TCW Newsletter 2013 08 - Treasure Coast Woodturners

An Affiliate Chapter of the American Association of Woodturners
Newsletter of the Treasure Coast Woodturning Guild
August 2013
In this issue:
L e t t e r f ro m t h e P re s i d e n t
 Presidents Letter
Hi Gang,
 Meeting Minutes Aug
Well last months shop day was a little different, we had three venues for you all to take advantage of, Bob Haarer with the photography, Dick
Wetmiller with a great demo of turning off set letter openers, and I made a
streptohedron similar to the one pictured on the cover of the August American Woodturner. If you didn't find something of interest in that lash-up you
need to make suggestions of what you want this month. We had a good
wood raffle and I think everyone went home with something that hopefully
will inspire a new and great turning. Much thanks to those of you that assisted that day.
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 Show and Tell
 Future Events
 Woodturning articles
 Saturday at Jack’s
 Officers/Contact
People
We have some Florida maple, more mahogany and of course rosewood and a few other interesting woods to raffle off this month so save up
and you may get lucky.
I don't have a video or program planned for Tuesday night but I am
sure Thom or Reed will bring something, We need a project to demo for
the Shop day at my house Saturday the 21st. Perhaps a pepper grindWe meet the 3rd Tues- er,wine glass stem or something that our new people can accomplish on
smaller lathes. I can go over sharpening your tools and re profile any tools
day of every month at that need work. We are open for suggestions so think about it. I would like
IRSC Tech Campus at
to try and have at least two demos to chose from on Saturday.
Tedder Rd, Ft Pierce
Check out our web site it is improving at a rapid pace, also our
newsletter
is going places so much thanks to Thom and Steve for their
Next meeting, Tuesday
work. Also Bob and Suzanne for our photos and descriptions. I will see you
all Tuesday the 16th at the regular meeting.
Sept 16, 2013
Meeting Saturday Sept
21 for wood auction
It is cooling off a little so get out there in the shop and turn,turn,turn.
and tutorial instruction
Jack
Treasure Coast Woodturners Guild
August 20, 2013
Sick Call: Jack Nutbrown’s wife, Barbara is very ill. Jim Pruitt had 2 more vertebra fused in his back. Bob
Sande has throat/esophagus cancer.
Treasurer’s Report - $2,915.02
Joe Montagnino had brought in a lot of Woodturner magazines for members to share. If you find you do
not need them any longer, please bring them to meetings to let others borrow them. Our own versions of
a lending library.
Oct. 11 will be the A.E. Backus Gallery 4 county juried show. Stop by the gallery and pick up info to submit
piece for judging.
Nov. 23-24 will be the Heathcote Botanical Gardens (HBG) Fall Festival and Jack has already secured a
booth for us to turn and for sales. Jack also told us that the monies we donated to Heathcote have helped
them out of their financial dilemma which will allow them to keep functioning. Jack said he had received a
nice thank you for our $500 donation.
Saturday at Jack’s will be this coming Saturday 9-Noon. Jack will do a demo on offset turning, Dick Wetmiller will demo a letter opener using an offset method, and Bob Haarer will demo photography techniques
for your turnings. We will also have a wood raffle with Avocado (from HBG), Mahogany, mystery wood
(stable, close grain, joy to turn), Acacia, and Rosewood.
Steve Estabrooks is responsible for the great new Newsletter and getting it out to the membership, and
Thom Sturgill is continuing to develop our website. Thom show us the website he has been working on
and showed us how members can utilize it, have their own gallery, sites of interest, other clubs in FL with
links to their websites, etc. Thom is doing an excellent job in making our website easily accessible to all
members and a source of our continuing education.
Jack has asked for members to volunteer to demonstrate their techniques at our “Saturday at Jack’s” and/
or to suggest demos they would like to see.
Show & Tell
Jack Shelton – Mystery wood 6 leg vase, Rosewood 3 leg natural edge vase.
Howard Nielsen – Norfolk Island Pine wine glass, 2 Rosewood vases.
Chuck Johansen – Camphor Burl Vase, tall Mahogany vase.
Tom Cross – Ear Leaf Acacia flared bowl, Lysiloma Sabicu bowl.
Fred Davis –large Rosewood bowl, small Rosewood bowl (end-grain), Mahogany natural edge nut bowl.
Dennis Acker – Camphor wood natural edge bowl, small Bay bowl.
Richard Wetmiller – Rosewood natural edge bowl, Rosewood paper towel holder, Olive wood pen.
Steve Estabrooks – Rosewood vase, small Cherry Burl vase.
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August 2013 Show and Tell
Howard Nielsen – Norfolk Island
Pine wine glass
Jack Shelton – Mystery wood 6 legged
vase,
Jack Shelton—Rosewood 3 leg natural edge vase
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August 2013 Show and Tell
Howard Nielsen – 2 Rosewood Vases
Chuck Johansen – Camphor Burl Vase
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Chuck Johansen – Mahogany vase.
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August 2013 Show and Tell
Tom Cross – Ear Leaf Acacia flared bowl
Fred Davis –Small Rosewood bowl (end-grain),
Tom Cross – Lysiloma Sabicu bowl.
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August 2013 Show and Tell
Dennis Acker – Small Bay bowl.
Fred Davis – Mahogany natural edge nut
bowl
Fred Davis –large Rosewood bowl
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August 2013 Show and Tell
Dennis Acker – Camphor wood natural edge bowl,
Richard Wetmiller – Rosewood natural edge
bowl,
Richard Wetmiller – Olive
wood pen.
Richard Wetmiller – Rosewood paper
towel holder
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August 2013 Show and Tell
Steve Estabrooks— Rosewood Vase
Steve Estabrooks— Small Cherry Burl Vase
Safety
An accident at the lathe can happen with blinding suddenness; respiratory and other
problems can build over years.
Take appropriate cautions when you turn. Safety guidelines are published
online. Following them will help you continue to enjoy woodturning
Safety guidelines are published online
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Saturday at Jacks
As Jack mentioned in his Presidents Letter, last months shop day was very insightful.You may
have noticed an improvement in our Show and Tell photos. We have a new backdrop and
lighting which makes a dramatic improvement to show our work. Additionally Bob had a
great demo where he explained the importance of lighting and background and many other
aspects of photography.
Jack demonstrated a turning a streptohedron as shown in August 2013 AAW magazine, (page
42) Also Capt. Eddie Castelin has a video for a similar project. I have attached the link at the
end of the newsletter.
Richard Wetmiller demonstrated some offset turning techniques and turned a letter opener.
In case you missed it there is a link to a YouTube video showing a similar demonstration.
Richard Wetmiller demonstrating offset turning
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North Carolina Woodturning Symposium
Events in July
Biennial Regional Symposium
TCWG Monthly Meeting
November 1st - 3rd, 2013 Greensboro, NC
Tuesday Aug 20, 2013
www.northcarolinawoodturning.com
Turning Southern Style XIX
Woodturning Symposium
You may find these useful:
Friday September 20, 2013 at 1:00 PM EDT
-toSunday September 22, 2013 at 1:00 PM EDT
Capt Eddie Castelin Femesphere
Northwest Georgia Trade and Convention
Center
2211 Dug Gap Battle Road
Dalton, GA 30720
Offset Turned Letter Opener
Turning Southern Style
OFFICE
TCWG ELECTED OFFICERS
NAME
CONTACT INFO
President
1st Vice President
2nd Vice President
Secretary
Jack Shelton
[email protected]
Paul Struve
[email protected]
Thom Sturgill
[email protected]
Suzanne Jensen
[email protected]
Treasurer
Lu Dial
[email protected]
Board - At Large Bob Ashley
Board - At Large Chuck Johansen
Please welcome our new
members Ray Carr from
Okeechobee and Ed
Maciag from Pt. St. Lucie.
Board - At Large Jack Nutbrown
Board - At Large Jim Pruitt
APPOINTED OFFICERS
Librarian
Read Johnson
[email protected]
Event Coordinator
Linda Dorough
[email protected]
Webmaster
Thom Sturgill
[email protected]
Newsletter
Steve Estabrooks
[email protected]
Information
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