- Business meeting – introduction of guests
- Show and Tell table
- Ron L.: Ceanothus yarn bowl and Rata pen blanks
- John As.: Ginko leaves pattern carved in Manzanita sapwood and heartwood
- David F.: Dyed bowl
- Iron Bark Eucalyptus natural edge
- Apricot natural edge
- Mark R.: Fruit wood bowl
- Jim R.: Bowl in a block
- Multi-axis turnings, toasted wood block
- Bryan R.: G clef incised, burnt, and filled with epoxy
- Al G.: Three Norfolk Island Pine bowls with translucent oil finish
- Lance P.: Norfolk Island Pine vessel
- Sally Ault began demo with discussion of feet
- Collection of feet by various turners
- Sally showed slides of feet by various turners
- One of many slides
- Sally showed time-lapse video of Pat Kramer shaping feet on bowl
- Sally’s turning tools
- Plastic profile gauge for checking form relative to foot placement
- Various grinding motors
- Beginning her footed vessel project in Juniper wood
- Hollowing the top cup – Juniper wood
- Hollowing the base – to be carved into feet
- Sally’s large collection of grinding points and microplanes
- Cutting off center nub
- Grinding out the center point
- Cutting wheel used to define feet
- Riobi reciprocating chisel
- Flame shape burr grinder
- Sanding tube
- Using the diamond cut grinder tip
- The larger sander
- The smaller sander
- Now starting the Sea Urchin Box project – step-by-step instructions covered in her handout
- Urchin box examples
- Examples of base and lid pieces – fan coral finial
- Detail of lid example
- Wrapping the urchin with foil and tape before injecting the foam
- Sally likes the window foam because doesn’t expand excessively and break the urchin
- Cleaning the foamer apparatus for future use
- Mark R. training with Dave S. to operate the video control board
- Marking out the needed segments from single piece of Purpleheart
- The various segments and their tenons
- Urchins injected with urethane foam and cured, ready for carving top and bottom holes
- Urchin ready to be carved to accept cup
- Preparing the cup piece
- Hollowing the cup
- Finished base top showing base tenon
- Preparing lid
- Preparing to turn base bottom held by base tenon and supported at first with tailstock
- Undercutting base bottom
- Take away tailstock and finish bottom of base
- Polishing compound in wax base
- Finished base – held by tenon
- Wood raffle
- Lee R. brought big load of Redwood
- Measuring for center of urchin
- Grinding hole for base
- Grinding top hole
- Shopmade template for checking hole centering (and foot layout)
- Shopmade template for checking hole centering (and foot layout)
- Fitting base
- Glue in cup with 5-minute epoxy
- Finial stock stabilized using Drozda point in Oneway type live center tailstock
- Checking for finial base size and appropriate hole size in lid
- Drilling the 1/4″ hole with drill in Jacobs chuck
- Shaping the finial
- Good shot of Drozda Point
- Sizing tenon on finial using 1/4″ wrench
- Finial fitted to top lid
- Finished project
- Finished project and example cup and top
- Sally had five students for the Sunday workshop