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Mid Columbia Woodturner's Club
Meeting Minutes for Saturday, March 10, 2007
The meeting was held at Don Gangl's shop (Crosswoods) in Kennewick, WA.
President Dave Pellicer called the meeting to order at 1:10pm
Treasurer's Report: Approximately $1,600 in the checking acocunt.
Announcements:
Reminder that the 13th Annual Southeast Washington Wood Carvers Juried Exhibit and Sale (Saturday March 17, 2007 and Sunday March 18, 2007) is at the Tri-Tech Skills Center in Kennewick, WA.
Reminder that the West Coast Round-Up Woodturning Symposium 2007 (Friday September 7, 2007 and Saturday September 8, 2007) will be held at the Richmond Hotel and Convention Center in Richmond, British Columbia.
AAW Handouts/Brochures were available at the meeting.
John Tucker will turn a commemorative plate as a club gift for past president, Denise Brooks. Members at this meeting were asked to put their signatures on a sign-up sheet. Delores Gangl will laser the signatures into the plate when John Tucker finishes it.
Show and Tell:
Ed Glenn brought in a printed announcement of his winning several prizes for his ornate, segmented game calls at the annual National Wild Turkey Federation exposition.
Ray Purser brought in several new rolling pins, one with segmented herring-bone pattern. Ray's work is superb.
John Barany brought his piece, Three Gentlemen and a Lady. These are very thin-walled, exquisite boxes in a grouping on a dental drill pierced base. John also explained that dental drill piercing works best on material that is 7 inch thick, or less.
Program:
Jim Hall (Portland, Or.) began his ring box turning demonstration at 1:30pm and discussed and demonstrated each step in the process he uses, along with appropriate tooling, some of which he has fabricated. He also demonstrated the Suede Tex® product procedure he uses for lining the inside of the ring boxes. John also introduced and demonstrated his use of Abralon® sanding pads (available from auto-body shops) which are part of his finishing arsenal.
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Jim also demonstrated his techniques for laying out both straight and spiral fluting on hollow forms and bowls. The actual "grooving" for both is accomplished by the use of steel or "kutzall" type burrs, used in a variety of hand-held equipment that includes Foredom machines as well as air-powered die grinders.
The meeting was adjourned around 4:00pm.
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