Mark your calendars for
Saturday evening, December 08, 2007, to reserve it for
the CAW pot luck Holiday Social. Mark your calendars for
Saturday evening, December 08, 2007, to reserve it for
the CAW pot luck Holiday Social.
Sharing Holiday Cheer!!
Capital Area Woodturners annual Woodturners Holiday Party, in the church hall of the Messiah United Methodist Church Hall, 6125 Rolling Road, Springfield, VA 22152. Our goal is simple: Let's all get together during this holiday season to share some holiday cheer with the members, families, and friends of CAW; eat a hearty meal of whatever dishes walk through the door; vote for the best turned holiday ornament from the members' entries; and exchange a turned object for those participating in the grab-bag exchange.
3:30 PM - Setup - If you have some free time and want to help setup, arrive early. Any help is appreciated.
5:00 Social Hour
Fun, camaraderie, hors d’oeuvres, soft drinks, inspecting of items in the
ornament and wood-swap contests, a serenade by the Washington Women’s chorus.
6:00 Dinner
Really great food prepared by others, woodturner or not, it will all be good. As
always, the meat dishes, drinks and eating utensils will be provided by CAW.
CAW will provide honey-baked ham, buckets of fried chicken, and lasagna
casseroles. Also provided will be all paper products, decorations, and all
non-alcoholic beverages. If you would like to have something else, please plan
on bringing it. No alcohol please. Voting
for your favorite Ornament and wood-swap items.
7:00 and beyond
Voting continues then awards for ornament and wood swap contest. Social
interaction will be the call of the night; everyone’s help will be appreciated
in cleanup.
Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show &
Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 - Bill Grubine
Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show &
Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 - CA Savoy turns holiday ornaments
Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show &
Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 Mark Gardner will demo the unique hollow form, texturing, technique, design, ebonizing he has, as exhibited above, and will do whatever else he can fit in.
Program for the month: 8:30am - ands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show &
Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 - Professional turner Ed Kelle will be demo’ing how he accomplishes a lot of his out of the ordinary surface treatments, such as making wood look like coral. He will also be covering Airbrushing Techniques (allowing people to try it). He will also be talking about the details of design.
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show &
Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 - Alan Leland
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show &
Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 - English turner Jimmy Clewes demonstration
$5 Demo fee will be collected.
Mark Your Calendar NOW!!
For the 6th Annual CAW Summer Picnic/Social On Saturday, August
from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, the CAW will sponsor a potluck Summer Picnic and Turning Social at the Admiralty Club, at the U.S. Coast Guard Station Recreation Center on Telegraph Road (Route 611) just north of Fort Belvoir in Virginia. The Coast Guard Station area is in the 7400 block of Telegraph Road. From No. VA, go south on Interstate 95 from the I-495 beltway. Get off at Exit 166A, the Newington, Fairfax County Parkway (Route 7100) exit going east. Within 1 mile, turn left onto Route 611, Telegraph Road heading North. The coast guard Station will be on your right a few blocks past the Hayfield Elementary and High Schools. On the ADC map book of Northern Virginia, the Coast Guard Station is on map page 29 at blocks 1E&F. From Maryland, after crossing the Wilson Bridge on I-495, you can get off at Exit #2 onto Telegraph Road (Route 611) and follow it for about 8 miles. The coast Guard recreations Center will be on your left. We will advise you of any special security procedures to get into the CG Station in next newsletter. The Admiralty Club will have an indoor meeting room for us in case of bad weather, an outdoor deck area for eating and setting up our lathes. Please bring lawn chairs, your mini-lathes if you have them, any tools you like to use, and some wood for making shavings.
This will be a potluck lunch similar to our December Holiday party - the best eating of the year!!! Please don't bring beverages. We are required to purchase our drinks from the Coast Guard Club Bar - It helps support their facility. Besides, at $.50 per soda, it is as cheap as if you had bought them in a grocery store. Please bring a dish to share according to the following list: No heating/cooking facilities available. DO NOT wear a hat inside the Admiralty Club - you will buy the bar a round of drinks - NO Kidding!!!
Bring a disposable serving spoon for the dish, and put your name on your serving pans and platters. Please join us for food, fun, turning, and camaraderie!!
Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:00 AM
A normal business meeting. A raffle will not be offered. Photos of member items will not be taken for the next CAW Newsletter. The tape library will be open. A silent auction table will not be available during the meeting.9:30 AM - 3:00
See Symposium schedule.This year’s Mini Symposium will be a series of demonstrations lasting 2 hours each. We hope you will find it enjoyable and full of learning opportunities. We will continue our tradition of having skilled demonstrators showing us their techniques, specialties and tricks. If you have attended our prior symposiums you
know that in 1 1/2 hours you are able to gain insight into some topics and techniques that you may wish to pursue at a later date, so the 2 hour demos this year will be even more informative. On page 4 you will find the rotation schedule, which outlines the day of demonstrations and when each will be occurring. As always lunch is provided by the Club free of charge.One of the goals this year was to insure that you are provided with a variety of topics and issues. With your help, Bob Pezold, our Program Director, has been able to put together a program that will insure you are able to find something of interest for every time slot.
Since we are holding our symposium, we will hold only a short business meeting and will not have the usual activities such as Show and Tell, Silent Auction and Raffle.
9:30 - 11:30
Tom Boley - A PowerPoint presentation and discussion of many of the
factors to consider when starting a woodturning business. This will include
space requirements, equipment needs, business practices, types of products, and
other information.
Neil Kagan - My demonstration will focus on carving turned surfaces using
flexible shaft rotary carving tools like Dremels and Foredoms. I will cover:
tools and equipment, safety issues, design approaches, carving techniques --
creases, curves and lobes, sanding and finishing. I will demonstrate: carving on
the surface of a bowl, turning a turned object into a sculpture through carving.
Towards the end of the presentation, adding a little hands on interactivity,
interested CAW members can try out the carvers on some scrap wood .
Phil Brown - My demo will be the use of epoxy paint and other
materials to harden soft, spalted, or punky wood; use of epoxy as a filler; and
the application of surface coating to bowls (water-based, nitrocellulose, and
epoxy), including successes and disappointments.
CAW provided lunch Sub sandwiches from Primo's Chips & Pop
12:30 - 2:30
Richard Allen - My demo will show how to make a flower for the CAW
Collaborative Challenge. Learn how to turn slender spindles without a
steady rest. These spindles will conform to the CAW Collaborative Challenge.
Slender spindles can be used for many things such as magic wands or finials.
Learn the particulars for making two different styles of flower heads. Watch as
a flower head is made from a 3x3x1 piece of wood. Daisy Watch as a flower head
is made from a 2x2x3 piece of wood.
Jorge Salinas - I will be demonstrating how to use the articulated
hollowing tool that I have designed. I will demonstrate using the "Jorge
Articulated Hollowing Tool" for hollowing out a vessel, and other tasks that can
be performed with the same tool, such as outside turning, sanding, etc... I plan
to
have an interactive demonstration so that members can try out the tool during my
presentation.
Frank Stepanski - "Go Figure" Your work’s grain pattern is determined
before taking chain saw to log. Additionally I want to share what I have learned
about figure, where does it occur and how to enhance you’re chances of locating
figure.
Program for the month:
7:30 AM
Help set up for the demonstrations. Help get the coffee bar going or have a cup of coffee and a donut with your fellow turners. Talk tips and techniques with others. (Note the early opening. Help is needed to assist in demonstration setup. Please arrive early and assist.)9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show & Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 AM Don Hart will be demonstrating a variety of items, somewhat large,
small, smaller and invisible. To include but not limited to, captive rings.
Someone will have to bring a magnifying
glass or two.
Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show &
Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 - Patrick O’Brien. “Off the mini lathe, ready to sell" Patrick will demo four items, each of which can be turned to virtual completion in less than 1/2 hour from start to finish - a ring holder, fancy spurtle with thistle design, wine bottle stopper with threaded stainless steel and O ring base, and a mini kaleidoscope.
Program for the month: 8:30am - Hands-on skill enhancement. Members sharing
their experiences and helping each other with turning problems, sharpening tips, chucking
advice, or just practice.
9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements, and Show &
Tell. Bring in your recent turnings and share with us what you've learned!
10:00 - Don Riggs will be doing his last demonstration for CAW. Don and his wife are moving out of the area. Don will be doing a little of everything he does. He will start off with a general sphere, followed by a light pull, wine stopper and maybe a few other small items. During this time he will also cover the turning of jigs to accomplish what he is turning. The afternoon will be spent on a platter and he will outline his process for finishing.