Capital Area Woodturners

Program for the month: Having Holdiay Party in place of monthly meeting.

CAW Holiday Party

Mark your calendars for Sunday evening, December 10,2000 to reserve it for the CAW pot luck Holiday Social. 

Sharing Holiday Cheer!!

Capital Area Woodturners 2nd annual Woodturners Ball on Sunday evening, December 10th, in the church hall of the Messiah United Methodist Church Hall, 6125 Rolling Road, Springfield, VA  22152.  Our goal is simple:  Let's all get together during this holiday season to share some holiday cheer with the members, families, and friends of CAW; eat a hearty meal of whatever dishes walk through the door; vote for the best turned holiday ornament from the members' entries; and exchange a turned object for those participating in the grab-bag exchange.

5:00 PM - Social Hour - Fun, camaraderie, hors d'oeuvres, soft drinks, and inspecting the items entered in the ornament contest and the grab-bag participation.

6:00 PM - Dinner - Really great food prepared by your friends, fellow woodturners, and/or their spouses.  Pot luck dinners are the best eating anywhere.  Drinks and eating utensils will be provided by the CAW.

7:00 PM - Fun & Games - Vote for your favorite ornament and grab-bag entry; dance with someone; singe some holiday carols; renew old acquaintances and make new ones; or talk about turning = just come and have some fun!!

Remember, Chris Light will be collecting new, unwrapped toys for the Marines " Toys for Tots" program, bring along a toy donation and bring joy to a needy child's holiday.

Program for the month: 9:30 - Short  Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!  Elect new officers.
10:00 -  3:00 Special Demonstration by David Ellsworth.

David Ellsworth gave a terrific demonstration.  Below he is turing a natural edge bowl from Ash.

Not only did he show his techniques of turning but also used the time to really explain the planning that goes into his turnings.

Below, David also turned a hollow form from a log.  The chips were flying.....

Now had the hollow from in a jam chuck, and explaining how turn the foot.

Program for the month: 9:30 -  Short Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 -  Special Demonstration by Johannes Michelson.

Program for the month: 9:30 -  Short Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 -  Special demonstration by Mark Gardner

Program for the month: 6:30 - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
7:30 - Short Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
8:00 -  Tim Kochman will show the video he took at the 2000 AAW Symposium, of Stoney Lamar and David Ellsworth critiqueing the instant gallery.

Program for the month: 6:30 - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
7:30 - Short Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
8:00 -  Members who attended the AAW Symposium in Charlotte, share their experiences of interesting demonstrations and techniques learned.

Special demonstration by Mark St. Ledger on Saturday, July 22, from 9am till whenever at the Woodcraft store.

Mark gave a terrific Demonstration full of ideas and tips for all levels of turners.  

Above are the turnings Mark demonstrated.  There's a wooden #2 morse taper jig, a mushroom, a fly house, a whistle, a bird out of Zebrawood scrap, and a Cocobolo threaded nut and bolt.  Mark donated these items to the club, where they were raffled off during the August meeting.

Program for the month: 6:30 - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
7:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
8:00 - How to setup, chuck, turn, and finish natual edge bowls.  C.A. Savoy will provide demonstration.

Program for the month: 6:30 - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
7:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
8:00 - Tim Kochman will lead discussion on what the club wants to see for future demonstrations

Program for the month: 6:30 - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
7:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
8:00 - Don Johnson will demonstration how he makes the router inset boxes

Don Johnson gave an interesting demo on making small, tightly fitted; lidded boxes, with a contrasting wood insert and finial on top.  It was one of those demos that I believe most walked away from saying to themselves, "I have just GOT TO try that."

Don's demo was very straight forward, and showed that anyone can make his gorgeous boxes.  He shared his tips about how to proceed with the setup, wood selection, router attachment toos, vice use, making an insert template and many other helpful hints.  

Here is a collection of some of the lidded boxes Don has made using the techniques he demonstrated.

Program for the month: This meeting will be on Saturday, March 11 starting at 9:00 am.
9:00 - Short chapter business meeting.
9:30 - World renowned woodturner Mark Sfirri will demonstrate his offset turning.   Mark will demonstration from 9:30 to 4pm.

About 60 members came to watch Mark Sfirri demonstrate.  Mark has made a name for himself with large offset turning projects.  Many of the projects with multiple offsets.  The photo at right is a sample of Marks multi-axis turning, titled the Walking Table, made from Purpleheart and Ash for the legs.

Mark started with going over some basics of spindle turning.  Turning beads and coves, and executing clean transition from the pommel to the round.  Even though Mark had lots of tools, 95% of his cuts were done with either a 1.5 inch roughing gouge to get a piece round quickly, and then a half inch spindle gouge to do the detail.  Mark presenting in a way that any person, beginning turner or advanced could tackle one of his demo projects.

Mark turned one his famous baseball bats, a abstract lady figurine, and a cup with 3 scoops of ice cream.

Program for the month: 6:30 - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
7:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
8:00 - Mike McInerney will give a demonstration on Pen Making, to include wood selection, mandrels, shapes and many other tips.

Mike gave a pen making demonstration that started with wood/material selection.   Mike couldn't guess had how many different types of woods he has made pens out of, and other materials, like Corian, Dymondwood, and the acrylic blanks.  Talked about buying exotic wood in boards, then cutting them to pen blank size.  It really cuts down the cost per pen.  Also discussed orienting the wood.  Showed a board of Zebrawood, and how by cutting the board on a diagonal, you get a real nice cross grain pattern. 

When drilling, Mike likes to use the Black and Decker bullet point bits.  They do not wander when drilling into the wood.  Showed different ways to hold the blank in the drill press.  Can clamp a hand clamp to the drill press table, and clamp your blank in the hand clamp, using a small square to make sure the blank is straight up and down.  Also uses a hand held blank holder from Hut Products that is real easy to use.

When gluing in the brass tubes, you can use, CA glue, epoxy, or Gorilla glue are the most popular.  After the glue set up, sand the ends of the blanks almost to the brass tube, then take a barrel trimmer and finish squaring up the ends.  This will make sure the ends of the blank is exactly perpendicular to the tube.

Showed several mandrels to hold the pen blanks while turning.  Some come with a morse taper on the end, others are held in a jacobs chuck.   Even though the bushings give indication that the blank is the right finished diameter, Mike likes to use precision calipers to measure the pen parts that will meet the wood, and then make sure the finished wood barrel is the same diameter.  The last thing you want is to have a ridge between the wood barrel and the pen parts.  With eyes closed, you should not feel any abrupt transition.

The end result of the demonstration was a Parker style double twist pen made from Kingwood.  

Program for the month: 6:30 - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
7:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
8:00 - Topic: C.A.Savoy will give demonstration on the Beale Buffing System