I started woodturning in 1986 after witnessing a few turners demonstrating at the Bellevue Craft show. The first five years was just a compulsive effort trying to learn tools, sharpening, design, etc.; starting with bowls,, then hollow forms, then boxes, and a variety of other shapes and disciplines. Along the …
The Northeast Florida Woodturners Association (Jaxturners) have posted videos of their latest meeting demonstration. In this demonstration Bob Hunt starts with a discussion of turning safety, sandpaper and techniques for sanding deep hollow forms. Here is the first of the four videos. You can see them all on the Jaxturners …
[note]This message was sent by AAW Board Member Stan Wellborn[/note] Working Without a Rule Book At a regional symposium a couple of years ago, I watched a wonderful demo by Mark Gardner, a talented young turner in North Carolina. At one point, he performed a chucking technique that was inventive …
[note]This message was sent by the Northwest Washington Woodturners.[/note] Northwest Washington Woodturners is pleased to announce A DAY WITH DOUGLAS FISHER on October 22 in Anacortes, WA. We invite you to join us and share in this informative day. Douglas will be discussing and demonstrating the details of how he …
The SPSW is going to participate in this year’s Garfield Street Fair in Parkland. We are in desperate need of people to help. We will be turning pens at this event. If you have any spare time on August 20th we can use your help. We also need help with …
SPSW Membership Chairman Jarred Hoffpauir provides this report on new members: New members in June are as follows Brian Bassett from Puyallup Lisle Young from Buckley Greg Dunn from Gig Harbor Jim Powers from Gig Harbor Additionally in July Mr. Larry Rydberg is officially the first person to pay his …
