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COMING UP!Monthly Meeting: 3M AbrasivesApril 5th

Stuart King demo workshopApril 22nd

Santa Clara Wood-working ShowApril 21–23rd

Bonnie Klien demo workshopApril 30th

Rich Johnson showed a bowl steady rest of metal with roller blade wheels. He bought it in Utah at the Craft Supplies sale sev-eral years ago and has used it about 20 times. [A steady rest supports long pieces such as tall

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Dick Pickering organized our March meeting around Jigs and Fixtures. Setting the tone for the eve-ning, he kicked things off by presenting one of Tony Bryhan’s jigs. It’s a vacuum chuck made of a HUGH dog dish. It fits Tony’s VB-36 lathe and uses a Shop Vac as a vacuum source. Following Dick’s lead, several members then presented devices they’ve bought or built to make life easier in the shop.

March, 2006INSIDE

Feature Story 1Pres Sez 2Turning Out 3AAW Notes 10Contact Us 14Beginner’s Mind 12Your Library 13Club Notes 14 Staff Reports 15 For Sale 16Calendar 16Ironman 17

Jigs & Fixtures

Rich’s steady rest.

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Join us Wednesday, April 5th at 7 P.M., when a 3M rep talks to us about abra-sives at Rich Johnson's Woodturning Center in San Jose.

Rich's Center is located behind his home at 14979 Joanne Ave., San Jose. From Hwy. 680, take the McKee Road exit East about 1.5 miles to Toyon Ave. Turn left and go 0.6 mile, turn right onto Joanne Ave.

Bring your chair and items for Show and Tell. We all learn together.

President'sChallenge:Withbark

It is amazing to me how fast this year is going by. I am

having trouble keeping up. We have a lot on our plate with all the demos, shows, and club activities. We have three things going on this month and they all require your partici-pation. We have sign ups on our Yahoo site. We need you to sign up for these things as

soon as you can. We also need coverage for the Woodworking Show, 4/21–4/23. That weekend is going to be very busy for us but I know we can pull it off. The sign up sheet will be on the shop door. Sign up where you can help.

How did you like the Jigs & Fixtures Night? I thought it was great! We had some neat stuff to see. Thanks to Dick Pickering for putting it together!

Ard (our program chairperson) has come up with some great programs for our meetings. Some of the ideas were from you the members. That’s what we needed, group support and

interest. Good stuff is a commin’!Now is not too early to start thinking of a

couple things that are sneaking up on us real quick. The May 3rd meeting features our an-nual Top Night. We NEED to work on some-thing to challenge Gary!! He keeps winning for the longest time! Can’t someone challenge him? There will also be other awards beside for the longest spinning top, and they will be an-nounced at the April meeting.

We also have our July/Swim/Potluck/Sale/Turning Show day! This is a great place to sell shop stuff you just do not want any more. Items are sold by silent auction, with each piece hav-ing a starting price and an auction sheet.

This is also the day we have our club Turn-ing Show. This is your chance to bring your turnings from the last year and try for a ribbon. First, second, and third places will be awarded in each category. There is also Best of Show award.

We will have a Bar-B-Q with potluck food. That has been great in the past and is something to look forward too also: lots of eatin’ stuff!

BY THE WAY...Have you signed up for the UTAH Sympo-

sium?? That is getting here real fast also. Some of the people that are going are staying at the Travel Lodge on University Avenue. We are driving and are ride sharing.

So our plate is quite full and this is only April!

PRES SEZ

Next month...

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TURNING OUT

President’s Challenge and Show & Tell

Continued on page 4.

Phil Roybal showed a chatter tool of steel and brass with a walnut handle, finished with Watco and wax. He’s now selling these tools through The Sawdust Shop in Sunnyvale.

Rich Johnson worked with recent visitor Chris Stott to find a U.S. source for Stott parting tools. Rich now has these tools for sale at $20 each.

Michael Wiley showed a cocobolo bowl, unfinished.

Jim Gott showed a cork oak natu-ral edged bowl, finished with Deft. He also brought an ash box in the shape of an apple, with a blackwood stem.

Steve Rosenthal brought a bottle stopper of walnut, finished with Wipe On Poly. He had a load of them in his car when he visited Thomas Cruz win-ery, so he showed them the stoppers. They bought them all.

Ayman Sayed presented a buckeye bowl with ebony collar, finished with lacquer.

Clockwise from top left: Phil Roybal, Jim Gott, Steve Rosenthal, Ayman Sayed, Michael Wiley, and Rich Johnson.

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Challenge continued from page 3.

President’s Challenge

Rich Johnson showed a mulberry plate he turned for an AAW event back in the mid-90’s, where there was a lack of eating ware. He showed us others out of willow, eucalyptus, and other woods. He also showed a spalted silver maple goblet and an egg cup of bocote.

Rich Parfitt made a “cracker” of cocobolo, finished with 50% Deft.

Bob Bowers presented a mystery wood toothpick holder, finished in Wipe On Poly.

Mike Rude brought a cup of pep-per wood, finished with 50% Deft.

Ayman Sayed showed a lidded maple box, finished with Friction Pol-ish.

David Feind brought a scoop of ash, with no finish.

Steve Rosenthal presented a canary island pine bowl intended as a lamp shade, which he had finished with tung oil.

Jim Gott made a scoop of ash and finished it with wax.

Herb Green created a mortar and pestle of ash. He also showed a make-up eye cup, under 2”, made from a tagua nut. He didn’t make it to the meeting, but his turnings did.

Clockwise from top left: Rich Johnson, David Feind, Steve Rosenthal, Jim Gott, Herb Green’s mortar and pestle, Ayman Sayed, Mike Rude, Bob Bowers, and Rick Parfitt.

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hollow forms so they can be hollowed without the vibration that would occur if their only support was a chuck at the foot of the work.] Next, he showed a masonite plate with a line of chalk-sized holes in it. Equipped with a nail and a piece of chalk, it used to serve as a compass for marking 11-18" diameter bowl forms on tree pieces as he harvested them in the field. Today, Rich has replaced with compass with a set of masonite circles, 5—30" in diameter. Back in the shop, he se-cures one to a log with a nail and cuts around it with a bandsaw to get a bowl blank with a center perfectly marked. He drills out the center hole to accom-modate a 1" pin chuck for turning the outside of his bowls.

Rich then showed a vacuum chuck: a big faceplate covered with neoprene, which accommodates large bowls with turned rims. Most of Rich’s pieces have natural edges however, so he made a smaller face-plate of MDF with concentric grooves turned in it, and has a series of PVC couplers from 2 ½" to 6" in diam-eter, faced with neoprene, to fit those grooves. They hold natural edge bowls by their inside surfaces. Rich recom-mends using a vacuum gage with these clamps and setting a moderate level of vacuum. Above 15" Hg., the pieces move and can even implode.

Phil Roybal brought a series of devices for surface decoration. The first was an open-topped box that clamps to the lathe to support a router above a turned piece. Phil can use the fixture, along with a long, bearing-guided, fluting router bit from Mag-nate (www.magnate.net) to follow the contour of a turned bowl, cutting flutes into the sides.

Sometimes, he wants to add drilled or plunge-cut features to his turnings. These might be accent holes at the end of flutes in a bowl, or inlaid Continued on page 6.

Top to bottom: Rich Johnson’s chalk compass, masonite circle guides, vacuum faceplate, and PVC vacuum chuck.

Top to bottom: Phil Roybal’s router fluting fixture, the fluting bit, drill press tool with Foredom motor hangar.

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he forged from a steel rod. It attaches to tables or the lathe by means of a pipe clamp.

Phil showed a carving stand he built out of welded steel plates and an old Wilton Power-Arm vise. It clamps to the lathe ways, and a threaded rod on the Power-Arm accepts a 1 ¼"-8 lathe chuck with the work mounted in it. The turning can then be rotated in three axes to position any part of its surface for carving.

Phil finished by showing a hand rest for his banjo, to support him as he does detailed carving on the turning.

Herb Green had watched Curt Theobold’s video on Segmented Turn-ing and saw the big sanding disk Curt used to flatten segments. He wanted one, and decided to build it. He first made a 20" disk of MDF and glued and screwed it to a dedicated face-plate. He faced the plate off with a gouge to get it flat, then glued a sand-ing disk to the MDF. He made a sand-ing table that sits on his lathe ways and holds workpieces at the midpoint of the disk. He wound up with a large, variable-speed sanding disk for just a few dollars.

Frank Salinas showed a Long-worth chuck he made of Baltic birch. This tool serves the same function as the “Cole” chuck jaw plates some of us use to hold finished bowls by their rims for turning the feet. Frank’s chuck has two counter-rotating plywood plates with spiral grooves housing bolts with rubber bumpers. The bumpers tighten to self-center bowls and hold them by their rims. He cut the spiral grooves with a router on a compass base, locating the center of rotation for each arc halfway between the chuck center and the edge of the chuck plates.

Frank’s also interested in marque-try, and showed a tiny miter box for cutting veneers with a small back saw.

elements around a pen. For these he mounts a 1" steel tube in the banjo and attaches an old Craftsman drill press designed to hold a portable electric drill. He’s modified this press with a welded plate that holds a Foredom (rotary tool) handpiece instead of a drill. He can drill or plunge to a pre-set depth, then rotate the work or not, depending upon whether he’s drilling holes or routing arcs of circles.

The above set-up requires a Foredom motor to drive the hand-piece, so Phil brought a motor hangar

Top to bottom: Phil’s carving stand, Phil’s hand rest, Herb Green’s disk sander and table.

Top to bottom: Frank Salinas’ Longworth chuck, the chuck holds a bowl, miter box, and “Louis Cubes”. Continued on page 7

Jigs, continued

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His is set up and marked with mea-surements for “Louis Cubes”, named for the French king who commis-sioned the design. Frank cuts veneers of three colors into equal width strips, then tapes them in six-layer stacks and cuts the stacks at 60ª angles to give the perfect diamond shapes.

Ard Sealy has a furniture shop in Lake Tahoe, and makes cabinets with adjustable shelves. He showed off a commercial router jig from MEG, with a set of holes to guide a plunge router in cutting a row of shelf pin holes, precisely spaced and accurately aligned.

Bob Bowers brought in a bandsaw sled he uses for running small objects through the saw. He also brought in a center-drilling fixture which holds pen blanks so he can ac-curately drill centered holes through them.

Gary Petretti likes to do a lot of work off the lathe: carving, painting, or otherwise decorating his pieces. He showed a set of socks filled with sand and tied. They hold a turning in any position as needed. Gary uses a pair of socks, one inside the other, for each sandbag so they don’t leak sand through the weave.

Rich Dege presented a variety of devices. First was a plywood face-plate for use with his vacuum chuck. He started with a plywood round he bought at OSH, then epoxied it to a nut that fits his lathe. He faced it off and covered the plate with 3/16" closed cell foam, also from OSH, to make a good vacuum seal. He also showed a set of ABS couplers that fit over the Shark jaws on his chuck. He turned a groove in the end of each coupler and filled it with hot melt glue to serve as a gasket. Then he uses them to vacuum hold bowls as Rich Johnson does.

Rich showed off his sphere-mak-ing fixtures. First was a cup chuck with a wooden #2 MT on it. (He told

Top to bottom: Ard Sealy’s shelf pin jig, Bob Bowers’ bandsaw sled, Bob’s drilling fixture, Gary Petretti’s sandbag work holders.

Top to bottom: Rich Dege’s vacuum faceplate, sphere-making tooling, sphere cup chuck, fixture to reproduce Morse tapers, sandpaper disc cutter.

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us how to set up a gage based upon a commercial taper to size a wooden taper.) He turned grooves on the end of the cup and attached an O-ring as a gasket. For the tailstock end, he uses a crutch tip with a hole that exactly fits over his ball bearing live center.

For cutting sandpaper discs, Rich uses a worn out 2" hole saw with the teeth ground off. He employs a rubber mallet to drive the die into an end grain piece of wood.

Rich showed a gauge that clamps onto a bandsaw blade to measure tension by the stretch of the blade. He built it from an article in Fine Wood-working Magazine. We have one (with instructions) in the club library. These are useful to check the calibration of your bandsaw tension gauge.

Rich likes to turn little tops, for which he needs ¼" dowels that are re-ally round. So he made a dowel maker that’s rather like a pencil sharpener. It fits on the lathe and holds a cutter made from an old file. He feeds square stock through it and the device trims them into dowels that are round within a thousandth of an inch or so.

When Mike Rude wants to cut big rounds on his bandsaw, he attaches a table with a floor foot and a pivot point upon which he places the pieces to be cut. The table is marked with various diameters so he can quickly set it up to cut rounds of any size.

He showed a holder for drilling pen blanks straight and true, and a roller blade wheel with a sanding disk head jammed into it to form a compact sander for the sides of bowls.

Mike turns bottle stoppers with chrome stopper inserts, and he made a screw chuck that matches the threads of the metal stopper inserts. He’d first bought a commercial version but its screw was a little smaller than the one on the stopper inserts, so when he screwed an insert into place it split or chipped the turned wood. His chuck has the correct size thread.

Rick Parfitt showed a router circle cutter made of a finishing nail and a pair of rails. The rails slide into the router’s edge guide holes guide it as it cuts big circles such as table tops.

Lloyd Frisbee showed an acrylic disk with a set of twelve spokes of holes, for marking off even divisions around a workpiece. He uses this to mark a piece for carving, the way Neil Scobie does with his triangular pieces.

Top to bottom: Dege’s bandsaw tension gauge, Mike Rude’s pen blank drill fixture, bottle stopper screw chuck, and inertial sanding tool.

Top to bottom: Rick Parfitt’s router compass accessory, Lloyd Frisbee’s acrylic disc marking aid, close up.

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Jigs, continued

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Rich Johnson showed a couple jigs for gluing segments for turnings. The two are identical, each consisting of a frame holding a c-clamp. You put a segment into a clamp, which holds it while you glue another segment on top of it. Then you do it again, until the whole ring is complete.

Dick Pickering returned to the stage for the finale. He showed us a Baltic birch plywood steady rest he’d build for spindle turning. It clamps to his lathe ways and uses roller blade wheels to support the wood.

Next he showed a bandsaw single-point fence for cutting veneers. It clamps to his saw table. He moved on to a right angle fixture that holds nutcrackers on the drill press to be drilled. He showed an arm with a dial indicator that he uses to indicate how true his drill press table is. He found out that his table is .025" off of level.

Dick told us how he uses a mag-netic indicator base as a cutting stop on machine tables, and showed a pen blank drilling jig that uses a toggle clamp to hold blanks in place for drill-ing. He next showed a drill fixture to hold nutcrackers so their arm pivot holes can be drilled accurately.

Next he showed a table he at-taches to his ways to hold turning tools, since he doesn’t have a tool table nearby.

Dick showed an open segmented lamp he’d built with the aid of a fixture that fits on his lathe. It sports an index wheel that fits on his spindle, along with an index pointer. The fixture holds a piece while another is glued above it with the correct inter-segment gap. His design was derived from William Smith’s description of a similar tool in his book, Segmented Wood Turning.

Dick showed a set of shim blocks for assembling pens in a vise, so he doesn’t have to move the vise jaws very far to press together the different length sections of a pen.

Top to bottom: Rich Johnson’s segment glue fixture, Dick Pickering’s spindle steady rest, single-point bandsaw fence, and nutcracker drilling fixture,

Top to bottom: Pickering’s drill press table alignment tool, another nutcracker drill press fixture, a table that clamps to the lathe ways, and the index pointer for an open-segment glue-up fixture.

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He showed a set-up he uses to cut segments for his turnings. He has a Dubby sled with side runner on his table saw. The side support keeps tiny pieces from running into the blade. He made a wooden “L" 10 inches long, so he can use his saw’s rip fence as a length stop. The “L" reaches across the side support to position a piece properly on the Dubby sled.

Next Dick showed a horizontal boring table with clamp that he uses

for his ShopSmith, and a fixture he uses to make drawer handle pulls with a router. (He does that for a furniture refinisher.)

Finally, Dick showed us a stack of story sticks for one of his nutcrackers. These allow him to quickly mark and cut sets of identical pieces.

It was a great evening, and prob-ably everybody went home with at least one new idea.

Top left: Nutcracker story sticks. Bottom left: Dubby angle cutting sled for a tablesaw.

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Jigs? Fixtures? What’s the Difference?Jigs guide tools as the tools cut. Think of a dovetail jig that guides a router to cut the pins and tails of that classic joint. Fixtures hold work in position for an operation. Pen turners might use a pen blank drilling fixture to hold blanks vertical and centered under a drill bit.

AAW Ornament Drivesymposium or mail them to Greg Streif, 7308 Abbott Glen Dr., Crestwood, Ky., 40014 gregstreif@insightbb.com . This is a great opportunity for chapter members to have fun building their turning skills and, at the same time, to help sick kids in need. What a deal! If you have any questions, contact Greg.

Each year’s AAW Symposium features a “return to the community” project. This year in Louisville, AAW will collect Christmas ornaments. They will be delivered to Kosair Chil-dren’s Hospital in Louisville. Each year the hospital collects ornaments and decorated trees and auctions or sells them to raise money. Last year they raised almost $400,000 to help kids in need.

AAW is asking each chapter to turn as many Christmas ornaments as they can and bring them to the

Christmas ornament, Jim Gott

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President’s Challenge, continued from page 4

Michael Wiley showed a honey dipper of maple, finished with lacquer.

Dick Pickering made a platter out of bubinga, finished with tung oil.

Becky Frisbee made salt and pep-per shakers with turned Corian caps on cherry bodies, finished with EEE and CrystalCoat.

Lloyd Frisbee turned a sugar bowl of redwood burl, finished with 50% Deft.

Ard Sealy created a lidded box of black walnut, finished with bar top lacquer. He also showed a tiny make-up goblet of bloodwood and a makeup name tag of naval orange.

Al Gore showed a rolling pin and a slat box of ash, both unfinished; and a pink ivory makeup name tag.

Craig Thorson presented a “pigs tail” for turning barbecued meat. The handle is mahogany, finished with 50% Deft and HUT wax.

Phil Roybal showed a stack lami-nated basting brush of canary wood and dyed birch, finished with Watco and wax.

Howard Cohen made a pepper mill of assorted woods, and a pounce pot of olive, finished with friction polish.

Phil Roybal and Dave Feind won the President’s Challenge raffle.

Clockwise, from top left: Michael Wiley, Al Gore, Craig Thorson, Phil Roybal, Howard Cohen, Ard Sealy, Lloyd Frisbee, Becky Frisbee, and Dick Pickering.

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BEGINNER’S MINDWhat I wish somebody’d told me...

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, part 2 by Mike Pogue

else’s project) didn’t look that great on my favorite wood.

Looking back, instead of splitting my budget between cheap and expen-sive, I should have set aside a third bucket of money just for experimenta-tion. I discovered that it was impor-

tant to try many different tools, to find out what would work best for me.

Now I make sure my budget al-lows me to buy an interesting tool (or two), to see if it fits me and my way of turning. If it does, great! If it doesn’t, I don’t worry too much—after all, it’s part of the learning experience.

Tools that helped a beginner (me) succeed

I discovered three tools that re-ally stand out in my mind now. They greatly improved the quality of my work, and made turning safer and more enjoyable.

Hey, experiment with them. If they’re not for you, just give ‘em away—they might be somebody else’s Best Tool Ever!

Inertia Sander—about $30 at Craft Supplies

Imagine a roller skate bearing on the end of a stick, plus some Velcro, so you can attach a circle of sandpa-per. Friction against a turning object causes the sandpaper to turn at just the right speed, without a motor. It works best on the outside of things, where it

instantly gets rid of those ugly circular sanding marks. I didn’t believe it would work until I tried it. Now, I’m an Inertia Sander Fiend.

EEE-shine—about $18 at Craft Supplies

It’s a brownish waxy cream with Tripoli abrasive in it. Sand through the grits (with the inertia sander, of course!), and apply a dab of this stuff with a paper towel (lathe running), to get the effect of a couple thousand grit sandpaper. Imported from Australia, expensive, and worth every penny. Works best on darker woods.

Hemostats—about $5 at Harbor Freight

Something about a spinning hollow object on a lathe makes me NOT want to stick my fingers inside. Hemostats are lockable stainless-steel clamps that look a little bit like long, thin scissors. Roll some sandpaper into a tube and fold it in half. Grab the insides of the tube with the he-mostat, and lock it down. Stick this inside your spinning project, instead of using sandpaper wrapped around your thumb.

This way, you’ll still have a thumb left to operate your lighter.

Next month: A couple of things most beginners forget about…

I suppose it’s possible to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together, but that’s not for me.

Just hand me that lighter, please. Sure, I wouldn’t have the charac-

ter-building experience of carefully selecting sticks, finding dry tinder, and watching the curls of smoke emerge from tiny, red embers while feeling my connection to ancient, fire-starting cavemen. On the other hand, I’d be making some piping hot caveman din-ner in about 30 seconds flat.

Buying tools for woodturning is a lot like starting a fire—you can choose either cheap, character-building tools, or time-saving, more expensive tools. When I first began woodturning, I decided to spend most of my budget on expensive stuff, and the rest on the cheap stuff. Then I started ordering.

The cheap stuff didn’t always work so well

So, the moral is: I should have bought more lighters, and fewer sticks, right? Nope. What surprised me was that the expensive stuff didn’t always work so well either. Some-times that special jig wasn’t as versa-tile as it looked, or the finishing goo (which looked beautiful on somebody

Beginner’s Mind Rule #2: It will take extra time (and money) to find your own unique way of working. Experiment.

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YOUR LIBRARYby Al Gore

LIbrary rESourcES rELatED to thE JIgS aND FIxturES program oF 3/1/06:

Books:

3 Best Shop Jigs America WoodWorker15 Shop Tips America’s Best Woodworkers21 101 Shop Secrets Master Craftsmen

Tools: (Many of our tools can be considered Jigs or Fixtures)1 Bandsaw Tension Gage2 Tachometer4 RPM Meter5 Cassinger Template6 ATV Dolly Contact Tom Donnelly7 Sharpening & Grinding the Lacer Hook Tool From Phil Roybal8 Color Wheel9 Plastic Index Wheel

10 Woodline Spacer Fence System

LIbrary rESourcES rELatED to thE prESIDENt’S chaLLENgE For aprIL: “WIth barK”

VHS Tapes:

22 Natural Edge Bowls Rich Johnson23 Natural Edges & Hollow Forms Chris Stott31 Turning Bowls Chris Stott76 Turning Green Wood Michael O’Donnell80 Natural Edges and Hollow Forms Chris Stott83 Natural Lipped Bowls Ken Bullock

Books:Several of our Books include examples of bowls, goblets, and other turned objects that include bark. Take

a look.

NEW at thE SVW LIbrary thIS moNth:Books:

37 Woodturning Masterclass Tony Boase38 500 Wood Bowls Lark Books39 Woodturning Bowls, Platters, Hollow Forms Best from Woodturning Magazine

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ICLUB NOTES

SVW needs YOUIt takes more than the of-

ficers and program chairs to make our club function at its best. If your name's not in the column at right, we still need your help in smaller ways to manage some of the club's activities.

This is a HELP WANTED ad, and we need you to respond. There are always things that need doing here. In particular, we need:• Volunteers for shop tours• Volunteers to staff the booth at the upcoming Woodworking Show• Members to write up their profiles for the newsletter• Short articles for Chips & Chatter

Please volunteer to Rich Johnson and help make our activities happen.

Sharing KnowledgeMEMBERS: Please contribute your expertise to our newsletter. The editor will help you get your article ready if need be. Deadline is the 12th of the month.

OTHER WOODTURNING CLUBS: you may use materials in this newsletter for the benefit of other turners. Please credit Silicon Val-ley Woodturners and the newsletter month and year for any material you use, and mention our web site: www.svwoodturners.org. Note that if we’ve flagged an article as having been reprinted from another source with permission, you must secure that same permission in order to use that mate-rial.

VolunteerinstruCtorsThe turners below have graciously

offered to open their shops to help members who want to learn to sharp-en, try something new, or master a technique that just doesn’t seem to be working. We all love to share. You just have to ask.

Willing to help? Contact Phil Roybal to join this list.

Rich Dege (408) 272-8122Jim Gott (408) 265-9501Rich Johnson (408) 254-8485Phil Roybal (408) 255-4789

Join Silicon Valley Woodturners

Want to join a great group of turning enthusiasts in an atmosphere of sharing and camaraderie? Be-come a member of Silicon Valley Woodturners.

We meet on the first Wednesday of each month. See page 2 for details. Drop in at any meeting and check things out. To join, contact Rich John-son (see listing at the right).

Learn more about our club on the web at www.svwoodturners.org.

SVW Contacts

PresidentRich Johnson (408) 254-8485latheart@pacbell.net

V.P./Program ChairArd Sealy (408) 937-8771asealy@pacbell.net

TreasurerCraig Thorson (650) 341-7550RPS@wwdb.org

Secretary/EditorPhil Roybal (408) 255-4789prmguard-svweditor@yahoo.com

Sunshine ChairsLloyd & Becky Frisbee408 978-6219bigguy95124@yahoo.com (Lloyd)lfrisbee@pacbell.net (Becky)

PhotographerJim Gott (408) 265-9501jgtimp@aol.com

ApparelDick Pickering ((408) 227-9821)calwoodart@sbcglobal.net

Ways & MeansSteve Dahout (408) 981-6183sdahout@yahoo.com

WebmasterSteve Rosenthal (408) 923-6562sailinsteve@sbcglobal.net

LibrarianAl Gore (650) 254-1173allan_gore@peoplesoft.com (with Craig Thorson, above)

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STAFF REPORTS

rIch JohNSoN (prESIDENt)The Home and Garden Show

seemed to be a good show. Craig ran it in Rich’s absence in spite of hav-ing pneumonia, and we took in about $1100. Our new lathe box worked much better than the old one.

The Santa Clara Woodworking Show will come to town April 22nd. We have a free booth. Those who do booth duty must have a show name badge on to get in without buying a ticket.

Al Gore got the name of two peo-ple who want things turned. One wants basswood Christmas tree toppers to be painted, and one wants a small urn for her cat’s ashes. Al will call Herb Green about the urn.

arD SEaLy (Vp/programS)Ard is trying to plan meeting

programs and is soliciting ideas. He has a 3M representative coming next month from St. Paul to talk to us about abrasives. He’s also working on get-ting some power tool reps to come to our meetings. He needs ideas so please talk to him.

craIg thorSoN (trEaSurEr)Treasury reports are available to

members. See Craig.Craft Supplies will give club

members a 10% discount on many products. You have to tell them you’re a club member. Also, we get a dis-count if we place an order of over $1000, so we have some incentive to

batch our orders together. Somebody would have to take responsibility to organize this if we want to do it.

DIcK pIcKErINg (apparEL)Dick is ordering more hands,

since we’re about out. We have lots of patches. Be sure to wear your SVW insignia when you work shows as an SVW staffer.

aL gorE (LIbrarIaN)We have three new books in the li-

brary, donated anonymously. We have Tony Bose’s Masterclass, The Best from Woodturning Magazine, and 500 Bowls. Checkout is $2 per month.

phIL roybaL

(seC’y/editor)Our new roster is available on our

Yahoo site. Our newsletter has a cou-ple new columns, from Mike Pogue and Al Gore. Members who haven’t paid their 2006 dues have been re-moved from the Yahoo list server.

LLoyD FrISbEE (sunshine)Let Lloyd know if a club member

needs a get-well card, a new-member info packet,, or some other contact

from the club to get him or her feeling good again.

Other Business

NEW FacES

Rich Horton of Los Gatos is our newest member. He’s been turning 8 months, but has considerable experi-ence as a sculptor. Please introduce yourself to Rich at a meeting and make him feel welcome.

Lampshade bowl by Steve Rosenthal

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Even Roy wants to know...How did you do that?

Rich Johnson's Woodturners' Boot CampLearn the basics, from chainsaw to polish. An all day class. Book available. Sign up now. (408) 254-8485.

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Regular club meeting. 3M will talk to us about abrasives.

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Day-long demonstration by Stuart King at Rich Johnson’s Woodturning Center.

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Santa Clara Woodworking Show

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Bonnie Klein hands on class at Rich Johnson’s Woodturning Center.

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Day-long demonstration by Bonnie Klein at Rich Johnson’s Woodturning Center.

May�rd

Regular club meeting: Top Night!

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San Jose Home and Garden Show at the McEnery Convention Center.

June�th

Regular club meeting

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Craft Supplies Super Wednesday Sale, followed by Utah Symposium at BYU in Provo, Utah.

Nova 3000 with 1 1/2 HP variable speed Leeson motor (220V). 16" swing and 45" spindle capacity with factory accessory bed exten-sion. Includes factory stand with capability to fill legs with sand. This is a very solid machine in excellent shape. $1100. Location Livermore, CA. Phone # 925 443-5562

Drill Press for Sale $25.00• 1/2'' chuck capacity • Table tilts 45° left or right • Depth adjustment gauge • Motor: 1/3 HP, 120V, 60 Hz, 1750

RPM • Double insulated, UL listed • Five speeds: 620, 1100, 1720,

2340, 3100 • Spindle stroke: 2'' • Maximum swing: 8'' • Column diameter: 1.89" • Throat depth 4'' • Table size: 6-5/8'' x 6-3/8'' • Base dimensions: 11-1/8'' x 7'' • Overall dimensions: 9''W x 22-

1/2''H x 17''L

6” Jointer for sale $75• 45” table

Contact Lloyd FrisbeeCell 408-813-9214Bigguy95124@yahoo.com

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IIronmen are those who com-

plete all 12 President’s Challenge projects for 2006. Those who meet the challenge are awarded distinctive IRONMAN name badges. A green bar in the chart below means that person

has completed the project for the month indicated.

You needn’t be a great turner, you just need to participate. Make something in our Challenge theme and bring it to the next meeting.

Editor’s NoteIf I’ve overlooked your President’s

Challenge entry somehow, e-mail Phil at prmguard-svweditor@yahoo.com.

IRONMAN

IroNmaN chaLLENgES For 2006:Mar. TreenApr. With BarkMay TopJun. GluedJul. With StemAug. HollowedSept. With LidOct. AlteredNov. With HolesDec. Gift

J F M M J J OSA NA D

Bob Bowers

Howard Cohen

Steven Dahout

David Feind

Lloyd Frisbee

Rebecca Frisbee

Al Gore

Jim Gott

Herb Green

Rich Johnson

John Overmire

Rick Parfitt

Dick Pickering

Mike Pogue

Steve Rosenthal

Phil Roybal

Mike Rude

Carolyn Salinas

Frank Salinas

Ayman Sayed

Ard Sealy

Craig Thorson

Michael Wiley

IroNmaN ruLES

• Entries must not have been shown before.• If you miss a month’s Challenge, you may

bring it to a Sawdust Session, or to the fol-lowing meeting.

• If you bring a make-up Challenge to a meeting, you must also show the current month’s Challenge piece.