Category: Newsletters

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.

December Holiday Party, turned holiday ornaments, and gift exchange.

November Program: turning a bowl with handles by Tom Gaston. President’s challenge: Egg shape, any tool!

October Program: The exciting world of Scrapers by David Vannier. President’s challenge: turn a pen.

September Program: pen turning presentation by Jerry Galli. President’s challenge: not a bowl.

August Picnic: show & tell woodturning projects and a note about Randy Pi’s collection of unique woodturning creations.

July Program: discussion about homemade jigs and tools. President’s challenge: use holes as a way of embellishment.

June Program: piercing demo by Dave Vannier. President’s challenge: turn two or more detailed spindles as identical as you can manage.

May Program: spindle demo by Bob Bley and Claude Godcharles. President’s challenge: bring in a turned piece that shows the natural edge from the tree log.

April Program: ornamental turning live demo with Brad Bond. President’s challenge: turn a lidded bowl or canister

March Program: Finishing Part 2 – Finish types and application. President’s challenge: turn a thin-walled bowl

February program: Finishing Part 1 – Sanding and prep. President’s challenge: make a nice platter.

January program: Extended show and tell. President’s challenge: A turned tree or a mushroom, inspired by Kelly’s November demo.

December program: Holiday Potluck! President’s challenge: bring an ornament for the raffle.