January 30 Meeting with Al Geller and Sam Turner on Bowl Savers
President’s Corner – Steve Leblanc
Channel Islands Woodturners Art Show Submission Deadline
Saturday’s February 27th meeting at Levi’s is the deadline for submitting entries into our March Art Show at Proverbs Coffeehouse. If you can’t bring your entry/entries to the meeting, call Stephan Case-Pall (491-3660), Joel Oksner (443-0270), or Steve Leblanc (526-3840) to arrange a drop-off.
See January’s newsletter for more information about the show.
If you would like the Art Gallery to mail an art card to a friend or family member, send the e-mail the address to me at sml.woodturner@att.net. The Coffeehouse will mail up to 100 cards for us in addition to their own 600-piece mailing list. They will also give us blank postcards.
Stay tuned to more e-mail announcements about the show as we get closer to the event.
Show & Tell
We will be having Show & Tell. We will include your Art Show entries in the Show & Tell if you like.
Kind Regards,
Steve
VP Bob Fahrnbruch stood in for Steve Leblanc as MC
Stephen Case-Pall reported on preparations for the March art show
Jim Word is lining up the 2010 meeting dates and venues
Bruce Berger starts the Show &Tell with segmented work
John Ascheman turned accident into art work
Jim Word
Jim shows all the shaving generated without benefit of a bowl saver
Warren Brown
Warren: Multi-layer plywood bowl with tilted layers
Bob F.: Birdhouse
Robert Mitchell
Dave Staehli: Russan Olive – very hard
Visitor Sven from Anaheim
Gary Toro first to do reversed turned diamonds per AAW mag.
Robert Mitchell boxes, Michael Inham surface carving
Rick Caseman new member from Santa Maria
Friendly dispute over raffle numbers
Dave Hutter wins
Featured Demo: Al Geller with McNaughton system post
McNaughton most versitile but more difficult
How to stage the cuts and provide a way to chuck the pieces
Looks like a straight tool
Al with Woodcut system
Explaining how to set up offset center on Woodcut system
Woodcut tool in action – note the two cutter radii
Note that our third Hands-On-Workshop for the year is on the 5th Saturday, one week later than our usual meeting day. As noted above in blue our agreement with the school and due to the AAW insurance policy that covers our activities only current members of the AAW will be allowed to use the lathes. …
President’s Corner – Steve Leblanc Program Chair The Board is soliciting the membership for someone to volunteer for the position of Program Chair. As stated in our bylaws, the Program Chair, in consultation with the President and other officers, shall be responsible for coordinating the demonstration topics and logistics for regularly-scheduled meetings. We would like…
March 22nd Meeting: from 9:00 am to noon Warren Brown: Cyma bowls Warren will show bowls at each stage of the process and has put together an excellent presentation which is not to be missed! at David Frank’s The March show-and-tell session will be particularly exciting since we didn’t have one last month and…
The first meeting of 2007 will be our own member, Sam Turner who says, “I think I told Joe Levy that I would be talking about finishing tricks. Unfortunately there aren’t many tricks so I guess that’s a misnomer. However, the answer to finishing woodturning projects is to know and understand what’s available, whether it’s…
Meeting Information: Saturday, May 22 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Brad Stave: Surface Decoration $15 fee for this meeting: This will include lunch and a hands-on-workshop using various tools! At Levi Mize Woodcraftsman’s Shop Over 30 people attended the April meeting at our new venue. Thanks to Levi Mize for making his shop available,…
