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VOLUME 4
ISSUE 3!
NOVEMBER 6, 2013
Mid Minnesota Association of Woodturners
‘Shavings’
Providing an environment of interest and activities dedicated to the enjoyment of wood turning activities
and to promote woodturning to the local community through education and charitable events.
From The President
Reflect, as defined by Webster, has seven different meanings
with several references to the meaning of each. Some deal with
light as it deflects off a mirror and sound as it bounces off water
causing ripples to occur. One of the other meanings of reflect
that one cannot see or hear is soul, heart or mind. For me, over
the last twelve months my family and I have been blessed with
good health. As far as the club is concerned, we have been
blessed as well. The MMAW was well represented at the wood
Expo, Empty Bowls and at Art Crawls. We had our first gallery
event, Beneath the Bark, held in Studio C with all three
woodworking clubs participating. Liam O’Neil of Ireland demonstrated how he
turns a bowl. This was the first time the MMAW has had a professional turner
demonstrate locally, hopefully not the last. All of the above mentioned items just
didn’t happen by themselves, they took time and effort by many different club
members. So in many ways looking back is looking ahead.
November 9
The MMAW April Membership Meeting
will be held at the Visual Arts Center
(VAC) in the lower level of the
Paramount Theatre, Downtown St.
Cloud.
The meeting starts at 9:30 AM.
Please bring anything you have
turned, a bowl or other creation to
share with the membership.
Dues must be paid by Saturday Nov. 9
in order to remain a MMAW member
and to continue receiving club e-mails.
This year we are on our way to having a fairly good start on on the Empty Bowls
event. Approximately 90 blanks have been cut and about 30 rough turned but we
still need many more bowls. Place of Hope (recipient) and Calvary Church, who are
hosting the Empty Bowls event, have asked us to think about doing some sort of
demo the day of their big event. The Art Crawl November 8th from 5pm to 9pm is
just ahead and is an opportunity for you to showcase your work at the Paramount.
See you on the 9th providing you aren’t in a tree stand.
Jerry Wervey
MMAW President
Reminders
Beneath the Bark was a huge success. Thank you to all the members who
participated by showing their work as well as visiting the show. The exhibit ran
through Saturday November 2nd. Those of you who had pieces in the show should
have picked them up on Monday November 4th or Tuesday November 5th. If you
didn’t pick them up on one of these dates, please contact Derick Segerstrom
at [email protected] or (320) 257-5928 . Make arrangements with Derick
to pick them up.
On Wednesday November 6th we’ll be roughing out for Empty Bowls at the
Paramount from 10:00 till 2:00. Bring your own tools and let’s make some fun! This
may be the last opportunity for this year.
Don’t forget The next Art Crawl is Friday November 8th, 2013 from 5-9pm.
Dues are due! Renew your membership by Nov.9 so you can remain on our
email distribution list.
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Membership Meeting Notes from October 12, 2013
1. John Caye reported on the Beneath the Bark event and encouraged members to check it out.
2. Gary Mrozek reported that Liam O’Neill might be coming back next summer for another presentation and/or a
hands on activity. He is also working on getting Michael Hasaluk to do a demonstration for the club.
3. Roxanne has added a couple of new books to the library.
4. Jerry discussed:
A.
Doing a collaborative project for the AAW summer symposium. It would involve 6 or more people.
B.
C.
The topic is Rising Phoenix. If interested contact Jerry Wervey.
Jerry had a demo planned but was unable to get it to work. If anyone is interested in trying to make a
helix please contact Jerry.
Would the club be interested in making a chess set to be donated to some charity or organization as a
fundraiser for them? If interested, let Jerry know. We will discuss it again at the next meeting.
5. A club member (I wasn’t there so don’t know who it was) demonstrated a super glue. Roxane has the address and
information about it.
6. There will be a club order from Craft Supply at the next club meeting. Bill Becker is organizing it. There will be
13% off if $1000.00 of product is ordered. Bring your orders and a check to the November meeting if you are
going to order.
7. There was a brief discussion of the picture directory. It is coming soon.
8. Show and Tell. (I did not get all names)
9.
-Red elm bowl
-Aspen/poplar/elm? Natural edge bowl
-Zebra wood box
-Maple burl/spalted maple bowl.
-Ken Peterson made a Big Leaf Maple bowl from the blank he won at the last meeting. He also had
some refrigerator magnets made from scraps. His magnets came from amazing magnets.com
-Eddie Oche had several ideas for using magnets and had extra magnets to share.
-Alan Sias had a silver maple bowl cut in May or June and he let it lay and it was spalted. He had
another bowl he embellished.
-Bud had 2 hats he made. One white ash and one maple.
-Les Sova had 3 bowls: a red cedar with inlay, a white oak with turquoise and a maple burl bowl.
-Jerry had a cherry bowl.
-Les won the gift certificate for show and tell participation. Thanks to all who shared their
creations.
Alan Sias won the 50/50 $28.00
10. Denny Myers, John Caye, and Gary Mrozek did a bowl turning demo to set the stage for turning Empty Bowls‘
blanks after the meeting. Thanks to our demonstrators.
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Show and Tell & Demo
On Tuesday October 29th, Jerry Wervey, Dick
Lundstrom, Cliff Borgerding, Bill Langen, and Guy
Schafer harvested and prepped approximately 60
oak and birch bowl blanks ready to rough-out for
our Empty Bowls contribution. Thanks guys!
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Woodturning News
If you subscribe to Woodturning
Design, in the latest issue, December
2013, Dale Nish’s last article has been
published. Dale passed away
unexpectedly last May in Provo, Utah.
He was a respected turner and teacher.
He taught wood turning at Brigham
Young University for 28 years.
SB Tools (Stuart Batty Tools) are no longer being
sold by Woodturners Catalog (Craft Supply USA)
but Stuart Batty is recommending people
interested in purchasing his tools keep in contact
with Woodworkers Emporium in Las Vegas, NV.
They will be carrying all his tools as they are
released. He also acknowledges they are behind in
releasing the various tools but Woodworkers
Emporium takes preorders as each tool nears
release.
http://www.woodworkersemporium.com
Some informative videos are available on Stuart Batty’s tool site. He has several short videos for view
at:http://woodturning.org Look under education. There are 28 videos, many listed as fundamental. Most
are between 3 minutes and 15 minutes. While on his site, you may like to look at his tool catalog. All the
new SB Tool line is in the catalog and he has some articles related to scraping and negative rake scrapers/
scraping. Might be worth your time to take a look.
MMAW Board of Directors
Happy Thanksgiving from your
MMAW Board of Directors
Jerry Wervey – President
John Caye– Vice President
Guy Schafer – Secretary
Lyle Knopp- Treasurer
Alan Sias – Past President
Roxanne Wyatt – Member at large
Gary Mrozek – Member at large
“Shavings” is a publication of the Mid Minnesota Association of Woodturners, PO Box 227, Sartell, MN 56377
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