Mountaineer Woodturner Jan Newsletter

Our president, Joe Smith presided over the meeting.

We wish to thank the widow of Dick Boeger, a former member of our group, who was very kind to donate some of Dick’s woodworking books to the library. In addition she put up some of his turning tools for sale at a very nominal price for members.

We were glad to see Bill Morris back with a new knee.

There were about 32 persons present.

NEXT MEETING

April 11, 2009 at 10:00am

Tom Schottle - Discussion on Sharpening

Cedar Lakes

Business

E.J. reported that there is $3181 in the treasury.

On June 13^th we will have a meeting together with the Athens, OH, group to be held at Woodcraft in Parkersburg.

The Athens group usually holds their meetings on the 1^st or 2^nd Sunday of the month.

The Lewisburg, WV, group has proposed a joint membership. This will be discussed further at a later date. This group has their meetings on the 4^th Saturday of the month.

The Mountain State Art and Crafts Fair (Cedar Lakes) will be only 3 days this year: Thursday, July 2^nd – Saturday, July 4^th.

Do not forget the Cincinnati Group’s Symposium, "Turning 2009".on October 16-18. They are accepting registrations, and vacancies are filling fast.

DUES ARE OVER DUE

E.J. is collecting dues for 2009.

Dues are $20 for the year

Show and Tell

Click on picture for larger image

Tom Schottle – A beautifully figured Walnut platter.
	A nice Walnut bowl.
Bill Morris & Tom Schottle- Some nice footed boxes A footed bowl from Holly with Cocabola, and some other footed bowls/boxes, but I am not sure which were Tom’s, and which belonged to Bill Morris. Sorry guys.



Dave Jones - A really nice large spaulted Walnut natural edge bowl.
	A Magnolia vase.
A hollowform from Plum.
	An attractive bowl from "Red Bay".
Byron Young – A beautiful Maple hollowform with nice figuring.
	A couple of attractive segmented turnings from Cherry, Walnut, and Beech veneer. One was a hollowform
and the other a lidded vessel.
Jim Morrison - Several nice toothpick holders from Walnut, Lilac, and Walnut burl.

And a wonderful purple platter.
Jerry Smith – A couple of nice large vases. At least one was from Gum.

There were also some nice pens turned by one of our visitors. We did not catch his name. I am sorry about that.

2009 Schedule Update

April	Tom Schottle will lead a group discussion on Sharpening
May	Group discussion To Be Announced and Tom Schottle will give a recap of Mike Mahoney's classes
June	June Group meeting with the Athens club at Woodcraft
July	Mountain State Arts & Craft Fair
August	Annual Picnic

Program

In the morning Jim Morrison showed us how to use the Ring cutter system (from mleadbeatter@trinity.nsw.edu.au)


to make interesting segmented platters and bowls.
After lunch Tom Schottle There is a handout by Tom on Footed Boxes
and Bill Morris demonstrated how to turn Footed Boxes.

Next Month’s Meeting

Tom Schottle will lead a group discussion on Sharpening

Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter