February 2020 – Matt Monaco – Channel Islands Woodturners

: Show and Tell time

: Ray H.

: Arnie R.

: John As.

: John As. – Pecan

: Maryalice B.

: MaryAlice B.

: Bruce B.

: Bruce B. – Porcupine quills

: Robert M.

: Robert’s punch for mouse ears

: Kyle C. and Terry K.

: Kyle C. – colored plywood

: Rick H.

: Jim R. demonstrating captive scraper system to Cabrillo mentors during break

: Matt Monaco from Missouri – all-day demo focusing on tool technique. Website is monacobowls.com

: Matt Monaco

: Matt Monaco

: Cut to show wall thickness – He sands when surface is just dry enough to not clog paper

: “Wood Pottery” – very thin in Silver Maple

: Bead decoration

: All the wood used today in demo is Avocado – First project is beading demo with his special gouge grind

: Series of beads cut with gouge

: Practice piece – bead work

: Avocado blank for second project: shallow bowl

: Cutting the tenon – notice the cracks

: Create a tenon for Oneway chuck

: Tenon should be shorter than jaws, and jaws should be snug against bottom of bowl

: Matt’s custom shape achieved by freehand grinding. Has straighter wings and smaller tip

: Matt’s prefered grind on left

: Freehand (“Naked”) grinding. He grinds from wing to tip, both right and left handed

: Left handed on left side

: Comparison of grinds – middle is his preferred

: Matt’s tools

: Cutting downhill – against the grain is do-able with this grind

: Variety of beads

: Spear point sheer scraper

: The micro bevel on “bottom feeder” gouge

: Hollowing with heavy gouge

: On screw chuck – Cut off beads and repurpose as jam chuck and, later, hollowform

: Prepare jam chuck

: Hold with tailstock

: Sheer scrape with spear point scraper

: Concave bottom

: Little bead on bottom

: Turn jam chuck into hollowform blank

: Bead at collar

: This shows off the gouge shape

: Cut bead on top

: Hollowing scraper – Keep tip rotated down so won’t catch

: Curved hollowing scraper tool to get around corner

: Fit jam chuck

: Remove tenon

: Concave bottom

: Saw off tenon