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April 2014 – Mitchell/Scarborough

ByRon Lindsay April 30, 2014October 11, 2024

VP Dave S. is MC today

Raffle for gift certificates. John K. collecting glasses for Lions Club charity

Show and Tell table

Jim R.with example of chatoyance in pine wood – subject of his talk next month

Rick H. – Bowl from a board

Mark E. – Bowl from a pre-laminated board

Mark took week-long carving class

Another organic form by John A.

David F.

David filled cracks in bowl with metal filings

Burnie G.

Macadamia bowl

Bruce B. – Bandsaw jig and techniques after Robert Craig

Technique to be written up by Robert Craig in AAW magazine

Sam T. filled cracks in thin bowl with black epoxy

Lee T. filled cyprus cracks with crushed turquoise

John A. brought large maple pieces for wood raffle

Bruce O. made these tools for sale

Olive, Orange, Avocado

Liquid Amber, Calif. Pepper, and ?

The wood raffle

Robert M. co-presenting today on Dealing With Cracks

Richard S. co-presenter – salvaging a blown-out bowl

Another solution

Richard showed slide show on his various activities at his Malibu studio

The lifecycle of wood

Showing teaser from crack filling video by Ted Sokolowski

We may obtain this video for club library

Laser-cut butterflies – they have a slight taper – source is stebbinsstudios.com

Source for powder is — www.sokolowskistudios.com

Sample of Sumac wood. Richard also turns root burls of Ceanothus (Wild Lilac)

Robert using hot glue to attach butterfly template to bowl

Hot glued in place over crack

Large and heavy bowl in Ceanothus

Two other Ceanothus pieces

Powders from Sokolowski Studios ($25 for sampler)

Routing out the butterfly shape using laminate trimmer and 1/8″ spiral carbide bit

Showing pilot insert and tip exposure – about 1/4″

Finished recess – corners trimmed out with small chisel

Richard showed how to patch a crack in a hollow object like a guitar

Sanding the butterfly flush with power rotary sander

Now with a palm sander

Biscuit joiner cuts slots for inlay patches – make your own biscuits from hardwood

Three sanded flush

Richard’s compressed wood trick

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April, 2014 Newsletter (incl. March – Ellsworth demo)

May 2014 – Jim Rinde

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