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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
