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West Bay Woodturners Newsletter: Woodturning Projects, June 2026. A table covered with a light blue cloth displays a diverse collection of woodturned projects, including large natural-edge bowls, dark vases, lidded boxes, and smaller vessels made from various types of wood with distinct grain patterns, showcased at a West Bay Woodturners club meeting.

Woodturners Newsletter, July 2026

West Bay Woodturners Newsletter is a monthly update on the club activities. This free resource is available to beginner and professional woodturners.

Next Meeting

Wednesday, July 15, 2026, 7pm

Bridges Community Church
(second floor meeting room)
625 Magdalena Ave
Los Altos, CA 94024

Program

  • Introductions of guests and new members
  • Program: Ask me anything and extended Show and Tell
    There were many lively discussions during the break at the June meeting, and I was hesitant to terminate the break for the President’s Challenge and Show and Tell. So this month’s program will be an impromptu ask me anything session, and an extended show and tell. Bring your finished items to show off, your work in progress for consultation, or just questions about process, tools, technique…
  • Break
  • Reminders and updates
  • Review of “President’s Challenge” items
  • Show & Tell

President’s Challenge

June: lidded hollow form (with or without threads)

A table with many woodturning itmes: lidded box and containers
President’s Challenge – Lidded Box
Two lidded boxes with a round finial on each lid.
Lidded boxes by Jon Bishop

Upcoming Programs

These are tentative, and yet to be committed to a date.

  • Escoulen class and chuck review (Bud Trapp and Claude Godcharles)

President’s Message

A recent commission gave me the opportunity to work with a timber that I had never turned before: quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides).

The commission was for a fifth wedding anniversary gift—traditionally the “wood” anniversary. The clients requested that it be made from quaking aspen because they were married among stands of these trees in Wyoming, giving the species special personal significance.

I accepted enthusiastically. Quaking aspen is one of those wonderfully pale timbers (along with holly and some coast live oak) that I find especially appealing. As I could not source it locally, I purchased a clean, freshly cut log.

Quaking aspen is a relatively soft wood, and this log was still very wet. I was concerned that I would not be able to dry it sufficiently before the anniversary deadline. In the end, I obtained three usable blanks from the log: the primary centerpiece bowl, a “backup” bowl, and a small blank destined to become a child’s porringer.

The initial rough turning was discouraging. Despite sharp tools and sound technique, the wood exhibited extensive tear-out. The fibers were simply too wet to shear cleanly; instead, they folded over and tore. Fortunately, once the blanks had dried, the timber behaved much better. A light sanding removed the remaining raised grain, leaving crisp, clean surfaces.

One of my primary goals was to preserve the naturally pale color of the wood. Because aspen is also quite soft, I felt that a low-luster finish would better suit both the material and the simple forms of the bowls. While they are fully finished, I consider them display pieces rather than everyday utilitarian ware.

Choosing the finish required some experimentation. I narrowed the options to two Osmo Polyx-Oil products: Raw Matte and Clear Satin. The Raw Matte was the obvious choice for the backup bowl, whose partial natural edge complemented the understated finish beautifully. Its success gave me confidence to use it on the porringer, which, having been cored from well away from the pith, remained almost uniformly white.

For the main bowl, whose more contemporary profile suggested a slightly richer appearance, I initially considered the Clear Satin. Before committing, however, I tested it on a separate piece of aspen. The result was striking: the finish imparted a pronounced amber cast, completely changing the character of the wood. That simple test almost certainly saved the centerpiece bowl.

The Raw Matte formulation contains a small amount of white pigment that offsets much of the natural ambering produced by the oil itself. The porringer retained an almost snow-white, creamy appearance, while the centerpiece bowl—cut somewhat closer to the center of the tree—revealed subtle mineral streaks that added quiet visual interest without sacrificing the overall lightness of the timber.

To achieve the final appearance I wanted, I applied a single topcoat of Liberon Black Bison Wax (Natural) and buffed it by hand. The result is a soft, understated sheen that complements both the pale color and the gentle character of this remarkable wood.

This project presented many challenges—timber, timing, and tear-out—but the greatest challenge was not mastering an unfamiliar wood. It was discovering what made this particular timber beautiful, and then ensuring that every decision, from form to finish, served to reveal rather than obscure those qualities.

– Edgar Whipple, President

Woodturning Book Library

A large library of woodturning, woodworking, and carving books is available to WBW members as part of our partnership with the Santa Clara Valley Carvers. Browse the online catalog, reserve a book or two, and pick them up at our next meeting. Some books feature galleries for inspiration, and some describe hands-on turning techniques.

Logo of Santa Clara Valley Wood Carving club: a woodpecker on a tree.

Last Meeting Review

Wednesday June 17, 2026

Woodturners newsletter notes by Laura Rhodes; pictures by Angela Gunn and Roman Chernikov.

Announcements

  • Guests: Daniel
  • Edgar offered anyone to try an air.microclimate powered respirator (PAPR). This was originally provided to Silicon Valley Woodturners as an industrial sample. Edgar didn’t like it because he wasn’t able to easily raise the face shield to examine his work. Vic Mitnick concurred with this assessment.
  • Bud Trapp had purchased a Klingspor sandpaper bargain box. Edgar sliced up samples for anyone interested but noted that they are too stiff to bend easily to fit in grooves while sanding.
  • Kirk DeHeer will be coming to Maker Nexus on Sunday, September 13th for an all-day demo. The cost will be $30.00 for members of either club.
  • Jim Koren is looking into doing a bulk buy of TransTint dyes following Mark Koenig’s SVW presentation on coloring with dyes. So far, he has three people signed up. They will divide the bulk buy into two-ounce bottles.

Demonstration – Denis Lillis

Dennis Lillis, in his woodturning workshop, demonstrated bowl turning and sanding.
At a West Bay Woodturners meeting, a smiling man with white hair stands behind a large white wood lathe, waving to the camera with his right hand. He holds a small dark wooden bowl in his left hand, while a taller, light-colored wooden cup sits on the machine bed next to it. Behind him, a large television screen mounted on the wall displays a video close-up of a woodturning demonstration.
A close-up photo captures a woodturning demonstration at the West Bay Woodturners meeting. A man wearing a name tag that reads "Dennis" is using a technique called thread chasing on a lathe. He uses a supporting tool to hold a thread-chasing tool steady against the spinning wood, cutting deep spiral threads into the end of a light-colored wooden box. Two other turning tools with wooden handles rest on the lathe bed nearby.
Two hand-turned wooden objects rest on grey fabric. The top piece is a smooth, light-brown hollow cylinder with rounded ends. Below it lies its matching spindle, featuring two raised flanges along the shaft, screw threads at one end, and a wider cap designed to fit into the cylinder above. Together they form a threaded container for storing sewing threads used in clothing mending.
Thread case by Dennis Lillis
A light-colored wooden sculpture featuring a continuous, twisting spiral design that winds upward from a flat circular base to a pointed conical top. The piece appears to be a turned-and-carved wood project displayed on a grey cloth surface.
Spiral by Dennis Lillis
At a West Bay Woodturners meeting, Dennis Lillis demonstrates thread-chasing turning techniques. He stands in the foreground holding a large paper template and a black tool handle, looking toward the audience. Behind him, a wall-mounted television displays a live close-up feed of hands performing the same technique on a similar paper drawing.
A group of people, mostly men dressed in casual clothing, are seated in rows of folding chairs facing toward the right at the West Bay Woodturners club meeting. They are an audience watching a thread chasing woodturning demonstration by Dennis Lillis.
A smiling man named Dennis, identified by his name tag as Dennis Lillis, stands behind a white wood lathe at a West Bay Woodturners club meeting. He holds a small, dark wooden bowl in his hands while a larger, light-brown turned vessel sits on the machine bed beside him. Behind him, a large wall-mounted television displays a woodworking demonstration.
This image captures an indoor meeting of the West Bay Woodturners club. Viewed from behind the audience, rows of attendees sit in folding chairs facing a speaker standing at a wooden podium near the back wall. To the left, a large wood lathe sits against the wall beneath a mounted television screen that displays a video feed, while a camera on a tripod is set up nearby. The room features light wood trim and large windows on the right side that look out onto a deck.

Dennis’s presentation was a recap of a workshop he had given at his house. He noted that the best woods for thread chasing have uniform grain. Some examples include boxwood and blackwood. However, it is possible to use other woods. He showed an egg-shaped box he made from a big leaf Maple burl threaded at 16 teeth per inch (he noted its threads were NOT hand-chased). He also showed a needle and thread box made of boxwood and a bigger acorn box with a walnut lid and Redwood base was Redwood for which he had machine-chased a Bolivian rosewood insert. For soft woods, another strategy is to make threaded inserts out of wood such as Blackwood or boxwood.

Dennis recommends using paraffin wax for lubrication. He also recommends using thin CA glue in thin coats to reinforce the teeth while cutting.

Dennis found he struggled with getting the correct angle of approach with the tool, the correct height for the tool rest and the correct angle for the tool. He showed a few of his hand-chasing tools, including: separate male and female tools for threading at 16 TPI (teeth per inch) and 20 TPI; and a Mahoney/Carter and Sons 16TPI combination tool. 16TP is recommended. To sharpen the thread-chasers he uses a 600 grit diamond card.

To get used to the body movements and rhythm involved in hand-chasing, Dennis suggested using a 3/8 “ 16TPI bolt mounted in a Jacobs chuck in the headstock. Use a pencil to follow the threads.

Threads are typically cut with the lathe running 300-500 TPM. Make sure there are no nicks on the tool rest. Also apply paste wax on the tool rest. One needs to make a stopping groove because you need to pull away before you hit the wall. For the male threads one can make this groove with a parting tool.  Dennis has a few different tools for cutting the relief groove for the inside of the female threads, including a handmade ground down scraper and a hollowing tool. He noted that the thread depth is typically .040 “.

Dennis demonstrated on walnut (not a recommended wood for thread-chasing). The hardest part is starting. It’s important to use a gentle touch establish the first threads and he indicated that walnut tends to crumble.

Finally, Dennis brought out his “secret” to successful thread chasing. He has a Baxter threading jig which fits his mini lathe. He transfers the piece in its Chuck to the non-rotating threading jig. The cutter spins at high speed in the lathe’s headstock. Thread cutting is done in multiple passes with fine increments provided by the jig.

A close-up view of a Baxter threading jig mounted on a JET wood lathe. The device features a large brass lead screw with a knurled adjustment wheel for precise movement and is constructed from stacked aluminum blocks. Wooden-handled turning tools rest nearby on the lathe bed, and the background shows a carpeted room, indicating this was displayed at a local woodturning club meeting.

President’s Challenge – Turn a Slip Fit Box

Lidded box by Jon Sauer
Lidded box by Jon Sauer
Two lidded boxes with a round finial on each lid.
Lidded boxes by Jon Bishop
Jon Bishop: two oak lidded bowls with black handles.
Jon Bishop: oak lidded bowls
Lidded boxes and small bowls turned from spalted wood by Tom Gaston.
Lidded boxes by Tom Gaston
Nate Segraves: Turned Redwood Burl Lidded Box
Nate’s Redwood Burl Lidded Box
Turned lidded box made from maple and cherry.
Lidded Box by Al Holstein
A lidded bowl turned from maple, walnut, and cherry. The image was prepared for the West Bay Woodturners newsletter.
Turned lidded dish by Jon Bishop
A collection of hand-turned wooden vessels and boxes displayed on a light-blue tablecloth. In the foreground, three distinct pieces are visible: a dark brown segmented box topped with an inlay and finial, a glossy reddish-brown lidded urn with an ornate stopper, and a smooth, light-orange wooden jar. Behind them are other woodturning projects, including a large natural-edge wooden bowl and a slatted wooden vase.
Turned boxes
Kevin Lee, a smiling man with short grey hair and glasses, wearing a teal polo shirt, holds up a small, two-toned wooden lidded box for the camera. He turned it from juniper. To the right, a table displays an array of woodturning projects from a West Bay Woodturners meeting, including dark bowls, a bowl with a blue interior, and various turned vessels.

Kevin Lee made a juniper box for his niece.

At a West Bay Woodturners club meeting, an older man, Harvey Klein, with a long white beard and glasses, wears denim overalls while holding up a small lidded wooden box. Several other turned wood pieces, including large natural-edge bowls and a glazed bowl, are displayed on a table behind him, set against light wood paneling.

Harvey Klein made a black walnut box with an inlaid Sycamore lid.

Dean Caudle made a black walnut threaded box.

A bearded man, Dean Caudle, with gray hair and glasses, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt with blue tie-dye patterns, stands holding a small turned wooden box in the shape of an acorn in his hands. He appears to be speaking or explaining the object. To his left, on a table covered with a light blue cloth, is a display of various woodturning projects, including a dark ribbed vase, a natural-edge bowl, and other small turned items. Behind him on the wall hangs a framed photograph of spiky plants against a blue sky. The setting appears to be an indoor meeting for the West Bay Woodturners club.
A hand-turned wooden acorn-shaped box resting on a light-blue cloth surface. The main body of the acorn is crafted from light golden-brown wood with prominent, horizontal grain patterns, while the cap is made of a contrasting dark brown wood. A small, dark stem protrudes from the left side where the lid meets the base, indicating it is a lidded container.
Acorn box by Dean Caudle
Angela Gunn, a founder of Turned Connections, smiles while displaying a woodturned lidded box from light-colored wood at a West Bay Woodturners meeting. She wears glasses, a large beaded necklace (all beads are unique, and were turned by different artists), and a blue T-shirt that reads "Catch Happens." A table in front of her is covered with an assortment of turned wood items, including dark bowls, ribbed vessels, and spindles, set against a background of horizontal wooden slats.

Angela Gunn had a box that she turned green. She plans on embellishing it using techniques she learned in an AAW symposium class.

A smiling man, Jerri Galli, with short gray hair and glasses, stands indoors wearing a blue striped polo shirt. He holds a small, lidded wooden vessel in his hands. To his left, on a table covered with a light blue cloth and a nearby workbench, are other turned wood projects, including a large burl bowl and woodturning tools. Behind him hangs a framed photograph of a Joshua tree against a blue sky. The scene is from an exhibition at the West Bay Woodturners meeting, where members displayed their recent projects.

Jerry Galli made lidded box starting out with an 8 by 8 square of walnut. The lid was Bay Laurel with a blackwood inserted knob. It was finished with lacquer and beeswax.

Fred Colman, wearing a beige “West Bay Woodturners” cap and wire-rimmed glasses, smiles as he holds up a miniature turned wooden box between his thumb and fingers. He is standing at a club meeting where other woodturning projects, including a dark bowl and a tall vase, are displayed on a table in the foreground, against a wall with horizontal wood slats.

Fred Colman made a little box.

Daniel Saal, a man with glasses and a short grey beard, holds up a small, turned wooden lidded bowl in his left hand. He is wearing a maroon t-shirt with a white circuit-board style pattern and has a pair of reading glasses hanging from the collar of his shirt. The background features light wood paneling and a doorway. He presents his woodturning project at a West Bay Woodturners club meeting.

Daniel Saal made a lidded bowl from Maple, walnut and blackwood.

Show & Tell

A wide variety of woodturned items are displayed on a table covered with a light blue cloth at a West Bay Woodturners club meeting. The collection features an assortment of wooden bowls in different sizes and finishes—ranging from dark, polished woods to light maple—including large live-edge burl bowls on the right side and a nested set of light-colored bowls in the front left. Interspersed among the bowls are various turned objects, including tall vases, lidded jars, small finials, spheres, and a tiered black pagoda-like object. The show-and-tell display was arranged for the WBW meeting and the woodturners newsletter.
A smiling man, Edgar Whipple, with glasses and a maroon t-shirt featuring the "West Bay Woodturners" logo, stands next to a wooden podium, holding up a light-colored wooden bowl in his left hand while resting his right hand on an open cardboard box. Behind him, a large wall-mounted TV screen shows a live feed of the room's interior and audience members seated under blue lighting. The photo shows the WBW club meeting in June 2026.

Edgar Whipple showed a nearly white juvenile English walnut bowl, an end-grain bowl from juvenile walnut and a silver oak bowl with a natural defect that led him to name it “witch on a broomstick emerging from her cave”.

After watching Mark Koenig’s demo, Bob Bley practiced using TransTint dyes on a piece turned from Buckeye burl. He first dyed it black, sanded it back, then colored with various colors. The final finish was MinWax wipe-on poly, then buffed with the Beall system.

Bob Bley holds a glossy, bulbous woodturned vessel. The piece features a swirling finish in teal, green, and dark brown. He is wearing a light beige button-down shirt, with glasses hanging from the collar, and stands in front of a wall of horizontal wooden slats.
Bob Bley turned and dyed a hollowform
A close-up view of a hand-turned wooden hollow form made from burl, featuring a glossy finish dyed in swirling shades of deep green and teal. The bowl has a rough, natural, dark-bark rim and sits on a light blue cloth next to another turned bowl with warm amber and orange tones.
Carole Gilbert smiles while holding two turned wooden hollow forms, one round bowl in her right hand and a taller cup-shaped vessel in her left at a West Bay Woodturners meeting. She is wearing a black T-shirt with a green logo. To her right, a table displays other woodturning projects, including a stack of small bowls, a tall vase-like piece, and a large dark bowl, set against a wall of light horizontal wood paneling.

Carole Gilbert made one hollow form of dry wood and another twice-turned. She buffed them with Tripoli wax.

Jon Bishop showed a router dish with grooves on both the top and bottom.

Jon Bishop smiles as he holds up a dark wooden bowl with a fluted, scalloped rim, showcasing a recent project at the West Bay Woodturners meeting. He is wearing a maroon T-shirt and has a large wooden medallion around his neck engraved with "Jon Bishop" and the "JB" monogram.
Jon Bishop turned a platter with grooves
A hand-turned wooden platter by Jon Bishop featuring deep flutes that radiate outward from a smooth, concave center bowl to create a scalloped, sunburst-like rim. The wood has a rich, amber-brown tone with visible grain patterns highlighted by a glossy finish.

Jerry Galli showed a pickleball pen (kit available from Penn State Industries). He made it from a pomegranate martini acrylic blank.

Jerry Galli, a man with grey hair and glasses wearing a blue striped polo shirt, holds up a black display box containing a handmade turned pen with brass hardware. He is pictured at a West Bay Woodturners meeting, standing in front of a wall with horizontal wood slats and other wooden projects visible on a counter to the left.
A custom turned pen by Jerri Galli rests horizontally in a long black presentation box lined with white fabric. The barrel features a vibrant, swirled pattern of translucent resin in shades of green, deep pink, and yellow, echoing pickleball court colors. Brass hardware accents include a pointed cone tip, a decorative middle band carved with pickleball motifs (holes or paddles), and a unique brass clip at the cap end that resembles a small slotted paddle. A white satin ribbon wraps around the center to secure the pen in place.
Pickleball pen by Jerry Galli

Fred Colman made a vase of camphor. He went through the side, so he made a ring and filled the gaps with wood slurry. He threaded a wing top with a metal thread and put a crystal surprise on the inside of the lid.

Fred Colman smiles while holding up a turned camphor wood vase topped with a crescent moon finial. He is wearing glasses, a pink checkered shirt, and a beige cap that reads "West Bay Woodturners," standing in front of a light wooden slat wall with other wood projects visible on a table to his left.
A wooden lidded vessel featuring a distinctive crescent-moon-shaped finial stands centrally on a light blue surface at the West Bay Woodturners meeting. The turned vase displays varied wood grain with light amber and deep brown tones, accented by dark rings around the lid rim and shoulder. To the left sits a large wooden bowl with a small ladle, while to the right stands an intricate, ribbed wooden sculpture.

Kelly Smith had cored a large walnut piece with Dan Boehmke’s help. He ended up with two bowls finished with oil and beeswax. Kelly also made a juniper mushroom, a juniper vase, many small bowls from Chinese pistache, an apple mushroom, an offset-turned croquet handle and several balls, including two of Maple and two of teak and one small one of acacia.

Dottie Bang smiles while holding a dark brown wooden vessel that she turned and carved slats arranged in a spiral pattern. She is wearing a pink T-shirt with a floral design. The image was taken at the West Bay Woodturners meeting, where members displayed their woodturning projects.

Dottie Bang made a walnut spiral vase. The spirals were hand cut and required a lot of sanding. She also showed two large natural edge bowls.

A glossy, dark brown wooden vessel with a bulbous, spherical shape featuring deep, spiraling carved grooves that wrap around its surface. The piece has a high-shine finish and an opening at the top revealing inner vertical ribs. It sits on a light-blue cloth table cover, flanked by partial views of other wooden bowls, displayed as part of a woodturning project showcase.
Two finished live-edge wooden bowls sitting side-by-side on a light blue display cloth. The bowl on the left features rich, dark amber grain with dramatic black swirls and streaks, while the bowl on the right is a lighter golden-orange hue with smoother figuring. Both bowls have been turned to a glossy finish but retain their rough, natural bark edges around the rim.
Live-edge bowls by Dottie Bang
Luana Staiger smiles broadly while holding up a polished, brown turned wooden bowl at a West Bay Woodturners club meeting. She wears round glasses, a blue hooded sweatshirt, and a large wooden pendant necklace engraved with her name. In the foreground, other woodturning projects, including a dark vase and raw burl wood, are visible on a table against a light-colored slat wall.

Luana Staiger made a bowl but was unsure of the wood. There were several suggestions including locust and mulberry.

Harvey Klein, a man with a long white beard and glasses, wearing denim overalls, stands holding up a small, polished reddish-brown wooden vase. Behind him, a table displays an assortment of other woodturned projects, including bowls and vessels, at the West Bay Woodturners meeting.

Harvey Klein made a balloon box of Sycamore dyed with four colors of the Intrinsic Colours dyes.

Edy Chung made a doll with turned components including natural edge hair.

Edy Chung, a woman with long dark hair and black-rimmed glasses, stands indoors, holding a small wooden turning project resembling a figure with textured hair and painted facial features. She is wearing a white T-shirt featuring a Totoro graphic and has a black strap across her shoulder. To her left, several large, polished wooden bowls are displayed on a table covered with a light blue cloth, sitting in front of a window with closed blinds. To her right, a framed picture of yellow plants hangs on the wall. The image captures a moment from the West Bay Woodturners meeting where members display their projects.
Edy Chung turned a doll
A whimsical turned-wood figure stands centrally on a table draped in light blue cloth, surrounded by various wooden bowls and vessels. The doll-like object features a large, textured cap of pale wood, resembling straw hair, and a small face with simple dot eyes and pink cheeks beneath. Its smooth, grain-heavy body has a dark horizontal inclusion containing a tiny red ladybug, with another ladybug attached to the side. To the left sits a stack of nested wooden bowls, while a large two-toned serving bowl lies to the right. The background is filled with other woodturning projects, such as vases and boxes, displayed at a club meeting.

Tina gave a shout-out to Angela Gunn for the impact of her WIT Turned Connections Initiative, a bead exchange, at the recent AAW symposium.

John Sauer showed some old chase thread chasing tools. He also showed a Geiger box with a spinning top box made from Blackwood and acrylic that he bought back from the collection of a collector who had recently passed away.

Jon Sauer, wearing a blue plaid button-down shirt over a red T-shirt, is holding and displaying a small, dark, wooden box that has a thin finial protruding from the top. He looks directly at the camera while supporting the object with both hands. In the lower-left foreground, partially out of frame, are other wood-turned pieces, including a light-colored lidded jar and a dark bowl with vertical grooves.
Jon Sauer turned Geiger box
A collection of specialized woodturning thread chasing tools is arranged on a brushed stainless-steel surface against a light-colored wooden board. The largest tool features a long, polished wooden handle with a brass ferrule and a slender metal blade that ends in an upward-curving hook. Beside it lie two smaller threading scrapers with dark wooden handles and brass collars. Below them is a pair of metal thread-chasing inserts with serrated edges, held closed by a white rubber band.
Thread chasing tools
Kevin Lee holds two woodturning tools while near a table displaying turned wooden bowls and vessels at a West Bay Woodturners meeting. He wears glasses, a dark green polo shirt, and a name tag that reads "Kevin."

Kevin Lee showed a tool handle with an ER collet. He called out thanks to Chip Krauskopf for letting him know about ER collets and is happy that now he has a handle that will hold his 8mm hollowing tools.

Please let us know who turned these bowls:

Two hand-turned oak bowls nested together, displayed on a table at the West Bay Woodturners meeting. The larger bowl has a wide rim and a glimpse of blue paint on its exterior base, while the smaller inner bowl showcases light honey-colored wood grain with small natural imperfections. Other turned wooden objects, including a tool handle, surround the bowls in the background.
Large oak bowls
A handcrafted wooden vessel known as a "winged bowl," featuring a rectangular slab of wood with natural live edges and a deep, circular depression turned into the center. The wood displays rich golden-brown tones with distinct dark striping patterns. It sits on a light blue tablecloth, displayed at the West Bay Woodturners meeting alongside other club members' projects.
Winged bowl

Participation Prizes

A collection of raw wood blanks and samples arranged on a carpeted floor, likely for a West Bay Woodturners club meeting. On the left, a wicker basket contains light-colored squared blocks and hexagonal chunks labeled 'PRIVET' and 'COAST LIVE OAK'. Beside it, a blue plastic crate holds rough cylindrical logs of English Walnut with bark still attached. To the right, smaller items include a dark wood slat labeled 'A BLACKWOOD' and an open box revealing a woodturning chuck.
A top-down view of a cardboard box filled with rectangular wooden blanks for woodturning. The pieces vary in color from pale cream to dark reddish-brown, and several light-colored strips at the top and bottom are labeled "ASH" in black marker. These are pen blanks given out as participation prizes.

Woodturners Newsletter Editing Notes

WBW members, please let the newsletter editors know if you have a personal website, and would like it included in the President’s Challenge and Show & Tell sections of our Woodturning Newsletter. Email us at info@westbaywoodturners.com.

Board Members and Committee Chairs

President: Edgar Whipple
Vice President: Jon Bishop
Treasurer: Jim Koren
Secretary: Alison Lee
Member at Large: Bob Bley
Meeting Program Coordinator: Unfilled
Visiting Artist Coordinator: Dean Caudle (acting)
Anchor Seal: Dennis Lillis
Craft Supply: Tina
Librarian: Kelly Smith and Roman Chernikov
Audio Visual: Curtis Vose
Website: Roman Chernikov
Woodturners Newsletter: Angela, Edgar, David, Laura, and Roman

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