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
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