January 14, 2012

Program for the month:

8:00am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Discuss the "show & tell" items or rent a video.  Talk tips and techniques with other members.

9:00 - "Show & Tell." Photos of items will be taken for the next CAW newsletter.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)

9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements.

9:45-1:00 - Demonstrator is Les Wade, master woodworker from Fredericksburg, Virginia.  For Les, the lathe is just another tool in his furniture and cabinet making business.  Less will be addressing copying, split turning, fluting, spiraling, and indexing.  Then move into how to make spindles that use beads and coves to blend transitions smoothly, and how to lay out and carve pineapple and flame finials. 

Another highlight will be how to customize common tools: (1) regrind an old spade drill bit into a self centering bit that can be used with a drill bit extension to drill for lamp wires or starting deep hollow-forms; (2) the logic behind making custom figure 8 style calipers out of plywood that can be built to measure all situations; (3) regrind an open end wrench so it will cut a nominal sized dowel to an exact finished size.

February 11, 2012

Program for the month: 

8:30am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Discuss the "show & tell" items or rent a video.  Talk tips and techniques with other members.

9:00 - "Show & Tell." Photos of items will be taken for the next CAW newsletter.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)

9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements.

10:00 - Members share shop tips, hints, jigs, and tricks.

Bring a jig, tool, or technique you've used in woodturning to share. Show and tell how you completed a project that may be of use to others with a similar problem.  Techniques can be anything from selection of wood to different means to prepare a finish.  Come on out, share, watch, and enjoy.  You just might learn something.  

If you are interested in assisting this year please contact Mike Kinneymkinney578@aol.com or
(304) 725-4231.

March 10, 2012

Program for the month: 

8:30am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Discuss the "show & tell" items or rent a video.  Talk tips and techniques with other members.  

9:00 - "Show & Tell." Photos of items will be taken for the next CAW newsletter.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)

9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements.

10:00 - Demonstrator TBD.

April 14, 2012

Annual CAW Mini Symposium

Program for the month: 

8:30am - Set up for the demo. Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Talk tips and techniques with other members.  

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 before the symposium starts. 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. 

One of the goals this year was to insure that you are provided with a variety of topics and issues. With your help, Mike Kinney, our Program Director, will 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.

Schedule of turners: TBA

May 12, 2012

Program for the month: 8:30am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Discuss the "show & tell" items or rent a video.  Talk tips and techniques with other members.  

9:00 - "Show & Tell." Photos of items will be taken for the next CAW newsletter.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)

9:30 - Chapter business meeting with show notices, activity announcements. 

10:00 - Alan Carter will be our demonstrator.  See his website at alancarterstudio.com

A $7 Demo fee will be collected.

June 9, 2012

The 11th Annual CAW Summer Picnic/Social

On Saturday, June 9th, 2012 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 June 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 so please bring a dish to share according to the following list: No heating/cooking facilities available. 

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!!

July 14, 2012

Program for the month: 8:30am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Discuss the "show & tell" items or rent a video.  Talk tips and techniques with other members.   

9:00 - "Show & Tell." Photos of items will be taken for the next CAW newsletter.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)

10:00 -  Demonstrator TBD

August 11, 2012

Program for the month: 8:30am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Discuss the "show & tell" items or rent a video.  Talk tips and techniques with other members. 

9:00 - "Show & Tell." Photos of items will be taken for the next CAW newsletter.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)

10:00 - Demonstrator TBD

September 8, 2012

Program for the month: 8:30am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Discuss the "show & tell" items or rent a video.  Talk tips and techniques with other members. 

9:00 - "Show & Tell." Photos of items will be taken for the next CAW newsletter.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)

10:00 - Demonstrator TBD.

October 13, 2012

Program for the month: 

8:30am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)Talk tips and techniques with other members. 

9:00 - A short business meeting with show notices, activity announcements.  Members will vote on officers for the 2010 calendar year.  Because this is our annual elections, we will not have "show & tell."  

10:00 - Featuring Bill Grumbine.  See Bill's work at www.wonderfulwood.com

November 10, 2012

Program for the month: 

8:30am - Set up for the demo.  Look over the Group Buy items.  Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners.  Discuss the "show & tell" items or rent a video.  Talk tips and techniques with other members. 

9:00 - "Show & Tell." Photos of items will be taken for the next CAW newsletter.  The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations.)

10:00 - Demonstrator TBD

December 8, 2012  (date not confirmed)

CAW Holiday Party

Mark your calendars for Saturday evening, December 8, 2012, to reserve it for the CAW pot luck Holiday Social. 

Sharing Holiday Cheer!!

Capital Area Woodturners annual Woodturners Holiday Party, at Messiah United Methodist Church in Springfield, VA.  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 holiday turning from the members' entries; and exchange a turned object or other new item for those participating in the gift exchange.

5:00 PM - Setup - If you have some free time and want to help setup, arrive early.  Any help is appreciated.

6:00 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.

7:00 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.  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.