South Puget Sound Woodturners

October Membership Meeting

This month is the last of this year’s Mini-Symposiums. These have proven to be extremely popular events. This is the time to learn some of the techniques which you have been wondering about. As always, we will have several demonstrations set up around the room. You are welcome to attend one or all. Now is your chance to get up close and question the demonstrator.

Please don’t forget that at every Mini-Symposium Andy Firpo has a safety exhibit. As woodturners we do not only use lathes. Band saws and chainsaws are also basic tools of the woodturner. If you are a segmented turner you also use table saws, miter saws, jointers and planers. Safety should always be your number one concern, so stop by and see Andy.

This month’s demonstrators are:

Jack Wayne – Goblets

Roy Lane – Large hollowing

Warren Swift – Yo-yo’s

Jeff Schultz – Small hollowing

Stephanie Lane – Woodburning

Eric Lofstrom – Turning beads with the skew

Dave Schweitzer – Sharpening with a diamond wheel

Andy Firpo – SAFETY

Craig Chatterton – Pen and pen design

If you have tools you would like sharpened, bring them with you. Dave enjoys demonstrating sharpening with dull tools and he would much rather take metal off your dull tools than to continue taking metal off his already sharp tools.

Tim S October 17, 2011 October 17, 2011 Membership Meeting / symposiums

Bottle Stoppers

The Northeast Florida Woodturners Association (Jaxturners) have posted videos of their latest meeting demonstration. In this demonstration from the September meeting, Scott Layman and Chuck Molnar demonstrate turning bottle stoppers.

Here is the first of the four videos. You can see them all on the Jaxturners YouTube Channel.

Tim S October 14, 2011 June 26, 2019 AAW / demonstrator / video

Symposium Highlights

If you were unable to attend this year’s AAW Symposium you can still see some of the highlights. The AAW has a webpage that you will want to visit at http://woodturner.org/highlights/.

SPSW members, I want to encourage you to check out the AAW Chapter Collaborative Winners link. The SPSW Board of Directors would like our club to submit an entry into the 2012 Chapter Collaborative. Board Member Wally Haugan is coordinating this effort for us. You can read more on this prior post.

Tim S October 13, 2011 October 4, 2011 AAW / Membership / symposiums

Spear Point Scraper

While perusing back issues of the SPSW newsletter, the Chips & Shavings, I came upon a great tutorial written by SPSW Vice-President Eric Lofstrom on the proper use of the Spear Point Scraper.

“Do your drool over fine curves? Are you sanding out ridges & transitions in your Turnings?

Many turners have difficulty blending curves together, so they resort to sandpaper to refine their form. Sanding takes care of the problem, but also creates some of its own….. When I need to finesse a curve, my spear-point scraper can help smooth the shape.”

You can read Eric’s tutorial in the January 2011 Chips & Shavings.

Tim S October 10, 2011 March 21, 2012 newsletter / techniques / tools

Reminder: AAW Board Election

This is a friendly reminder for members of the AAW that your vote for the Board of Directors must be postmarked no later than October 21st, 2011. You can vote with the ballot included in the August American Woodturner magazine, or you can vote online. Candidate information is available at woodturner.org/BoardVote.

Tim S October 6, 2011 October 4, 2011 AAW / Membership

3rd Annual Honolulu Woodturners Symposium

Looking for a warm, exotic location to go to for a woodturning symposium? The Honolulu Woodturners are holding their 3rd annual symposium on October 22nd and 23rd with featured demonstrators Kelly Dunn and Sharon Doughtie.

Kelly Dunn is a full time professional woodturner who lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and specializes in woods grown on the Big Island to create bowls, hollow vessels and art forms. You can see his work at his website http://www.kellydunnwoodturner.com/.

Sharon Doughtie is a full time professional woodturner whose current work incorporates designs based on freeform Celtic knots and explores how the curving, undulating patterns can cross cultures, look like something from nature or illustrate an emotion. Sharon has works in several public and private collections, has demonstrated in the U.S., New Zealand and Australia and has appeared in American Woodturner and Woodturning magazines. You can see more on her website http://www.sharondoughtie.com.