What’s Happening at Other Chapters

The Northwest Woodturners in Beaverton, Oregon are meeting July 2nd. Mike Meredith from Doctor’s Woodshop will be discussion finishing. Also, they have redone their website. Take a look at https://nwwt.wildapricot.org/

The Inland Northwest Woodturners in Spokane Valley are meeting on July 2nd. Frank Hutchison will demonstrate making a turned box.

The Southwest Idaho Woodturners in Boise, ID are meeting on July 29th. Gary Smith will be presenting a beginning woodturners demo

The Fraser Valley Woodturners in Abbotsford, B.C. are taking the summer off. Their next meeting will be in September.

The Seattle Woodturners are meeting on July 9th. This will be their multi-mini demos meeting.

The Willamette Valley Woodturners in Salem, Oregon will be meeting on July 9th. Alan Stratton will be demonstrating a segmented bowl.

The Island Woodturners Guild on Vancouver Island are taking their summer break. They will meet again on September 26th.

The Cascade Woodturners in Portland, OR will be meeting on July 16th. Dan Tilden will be the demonstrator.

The Northwest Washington Woodturners in Mt. Vernon are meeting on July 16th. Eric Lofstrom will be demonstrating triple-axis turning. Eric will also be conducting skew mastering class on the 17th and a square-rimmed bowl class on the 18th.

The Olympic Peninsula Woodturners are meeting next on July 29th. Art Liestman will be the demonstrator.

The Woodturners of Olympia are meeting are holding their annual Creativity in Woodturning symposium on July 25th featuring Richard Raffan.

The Beaver State Woodturners in Eugene, Oregon are meeting on July 30th. The program for the evening has not yet been announced.

The Southwest Washington Woodturners in Vancouver, WA will be meeting on July 22nd. Sara Robinson, Assistant Professor in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, will be discussing spalting wood.

The Greater Vancouver Woodturners Guild in Vancouver, B.C. is meeting taking their summer break. They will meet again in September.

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June Demonstrator – Bob Espen

Bob EspenBob Espen lived in Anchorage, AK.for 23 years. While there he helped found the Alaska Creative Woodworkers Association and the Alaska Chapter of the AAW. He participated in several juried art shows at the Anchorage Museum of Fine Arts,The Portland Rose Festival, and Beneath the Bark in Provo Utah. He has done demos in Bremerton, Olympia, Seattle, Portland, Salem and Eugene,as well as The AAW in Tacoma and Portland. has been turning for over 20 years and does a variety of things, bowls,rolling pins, oil lamps. wall hangings, boxes and other things. Bob has demonstrated for us in the past and it has always been an enjoyable evening.

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What’s Happening at Other Chapters

The Northwest Woodturners in Beaverton, Oregon are meeting June 4th. Michael Ferreira will be demonstrating how he creates his unique color finishes.

The Inland Northwest Woodturners in Spokane Valley are meeting on June 4th. The program for the evening has not yet been announced.

The Southwest Idaho Woodturners in Boise, ID are meeting next on June 9th. Frank Lench and Wayne Rexford will be demonstrating long, thin and intricate finials.

The Fraser Valley Woodturners in Abbotsford, B.C. will be meeting on June 11th. The program for the evening has not yet been announced.

The Seattle Woodturners are meeting on June 11th. Jon Magill will be discussing rose engine decoration.

The Willamette Valley Woodturners in Salem, Oregon will be meeting on June 11th. Soren Berger will be discussing tool development.

The Island Woodturners Guild on Vancouver Island are next meeting June 17th. Lin Bayford will be doing a presentation on advanced use of a pressure chamber for doing wood stabilization and other things.

The Cascade Woodturners in Portland, OR will be meeting on June 18th. Soren Berger will be demonstrating. Soren will also be conducting an all-day demonstration on the 19th and a hands on class on the 20th.

The Northwest Washington Woodturners in Mt. Vernon are meeting on June 18th. Rick Anderson will be demonstrating peppermill turning.

The Olympic Peninsula Woodturners are meeting next on June 24th. Eric Lofstrom will be demonstrating square bowls.

The Woodturners of Olympia are meeting on June 25th. The program for the evening has not yet been announced.

The Beaver State Woodturners in Eugene, Oregon are meeting on June 25th. The program for the evening has not yet been announced.

The Southwest Washington Woodturners in Vancouver, WA will be meeting on June 24th. The club will be holding their annual wood auction.

The Greater Vancouver Woodturners Guild in Vancouver, B.C. is meeting on June 24th. The program for the evening has not yet been announced.

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May Demonstrator – Glenn Schaffer

Picture2Glenn Schaffer is the Police Chief of Chehalis. He is also a respected member of the Woodturners of Olympia,and an artist in his own right. Glenn will be doing a presentation on natural edge vessels and vases.

Glenn moved to Washington a little over eight years ago, from Aspen, Colorado. He started woodturning roughly six years ago and has been on the board of directors for the Woodturners of Olympia since 2012. He states that “My woodturning interests are ever changing and I rarely duplicate the same project for very long, which is what keeps this hobby fascinating for me.”

Glenn’s artistic and creative abilities have to be seen in order to be believed, and you can see a lot of his work on his web page at http://www.glennschaffer.com/. It is hard to believe that he has only been turning for six years. Browsing through his gallery, a person wonders where all of his ideas came from.

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Seattle Chapter Special Workshop

Attention woodturners!!

On April 25th, you will have the opportunity to participate in a workshop led by Guilio Marcolongo, a well-known Australian demonstrator and master turner. He presented a well-regarded demonstration for our club last June, enjoyed by those who attended. He is in the area on his way to demonstrate at the Provo Symposium in May.

The workshop project will be a dog bowl “transformed.” The photo below shows the piece.

The workshop will start at 9:30 am AJ Mearns’ shop in Bothell. The fee will be $100. Please email David Lutrick if you want to participate, or call David at 425-557-9571.

Guilio Marcolongo dog bowl

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April – 50 Nifty Shop Tips

Bring a pen and a pad of paper to the April meeting and be prepared to take lots of notes.

Four members of the Olympic Peninsula Woodturners Club will be presenting Fifty Nifty Shop Tips, a collection of wonderful ideas for woodworkers. It promises to be an evening filled with tons of useful information.

This is a concept that began with an internet thread that has gone semi-viral, with contributions from dozens of veteran woodturners from throughout the United States, Canada, and England.

About two years ago Russell Neyman posted several tips on the SawmillCreek.org Woodturners Forum, and other craftspeople jumped on board to create one of the website’s most popular features. Over 30-thousand people have viewed it.

The team of presenters will be sharing the best of these and adding their own, with visual aids and “live” examples of most of the concepts. Actually, there will undoubtedly be more than 50 tips.

One aspect of this coming meeting is audience participation as SPSW members are encouraged to bring their own ideas and share them with the group.

Subjects are wide-ranging and include everything from abrasives to ziplock bags.

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