Mark your calendars for
Saturday evening, December ??, 2008, to reserve it for
the CAW pot luck Holiday Social. Mark your calendars for
Saturday evening, December ??, 2008, to reserve it for
the CAW pot luck Holiday Social.
Sharing Holiday Cheer!!
Capital Area Woodturners 5th annual Woodturners Holiday Party, 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
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 - TBD
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 - Jigs & Tips
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 Jamie Donaldson
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
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 - Judy Ditmer
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
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 - Stewart Batty
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
For the 7th Annual CAW Summer Picnic/Social
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 - 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 - Nick Cook.
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
Like last year, this year’s Mini Symposium will be a series of demonstrations
lasting 90 minutes each with three tracks and three rotations. We hope you will
find it enjoyable and full of learning opportunities. We will continue our
tradition of having skilled demonstrators showing us their techniques,
specialties
and tricks. If you have attended our prior symposiums you know that in 1 1/2
hours you are able to gain insight into some topics and techniques that you may
wish to pursue at a later date. On page 2 you will find the rotation schedule,
which outlines the day of demonstrations, when each will occur, what will be
demonstrated and where. As always, lunch is provided by the Club free of charge
and will be subs from Primo’s.
One of the goals this year was to insure that you are provided with a variety of
topics and issues. With your help, and a willingness of some of our members to
demonstrate, Mark Wollschlager, our Program Director, has been able to put
together a program that will insure you are able to find something
of interest for every time slot.
Since we are holding our symposium, we will hold only a short business meeting
and will not have the usual activities such as Show and Tell, Raffle, Silent
Auction or video library; however, the raffle will be held as normal.
| Class room (where we hold the meetings) | Workshop | Back room (where we have the show-n-tell) | |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Inside Out Turning Steve Schwartz |
Spindle Duplication and Rosettes Tom Boley |
Wood Identification Ed Karch |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Box Turning Don Johnson |
Chainsaw Demonstration Frank Stepanski |
Carving Eagle Heads Pete Ward |
| CAW provided lunch | Sub sandwiches from Primo's | Chips & Pop | |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Natural Edge
Tom Boley |
Hands on Bowl Turning | Sharpening
Dale Long |
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Program for the month:
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 - Gerry Headley demonstrates pen making. Discusses tools, supplies, and selling.
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 - Dean Swagert.
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 - Hands on Bowl Turning.
This month’s session will not be a demonstration but rather it will be a
hands -on session. This session is geared to those who don’t have the
opportunity to attend Skill Enhancement Workshops due to scheduling
conflicts—you know, like work. Even though this month’s meeting has in mind the
person who doesn’t attend Skill Enhancement Workshops, it is open to everyone
and everyone is encouraged to participate. There should be plenty of lathes
available throughout the day. During the session you can turn a bowl of your
choosing. We don't expect you to produce finished work, the goal is to make
shavings and give everyone a chance to turn if they wish.
One of the benefits of this type of hands-on session is that several of our
experienced turners will be there for you to ask questions, overcome issues as
you turn, and help in refining your technique and skills. Another advantage is
that when you are not turning, you will be able to observe other turners and see
how they overcome the impediments they encounter. You will be able to discuss
their techniques and understand how you can improve your turning. All you need
to bring is tools, some wood (we will have a few blanks, some green, some dry)
but if you want to insure you have what you want, bring what you need. Also,
bring your enthusiasm for being a better
turner or observer. The shop at Bryant has turning tools, but bring your own if
you wish.
Your favorite bowl gouge shouldn't spend the day home alone. If you have a bowl blank, or a roughed out bowl waiting to be re-turned, bring them. All we ask is that regardless of what you bring, it is no more than 7" to 9". We will be able to help process some raw wood to blanks but due to time constraints we would rather everyone be turning.
One piece of business: Since we need to continue to make sure everyone stays
safe without any liability issues, you need to be an AAW member to do any
turning or use the band saw or any other tools. Look forward to seeing you there
in front of one of the lathes. If you would like to volunteer as an
instructor/helper please contact me, Mark, at
markwoll@his.com or call me at 703-329-6305.