April 2018 – Mike Mahoney – Channel Islands Woodturners

: Sam T. introducing our demonstrator Mike Mahoney (clock not working)

: Mike started demo showing multi-bowl coring using the McNaughton Center Saver system on a claro walnut blank

: This shows the graft line between the root stock and Iranian walnut

: This strong banding is characteristic of claro walnut

: McNaughton tool (available from Craft Supplies USA)

: Laid out for four bowls

: Mike’s gouge grind – he likes coarse grinding wheel

: Explaining the arc for cutting

: Graft line quite prominent

: Instant gallery items – Mike’s bowls in background

: Instant gallery

: Robert M.’s footed olive bowl – Note the butterfly patches

: Mike’s Walnut with graft line

: Another of Mike’s Walnut bowls with graft line

: Mike’s mug – see Youtube for video on how to make

: Bowl set in Silver Maple

: Bowl contour

: Mike’s bowl examples and instant gallery table

: Show and tell (instant gallery)

: Mike brought cored blanks for sale

: Cored blanks for sale

: Wood raffle items Acacia, Pine, and Walnut

: Acacia for wood raffle

: Wood raffle

: Project 2: Large Valley (white) Oak blank for platter

: Supported by large tenon

: Cutting large diameter but shallow rabbet for Vicmarc chuck

: Shear scraping the ogee. Bottom center is bowed out for extra thickness.

: Patching crack with CA glue and sawdust

: Finish is walnut oil and beeswax mixture.

: Quartersawn figure

: Mike’s finish

: Sharp step transition

: Hollowed out sanded and finished

: Showing the platter contour

: Project 3: Urn with threaded finial

: Shaping the urn – “mistletoe” walnut

: Checking depth

: Hollowing with the Kelton hollowing tool (double-ended)

: Kelton hollowing tool – bent (Craft Supplies)

: Kelton hollowing tool – straight

: This shows the mistletoe figure best. Ready for threading

: Using the “female” chaser (Mike likes 16 tpi)

: Finishing urn base held in jam chuck

: Shaping the finial – boxwood

: Starting the thread using the “male” chaser

: Finished thread – note the “stop” slot

: This is threaded chuck to hold the finial by its threads

: Shaping the finial top

: Mike called the shape “Asian”

: Finished urn with finial

: Mike’s recommended foot sizes for various applications

: Project 4: “Calabash” shape (rounded bottom) large bowl in Black Oak

: Exterior shaped showing tenon to hold for hollowing

: Mike cored this one also – chips flying

: Two cores shown

: Hollowing with gouge to 1/8″ thickness to bottom

: Chips really flying – Joe R. takes cover

: Hollowed – Mike sanded outside only since wet

: Preparing jam chuck to remove tenon and final shape

: Mike gets ovation from impressed crowd