rossbach is one of the raffle winners. New member in back is Barbara CDeBaca.
Terrell brought Acacia wood for sale
Michael Ingham is experimenting with hand carving decoration
Ron Lindsay with hollow forms painted in iridescent colors
Robert Mitchell showed his tops and toys
Black Acacia for sale
Gary Toro demonstrated Christmas decorations – here turning snowmen
Snowmen turning split using bandsaw V cradle
Snowmen closeup
Cutting decorative disks
Parting off a disk having spiral on face
Using the spiral grooving tool on edge
View from back side
Center section of ornament – top being shaped
Now ready to drill all the way through
The bottom finial is turned from Pink Ivory
Starting the top finial – drilling hole for wire hanger
Sizing the tenon to the top hole
Final shaping of top finial
Show and Tell table
Router jig used to cut Vs in ornament body to accept inlays
Router jig bottom view
Finished ornament