Mountaineer Woodturners Newsletter

October 2010

Our president, Joe Smith presided over the meeting.

We had two visitors, Bud Collison of Elkview and Manfred Felberdaver of Marietta.

1) Our treasurer was not present, so we did not have a treasurer’s report.

Thus far the nominating committee has come up with a partial slate of officers for 2011, which is;

Byron Young - - President

John Sheets - - Vice President

Bill Sands - - Secretary

A candidate for Treasurer is still open. The election will be held at the November meeting.

3) Joe Smith requested that the club purchase a small lathe, which could be set-up as handicap useable. Joe offered to construct an appropriate stand. The request to purchase the lathe with club funds was moved, seconded, and passed unanimously.

4) John Sheets brought to our attention that the American Association of Woodturners will celebrate its 25-year anniversary in 2011 at the St. Paul symposium. At that symposium there will be an exhibition, Turning 25 – A Celebration. Each chapter of the AAW is encouraged to enter a lathe-turned work that represents that chapter.

Some of the Guidelines are:

• One entry per AAW Local Chapter
• Dimensions must be 8" x 8" x 8" or less
• Work must require no assembly to display
• Weight limit is 3 pounds
• Entry fee is $40.
• Entry deadline is February 28, 2011
• All entered work must be for sale

It was moved, seconded, and passed unanimously to put John Sheets in charge of this project including setting up a jury to select the one piece to represent our chapter.

5) Bill Sands told us about the Turning for the Troops project.

The Parkersburg Woodcraft store is encouraging every turner to "turn for the troops." Woodcraft will donate slim-line pen kits to those who will make pens and deliver them to the Woodcraft store in Parkersburg. The pens will be packaged separately with a note from the turner. The turners may include their name, location, and a brief message with their pens. Woodcraft will provide the pen kits, notepaper, and individual bags for the pens. They will collect the pens and insure that they are delivered and distributed to the men and women serving in the Middle East.

Anyone who wishes to participate, may stop at the Woodcraft store for supplies, turn the pens and return them to the store by Friday, November 15th. For those who prefer to turn and donate a pen at the store, there will be supplies and lathes available in the classroom from November 8th through the 13th (except for Saturday morning when the carvers will be using the classroom). Stop anytime during normal store operating hours.

A few minutes of our time will bring the troops happy thoughts of far-away homes and family. They are all serving to help preserve out way of life.

Check out the pen turning at the Woodcraft’s Turning Tuesday Group.

November 13th: Power Carving by Byron Young

December 11th: Chapter Challenge by Stan Cook

Show and Tell

Tom Schottle showed us a very nice vase he had turned from Rahador.
	Tom also had a huge (it used a 2’ mechanism) pepper mill turned from Walnut.
David Bonnette showed us a couple marvelous "Inside-Out / Upside-Down" turnings.
He also brought in an attractive bowl from Dalmation wood,
	and a very nice segmented bowl from Sycamore and Walnut.
John Crede brought in a wonderful plate made from a Pine door from the South Charleston City Hall.
Mike Ellison had a nice large Walnut bowl, which had cracked and was repaired by filling the cracked area with a Maple strip. This made a really nice finished piece.
	Mike also had four very nice pens.
Dave Jones brought a bowl from American Yellow-wood (it looks a lot like Persimmon).
	He also had a pretty Christmas tree ornament made from the shell of a Sea Urchin. These shells are difficult to work with since they are so fragile.
Bob Burford brought in an interesting off-center Maple hollowform.
	He also had a very nice Cedar covered dish
and a natural-edge Maple burl bowl.
	He showed us a beautiful hollowform bowl he had turned – I do not know what the wood was.
Joe Smith recently took a class from Jimmy Clews at Arrowmont. He had a wonderful piece by Jimmy from Joe’s Maple burl, which was dyed on the top.
	Joe had a neat round-bottom bowl he had made during the class.
Other items he had made during the class were a very nice lidded box
	and a couple of very tall-stem goblets.
Jim Morrison: Jim had an interesting piece of wood (on a faceplate) which had been around his shop for 8 – 10 years. I have no further comment on the subject.

Miscellaneous

The Newsletter will be sent by e-mail to those members who have given me their email address. This medium will contain an HTML document in which I have included links to pictures of the "Show and Tell" items as well as a link to the website.

The Newsletter with pictures is also available on the website.

Jim Smith, Secretary,

Phone: 304-342-1755

e-Mail:mountain@mountaineerwoodturners.com

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