Mark your calendars for
Saturday evening, December 13, 2003, to reserve it for
the CAW pot luck Holiday Social. Mark your calendars for
Saturday evening, December 13, 2003, to reserve it for
the CAW pot luck Holiday Social.
Sharing Holiday Cheer!!
Capital Area Woodturners 4th annual Woodturners Ball on Saturday evening, December 13th, 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!!
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!
10:00 CAW members demonstration mini projects, clocks, mirrors, bottle stoppers,
etc.
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!
10:00 A full day turning demonstration with British turner Jimmy Clewes. Jimmy will talk about "Turning tips & tool techniques, along with coloring and texturing and a
whole bunch of fun".
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
A little background on Jimmy Clewes
Please visit Jimmy’s website at http://www.jimmyclewes.com/ to read his articles and see some of his work.
I have 20 years of experience of woodturning and related products. After leaving school at 16, I worked for 4 years gaining an apprenticeship in engineering. I then studied 3-Dimensional Design at Manchester Polytechnic for a further 4 years specializing in designing and making furniture. I was particularly influenced by Japanese tools and furniture design. My subsidiary subject was silver-smithing. After gaining a 2:1 Honours Degree, I went to work for Craft Supplies Limited.
I have had several exhibitions of my work locally and exhibited an oriental style display cabinet in the London International Furniture Show at Earls Court which was featured in the "Cabinet Maker and Retail Furniture" magazine. I also design commissioned pieces of furniture.
It was whilst I was at college that my interest in woodturning was rekindled after spending a couple of days discussing and turning with Jim Partridge. Having previously had his own business as a tree surgeon, Jim gained knowledge and experience of working with wood. He uses this to explore the potential of various cuts of timber and incorporates this natural design into his woodturning.
I am currently working as a freelance woodturning demonstrator and course instructor, both in the UK and internationally. I am a regular contributor to "Woodturner", and am on the Register of Professional Woodturners.
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!
10:00 Alan Lacer demonstrates. $5 Demo fee will be collected.
Mark Your Calendar NOW!!
For the 3 rd Annual CAW Summer Picnic/Social On Saturday, August 9 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!!!
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!!
Program for the month: 8:30am - ands-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!
10:00 - Elvie Jackson, guest demonstrator will demonstrate natural edge
hollow forms. $5 Demo fee will be collected.
Elvie F. Jackson is a self-employed business owner and woodturner, residing in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife and their two children. He began turning wood in 1994 under the teaching of nationally respected North Carolina woodturner Bill Johnston. Elvie enjoys turning burl wood. He specializes in turning natural edge hollow vessels. He can turn hollow forms up to fifty inches in diameter and five feet tall. He turns basic bowls and natural edge bowls. He has developed a new style of woodturning that he calls the "connected series". This series is two distinct hollow forms turned from the same piece of wood maintaining a continuous connection of wood between the two hollow forms. Elvie has a custom made Nichols Bigway 50144 lathe that has the capacity to turn up to 50 inches in diameter and a 2436 Oneway lathe.
Elvie is a member of the Triangle Woodturners of North Carolina, Carolina Mountain Woodturners and the American Association of Woodturners. He became interested in woodturning when a fellow employee brought an oak burl bowl to work. Elvie continues to grow as a woodturner and seeks knowledge of the trade by continuing to attend regular club meetings and local and National Symposiums. He shares his knowledge with other turners by doing demonstrations and private lessons. He shares his abundant supply of raw turning wood with fellow woodturners.
Artist’s Statement: "It is an awesome feeling to reveal the natural beauty that nature has placed inside a piece of wood through my poiema. My work normally has no logical function except to be looked upon."
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!
10:00 - Christian Burchard, Guest demonstrator. $5 Demo fee will be
collected.
View Christians website www.burchardstudio.com for an amazing look at the progression of turnings since the 80's
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!
10:00 - Al Hockenberry, Guest demonstrator.
Program for the month: 8:30am - 4:00pm CAW Symposium A full day of many demonstrations.
Please note: An Early !!!! Start Time
8:30 AM A Mini-symposium kick off session – an explanation of what, how, and when we will be holding symposium events. A very abbreviated business meeting. Photos of member items will NOT be taken. A formal Show & Tell will NOT be held, but a table for display of one turned item per attendee will be available. The tape library will be open. A silent auction table will NOT held. Supplies & tools for sale will be very limited.
CAW is pleased to announce the "First" annual CAW April Mini-Symposium. What is a Symposium you ask? Well, look at it as a series of short demonstrations, each session lasting 90 mins., Now, in 90 minutes, you will not learn all the aspects of any particular topic. However, we hope you will walk away with information that is of value to you and will help you improve your current skills.
9:00AM
Three separate turning subject demonstrations going on simultaneously.| Class room (where we hold the meetings) | Workshop | Back room (where we have the show-n-tell) | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Finishes - Oil, Epoxy, Lacquer, Wax, Beale Buffing System
Jim Marstall, Phil Brown, Don Riggs |
Turning platters
Bill Hardy |
Wood Selection and preparation for mounting on the lathe
Frank Stepanski |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | Simple segmented turning
Alan Becker |
Basic & Natural Edge bowl turning - Hands on Workshop
Tom Boley, Don Riggs, CA Savoy, Aaron Grebeldinger |
Texturing on and off the lathe
Chris Light & John Trant |
| CAW provided lunch | Sub sandwiches from Primo's | Chips & Pop | |
| 12:45 - 2:15 | Tool Sharpening
CA Savoy |
Turning Platters
Bill Hardy |
Chain Saw safety- care and maintenance
Stihl Representative & CAW member |
| 2:30 - 3:45 | Finishes
- Oil, Epoxy, Lacquer, Wax, Beale Buffing System
Jim Marstall, Phil Brown, Don Riggs |
Basic & Natural Edge bowl turning - Hands on Workshop
Tom Boley, Don Riggs, CA Savoy, Aaron Gebeldinger |
Wood Selection and prepartion for mounting on the lathe.
Frank Stepanski |
Layout your personal strategy for attending the symposium.
{For example, attend a demonstration from start to finish; or split your time between two presentations; or bounce back-and-forth between all three like you were channel surfing on the TV; or hangout in the halls for a rotation and talk about turning with other members}It’s completely up to yo
u!Lunch will be provided by the CAW
Special Symposium Auction
$300.00 Stihl Chain Saw
$1.00 per ticket; 6 tickets for $5.00 Buy early and often !!!
A master rotation schedule will be placed in the hallway for reference.
Based on the survey conducted at our March meeting, we have created a rotation schedule that includes all your first choices for demonstrations. Several subjects were clearly of higher interest. These topics have two rotations to give everyone a better opportunity to attend the demo sometime during the day. Something different in a "Symposium" environment is our "The Basic and Natural-edge Bowl" demo. This is our only hands-on demonstration. You do not need to turn to attend, however if you do wish to turn a bowl, we have several guidelines which must be adhered to. If you plan on turning a natural-edge bowl, you will need to bring a face shield. Glasses do not provide adequate protection against flying bark. p.s. if you just want to watch a natural edge bowl being turned, it may not be a bad idea to have one as well. If you have them, please bring your own turning tools, we have a limited supply available. .If you have a bowl blank, you may want to bring it, we will try to have several blanks ready for you to turn. To turn you must be a member of the AAW!
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!
10:00 - Reuben Everett will give an informative demonstration and discussion on
lattice turned trivets.
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
Reubens bio:
I have been turning about 10 years. I have done the pens, bottlestopers, perfume atomizers, etc. I took a week at Arromont with Ray Key, thought I knew how to turn lidded boxes until I worked with him a week, learned his way of turning. I have turned a few bowls, candlesticks, Christmas tree ornaments and a couple of platters. Then I got interested in the Trivets. Started with one style and evolved into the round six inch ones I do now. I have been doing articultural turning for about the past five years, more so in the past year, balusters, corner blocks (rosetts), and even damage control plugs.
Program cancelled due to snow. Bruce Hoover will be reschedule at a later date.
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!
10:00 - Bruce Hoover, Guest demonstrator.
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
Beginning with surface preparation prior to sanding, including a discussion of shearing cuts using both gouges and scrapers on outside and inside surfaces. Next, covering commonly accepted and familiar methods for sanding and introducing many different ones as well. Some new uses for old familiar tools. It covers self powered sanders, random orbit units, and methods of hand sanding. If time allows, there will be a brief explanation of wet sanding techniques. Next will be methods for sanding inside surfaces on anything from an open bowl to deep vessels using commonly available tools and many shop made tools. Covered also are methods for sanding small objects and spindles, and off-lathe sanding techniques, as well as ways to avoid staining when gluing with CA.
Throw in a myriad of potpourri - small tools, gadgets, and useful helpers to ease the tasks of sanding, and regardless of skill level, everyone will walk away from this demonstration with some new ideas, tips, and skills to use in their everyday turning.
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!
10:00 - Betty Scarpino, Guest demonstrator.
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
An informative demonstration and discussion by Betty Scarpino on turning design concepts. See plans in next column. Betty is a warm, informative speaker who makes a special point of giving ideas and hints to turners of every level that they can use day-to-day in their own shop. When we see Betty’s pieces, inevitability we say: "How could she do that." She’ll tell us how, and demonstrate that you can do it too.
Betty will share with us her techniques for working with turned items after they leave the lathe. These include cutting, carving, texturing, bleaching, and coloring. Throughout her presentation, she will discuss design considerations and talk about creativity. Her slide show will outline the development of an idea through a discussion of her nest/egg vessel series. Betty's approach to demonstrating is to present her material in a way that is useful to everyone so that you can learn how to develop your own individual approach to making things using the lathe.