Meeting 8/17/21
Meeting called to order by Secretary Jim Jolliffe at 6:30 PM.
Jim welcomed all those online and to those present in UTSI’s H-111 Conference Room to our August combined in-person and online Zoom Meeting. We appreciate UTSI’s generosity allowing the club to use H-111 and their broadcasting capability. This meeting was the first to have video and audio features of H-111 working perfectly for the meeting and the Club’s Annual Auction.
Visiting Guests
None
Business
Officers and Committee Reports: Vice President & Program Chair Gary Runyon noted our September Program will be on segmented turning by Don Farr of Huntsville. Gary requested members email him any future program ideas to his home email: [email protected]. He noted that programs don’t necessarily need to be from local folks due to the ability of Zoom to connect us with anyone around the world!
The 2021 Calendar is correct with monthly general meeting dates and first and third Saturday Carving meetings as well as the UTSI & Zoom annotation for the monthly meetings. The special events column included “placeholders” for the special events. The special event leads will need to discuss the timing (if at all) of holding special events and update the calendar accordingly.
ANNUAL PICNIC. Picnic Chair Karen Browning has set Saturday, September 25th at 1200 (noon) at Falls Mill for our Annual Picnic. More information will be forthcoming (tentatively the club will provide BBQ, Drinks and plates/utensils. Club Members are asked to bring sides and to send emails to [email protected] with a copy to [email protected] to RSVP as soon as possible so we know how much BBQ to purchase.
Paul Jalbert noted that Tim’s Ford Heritage Days will be Saturday and Sunday October 9th and 10th and that turners and carvers will be set up in the Pool Entrance and just outside it. TVW members can sell (with no vendor fee due to our turning/carving demos) during Heritage Days. Please let Paul ([email protected]) or Vince ([email protected]) know if you plan to attend.
Once the general meeting announcements concluded we moved to the Show & Tell portion of the evening.
Show & Tell
Carl Blumenthal made a Man Cave stone sign out of sandstone quartzite for the evening’s auction. This rock was personally quarried by him in Wisconsin and brought to TN. It is sandstone that transformed to quartzite. This rock is sand blasted with Aluminum Oxide sand. This graphic is unique to Carl and the first time he had ever had to do this, in which he had to blast the cave into the rock first which is all backwards from what he usually does. Usually he blasts the words and stuff into the rock, not the surroundings. Then he had to paint the outside of the rock to give the cave look. After that he had to mask everything off except the TV, man, dish, table, and verbiage. Then he came back and blasted all that and painted it. This rock, after painted, gets washed to get all the remaining sand out of the rock. Carl noted: To whomever acquires the rock: This rock can go outside or inside since he used a rock and concrete sealer to seal the pores to help prevent freezing water from splitting the rock or chipping out the paint.
Darren Earle showed an ~14” diameter box elder bowl that was initially turned by Tom Church in 2010. Darren finished it in 2021 and was providing it for the auction. The beautiful contrast of blond wood with red coloration was evident (again) after Darren turned it down recently. It is finished with paint sealer.
Jeremy Price showed an ~7” diameter cherry bowl that he turned early in his turning experience. It was finished in Odie’s Oil and Odie’s Wax.
Chuck Taylor showed a maple and cherry music/jewelry box he made for the auction. It has maple sides and bottom with a cherry lid and splines for the box sides. He finished it with lacquer.
Judy Bennett showed an intarsia flower she created early in her intarsia experience. She used walnut, and maple for her project and finished it with spray-on poly.
Gary Bennett showed an oak bird house he made for the auction. He finished with poly.
Tom Gill showed turned carver’s mallet made from Black Locust and finished with wax.
Gary Runyon showed a turned, threaded acorn box made of a dogwood base and a cherry top. He also showed a turned, threaded needle box that had a wood-burned and painted flower design. His third piece was a cherry box with a slotted sliding lid. All three were provided for the auction.
Darrell Albert made a chittum burl dish for the auction and finished it with walnut oil.
Clay Cooper brought a “Happy Campers” sign made of live edge walnut and sand blasted, painted, and sealed by Carl Blumenthal. Clay’s son takes it with him camping.
Jim Jolliffe showed a cottonwood bark Victorian Smiling Santa carving. He sprayed with 2 coats of rattle-can satin lacquer, added acrylic paint highlights and then sprayed it with two more coats of lacquer.
Program
Club Auction!
After a short break, we held a very lively and fun club auction of hand-made objects, tools and jigs. Due to generous bids (and friendly banter) by both in-person and online members, we raised over $1,100 for the Club! A breakdown of the artist, item, buyer and winning bid amount can be seen here.
Meeting adjourned at 8:30 PM and folks settled up their purchases with Treasurer Paul Jalbert.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday, September 21st at UTSI’s H-111 Conference Room (our standard meeting location). We hope to see you all there or on Zoom! The September Program will be on segmented turning presented by Don Farr of Huntsville AL.