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The CAW Newsletter is the official publication of the Capital Area Woodturners, Inc., a

chapter of the AAW, and is published for the information of its members.

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CAW Newsletter NOVEMBER

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President’s

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About Our

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Skill Enhance-

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From the new

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VA Symposium

Show N’ Tell

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Program for the Month - Quick Projects

Meeting

Announcement:

Date: Saturday,

November 8th, 2008

Time: 8:30 AM –12:30

PM

Place: Bryant Adult Edu-

cation Ctr. 2709 Popkins

Lane, Alexandria, VA

DIRECTIONS TO THE

MEETING:

From Virginia or Maryland,

take I-495/I- 95 towards

the Wilson Bridge over

the Potomac River.

Take Exit 177A (Rt. 1

South) on the Virginia

side. Approximately 1.9

miles south of the Belt-

way, you will pass the

Beacon Mall complex

with Lowes Home Im-

provement Warehouse on

your right. Drive past the

main entrance to Beacon

Mall, go 4 more stop

lights – about ½ mile.

The 4th stop light will be

Popkins Lane. Turn Left onto

Popkins Lane and go 2

blocks. Bryant Learning

Center entry will be on your

right. Drive to the East side

of the building. Plenty of

parking on the side or in the

rear of the building.

The entrances to the wood-

working shop and meeting

rooms are off the back cor-

ner of the east side of the

Bryant Center.

Meeting Information

For the November meeting we have small projects for the holidays. We all have small pieces of wood, too pretty to throw out. We will have several CAW members demonstrating small projects that can be completed in a short time, 30 to 45 minutes. You get gift ideas and an excuse to whittle down the scrap pile. December brings the Annual Woodturners Ball . There will be food, a turning exchange, and fellowship for all. In January, the theme is hands-on-bowl turning. This will be a skill-building day where you get to turn and learn. Bring a bowl blank and turn it round. Please contact me at [email protected] or 703-329-6305 if you would be willing to assist/mentor turners for this event.

CAW Newsletter November

Monthly Program Details for November 8th

8:30 AM Help set up for the demonstration. Look over the For Sale items in the equipment room. Help get the coffee bar going or have a cup of coffee and a donut with your fellow turners. Discuss the items in the Show & Tell table. Rent a video. . Talk tips and techniques with others. 9:00 AM Show and Tell. Photos of member items will be taken for the next CAW Newsletter. The tape library will be open. NOTE THIS CHANGE FOR ALL MEETINGS: The video library will be open except during the

business meeting and demonstration times. (This will enable Bill to attend both of these activities.) 9:30 AM During the business meeting a vote on the 2009 Budget will occur. 10:00-12:30 Members demonstrate their favorite, and maybe most profitable, small projects. These projects will be those items that can be turned, finished and off the lathe in a few to several minutes. 12:30 PM Clean-up. Arrange meeting room and shop back to school standards. Everyone’s help is needed and requested.

The holiday season is fast approaching. Whether making gifts for your family or items to sell in craft shows, it's time to get your order in for Penn State pen or project kits. Check out the new Penn State web site at www.pennstateind.com and email Amy Rothberg at [email protected] with your orders or questions. Also note that Amy is a Teknatool dealer so contact her about Nova and SuperNova chucks and accessories.

Bottle Stopper Exhibit

The Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia, PA is putting together a juried/invitational traveling exhibi-tion of corkscrews and bottle stoppers. Internationally known artists Boris Bally and Michael Hosaluk will curate this exhibit. They are looking for original corkscrews and wine bottle stoppers for a show scheduled for May 2009 which will be held in conjunction with the 2009 Society of North American Goldsmith’s Annual Conference in Philadelphia. There are no restrictions regarding materials and methods of construc-tion, except that the corkscrew or bottle stopper must fit into a bottle of wine or be able to open a bottle of wine. - Video or film documentation of ways of getting into a bottle of wine will be considered. - Sets including a corkscrew and related bottle stopper(s) are welcome. - Collaborative projects are welcome - Work in the show can range from functional to decorative to absurd. Zany crazy ideas are fine. For a prospectus or more information contact Suzanne Kopko at [email protected] or (215) 923-8000. Application deadline November 3, 2008.

It is time for membership renewal and Phil Mannino will start collecting the $25.00 for 2009 dues during the November meeting. Annual dues are due on January 1, 2009 and are consid-ered past due on March 14th.

CAW Newsletter November 08

ONEWAY ORDER

CA places orders throughout the month. Check your catalog or call up the ONEWAY website at www.oneway.on.ca to see what’s available and email your order to CA at [email protected]. If you need something any time during the month, send him an email and he will order and have it to you within a week. Also check the ONEWAY website for the new turning tools . Items can be picked up at Bryant School on the 2nd Wednesday or last Tuesday during the Skill En-hancement workshops, at the monthly meetings or by special ar-

rangements, or orders can be shipped to you. You pay when you receive your order. CAW--ONEWAY SALE OF THE MONTH - NOVEMBER 20% OFF!!! MOST PRODUCTS EXCEPT LATHES!!!!!!!! PLUS SHIPPING!!! Will provide quote upon re-quest. Happy and Safe Turning!!! CA SAVOY

CAW 2008 Officer Roster

President, Frank Stepanski 228 Aquia Bay Ave Stafford, VA 22554-5327 540-720-4202 [email protected]

Vice-President,

Gerry Headley 3017 Sanford Place Owings, MD 20836 (H) 410-286-5958 [email protected]

Treasurer, Philip Mannino 11543 Clara Barton Drive Fairfax Station, VA 22039 (H) 703-250-2876 [email protected]

Secretary, Al Melanson 5561 Ann Peake Drive Fairfax, VA 22032 (H) 703-250-6781 [email protected]

Program Director,

Mark Wollschlager 5914 Otley Drive Alexandria, VA 22310 (H) 703-329-6305 [email protected]

Operations Director,

C. A. Savoy 1309 Gatewood Drive Alexandria, VA 22308 (H) 703-765-7268 [email protected]

Newsletter Editor,

Richard Sherwood 11907 Bracken Court Bowie, MD 20820 (H) 301-805-1020 [email protected]

Club Support Volunteers

Tom Boley - Newsletter Proofreader

Don Kelley - Show and Tell Photos

Bill Bearden – Video Library

Aaron Grebeldinger – Education Outreach

George Salinas – Bryant Display Window

Walter Fink -Raffle Coordinator

Mike DeWan/Johathan Hess -Demo Fee Collection/Auction

Bob Pezold – CAW Clothing Phil Brown About Our Members Contributor

Joyce Beene About Our Members Asst. Contributor

RJ Stroman – Mentor Program

Priscilla Glasow – Group Buy

Call of the Lathe by Tom Boley

No matter how many times I say it or hear it, I still find myself moving the tool rest without turning the lathe off. I did it the other day with a very thin walnut bowl which had some awesome bark. The banjo moved the 5” dust collector hose which then sucked itself onto the spinning bowl and gouged a deep scratch almost all the way around the bowl. I was able to sand it out, but it reminded me that when the call of the lathe overpowers good judgment, it’s time to stop and refo-cus.

CAW Mentoring Program by RJ Stroman

Do you want help with a specific project or improving your general woodturning skills? Then the CAW mentoring program is for you. You can contact me at [email protected] or 800-516-7621 and I will explain how the process works. I will also match you with another turner who can assist in enhancing your skills and who will ideally be in the vicinity of your home or as close as possible.

IF CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE TO YOUR CONTACT INFORMA-TION, INCLUDING YOUR EMAIL OR MAILING ADDRESS, YOU MUST CONTACT PHIL MANNINO at [email protected] . NEITHER CA SAVOY OR RICHARD SHERWOOD CAN MAKE THE CHANGES.


Greetings all.. As mentioned we lost David Reel to brain cancer. He was a fine member of CAW and our represen-tative to Artisans United. I know he will be missed by many, myself included. Congratulations are in order for our New Board Members. I'm pleased to announce Bill Bearden will be taking over as Vice President and Christine Zender as our Newsletter Editor; Gerry Headley is moving to the position of President. Our 2009 CAW Board lineup will be; Gerry Headley President Bill Bearden Vice President CA Savoy Operations Director Al Melanson Secretary Christine Zender Newsletter Editor Phil Maninno Treasurer Mark Wollschlager Program Director We deferred voting in of our 2009 Budget until our November meeting so plan on considering the budget and you will hopefully have some ideas how we can increase receipts to provide for a more robust balance. I want to correct an error in my notes from last month. Walter Fink will be taking over the lead as our CAW Raffle coordinator. Jonathan Hess and Mike DeWan (when they are not engaged in col-lecting demo fees) have volunteered to stay on board and assist Walter. Well we had some great ideas for our tips and Jigs session. Each of our presenters had all their fingers intact, ergo obviously proven and effective solutions. I realize our silent auction has been silent over the past several months as we conducted our exotic wood buy. Silent auction will be in full swing for our November meeting so please plan on bringing something in to donate for the auction. This is one way we generate revenue for the budget and I’m sure most members have tools, wood, and other items that are no longer being used. Clear out some shop space for a good cause. Fairfax County Christian Church Copper Beech. I would like to encourage CAW members who were part of the wood collection effort to make something for donation to the church. Christine Zender made a couple very nice bowls. Several CAW members have approach me expressing difficulties with cracked turnings. I understand that. Sometimes beech can be difficult and I really do appreci-ate their giving it the good college try. I'm looking forward to next month’s Mini - Quick Projects demonstrations by various CAW members.

The President’s Message - Frank Stepanski

Bob Horowitz (Bob The Woodturner) will exhibit and sell his work at the City of Fairfax Holiday Craft Show (November 15-16) at Fairfax High School, 3501 Rebel Run in Fairfax. Then he will do the Wakefield Park Holiday Art & Craft Show (December 6-7) at Audrey Moore RECenter located at, 8100 Braddock Rd., Annandale, VA. Two CAW members received awards in the "Decorative Objects" category at the WWG exhibit "From Our Trees ... Artistry is Revealed" held at the Del Ray Artisans Gallery in October. Out-standing Design went to Neil Kagan, and Outstanding Workmanship went to Patrick O’Brien. In making the award to Neil for "The Secret Rose", Juror David Fry wrote "Everything in this contem-plative piece is paradoxically in motion, like a stream. It would have been easy to leave the external body of this covered box static and unadorned, but instead it moves with divergent yet complemen-tary contours relative to the spirals on the top and bottom. This is another piece with druidic mojo." And in making the award to Patrick for "Fluted Cherry Bowl", Juror David Fry wrote "A solar medal-lion of sorts, this piece exudes crispness from every angle, with the fluted underside radiating the hard, striped figures of agate pitched inward. The subtle variation in flutes reminds the viewer that a human hand, and not computer, guided the righteous cuts." Lynda Smith-Bugge’s sculpture, "Thunderstruck", was juried into the exhibition "AQUIFER" at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 701 Ninth St. NW, Washington, DC (enter on the 700 block of 8th Street, NW between G and H streets). This opens Saturday, November 8th with a reception from 6-9 pm, and closes Friday, December 19th. Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 12-4pm, except the Gallery will be closed Thanksgiving weekend. On Saturday November 15th, they offer a Curators Talk & Panel Discussion from 2-4 p.m. This exhibit is sponsored by the Washington Sculptors Group and Washington Project for the Arts. Clif Poodry teaches INTRODUCTION TO BOWL TURNING November 22 and 23, and AD-VANCED BOWL TURNING on December 20 and 21, 2008, at the Woodworkers Club in Rockville, MD. See: http://www.woodworkersclub.com/practice%20class1.htm Aaron Grebeldinger will teach Bowl Turning on Saturdays November 22nd, December 6th, and January 3rd, 10 - 5 PM. at WOODCRAFT in Springfield, VA. Call the store at 703-912-6727 to reg-ister, or see www.woodcraft.com/stores/store.aspx?id=327&nav=classes. Tom Boley will be teaching Bowl Turning on Saturday November 22nd, Turning Natural Edge Bowls on Saturday December 20th, and Turning a Plate, Saturday January 24th. Classes are from 10am - 5pm at the Leesburg WOODCRAFT store. To register, call 703-737-7880 or email them at: [email protected]. See the class schedule at: www.woodcraft.com/stores/store.aspx?id=575&nav=classes . Don’t be shy! Promote yourself. Tell us about your woodturning activities in the CAW Newsletter. Best to send your information by the second weekend of the previous month (since newsletter dead-line may be early in the month) to Phil Brown, [email protected], or call 301-767-9863; or to Joyce Beene at [email protected] or 703-978-2032.


About Our Members by Phil Brown and Joyce Beene


Training Opportunity

2008/2009 Schedule by Mark Wollschlager

December 6 Christmas Party

2009 January 10 “U Turn” February 14 Wayne Dunlap March 14 TBA April 11 CAW Symposium

May 9 Barbara Dill June 13 CAW Picnic July 11 Terry Scott August 8 J Paul Fennell September 12 TBA November 10 TBA November 14 TBA December 12 Christmas Party

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Skill Enhancement WorkshopSkill Enhancement WorkshopSkill Enhancement WorkshopSkill Enhancement Workshop At Bryant School

WED. 11/12/08

9:00AM - 3:00PM

TUESDAY 11/25/08

9:00AM - 3:00PM

Special requests contact:

CA Savoy at [email protected]

Or: Don Johnson at [email protected]

Or: Al Melanson at [email protected] Or: Patrick O’Brien [email protected]

Or: Alan Becker [email protected]

PLEASE NOTE: There is a shop charge of $5.00. If you use any tool, includ-ing the band saw, lathe, drill press etc. the charge

will apply. If you come to visit and just watch, then - no charge.

YOU MUST ALSO BE A

MEMBER OF AAW IF

YOU WANT TO USE ANY

OF THE TOOLS

Training opportunities are available at the Mark Supik Woodturning Workshop in Baltimore. The classes to be held are - November 11, The Right Start; November 8, Beer Taps 101; and Decem-ber 13, Holiday Projects. For more information call 410-732-8414 or go to www.marksupikco.com

Table Saw Safety - Avoid Kickback at the Table Saw

Since many woodturners use a table saw in their woodturning efforts, and knowing everyone wants to use a table saw in the safest manner possible, a study of one of the major safety hazards of a ta-ble saw is in order. Kickbacks cause not just damage to the piece of wood but more importantly, kickbacks can cause injury and possibly even death if the injury is severe and the woodworker can-not seek medical treatment. See the article on kickbacks, appearing on page 8. The article ap-peared in the November 2008 edition of Popular Woodworking. It is reprinted with thanks to and permission from Steve Shanesy, Editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine.

1. November 20th is the deadline to apply for Gallery West's 12th Annual National Juried Show, which will be up February 4 to March 1, 2009. Get their prospectus at www.gallery-west.com 2. AAW announced a call for entries for a juried show "Turning to the Future – A Fresh Look at Wood Art” to be held at the Grovewood Gallery in Asheville, N.C., March 20 to May 11, 2009, dur-ing the annual meeting of The Collectors of Wood Art in Asheville. High resolution digital im-ages must be submitted during the period from November 3 to November 14, 2008 only, to www.grovewood.com. The gallery insures work while it is there and shares proceeds with the art-ist 50/50. If you are interested, request the

emailed announcement from Phil Brown or check the MCW web site for it. 3. The Creative Craft Council will again hold its juried all-media exhibit of work by members of guilds in this metropolitan area at the Strathmore Mansion in North Bethesda in the spring of 2009. The application will be out this winter. For any CAW member interested in selling your work, building a resume, and gaining exposure, this is a first class exhibit and an important local event to enter. 4. "Spirit of the Southwest." Details are on page 17 in the Fall issue of the AAW Journal and on the AAW website.


Exhibit Opportunities by Phil Brown

From the Upcoming Newsletter Editor by Christine Zender

Hello CAW Members! I have been chosen to be your new CAW Newsletter Editor. What an honor! I’m looking forward to the challenge and wanted to send out a shout to everyone. My first newsletter will be the January 2009 edition. Richard Sherwood, the current Editor, has been a great help with getting me going in the right direction. I have some ideas for the newsletter and wanted to ask the members for their opinions and sugges-tions…after all it is “your” newsletter. So here are some questions/comments that I would love your input on.

• Is there any topic/feature you would like to add to the newsletter? Anything you would like to see done differently?

• Do you have any suggestions or comments on the CAW newsletter format? • Are photographs important to you? Would you like to see more or fewer of them?

I would love to hear from every member….and if you would rather call me at home sometime to dis-cuss your thoughts, by all means do so. It would also be nice to know if you would like to contribute to the newsletter by authoring an article or two on what you might like to write about. This is a great way for members to get to know each other and will give our newsletter some diversity. If you don’t know what to write about, I will come up with a list of general topics to get your creative juices flowing and post it in the December news-letter. I look forward to hearing from all of you and happy turning. Christine Zender, 703-425-7114 [email protected]

The symposium will occur November 1st and 2nd, Saturday and Sunday. There will be two sched-uled demonstrations each day, plus 48 hands on sessions, listed below. The symposium will be at Expoland, 279 Expo Rd, Fishersville, VA.


Virginia 2008 Symposium - "A Hands-On Woodturning Experience"

Mentor Topic Bandy, Bill Pepper Mills Bandy, Bill Turning Distinctive Pens Becker. Alan Hollow Form, with Laser Blackwell, Andy Eccentric Boxes Boley, Tom Sharpening Boley, Tom Natural Edge Bowls Campbell, Doug Inside Out Turning Campbell, Doug Mastering the Skew Castleberry, Bart Turkey Calls Chattin, Fred Lamp Bases Crabb, Tom Two-Axis Hollow Form, All From the Top Cruise, Lucy Marbling Cruise, Richard Bowls Dale, Elbert Basic Skew Work Dale, Elbert Advanced Skew Work, Spin Tops Dill, Barbara Multi-Axis Turning Everett, Ruben Trivets Grebeldinger, Aaron Tops Hart, Don Sharpening Hart, Don Spindle Turning Kallman, Ray Bowl Bottoms, Seam Rippers, Etc. Karch, Ed Sharpening Karch, Ed Round Bottom Bowls Kiebert, Al Bottle Stoppers Lambert, Harold Bowls McCauley, Kirk Hat Making

Mentor Topic Mitchum, Drew 3-Legged Stool - 1 Mitchum, Drew 3-Legged Stool - 2 Moore, Ed Shell Ornaments O'Brien, Patrick Goblets O'Brien, Patrick Natural Edge Mushrooms Pearce, David Galley Quality Photography of Your Work Pearce, David Turning Distinctive Pens Proffitt, Jim Platters Proffitt, Jim Pyrography & Coloring Schlesinger, Morris Elbow Hollowing Tool Schlesinger, Morris Threaded Boxes Smith, Starke Turning Repairs, Chan Saw Safety Stepanski, Frank Wood Preparation Stepanski, Frank Bird Houses Voas, Don Vacuum Chucking Warren, Al Sharpening Warren, Al Two Piece Hollow Vessels Welch, Peter Natural Edge Bowls Whitehurst, Jerry Backboard Chucking of Bowls, + picture Williamson, Fred Greenwood Bowls Williamson, Fred Thompson Tool Hollow Forms

Being held November 14th through the 16th, 2008, will be the very first symposium exclusively or-ganized for "segmented" turners. The symposium will be held at the Marc Adams School which is located in Franklin Indiana. All the details are posted on the event website: http://www.segmentedwoodturners.org/ or you can contact Marc at [email protected] or at 317-535-4013.

Segmented Turners Symposium


Show and Tell for March by Don Kelley

This is a reminder that in order for your piece to appear in this section of the newsletter, at some point

during the monthly meeting, you will need to bring your piece to Don so it can be photographed.

Joe Cavanaugh,

8” Carrousel

clock of Brad-

ford pear

Gene

Crosby,

8” seg-

mented

bowl of

padauk,

walnut

canary and

cherry

James Gillespie, 8 x 8 x 3” maple 4 foot bowl Al Melanson, 8” copper beach bowl

John Overman, 8” x 6” pedestal holly bowl Frank Stepanski, drop spindles of sheoak, black palm

and marblewood


Show N’ Tell (continued)

Tips & Jigs Demonstrations

Frank Stepanski,

peppermills of

maple burl &

cherry

Yamin Zhuang, box and rings of Brazilian cherry

Richard Sherwood, Newsletter Editor Capital Area Woodturners (CAW) 11908 Bracken Court Bowie, MD 20820-4480 New CAW Members for October Welcome! We are glad you have chosen to contribute your

talents to our club. We look forward to the contributions you

will make and the pieces you will bring in to Show-&-Tell.

Your participation will add to our mutual love of woodturn-

ing and to our collective knowledge and skill. Membership in

the CAW Chapter is open to anyone interested in the art and

craft of woodturning.

State

MD MD VA

First Name

Kathy Meriam Emmett

Last Name

Fairfield Schroeder Welch II

City

Gaithersburg Gaithersburg Alexandria

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