Capital Area Woodturners

December 2002

CAW Holiday Party

snowman2.gif (18147 bytes) Mark your calendars for Sunday evening, December 15, 2000, to reserve it for the CAW pot luck Holiday Social.

Sharing Holiday Cheer!!

Capital Area Woodturners 3nd annual Woodturners Ball on Sunday evening, December 8th, 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.

3:30 PM - Setup - If you have some free time and want to help setup, please contact Tom Boley, 703-569-2548, to coordinate activities to help with.

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

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; sing some holiday carols; renew old acquaintances and make new ones; talk about turning, or just come and have some fun!!

November 2002

October 2002

Don shapes the outside of the bowl. That's not a power sander is it?

Don demonstrates the sled with the router mounted and following the template. Anne cuts a couple flutes.

Don generally ebonizes the bowl with black shoe dye, then lightly sands, and applies copper, brass or other color dye for an antique look.

September 2002

Mark is a career carpenter/cabinetmaker who, for the past thirteen years, has been teaching high school woodshop and incorporating creative turning in student courses. He is an active demonstrator and workshop leader for woodturning clubs, and both regional and national symposia.

Currently, he is serving his second term as an AAW board member and is an active member of the Blue Ridge Woodturners of Southwest Virginia. His work has been shown at the Artisan Center of Virginia and The Art Museum of
Western Virginia.

Mark specializes in small-scale turnings, off center work, and boxes, as well as thread chasing and tool making. He thoroughly enjoys sharing what he has learned from others throughout the years.

Mark shows a member the delicate cuts he makes.

75+ members attend the Mark St. Leger demo. Mark does a lot of small delicate turning. The video camera captures the close-up cuts Mark makes for display on the monitors.

August 2002

Special Demonstration August 3rd!

Program for the month: 9:00am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
10:00 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:30 Jean-Françoise Escoulen, France's foremost woodturner and a former Wood Turning Center (WTC) International Turning Exchange (ITE) resident will provide a demo for us on August 3rd. Jean-Françoise is an exceptional turner and probably best known in the US for his multi-axis chuck and turnings made with it. Many of our members purchased his chuck at his last demo here a couple of years ago and Andy Blackwell gave you a taste of what it's like to use this chuck in June. Prior to his development of the chuck, Jean- Françoise developed a reputation as an expert spindle turner using the classic French tool, a bedan. Jean-Françoise will show us examples of spindle turning using this remarkable tool and also use of his chuck. To see more about him, visit his web site www.escoulen.com. The demo will start at 9:30 am at the Bryant Center and run as long as we would like. Remember, there is a $5.00 fee to cover expenses.

Sample turnings of Jean-Françoise Escoulen:

Jean-Françoise Escoulen at CAW:

Mark Your Calendar NOW!!

For the 3 rd Annual CAW Summer Picnic/Social On Saturday, August 10 th

from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, the CAW will sponsor a potluck Summer Picnic and Turning Social at the Admiralty Club, at the U.S. Coast Guard Station Recreation Center on Telegraph Road (Route 611) just north of Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The Coast Guard Station area is in the 7400 block of Telegraph Road. From No. VA, go south on Interstate 95 from the I-495 beltway. Get off at Exit 166A, the Newington, Fairfax County Parkway (Route 7100) exit going east. Within 1 mile, turn left onto Route 611, Telegraph Road heading North. The coast guard Station will be on your right a few blocks past the Hayfield Elementary and High Schools. On the ADC map book of Northern Virginia, the Coast Guard Station is on map page 29 at blocks 1E&F. From Maryland, after crossing the Wilson Bridge on I-495, you can get off at Exit #2 onto Telegraph Road (Route 611) and follow it for about 8 miles. The coast Guard recreations Center will be on your left. We will advise you of any special security procedures to get into the CG Station in next newsletter. The Admiralty Club will have an indoor meeting room for us in case of bad weather, an outdoor deck area for eating and setting up our lathes. Please bring lawn chairs, your mini-lathes if you have them, any tools you like to use, and some wood for making shavings.

This will be a potluck lunch similar to our December Holiday party - the best eating of the year!!! Please don't bring beverages. We are required to purchase our drinks from the Coast Guard Club Bar - It helps support their facility. Besides, at $.50 per soda, it is as cheap as if you had bought them in a grocery store. Please bring a dish to share according to the following list: No heating/cooking facilities available. DO NOT wear a hat inside the Admiralty Club - you will buy the bar a round of drinks - NO Kidding!!!

Last name starts with brings: (Sample dishes) Bring enough of your dish to feed about 8 people

A - C: Salad (Tossed Green; 3-bean; Greek; Taco) •
D - G: Dessert (Whatever satisfies your sweet tooth) •
H - L: Main Course (Chicken, Ribs, Lasagna, Ham, etc. Don’t let this get too expensive) •
M – L: Side Dish (Potatoes, Vegetables, Fruit) •
S - Z: Chips and Snacks (finger food to snack on while we turn and socialize) •

Bring a disposable serving spoon for the dish, and put your name on your serving pans and platters. Please join us for food, fun, turning, and camaraderie!!

Pictures from the picnic:

July 2002

Program for the month: 8:30am - Exotic wood brought from AAW symposium for sale..
10:00 - A really interesting demonstration by Tom Crabb, a local Virginia turner. Starting with a blank in the shape of a cube and mounting it between centers on two points, Tom makes some truly unique shapes by Turning on the bias”. Tom will start with a cube and work his way through the cylinder and a natural edge and, if time permits, turn a cube with a three-pointed foot.

A little info about Tom Crabb:

Born in Springfield, Missouri, Tom is a graduate of Southwest Missouri Univ. with a BA in English and a minor in sculpture. He and his wife, Angela, moved to Mathews, Virginia where Tom attended the Chesapeake Academy of Boatbuilding and Design. To smooth out the ups and downs of the boat building business Tom began writing how-to articles for publications as diverse as "Creative Crafts" and "Popular Mechanics'' Tom has since published two books and over 40 articles on woodworking, woodturning and design. Mixed with the writing, Tom spent one summer as resident craftsman at Bush Gardens, Williamsburg, Virginia. He also teaches woodworking classes for handicapped adults, for the Richmond City Department of Recreation and Parks. Tom recently retired as a project engineer, designing and engineering furniture and fixtures in Richmond, VA. “The focus of my demonstration is to give you a solid foundation in bias turning, to peak your interest, and to give you another approach to the age-old craft of woodturning.”

Pictures of Tom Crabb demonstrating at CAW, and some of his work.

Members discuss and admire turnings brought for show and tell:

Don Riggs demonstrates his light pulls before the meeting"

June 2002

Members tell about their turnings brought for show and tell:

May 2002

April 2002

	Don Riggs shows how to make perfectly round beads using a honed washer.
	Don Hart demonstrates making matching shapes for dangle earrings.
	Steve Bishop demonstrates his holding techniques and turning of sunburst pendants.

March 2002

The demos will discuss selection of woods, holding techniques, sizing and shaping, finishing recommendations, and any other special topics brought up by the audience and demonstrators.

March 22, 23, and 24, the Woodworking show comes to the Capital Expo Center. Capital Area Woodturners will be there all three days with a booth doing woodturning demonstrations. Don't miss it!

A lot of members brought a variety of items to the show to put on display.

Show attendees were awed by the variety of items, and the skill and craftsmanship.

We had bowls, plates and platters, hollow vessels, hats, bottle stoppers, pens, mushrooms, tree ornaments, miniatures, long stemmed goblets, birds, lidded boxes, and more.

Here is club president Bob Pezold turning a toy top for a captivated youngster. Adults stood captivated at all the demos as well.

Don Riggs is also making the shavings fly.

We had 3 lathes at the show and members did 2 hour shifts on the lathes. In addition, members manned the booth to answer questions on the displayed items and about our club. Over 50 members participated in this event.

February 2002

Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:30 - Wayne Dunlap, of Dunlap Woodcrafts in Virginia, will provide our program. It will be a unique opportunity to learn about wood and harvesting wood as well as chain saw safety. Mr.Dunlap will present a slide show and discuss American hardwoods, figure, kiln and air drying, cutting, i.e., quarter-sawing versus slab sawing, and other things as questions arise. He has also agreed to provide some information on chainsaw use, focusing on safety.

Best of all, he will bring a truck load of wood and offer it to members at a discount price, so come with cash in your pockets! To serve our needs as turners better, he also plans to solicit comments on what kinds of American hardwood we're looking for. He works primarily with harvesters in the Eastern US but has some contacts on the west coast, so think about the kinds of wood you wish you could get more easily and be prepared to give him some feedback.

Finally, Mr. Dunlap used to turn years ago and he is thinking of getting back into it. He is interested in acquiring "a bigger lathe" and taking a look at the hobby/obsession again. He may even be interested in joining our club. Let's all help him get the information he is looking for.

A Mini Lathe will be raffled off. Come early and buy lots of chances.

February Show-N-Tell table	Wayne Dunlap give presentation on harvesting wood.

January 2002

Members admire fellow members turnings on the show-n-tell table.

Bill Hardy give members tips on using the skew.

Members watch the video monitor zoomed in on Bill's skew technique.

Bill demonstrates turning a plate/platter held on the face plate with double-sticky tape.