January 30 Meeting with Al Geller and Sam Turner on Bowl Savers
President’s Corner – Steve Leblanc
Channel Islands Woodturners Art Show Submission Deadline
Saturday’s February 27th meeting at Levi’s is the deadline for submitting entries into our March Art Show at Proverbs Coffeehouse. If you can’t bring your entry/entries to the meeting, call Stephan Case-Pall (491-3660), Joel Oksner (443-0270), or Steve Leblanc (526-3840) to arrange a drop-off.
See January’s newsletter for more information about the show.
If you would like the Art Gallery to mail an art card to a friend or family member, send the e-mail the address to me at sml.woodturner@att.net. The Coffeehouse will mail up to 100 cards for us in addition to their own 600-piece mailing list. They will also give us blank postcards.
Stay tuned to more e-mail announcements about the show as we get closer to the event.
Show & Tell
We will be having Show & Tell. We will include your Art Show entries in the Show & Tell if you like.
Kind Regards,
Steve
VP Bob Fahrnbruch stood in for Steve Leblanc as MC
Stephen Case-Pall reported on preparations for the March art show
Jim Word is lining up the 2010 meeting dates and venues
Bruce Berger starts the Show &Tell with segmented work
John Ascheman turned accident into art work
Jim Word
Jim shows all the shaving generated without benefit of a bowl saver
Warren Brown
Warren: Multi-layer plywood bowl with tilted layers
Bob F.: Birdhouse
Robert Mitchell
Dave Staehli: Russan Olive – very hard
Visitor Sven from Anaheim
Gary Toro first to do reversed turned diamonds per AAW mag.
Robert Mitchell boxes, Michael Inham surface carving
Rick Caseman new member from Santa Maria
Friendly dispute over raffle numbers
Dave Hutter wins
Featured Demo: Al Geller with McNaughton system post
McNaughton most versitile but more difficult
How to stage the cuts and provide a way to chuck the pieces
Looks like a straight tool
Al with Woodcut system
Explaining how to set up offset center on Woodcut system
Woodcut tool in action – note the two cutter radii
Meeting Information: Saturday, August 23rd from 9:00 am to Noon Natural Edge Bowls: 101 at David Frank’s 166 Estaban Drive, Camarillo, CA 93010 (see below for more details about the meeting) At the July 12th meeting President Al Geller led us in a discussion of our experiences at the AAW Symposium last month. Thanks…
Note that our first Hands-On-Workshop for the year is on the 3rd Saturday, one week earlier than our usual meeting day. As noted above in blue our agreement with the school and due to the AAW insurance policy that covers our activities only current members of the AAW will be allowed to use the lathes. …
The second hands-on session in a row at Russ’s home at the May 20th meeting was again a great learning experience for our beginning turners, and lots of fun for those of us doing the teaching. There is one more of these sessions scheduled for this year on Sept. 16th. Photos from the meeting are…
President’s Corner – Steve Leblanc Raffle We will be raffling off a fine ¾” Glaser skew chisel donated by Paulo Marin at our June 20th meeting. If you can contribute some wood blanks or a roughed-out seasoned bowl blank as an enhancement to the raffle, bring it to the meeting. It’s always fun to go…
Meeting Information: Saturday, September 16th* [*note one week earlier than usual] Hands-on Workshop with Mentoring Program at Russ Babbitt’s from 9:00 am to ? with Lunch ($5 donation requested) Bring your own tools and face mask so you can practice with your own tools and learn to sharpen them. If you don’t have any yet…
