- Dave S. described newly acquired video control setup and three remotely pointable cameras
- Sam T. listed the various club responsibilities and their owners
- Mark M. our librarian asked for suggestions for new materials
- Show and Tell Table – 1
- Show and Tell Table – 2
- Ron L. with Macadamia and Palo Verde bowls
- John A. – Macadamia bowl
- Macadamia bowl by John A.
- John A. with another great carving project
- Carving by John A.
- Al G. with Macadamia medallion and small very thin-turned bowls
- David F. donated chalis from his demo
- David turned a hollow log into a sphere
- David also brought spalted Birch for raffle
- Spalted Birch bowl by David F.
- Bruce B. with segmented vase in Carob and Ebony – all vertical grain
- Chris Pytlik, our demonstrator for the day, adding cobalt catalyzer and gold pigment to resin
- Grooves in small hollowform to be burned and then filled with the gold resin
- Carving grooves with rotary tool and carbide tip
- Everyone outside for the torching demo
- Torching the grooves
- Resin was hardened while pouring on with UV lamp and added catalyst
- Getting ready to turn down the resin
- Scraping with the top wing of the gouge
- Chris also scraped with the bottom wing of the gouge.
- After turning but not yet sanded or poilished
- Using a clear glass ornament as a casting form for the colored resin
- Solid resin ornament to be hollowed. Several scraper tools
- Scrape with a negative rake
- Scraping with edge of gouge. Resin must be scraped rather than cut off the bevel
- Chris likes Easy tools because of flat rather than upturned edge on carbide insert
- Chris’s tools
- Lunch break discussion
- Wood raffle
- Spalted Orange for wood raffle
- David F. brought spalted Birch for raffle
- More wood
- Even more wood
- First dye from inside the Cottonwood hollowform through to the outside
- Applying dye to the outside
- Apply dye with pipette. Chris uses Metal Complex dyes because more fade resistant.
- Dying the outside – 1
- Dying the outside – 2
- The dyed hollowform can be hung from this internal hook
- Dying the Maple bowl yellow to start
- Silver Maple bowl first dyed yellow overall and then dry dye is melted with acetone from pipette
- Dying the bowl’s inside
- More dye
- Dying the bowl’s outside and bottom
- Final color
- Front of Chris’s plate – unpolished resin
- Polishing the resin-coated plate on the big buffing wheel
- Smooth as glass
- After polishing
- Back of Chris’s plate