World-renowned woodturner and instructor Jimmy Clewes provided an entertaining and informative full-day demonstration for members and visitors at the October meeting of Channel Islands Woodturners.
- Chrystal C. discussed results of party survey
- Dave S. announced slate of officers for next year
- Lotusland items by Terry K.
- Wood raffle items – pear, alder, eucalyptus
- Jeimmy Clewes begins his demo
- Good turnout for the all-day demo
- Jimmy says no need to buy expensive grinding wheels – use cheap wheels and hone with diamond cards
- His tools – he carries only one handle when travelling – dividers serves as multipurpose tool – opens paint cans
- First demo project is large deep bowl of Podocarpus – teaching basic tool technique
- Mounted on his favorite screw chuck – Oneway
- Tenon sized to fit chuck for later hollowing – he prefers dovetail jaws but here using available Oneway serrated jaws
- Cleaning up tearout with 3/8 gouge
- Shear scraping with bowl gouge
- Spraying with alcohol to raise grain before final sanding
- Now reversed and hollowing with his “Mate” carbide insert tool – see jimmyclewes.com
- Mate tool closeup – depth of cut is limited by design
- Hollowing the bottom with 5/8 (for stiffness) bowl gouge
- Completed bowl
- Bowl bottom – tenon left for finishing
- Second project is platter of figured maple
- Cutting the ogee curve
- Sketch of strong dovetail and ogee curve layout
- Cleanup with small gouge
- Shear scraping
- Seal with shellac and finish with wipe-on polyurethane
- Finishing products
- Reverse and shape top rim – to be “coloured”
- Raising grain – Oneway screw chuck at top
- Coloring with royal blue aniline dye
- Sanding in preparation for second color
- Applying second blue shade
- Adding yellow highlights
- Blending with alcohol spray
- Adding black line on edge
- Spraying with lacquer
- Video techs – they try to be in every picture
- Then proceed to hollow
- Power sand
- Haze is from polishing compound on laquered rim – here finishing same as bottom – shellac and poly
- The final look
- Completed platter
- Platter bottom
- Third project is lidded box from Sheoak cube – held between centers using small cups on opposite points
- Shaping to get three points and a tenon for later chucking
- Rechuck
- Wings cut with parting tool for starters
- Remove center waste
- Mark chuck dimension with dividers for internal reverse chucking
- Hollow leaving rim for chucking
- Reverse to shape foot
- Shellac and poly finish
- Prepare holly top to fit recess (and chuck) and undercut
- Reverse chuck and shape finial
- Completed box project
- Fourth and final project is wooden flask – blank is 5x7x2.5 holly
- Therm sides
- Prepare tenon on base for chucking
- Roughing out flask shape
- Preparing to drill
- Drill and refine opening
- Held by screw chuck
- True up
- Cut tenon
- Reverse and prepare recess for plug
- Hollow leaving rabbet for plug
- Prepare Plug from Maple wood
- Insert plug and true up
- Completed flask project – notice grain is aligned
- Reverse side can also be plugged or just decorated with bead