- Good turnout for the Brad Adams all-day demo. Boxes of Madrone and Maple burl cutoffs for sale.
- President Dave S.
- Mark E. discussed plans for the county fair booth and display
- Show and tell time
- President’s challenge: Rick H. used barley router bit to make candle holder using lathe jig.
- Using same bit to scallop edge of bowl from board. This is his indexing guide.
- The final product
- Rick wins the $50 gift certificate as the only legal entry.
- John A. with pierced carving.
- Joanne W. made Tipu bowl for our web designer Nathan S.
- John showed how he plugged bottoms for end grain
- His latest pierced carving.
- Bruce B. with his latest (larger) Robert Craig style creation
- Showing tiger eye cabochon in lid
- Jim R. with roasted Jacaranda lidded box with top top
- Charcoal hollowform
- Tucker G.: segmented platter
- Bruce will take copies of Betty Scarpino videos to her at the AAW Symposium
- Brad Adams from Benicia starts demo with how he handles heavy logs in the field
- Lifting a log to pickup bed level with hydraulic motorcycle jack
- On to the saw buck
- He lets the log drain on end for about a week covered but not sealed
- How the wood moves with the conventional roughout – Black Oak
- What happens if you don’t relieve the stress from tangential shrinkage
- Save the quartersawn center section for small objects
- No “birthday cakes” please because they always crack even if sealed
- Planning the cuts for a bowl blank
- An opening in the bark for a spur center
- Cut at 45 degrees to keep the shavings short
- Uses cardboard circles instead of compass as cutting guide
- Prefers to shape using chainsaw instead of bandsaw for safety
- Trimming with electric chainsaw
- Detail of sawbuck
- The roughout: start between centers
- Likes 2 ft steel metric rule to layout thickness using 10% of diameter
- Brad uses only Ellsworth gouge for roughing green wood
- Showing the tenon and bowl base at one third of diameter
- Completed cork oak bowl blank – he seals all surfaces
- Switching to dried Madrone blank
- Smoothing outside with thin flexible steel scraper
- In dry wood Brad prefers double bevel conventional gouge – cleaner cut
- Damping vibration – note fingerless gloves – Rick H. suggested using teflon pad
- At the bottom using a 65 deg bevel on gouge
- Passive sander
- Hand sanding for creating concentric sanding pattern for final finish
- Brad cut two grooves and wire burnt them. Now using hot coil “vaporizer” to burn in texture between the rings
- This burner much hotter than standard woodburner so goes much faster
- So hot that it flames up!
- Completed bowl left for club raffle. Surface extremely smooth – 600 grit or finer
- With black shoe dyed maple burl hollow form – faux Buckeye
- Example pieces on his display table – Maple, Madrone, Acacia, Cork Oak, Ironbark Euc
- Various bowl blanks for sale