Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

June 2005

Our president, Dave Jones presided over the meeting.

There were about 23 persons present. Visitors were Willard "Buck" Brown, Fred Esker, and Dennie and Mona Ashby.

We understand that TK is back in the hospital. Paul Payne is still making slow improvement.

• There is $1488 in the treasury.

• Arts and Crafts Fair: Dave Jones and Tom Schottle will be co-managing our booth this year. We still need shelving, and names of participants and helpers.

• The picnic in August is scheduled for the first Saturday of the month.

Mike Wade brought in bowls from the branch wood from a Rain Tree.
Jerry Smith wore a very nice hat he had turned from Cherry.
Dave Jones brought in two attractive bowls from Bradford Pear.
Tom Schottle brought in a couple of really nice Mini stools,
	and a neat square natural edged Walnut bowl.
Delbert McCartney showed us a couple of his wonderful segmented turnings. One was an attractive platter,
	and the other one of his famous lidded dishes.

Irene Grafer gave an interesting demonstration
	directed toward the decoration of turned items ("surface enhancement"). She did not do any turning, but jumped right into the subject of decorating.
Some techniques demonstrated were: metal leafing, painting, pyrography, ebonizing, and torch-blackening.

She started out with a slide show. Handouts were available.

Here are some samples of her work.

This one was a platter she was working on for the demonstration - a work in progress.

To see some more of her beautiful work, check out her website at www.woodturndeco.com/index.html.

• Bob Fleming brought in a bunch of tools for sale at 25 cents each. The proceeds went to our treasury.

• Alan Leeland, last month’s demonstrator, donated one of his fine mini stools, which Bob Fleming auctioned off. This brought in $50 to our treasury.

• Carl Mercer brought in new videotape to be evaluated for our library.

• Tom Schottle says there is some logging being done near him, and short-cuts are available.

• Joe Smith had some Holly to give away.

• According to Bob Fleming, Alan Nesselrotte’s wife is looking for a buyer for his Oliver lathe. For information contact her in Dunbar at 768-1321. We don’t know anything about the condition of this Oliver, but knowing Alan’s talent with machinery, I expect this lathe runs just great! A real deal!

• Craft Supplies presently has a deal where you can get a sanding disk holder with purchase of more than $75 worth of sanding disks if you mention Mountaineer Woodturners when placing an order. They also have a discounted price on Mahoney’s Finishes. Contact Dave Jones about this.

• Check out the Georgia Woodturning Symposium. Their website is http://www.gawoodturner.com/symposium.php.

• Don’t forget the 19yh annual national AAW Symposium in Kansas City on July 22 – 24, 2005.

The Newsletter will be sent by email to those members who have given me their email address. Those who do not have email addresses listed with me will receive the usual hardcopy newsletter by US snailmail. Any others who wish a newsletter by mail should let me know.

This email contains links to pictures of the "Show and Tell" items. The Newsletter with pictures is also available on the website.

Instead of trying to add photos of all the show and tell items to the members’ gallery, I will rely on photos sent in by the members. So please send me pictures of your work so that I can add it to the gallery.

Jim Smith, Secretary,

Phone: 304-342-1755

e-Mail: mountain@mountaineerwoodturners.com

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