Woodcraft Guild

The Yellowstone Woodturners have selected October 1^st & 2^nd of 2011 to present a woodturning Symposium featuring professional turner Stuart Batty and his Turning Bowls instruction.

For more information visit the Yellowstone Woodturners website: http://www.yellowstoneturners.org/

Scott Clark Multi Axis Turning

We will be honored to hear from Jason Clark at our July Meeting. Jason will present projects that will focus on multi axis turning and consists of up to 4 multi axis projects.  The main feature is a lidded box with a twist that is turned on a total of 4 axis.  Additional projects include a pair of multi axis spindles and a pair of multi axis pendants.  All projects are done with minimal tools and with techniques accessible to beginners but interesting enough for more advanced turners.

Jason Clark Bio: Jason was born and raised in Pocatello and graduated from Highland High School before moving to Arizona in 1997.  His interest in turning started about 8 years ago after watching an episode of The New Yankee Workshop that featured bowl turning on a lathe.  A $200 investment in a lathe and tools at Harbor Freight set the wheels in motion.  He is primarily self taught as a turner and is happy doing any kind of turning except segmenting.

He is currently the Vice President and Program Director for the Arizona Woodturners Association in Phoenix Arizona and does annual demonstrations at each of the 4 clubs in Arizona as well as promotional events for Arizona Woodturners and local arts and crafts shows.

Meeting Events:

• Raffle — As always will be having our raffle and we encourage you to bring items for the raffle that you would be willing to donate to the guild. This is an important fundraiser that helps sustain guild events, demos and prizes.
• Instant Gallery – Silver level and Gold Level
• Members Challenge — This Month’s Challenge is to “Experimental Turning” Bring some experimental turning that you have tried. Of course non-members are encouraged to sign up as a member and meet this month’s challenge item.
• Lending Library of Woodworking Books and Movies
• Chance to Socialize with other woodworkers in the area

Location Details: Eastern Idaho Technical College Building #2 Room 215. If you turn off of 17th Street going North between Pier 1 imports and Burger King onto Ashment then right (east) between the Play it Again Sports building and the LDS institute building you will see building #2 on your left. It is a brick building with rounded corners. There is an outside door to the room we will be using and it will be open.

I have been thinking of making some wooden wind chimes that would play a specific song or have at least a repeating pattern and while trying to figure the plan out I ran across this Japanese commercial for a cell phone that has a wooden exterior and was completely blown away.  I am told that the sound you hear in this video is the actual recording from the wooden chimes as the wooden ball rolls it plays Bach’s Cantata 147.  Take a minute this video is worth it.

The 4th Annual Woodturners of Olympia Woodturning Symposium held on July 23-25, 2011 at the Komachin Middle School, 3650 College St. SE, Lacey Wa. Will feature Demonstrators like Stephen Hatcher and Mike Mahoney.  The event will have two full days of workshops and run on both Sunday and Monday

For more information visit: www.woodturnersofolympia.org

The speaker for the May Meeting is Harlan Lerum.  He will be discussing experimentation with the lathe.  More specifically, building on Tom Barker’s April presentation on segmented bowl turning, how can you play with segmented spindle projects.  Starting with the basics of Inside-Out Christmas ornament turning, what happens when you try different things like:

• Turning asymmetric quartered sections
• Turning quartered sections with different axis of revolution
• Introducing artificial spacing between your quarter sections
• Artistically drilling holes “Piercing” or creating voids in your blank before you turn it
• Inserting contrasting doweling or thin wood layers at angles to your work.

Meeting Events:

• Raffle — As always will be having our raffle and we encourage you to bring items for the raffle that you would be willing to donate to the guild. This is an important fundraiser that helps sustain guild events, demos and prizes.
• Instant Gallery – Silver level and Gold Level
• Members Challenge — This Month’s Challenge is to “Turn a completed project from green wood”  This can be a rough turn, dry, and re-turn, or finished to completion from green.  Scott showed us how to do it, so now put your new green wood turning skills to use. Of course non-members are encouraged to sign up as a member and meet this month’s challenge item.
• Lending Library of Woodworking Books and Movies
• Chance to Socialize with other woodworkers in the area

Location Details: Eastern Idaho Technical College Building #2 Room 215. If you turn off of 17th Street going North between Pier 1 imports and Burger King onto Ashment then right (east) between the Play it Again Sports building and the LDS institute building you will see building #2 on your left. It is a brick building with rounded corners. There is an outside door to the room we will be using and it will be open.