Newsletters by West Bay Woodturners

February: Turning Spheres by Vic Mitnick. President’s challenge: Turn Hawaiian Calabash.

January: Review gifts from the holiday party and Edgar Whipple’s calabash bowl collection. President’s challenge: Turn Kitchen or Dining Utensils.

December: Winter Holiday Party. President’s challenge: Participate in Gift Exchange.

November Program: Discussion on chucking options. President’s challenge: use a scraper as the final step.

October Program: The Tomasic Refiner – Presented by Edgar Whipple. President’s challenge:

September Program: Presentation on Rose Engines by Jon Sauer. President’s challenge: Ornamental turning, anything with a repeating pattern, not necessarily performed on a ornamental lathe.

August Program: WBW & SVW Picnic at Cuesta Park, Mountain View. President’s challenge: Stone Inlay (WBW) and “For the Kitchen” (SVW)

July Program: Reciprocal Motion Lathes / Spring Pole Lathe by Laura Rhodes. President’s challenge: Turn and wear a name tag.

June Program: informal question and answer session. President’s challenge: Turn a punky piece of wood and avoid tearout.

May Program: Avoiding tearouts by Jon Bishop and Tom Gaston. President’s challenge: turning to a charitable cause such as a wig stand, beads of courage, pens for troops, or another organization.

April Program: turning Wig Stands and building Beads of Courage Boxes by Angela Gunn. President’s challenge: turn and texture any piece. Extra credit for unusual approaches!

March Program: Demonstration of texturing techniques by Brad Bond. President’s challenge: turn something with a skew. You will get an extra raffle ticket if your turning project makes noise. Hint: whistles make noise, LOL

February Program: turning a whistle with a skew by Jon Bishop. President’s challenge: turn a natural (live edge) bowl or a bowl with handles (winged bowl).

January Program: Presentation by Bob Bley on turning natural edge bowls. President’s challenge: Gift I made for the Holidays.