Bob Reese brought in a candle stick he had made, one of 19, with an intricate pattern in the stem. It took him 6 days to get them all glued up before he could turn. It were from walnut and maple. His wife Rita brought in a lamp Bob had made in the past years, copying the workings of a buggy Jack. This made the lamp to be able to be raised from a regular lamp into a reading lamp of various heights. |
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Doug Dunlap showed us 2 pepper mills he had turned from segmented pieces he glued together, one of which had 193 pieces. They were from walnut and cherry, and black gum and walnut, and finished in lacquer. |
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Gary Runyon brought in several turned wood bowls, one
14"
bowl from musket wood, one from Osage orange, and a natural
edge bowl from a redbud burl. |
Johnnie Brown brought in a case of his turned pens of various sizes, shapes, and from different kinds of woods. He also shared with us on how he used several different attachments to help him make them, and where he bought them. He also warned us on the dangers first hand he experienced with CA glue. | |
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Doyle McConnell brought in a trap door flint lock musket he had made in the past. It was a beautiful piece he hand crafted from cherry and finished with tung oil. |
Darrell Albert
brought in
a bowl and a candle holder he made from chittum
wood, both finished with wax and walnut oil. |
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Ross Roepke brought in a scroll saw worked sled made from a past club member Dan Helton. | |
John Hartin brought in a 6" bowl he had picked up from New Zeeland. It was made from cowry wood, and was approx. 20-50 thousand years old. | |
Bill Guffey
brought in a
box he made with inlay work from cherry,
walnut, and maple woods. |
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Bob Leonard
brought in many fine examples of his
fine wooden knives,
alongside with the wooden sheaths, all made from various
woods, as well as 2 small carvings he done in the past. |
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Mickey Knowles
showed us the intricate wooden
inlayed box he had made. It
took him over 40 hours work to complete it. It was filled
with
other things he had made for the holidays, like tops,
bottle stoppers, and Christmas ornaments. It was made from
walnut, holly, and mahogany. It was finished with a sanding
sealer and lacquer. |
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Vince Zaccardi brought in a fine
natural edge bowl, that
unfortunately had broken and cracked while being finished on
the lathe. |
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John Duval brought in a 10" bowl he turned from a piece of hackberry. |
There are lots of ideas floating around about proper blade height, but Freud’s Jim Brewer has the final word, advising that about half the highest tooth should protrude above the workpiece, as shown. Brewer emphasizes that the bottom of the tooth should never be higher than the workpiece top. |
Always wear your
safety glasses in the shop
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