Per our agreement with the school, and due to the AAW insurance policy that covers our activities, only current members of the AAW will be allowed to use the lathes. Whether or not they plan to turn at this meeting, we strongly suggest that all members of Channel Islands Woodturners join the national AAW for the many benefits including the excellent journal and the annual symposium. Non-AAW members are encouraged to attend the Hands-On and learn by watching. If you don’t have a lathe and are considering whether to pursue this hobby, we will link you up with one of our mentors and you can practice in their shop. Also see the mentor info on the Officers page.
Remember to bring your safety gear and also wood to turn, sandpaper, superglue, your turning tools (sharpened), and any finishes that you might want to use. The last 20 minutes committed to cleaning up the shop (if you turn you clean!).
At the regular meeting of the Channel Islands Woodturners on Saturday May 22, Ron Lindsay demonstrated Reverse Turning Squares and Diamonds as well as Therming. There was also an extensive Show and Tell session, and a raffle was held. For pictures of the meeting and techniques relating to the demo (many that were not shown at the demo) click here. Here is a set of references pertinent to the demo topics:
American Woodturner, April 2010, “Beyond Round – Therming”, Art Liestman
American Woodturner, Winter 2001, “Christmas Ornaments”, Dean Andrus
American Woodturner, February 2010, “Turning Diamonds”, Peter Exton
American Woodturner, September 1991, “Turn Your Christmas Inside Out”, Michael Kehs
Steve Langton CD, <freeproj8.pdf>, “Project 8: Turn an Inside Out Vase”, Ellis Hein
(Back issues of the AAW Journal, American Woodturner, are available to members of AAW at: http://www.woodturner.org, Members Area, Online Journals.)
New members – Phil Gershwin, Ernie Rascon and Phil Stivers
President’s Corner – Steve Leblanc
Hands-On Session
Our Hands-On session is geared toward beginner/intermediate turners looking for some hands-on mentoring with our more experienced turners. If you would like to turn at our 26 June meeting at Cabrillo Middle School, give me a call at 526-3840, or send me an email at [email protected] to reserve some time on a lathe. We can bring in extra mini lathes if there is a large demand for work stations.
Show & Tell
We will have a Show and Tell at the 26 June meeting, so bring your latest projects.
Ventura County Fair
Gary Toro and John Ascheman have volunteered to spearhead the Club’s participation at the Ventura County Fair. Please be prepared to sign up (starting at the 26 June meeting) for particular time slots to demonstrate woodturning in our booth on the club mini lathe.
There are now twelve “Classes” for judged entries in Division 348, Woodturning (see p. 47 in the Fair Entry Guide). The Fair theme this year is “Western Nights and Carnival Lights.”
Get your entries prepared if you haven’t already.
Entries must be submitted at the Fairgrounds Home Arts Building on Friday through Sunday, 23-25 July, 10 am to 5 pm.
We have a locked display cabinet near our booth at the fair to show our work separate from the judged entries. We are asking that you contribute some of your other/older turnings for this.
The 2010 Fair is from Wednesday, 4 August to Sunday, 15 August.
Summer Social
You should have received by mail a flyer with the details of the Summer Social at the Rinde’s on July 10th. Please RSVP according to the instructions on the flyer.
Best Regards,
-Steve
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- The Raffle winners – two with same last numbers? Not quite.
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- Show and Tell table
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- Rick Haseman has been very busy
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- Bob Fahrnbruch
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- Joe Shivokevich – Ash
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- Michael Ingham
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- Pedro Morillas – Maple?
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- Al Geller – Queen Palm turning still on faceplate
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- Gary Toro
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- Steve LeBlanc explains jigs to turn lids – flying saucer and space alien series
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- David Frank – Carob calabash
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- Jim Rinde – epoxied beer goblets featured
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- New member Phil Gershwin with laminated pens
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- Stephen Case-Pall
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- Project 3: Three 1×3″ boards – outers screwed to inner
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- No glue, so reverse using same screw holes – only one reversed here. Oneway Stronghold chuck holds square end – more rigid & less compression from tailstock
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- Showing reverse turning on both pieces. Center piece also gets turned but not used
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- Individual pieces can then be turned separately between centers
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- Ron made Kirsten Kone in Olive, Walnut, and aluminum
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- Project 1: Reverse turned Satinwood vase – first turning between centers using Ron’s giant spur drive. Duct tape strap ends – ends only lightly glued with CA
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- Split apart, reversed, finished applied to inside and permantly glued with Titebond
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- Clamping the final glue-up
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- Finished Satinwood vase after second turning
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- Project 2: Christmas ornament using Pine squares – first turning
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- Demo by Ron Lindsay: Reverse Tunings and Therming – various examples
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- Split apart CA joints, reverse, and glue with Titebond
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- Reverse glueup ready for final turning
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- Too much tension between centers caused split along grain where grain is short
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- Project 8: Six-pointed star arrangement – first make two sets of three diamonds
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- Split and reverse and again temporary glue with CA
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- Result of second turning
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- Split again and CA glue again in set of six
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- Strap for safety and use star-shaped recess at headstock to hold
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- Turning third time making a taper
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- Final result of third turning – now break apart last time
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- Final glueup using Titebond glue – points reversed – red marks to help assembly order
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- Fourth turning
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- Another view of fourth turning
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- Close to final shape
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- Reversed end-to-end to get access to foot. Hold as loosely as possible with tailstock to prevent fracture. Star tips at top end were turned off to fit scroll chuck
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- Detail of turned foot – kept star shape instead of turning round
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- End Result – Top was cut loose using hand saw and cleaned up with disk sander
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- Project #4: Work pieces screwed to a 3×3″ block – produces a larger radius of curvature
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- The first turning
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- Work pieces reversed
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- The side contours now cut on bandsaw – for Art Liestman style teapot
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- Shaping the teapot
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- Cut apart and glued back up but offset – cutting apart allows hollowing out with drillpress
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- Project 5: Shop built jig can hold at least four work pieces – make center barrel smaller diameter so work pieces can be rotated fully
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- After turning on three sides – had to remove screws completely in order to rotate work pieces 90 degs. Jig end flanges were glued and screwed.
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- Head and Tailstock tenons are 2 1/8″ diameter, an available Forstner bit size. Flanges are 9″ apart.
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- Example of cut quality using skew – difficult because cutting mostly air
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- Now all four sides contoured – not much different from bandsawed version because radius so large
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- Project 6: Making diamond stock – 30 deg cut on table saw – 3/4″ Pine board
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- Project 7: Showing project progression from right to left
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- Finished Poplar teapot with ebony trim
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- Set fence to match that face width and cut a bunch of diamonds – try to get within 0.01″ tolerance
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- Ron showing diamond construction during demo
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- Splitting the temporary CA glue joint with chisel
