June, 2015 – Brad Adams – Channel Islands Woodturners

: Good turnout for the Brad Adams all-day demo. Boxes of Madrone and Maple burl cutoffs for sale.

: President Dave S.

: Mark E. discussed plans for the county fair booth and display

: Show and tell time

: President’s challenge: Rick H. used barley router bit to make candle holder using lathe jig.

: Using same bit to scallop edge of bowl from board. This is his indexing guide.

: The final product

: Rick wins the $50 gift certificate as the only legal entry.

: John A. with pierced carving.

: Joanne W. made Tipu bowl for our web designer Nathan S.

: John showed how he plugged bottoms for end grain

: His latest pierced carving.

: Bruce B. with his latest (larger) Robert Craig style creation

: Showing tiger eye cabochon in lid

: Jim R. with roasted Jacaranda lidded box with top top

: Charcoal hollowform

: Tucker G.: segmented platter

: Bruce will take copies of Betty Scarpino videos to her at the AAW Symposium

: Brad Adams from Benicia starts demo with how he handles heavy logs in the field

: Lifting a log to pickup bed level with hydraulic motorcycle jack

: On to the saw buck

: He lets the log drain on end for about a week covered but not sealed

: How the wood moves with the conventional roughout – Black Oak

: What happens if you don’t relieve the stress from tangential shrinkage

: Save the quartersawn center section for small objects

: No “birthday cakes” please because they always crack even if sealed

: Planning the cuts for a bowl blank

: An opening in the bark for a spur center

: Cut at 45 degrees to keep the shavings short

: Uses cardboard circles instead of compass as cutting guide

: Prefers to shape using chainsaw instead of bandsaw for safety

: Trimming with electric chainsaw

: Detail of sawbuck

: The roughout: start between centers

: Likes 2 ft steel metric rule to layout thickness using 10% of diameter

: Brad uses only Ellsworth gouge for roughing green wood

: Showing the tenon and bowl base at one third of diameter

: Completed cork oak bowl blank – he seals all surfaces

: Switching to dried Madrone blank

: Smoothing outside with thin flexible steel scraper

: In dry wood Brad prefers double bevel conventional gouge – cleaner cut

: Damping vibration – note fingerless gloves – Rick H. suggested using teflon pad

: At the bottom using a 65 deg bevel on gouge

: Passive sander

: Hand sanding for creating concentric sanding pattern for final finish

: Brad cut two grooves and wire burnt them. Now using hot coil “vaporizer” to burn in texture between the rings

: This burner much hotter than standard woodburner so goes much faster

: So hot that it flames up!

: Completed bowl left for club raffle. Surface extremely smooth – 600 grit or finer

: With black shoe dyed maple burl hollow form – faux Buckeye

: Example pieces on his display table – Maple, Madrone, Acacia, Cork Oak, Ironbark Euc

: Various bowl blanks for sale