March 2019 – Bob Nolan

ByRon Lindsay March 23, 2019October 11, 2024

Show and Tell – mostly boxes for box challenge

John As.

Lost wood box

Joanne W. – tight lid

Doug D.

Arnie R. – alabaster

Kyle C. – a special segmenting technique

Each segment is different wood on each side

Terry K.

Jim W. lid within lid

Chuck T. Silver dollar in top

Al G.

Mark M.

Robert M. with grinder jig

Bob Nolan from Bay Area is demonstating the basket illusion this morning

Bob Nolan’s basket illusion work

Thinning the back. Leave thick in center as long as possible for rigidity

First bead the back with tool working from edge in

Friction burn groove with strip of laminate

Thin and bead working in from edge for rigidity

Various sizes of beading scrapers

Uses wad of cloth to back flexible plate when beading

Using the Alisam Engineering indexing system. It has magnetic attachment to lathe.

Lay out radial lines using pencil and platform on both sides at each index position.

Smaller plastic indexing system

Jaws to hold plate with scroll chuck. This is to allow beading to the very center.

Colwood Cub burner power unit and finger glove

Subdividing radials with knife-edge burner

More examples

Polar graph paper for laying out designs

Burning and coloring tools – Bob says Sharpies will fade

Robert M. brought load of Ash

May, 2005
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Meeting Information: Sunday, May 15, from 9 am to 4 pm Special Demonstration Andi Wolfe: Turning and Surface Decoration At Levi Mize Woodcraftsman’s Shop 162 Aviador Street #17+18, Camarillo, CA 93010 Aviador Street is N. of the Camarillo Airport and is reached from the Central Ave. exit off of US 101: go S. and turn…

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September, 2003
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Meeting Information: Saturday, September 20th from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm with lunch Bill Haskell demonstrating Sculptural, Multicentric Face Plate Turning at Dan Halpert‘s (see below for more details about the meeting) At the August 23rd meeting Vice President Jim Rinde presided. Thanks go to Sam Turner for bringing refreshments. We decided to keep the …

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November, 2006
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Meeting Information: Saturday, November 18th Hands-on Workshop with Mentoring Program at Russ Babbitt’s from 9:00 am to ? with Lunch ($5 donation requested) Bring your own tools and face mask so you can practice with your own tools and learn to sharpen them. If you don’t have any yet you can borrow ours. Note that…

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June, 2006
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The second hands-on session in a row at Russ’s home at the May 20th meeting was again a great learning experience for our beginning turners, and lots of fun for those of us doing the teaching. There is one more of these sessions scheduled for this year on Sept. 16th. Photos from the meeting are…

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