Past Events
Summer Social – 18 July 2009
Mike Shuler Demo – 25 July 2009
Ventura County Fair – 5-16 August 2009
- The usual suspects. The Christensens may now take their seats in the front row.
- Steve Leblanc talked about his early functional turnings
- Al Geller reviewed the County Fair experience and notes from the judging
- Raffle. Chuck Stevenson is back from mission trip
- Ralph Rossbach is one of the raffle winners. New member in back is Barbara CDeBaca.
- Terrell brought Acacia wood for sale
- Michael Ingham is experimenting with hand carving decoration
- Ron Lindsay with hollow forms painted in iridescent colors
- Robert Mitchell showed his tops and toys
- Black Acacia for sale
- Gary Toro demonstrated Christmas decorations – here turning snowmen
- Snowmen turning split using bandsaw V cradle
- Snowmen closeup
- Cutting decorative disks
- Parting off a disk having spiral on face
- Using the spiral grooving tool on edge
- View from back side
- Center section of ornament – top being shaped
- Now ready to drill all the way through
- The bottom finial is turned from Pink Ivory
- Starting the top finial – drilling hole for wire hanger
- Sizing the tenon to the top hole
- Final shaping of top finial
- Show and Tell table
- Router jig used to cut Vs in ornament body to accept inlays
- Router jig bottom view
- Finished ornament