Our featured demonstrator is Andy Firpo. Andy will be giving a presentation on shop safety. While this sounds like a dry subject, remember it is a subject we usually only want to talk about after the fact. When you look down and see blood all over that beautiful piece of spalted wood, it is too late to think about safety. We are all better off when we keep the subject of safety in the forefront.
AAW Regional News
Note – This is an AAW Regional News message.
The Great Falls Woodturners invites you to join us at our 2013 Symposium featuring Mike Mahoney September 21 – 22, 2013.
Symposium Details and Contact Info
Where:
College of Great Falls, MSU
2100 16th Av S
Great Falls, MT 59405
When:
Saturday – September 21, 2013, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
To
Sunday – September 22, 2013, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Symposium Info Available at:
www.gfturners.org
Additional Info:
If you have any questions about our symposium please contact:
Barry Rockwell
Symposium Chairman
Great Falls Woodturners
barryrockwell@aol.com
Yellowstone Woodturners Symposium 8
Note – The following was sent as a Regional Chapter News from the AAW
If you are looking for a symposium in Montana… September is the month – We would love to have you come.
Featuring: Rex Burningham
When: September 28-29, 2013 (Saturday and Sunday)
Subject: Rex Burningham’s two day demonstration will introduce turners to “Carbide Tools, How to Select and Use Them” and “Wood Turned Wall Hangings” and “The Finer Points of Bowl Turning.”
Where: Roaring 20’s Auto Club clubhouse, 7400 Grand Avenue, Billings, Montana
Cost: $95.00 or…. $80.00 if paid before September 11
Registration form available at yellowstoneturners.org
Sessions:
Saturday, September 28
- 9:00 Session One
- 12:00 Lunch provided
- 1:00 Session Two
Sunday, September 29
- 9:00 Session Three
- 12:00 Lunch provided
- 1:00 Session Four
The program would not be complete without lots of additional fun things going on, prizes … and a silent auction for you to bid on all kinds of shop and turning items… and wood.
Turners are learners,
Richard Vande Veegaete
drvan@bresnan.net
President, Yellowstone Woodturners
July Demonstrator – Bob Espen
Bob 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.