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N E W S L E T T E RChattahoochee Woodturners
SEPT 2019 • VOL 22 - ISSUE 9
Message from PresidentBill Lynch
Message from Membership ChairCarolyn Adams
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I’ve heard it said that to get really good at a task you practice practice practice the same thing over and over. Well I’ve turned mostly one of a kind objects. Art :) The discipline it must take to be a production turner escapes me so far. I recently turned the dowel rods that a furniture maker needed to make my new dinning room table. I am not joking when I tell you that the first one took an hour and a half. You know ... clean up the lathe bed, nicks out of the tool rest, sharpen every tool I might need, calibrate the size, etc. all of that said I turned the 8th one in ten minutes (still long for a production turner). Most of the time when I’m in my shop it’s for enjoyment not employment. Whew. Good thing.
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Membership - Carolyn Adams770-654-4723 • [email protected]
Programs - Bill Lynch678-425-8056 • [email protected]
Newsletter Editor - Stephen Walker404-452-0388 • [email protected]
Food - Ken Spruill770-536-0865 • [email protected]
Ra�e Master - Jack Morse770-316-7941 • [email protected]
Training - Mike Peace770-362-4308 • [email protected]
Audio/Visual - Jerry Chandler770-534-2649 • [email protected]
Webmaster - Stephen Walker404-452-0388 • [email protected]
Photographer - Robbie Morgan770-519-4799 • [email protected]
Facilities Manager - Ron Norris770-654-7009 • [email protected]
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August has been slower paced compared to July, but there are things happening! The Eagle Ranch Studio started its 4th year on 8/14. There are 3 boys and 1 girl students. Six of our club
members attended the volunteer appreciation dinner hosted by Eagle Ranch on 8/21; a good meal and excellent speaker were the
highlights. All 4 of the CWT club’s officer positions for the 2020 board have nominees. The members attending the September meeting will have the opportunity to approve these individuals for next year’s board and will become effective January 1, 2020 Carolyn is progressing with the club duties list. She will be unveiling it soon. Many members have already made Beads of Courage Boxes to be delivered to the Turning Southern Style Symposium in September. There is still time to complete those in process or even to start making one before the symposium starts. The Georgia National Fair is in the 1st half of October. There are docent time slots yet to be filled. It’s a good way to see the fair, answer questions about turning wood, get free priority parking, and visit the exhibitions and carnival rides.
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President - Bill Lynch678-425-8056 • [email protected]
Vice-President - TBD
Secretary - Jerry Chandler770-534-2649 • [email protected]
Treasurer - Loren Smith678-644-3419 • [email protected]
Board Members at Large:
Wes Jones678-634-7537 • [email protected]
Carolyn Adams770-654-4723 • [email protected]
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Sept. Meeting
Beads of Courage is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide supportive arts-in-medicine programs to children, teens, and families coping with serious illness and the clinicians that care for them. Beads of Courage helps children around the world record, tell, and own their own stories, using colorful beads as meaningful symbols of courage and hope along their treatment journey. Woodturners around the country have been donating their time, talents, materials and more to create beautiful woodturned boxes to be given to Beads of Courage
members as a precious vessel to hold their Beads of Courage collection. Last year over 800 boxes were made by woodturners and donated to the program.
This year boxes will again be collected at the AAW national symposium and at the GAW symposium in Dalton for delivery to participating hospitals. Please commit to making one or more Beads of Courage boxes in time to donate at one of these symposia. If you can’t attend a symposium, bring your box to a club meeting so it can be delivered. The porcelain logo beads for the boxes are available from Wes Jones. The guidelines for making the boxes is attached.
Wes Jones678-634-7537 • [email protected] • More info: http://www.beadsofcourage.org/
DEMONSTRATOR: MIKE PEACEMike Peace enjoys every aspect of woodturning including demonstrating and teach-ing. He has demonstrated at the AAW symposium in Atlanta 2016 and Portland 2018, as well as regional symposia and many clubs in the Southeast. He has taught at the John C. Campbell Folk School.
Mike has published articles in various woodturning magazines. He has produced more than 400 woodturning videos on his YouTube channel.
Before retirement, Mike worked as a payroll software project manager. After active duty in the US Army, Mike stayed in the active reserve retiring with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
More information can be found at his website mikepeacewoodturning.com
DEMONSTRATION: ADD PIZZAZZ WITH TEXTURING TOOLSEmbellish your turning projects using a variety of texturing tools, such as the Sorby or Crown Spiraling and Texturing tools, a knurling texturing tool, Dremel burr tool, and a chatter tool. Mike will demonstrate what texturing effects different tools can offer. It is amazing how easy it is to take a turned piece from a rather plain wood like Bradford Pear and turn it into something even more special in just moments. And it is fun seeing what you can do with these tools. Learn how easy it is to make your own chatter tool.
N E W SDEMONSTRATOR: KEVIN WOOD
DEMONSTRATION: TURNING A BARK EDGE U SHAPED NATURAL EDGE BOWLKevin Wood demoed how to turn a winged bowl at the Aug. meeting. He emphasized that the blank should be green as possible to make removing the waste wood as smooth as possible. The lighting is critical to make the shadow wood as visible as possible. Last, but not least, tools most be shape. Several stops to touchup the edge is necessary. As the turning progressed tooling the final wall thickness kept pace with removing the enter wood. The wings become flexible as the waste wood is removed.
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August Meeting Recap
Ken’s Korner Videographers Schedule
September: JERRY CHANDLER
September Dinner Menu:
Nathan's all beef hot dogswith all the trimmings
*Drink + Meal $5.00*
Feedback!We welcome feedback and ideas forour newsletter. Please feel free to reach out with suggestions and/or offer content! Email:[email protected]
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2019 EVENT SCHEDULE
DATE EVENT FACILITATOR TOPICJanuary 8th Club Meeting Demo John Lucas Inside Out Turning
January 15th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace How to Use the Skew
February 12th Club Meeting Demo Joe Schlawin Spatial and O�set Turning
February 19th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace Whimsical Animals
March 12th Club Meeting Demo Marvin Payne Natural Edge Bowl
March 19th Hands on Woodturning Mike Gibson Bowl Turning
April 9th Club Meeting Demo Dan Douthart A Di�erent Twist Christmas Ornament
April 16th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace Turn a scoop
May 14th Club Meeting Demo Bill Lynch Twisted Hollow Form
May 21h Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace Tool Sharpening
June 11th Club Meeting Demo Steve Mellott Lost Wood
June 18th Hands on Woodturning Mike Gibson Boxes
July 9th Hands-On Class Stuart Batty Bowl Turning and Tool Techniques Class 8am-4pm
July 9th Club Meeting Demo Stuart Batty Bowl Turning and Tool Techniques
July 16th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace Hands on Woodturning
August 13th Club Meeting Demo Kevin Wood Natural Edge U Shape Bowl
August 20th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace Morse Taper Mandrel and Fan or Lamp Pull
September 10th Club Meeting Demo Mike Peace Texturing
September 20-22 Turning Southern Style Symposium, Dalton, Georgia Our own Bill Lynch is a demonstrator!
September 17th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace Turning �nials: a beads and coves skill builder
October 8th Club Meeting Demo TBD
October 15th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace TBD
November 12th Club Meeting Demo TBD
November 19th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace TBD
December 10th Christmas Party!
December 17th Hands on Woodturning Mike Peace TBD
Club Meetings are the 2nd Tuesday of each month at Baxter’s Belmont Shop. Pre-meetings start at 6PM, with a light meal and drink available for $5. Presentation at 7PM. We break up around 9.
Monthly Hands on Woodturning (HOW) is 3rd Tuesday of the month from 10AM–2PM. Bring a lunch!
Rob Sheffield
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MEMBER’S GALLERY
Jeff Wagoner
Wes Jones
Carolyn AdamsDon Willers Donald Wilson
Herschel MeadersJoe Shlawin
John Cornelson JohnHammonds Keith Phagan
Stephen Walker Ken Klein
Mike Holder
Randall Scroggs Rob PatrickRon NorrisWillard Shewbert
The Georgia Association of Woodturners will be holding our 2019 Turning Southern Style symposium this Sept. 20-22 in Dalton, GA. The symposium will feature demonstrations by David Ellsworth (YES!! You read that correctly!!!), Hans Weissflog, & Stuart Batty, along with 3 of our club members, Steve Mellott, Dan Douthart, & Bill Lynch. You can get more information and register at the Symposium page www.gawoodturner.org/symposium Starting with our 2020 symposium, we would like to begin inviting regional demonstrators, so if you have demonstrators in your club, please ask them to send their resume to us at [email protected] Thank you so much for your help! I am excited about making this year's symposium the best one ever!! Elisabeth RossSymposium ChairGeorgia Association of [email protected]
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CLUB & MEMBER NEWS
Chattahoochee Woodturners
TIP OF THE MONTHDOVETAIL RECESS TOOL BY MIKE PEACE
If you use a four-jaw chuck in expansion mode to hold a bowl or platter, and your chuck has jaws that are dovetailed, you need to create a recess with an angled outer wall to accommodate the jaws (Photo 1).
You can use a variety of tools to cut this recess, such as a bedan or skew or even a commercial dovetail scraper, though most of these tools are
difficult to use with the tailstock in place. It can also be a challenge to consis-tently form the correct angle on the outside wall of your recess to match the dovetail jaws of your chuck. One solution is to make a customized scraper ground so that the handle clears the tailstock’s live center and the recess walls are automatically formed at the correct angle (Photo 2).
The dovetail angle on my chuck jaws is 10.5°, so I have ground the cutting surfaces on my recess tool to approximate that angle. Your chuck’s dovetail angles may be different. Ideally, you would cut your dovetail recess to match the jaws exactly, but it doesn’t have to be perfect. My tool cuts about an 8° recess. Too steep a dove-tail, like15°, is worse than one that is angled a bit less than ideal.
USING THE TOOL Holding the tool flat on the toolrest, guide the recess-bottom cutting edge (surface 1 in Photo 2) in first, then move the tool to the left to form the angled wall. With a little practice, you will be able to form flatbottomed recesses with your desired wall angle every time (Photo 3).
October 3-13 is the Georgia National Fair in Perry. 500K people attended last year, and 130 woodturned items were on display, which made it one of the biggest woodturning exhibits in Georgia. There are a number of ways you can participate in the Fair. Submit an exhibited piece: There is a $10 fee for each entry, but you will be eligible to win cash prizes, bragging rights, and you can sell your work with no commission. Last year, about $3500 in prizes were awarded. To submit an entry complete the on-line form (with a photo of piece) no later than Sept. 1 at this link: https://www.georgianationalfair.com/p/georgialiving/finearts. Then deliver your entry to the Fair on September 6 or 7. Attend the Fair: Avoid paying admission by signing up to work a 3 hour docent shift. In addition to 2 free tickets, you get a preferred parking spot. Docent signup link: https://bit.ly/2LIjU2Q. Volunteer to fund a special prize for the woodturning area. For more information contact the Georgia Living Department at [email protected] or (478) 988-6555. If you have any questions, please contact me at [email protected] .
Chattahoochee Woodturners has a woodturning scholarship program for those who have been members of CWT for 12 months or more and who are also members of the American Association of Woodturners. For more details about this program and to download an application form, go to the CWT website, www.chattahoocheewoodturners.com, and click on the “Scholarship” title in the middle of the home page. Once you’ve completed the application, turn it in to the CWT Secretary, Jerry Chandler for review and processing.http://www.chattahoocheewoodturners.com/chattahoochee-woodturners-training-scholarship-program/
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Hands On WoodturningSession, Tues. Sep 17, 2019 Turning finials: a beads and coves skill builderMike Peace will be the lead facilitator. If you have a 1” chuck with smaller jaws, please bring it. Come and enjoy some fun and fellowship with your turning friends and maybe even learn new and creative techniques in woodturning. Anyone needing help with a project they are working on are welcome to work on that. Experienced woodturners will be on hand to help. No skill prerequisites required, come as you are. Beginners will be assisted with basic turning skills. You are encouraged to bring your own tools but club tools are available.
• Time: 10AM – 2PM.
• Bring a lunch. Cold drinks in the refrigerator for a buck.
• Cost is $5 which includes blanks and project supplies.
Aug HOW was on Morse Taper Mandrel and Fan or Lamp Pulls. Thanks to Michael Gibson and Ron Norris for helping to facilitate. Attendees include: Left to right Tabtha Marus (visitor), Robert Evans, David Westfall, Loren Smith, Ron Norris, Steve Roys, Michael Gibson, and Roger Cash. Not pictured is Carolyn Adams who had to leave early and Mike Peace (photographer).
Chattahoochee Woodturners Scholarships
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Useful ResourcesJOIN THE MEMBERS ONLY CWT FACEBOOK GROUP! Members are encouraged to join this group for woodturning discussion. We invite you to post pictures of your work to inspire others, ask questions, or share links to articles or videos that you have created or found useful about woodturning. https://www.facebook.com/groups/677026175759888
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS (AAW) has created a searchable video library with videos that have been screened for content and safety. You can access this at http://www.woodturner.org/page/LPVideos. It is highly recommended you join this fantastic organization. Their bi-monthly publication American Woodturner is worth the price of admission alone. A recent addition to the resources o�ered is Woodturning FUNdamentals: A members-only web-based learning portal for building strong woodturning skills and essential techniques. Designed for new turners! (tiny.cc/WoodFun)
MIKE PEACE has a library of YouTube demonstration videos on his woodturning channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/mpax356/videos
BANDSAW BLADES from www.woodcraftbands.com They o�er a blade just like the Highland Woodworking’s Turners blade for green wood but 40% cheaper for an order of 5. Shipping is about $10.
WOODTURNERS WONDERS Ken Rizza o�ers a large selection of sanding and sharpening tools, CBN wheels, grinders, lathe lamps, respirators, sanding discs, mandrels and random orbit sanders and very reasonable prices.678-442-9454, woodturnerswonders.com, [email protected]
WOODTURNERS MARKET A facebook page dedicated to vetted sellers of quality wood! Lead by local seller, Elisabeth Ross of Two Tree Boyz Wood, if you don’t see what you are looking for just ask and sellers will jump to accomodate you! This is a closed group so you must ask to join.https://www.facebook.com/groups/woodturnersmarket/
TWO TREE BOYZ WOOD processes tree service green waste into turning stock for turners all over the US wanting to acquire quality pieces easily. Since our inventory turns over rapidly, we are unable to list stock on our site. You can buy buy scheduling a visit to Buford location, by joining VIP Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/2treeboyzvip), ordering a sample box, or �lling out the request form here: https://changedtoart.com//wood-shop.
PEACHTREE WOODWORKING SUPPLY https://www.ptreeusa.com Huge internet sales and the largest vendor at the Annual Wood shows around the country. Always generous when asked for help. Gives Gwinnett WW members 10% o�.
CRAFT SUPPLIES o�ers a 13% club discount for a group purchase of $1,000 or more. https://www.woodturnerscatalog.com
SHEFFIELD WOODTURNING Professional grade wood lathe steady rests designed to �t your 24", 22", 20", 18", 16" or 12" swing lathe. Crafted with the highest attention to quality, these multipurpose tools provide support for bowls, hollow forms and spindle work. Working with your Cole Jaws, the steady rest will serve to reverse chuck hollow forms and bowls for turning and �nishing the base. Rob She�eld 770-597-1157 https://she�eldwoodturning.com/steady-rest
The following club members give private instruction in their shops:
Mike Gibson 770-294-3135 • [email protected] www.MichaelGibsonWoodturner.com Dealer for Thompson Tools & Trend Diamond Sharping
Wes Jones 678-634-7537 • [email protected] www.wesjoneswoodturner.com
Bill Lynch 678-425-8056 • [email protected]
Jack Morse 770-316-7941 • [email protected]
Mike Peace 770-362-4308 • www.MikePeaceWoodturning.com
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