April 2014 – Mitchell/Scarborough | Channel Islands Woodturners

April 2014 – Mitchell/Scarborough

: VP Dave S. is MC today

: Raffle for gift certificates. John K. collecting glasses for Lions Club charity

: Show and Tell table

: Jim R.with example of chatoyance in pine wood – subject of his talk next month

: Rick H. – Bowl from a board

: Mark E. – Bowl from a pre-laminated board

: Mark took week-long carving class

: Another organic form by John A.

: David F.

: David filled cracks in bowl with metal filings

: Burnie G.

: Macadamia bowl

: Bruce B. – Bandsaw jig and techniques after Robert Craig

: Technique to be written up by Robert Craig in AAW magazine

: Sam T. filled cracks in thin bowl with black epoxy

: Lee T. filled cyprus cracks with crushed turquoise

: John A. brought large maple pieces for wood raffle

: Bruce O. made these tools for sale

: Olive, Orange, Avocado

: Liquid Amber, Calif. Pepper, and ?

: The wood raffle

: Robert M. co-presenting today on Dealing With Cracks

: Richard S. co-presenter – salvaging a blown-out bowl

: Another solution

: Richard showed slide show on his various activities at his Malibu studio

: The lifecycle of wood

: Showing teaser from crack filling video by Ted Sokolowski

: We may obtain this video for club library

: Laser-cut butterflies – they have a slight taper – source is stebbinsstudios.com

: Source for powder is — www.sokolowskistudios.com

: Sample of Sumac wood. Richard also turns root burls of Ceanothus (Wild Lilac)

: Robert using hot glue to attach butterfly template to bowl

: Hot glued in place over crack

: Large and heavy bowl in Ceanothus

: Two other Ceanothus pieces

: Powders from Sokolowski Studios ($25 for sampler)

: Routing out the butterfly shape using laminate trimmer and 1/8″ spiral carbide bit

: Showing pilot insert and tip exposure – about 1/4″

: Finished recess – corners trimmed out with small chisel

: Richard showed how to patch a crack in a hollow object like a guitar

: Sanding the butterfly flush with power rotary sander

: Now with a palm sander

: Biscuit joiner cuts slots for inlay patches – make your own biscuits from hardwood

: Three sanded flush

: Richard’s compressed wood trick