InlandNorthwestWoodTurners...Librarian Sabrina Murphy [email protected] General Meeting March 7th, at 6:30 Woodcraft 212 N. Sullivan Rd. Spokane, Wa. This is the first attempt at

Inland Northwest Wood TurnersMonthly Newsletter

February - 2019

INW Wood Turners Newsletter - February 2019 – 2

Table of Contents

Presidents Message 3Announcements 4Project Of The Month 5“Show Off” Bench 7Show & Tell 7Volunteer Opportunities 10Wanted / For Sale Items 11


Presidents Message

At the last meeting on February 7th, 64 club members and guests came to see EdKrumpe, from Moscow, show us how to turn a natural edge winged bowl. More aboutthat later. Carl Bodenstein was our featured ‘Show-Off’ turner and brought a selection ofhis best work including Aussie burls and acrylics.

Cal Hanson talked to us about a tool exchange for club members. Damon accepted the‘Challenge Bag’ from Sam Frazier and will return something, for you if you are quickenough, to our meeting on March 7. Jim Christiansen did his usual benchmark qualitycritique of the table. Damon shared a little more about the Lend a Lathe program that isnow ready to start.

We welcomed long time member John Altberg into our cadreof Emeritus Members. John was the club Treasurer for the 8 or9 years before Carl (Bodenstein) took over the reins from him.If you ever have an opportunity to have a cup of coffee atJohn’s home don’t refuse it, it is the best in all of EasternWashington, and his lathe set-up is also something to behold.

As usual Ed was very entertaining and at ease before a group.He pointed out that the way to start a natural edge winged bowl, is with a half of a log,and to screw the bark. Ed completed the bowl and returned to Moscow with all of hisfingers and none of them were in a Ziploc.

The Vet’s Garage (3915 E Francis, C10) is open Monday thru Friday from 1PM to 7 PM(except Thursday may close early), Saturday 1PM thru 4 PM. I will be there on Tuesdayfrom about 1:30 to 4:30 PM.

On February 16, the were only 3 turners and one guest who came to Riverview, and thenormal 3rd Saturday event for March 16 is cancelled because both Ron Gooley and I willbe @ the Oregon Symposium.

At the Board meeting, Ron Valley reminded us that Cal Hanson will be doing ourdemonstration on March 7. Cal will demonstrate the correct way to make the four basiccuts on a lathe. In April Ron Valley will show us how to take a green log and turn it intoa ‘roughed’ out bowl with all the steps in between and explain the reason for each step.Then in May Dan Chadwick will take a ‘roughed’ out bowl, turn it to finish and sand it tobe ready for application of a finish.

There was a lengthy discussion about the INW Woodturners Mini-Symposium, that willbe held on November 2 @ Woodcraft. At the May 2, meeting Charles Schwartz hasagreed to be our Show-Off artist.

From President Doug:


AnnouncementsShow and Tell / Exhibit Table: Please bring your current work. We anticipate having a table for critique for those thatwant constructive appraisal, as well as a table for those that just want to show their work without critique. We encouragelearning and getting new ideas from evaluation, but some work needs none, and some artists prefer not to participate inthat fashion. The choice is always yours !*******************************************Raffle Table: Please feel free to bring extra wood, new or used tools, or other items for the raffle table. The moneyraised from the raffle helps us maintain day to day operations of the club.*******************************************Treasurer’s Message:Dues are per annum, beginning at each New Year, January 1, 2019. Renewaldues are $35.00, including family memberships, with students registered as membersfor free.We prorate annual dues for NEW MEMBERS ONLY till June 30th, after which a minimum dues forthe remainder of the year is $20.00. Current new members pay $32.50 for sign ups in February and March.Make checks out to Inland Northwest Woodturners or INW for short. Or see Treasurer Carl at a meeting.Please remember membership dues for INW have no relation to membership or dues forAAW, which is encouraged.

Also note that we have a limited supply of gouges left from our sub-wholesale purchase from Serious Toolworks. Pleasego to the Store page on the INW Website for details and prices. Excellent gouges at a great price !*******************************************WEBSITE UPDATE: our website is up and running and getting better all the time. Members and visitors areencouraged to view the new features at: http://inwwoodturners.com/*******************************************FUNDAMENTALS AT RIVERVIEW: On the third Saturday of each month there are demonstrations and opportunitiesfor hands-on experience under the mentoring of more experienced club members starting at 9:00 am until ?????Riverview Retirement Community is located at 1801 E Upriver Dr, Spokane, WA 99207 and the workshop is located justsouth of the main entrance on Ross Ct.

2019 Board of DirectorsPresident Doug Eaton [email protected] President Ron Valley [email protected] Carl Bodenstein [email protected] Tracy Fowler [email protected] Demo Coordinator Ron Valley [email protected] Demo Coordinator Ron Gooley [email protected] Frank Hutchison [email protected] Dale Scott [email protected] Sabrina Murphy [email protected]

General Meeting

March 7th, at 6:30

Woodcraft

212 N. Sullivan Rd.

Spokane, Wa.

This is the first attempt at a new formatfor the Newsletter. Any comments orsuggestions would be very muchappreciaed. Email to:[email protected]. Please put“WoodTurner” in the subjectline.


Project Of The MonthOn Pen Making and Displaying - By Frank E. Hutchison

Nearly every woodturner has, at somepoint early in their woodturning journey,turned a pen. Usually the first pen is aSlimline™ kit but there are many other kitsand styles. The first class I took after mywife bought me a Delta Midi was aWoodcraft penmaking class in Springfield,Virginia. Pens are a quick and almostfoolproof project involving little materialor accessories.

NO, I’m not going to discuss how to turn apen – there are excellent instructions thatcome with every kit which you candownload from Penn State Industries, CraftSupplies USA, Berea, etc.

First, I would like to discuss a tool that Ifound to speed up the preparation of penblanks. This is important because penturning is one of the few woodturningactivities that the actual turning is a smallfraction of effort involved in the project. Ihave spent less than 10 minutes in turninga pen – and that including sanding andfinishing!

It’s the drilling of the holes for the brasstube inserts and the subsequent endmilling that tends to eat up time (notcounting waiting for the epoxy to cure).There are drill press vises which offer toprecisely center the blank, but let’s behonest, you just need to be close tocentering. The only real requirement is tohold the pen blank vertical.

My solution was to makea simple handheld clampas shown on the nextcolumn over with adiamond cut to hold thepen blank.

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I made this clamp out of a piece of 2x4which I cut in half lengthwise, turned thehandles between centers and used ascrollsaw to cut the diamond. Finally, Iconnected the two pieces together with a1 ½ inch hinge using 1 ½” screws. Youwill need to use long screws becauseyou’re screwing into end grain.

With this clamp, I can quickly drillmultiple pen blanks or square the ends ofthe pen blanks with an end mill on thedrill press. In fact, I rarely create just onepen at a time any more because it’s notworth the effort when you can preparemultiple blanks with not much moreeffort.


Presenting and Displaying Pens

With the recent challenge to make pens for theVetsGarage’s fundraiser to sell at the VA shop, Irealized that while the wood provided wasbeautiful in itself (ebony and bloodwood wereoffered), a pen made from these woods wouldlook boring just by themselves – a problem not

faced with wood which has a lot of visible figure,such as spalted maple.

I do a lot more woodworking than justwoodturning – everything from a boat to tinybirdhouse ornaments, plus lots of toys. For thisproject, I was inspired by a recent projectdeveloped by Steve D Good(http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/) whichincorporated a business card holder with a cradlefor a pen.

This utilized the bloodwood provided for the penthat was remaining after I cut the pen blank andenables to the pen to be presented as a seriousinstrument – it enables a future purchaser tovisualize the pen being a centerpiece onsomeone’s desk.

Now, the card holder was cut out with ascrollsaw as were the two pen supports afterdrilling holes on the drill press. However, theycould have just a easily be cut with a coping sawor created by laminating thin boards together.You have options other than just the lathe forcreating projects.

Another touch is to provide a small cardexplaining what the wood is, the refill cartridgetype and who made the pen.

Breaking the Mold

You will notice that the pen doesn’t use the kitprovided center ring. Guess what? You don’thave to make a pen exactly in accordance withthe kit instructions!

I use a lot of slimlineTM kits because they areversatile. In addition, they use the same innardsas the classic CrossTM pens which I have seenused by many senior executives in business andgovernment.

Once you break free of the center ring, you arefree to redefine the shape of the pen. In this case,I wanted to beefier pen which is preferred bymen as opposed to the traditional slimlineTMshape and size which is preferred by women.

Other variations include throwing away thepocket clip to create a desk pen. And RussFairfield demonstrated to our club how to createa closed end pen. Having a closed end allowsyou to create a pen with a long top, typical ofpens used on desks or for a guest book. Thisgives you an option to create a special pen for aspecial occasion.

Final Thoughts

This month I used a mixture of tools for theprojects. Next month I’ll use a mixture ofmaterials for a project.

Keep doing a good turn!


“Show Off” Bench

Show & Tell

Presented by Carl Bodenstein


Ron Valley

Black Locust

Ron Valley

Black Walnut


Charles Schwartz

Camphor

Charles Schwartz

Maple


Volunteer Opportunities

The Inland Northwest Woodturners is a volunteer organizationMeaning that everything is performed by members who give of their time to conduct thebusiness and activities of the organization. Besides helping to promote woodturning,volunteers also develop friendships by working alongside their fellow woodturners andyou can learn new skills as well.

Volunteering is not time consuming. Board members spend 6-10 hours a month on theirduties but most volunteers only contribute at meetings or special events. For example,the video assistant is responsible for setting up and operating the video equipment duringour regular monthly meetings. It usually takes less than a half hour to set up before themeeting and 15 minutes to take down after the meeting - and the rest of the time is duringthe meeting - and you’re already at the meeting!

Current volunteer opportunities and their estimated time commitment per month are:

▪ Video Assistant (~1 hour)

▪ Assistant webmaster (~4 hours)

▪ Facebook coordinator (~4 hours)

▪ Assistant Coffee Coordinator (~1 hour)

▪ Assistant Newsletter Editor (~2 hours)

▪ Cutting Party Coordinator (~1 hour + event)

▪ Assistant Special Event Coordinator (~1 hour +~5 hours / event)

▪ Assistant Librarian (~1hour)

▪ Wood Raffle Coordinator (~1 hour)

▪ Club Photographer (~1 hour per meeting or event)

Give of yourself - help your fellow woodturners (and yourself) and have fun whileyou’re doing it! Training will be provided!


Wanted / For Sale ItemsWe are using the Newsletter as a mechanism to list MEMBER ONLY items for sale, tradeor wanted. Please submit all requests for listings to the Newsletter editor [email protected]. All items will be listed only once on request and if not sold oracquired during that months newsletter, a new request for listing must be submitted.

INW is acting as a listing agent only and is not responsible for the item, it’s condition,pricing, or any other logistics of any resulting transaction. Furthermore, INW takes nofee for any listing or transactions that take place as a result of the listing. Listings willstay on the Newsletter for one month only unless specific new request is made toextend the listing into the next Newsletter. No commercial listings are allowed formembers that have business interests in the items being listed. INW has solediscretion to not list or remove a listing that it feels is not in it’s general membership’sinterest. Lister’s contact information should be name and an email address only. Nophone numbers will be included in a listing for any reason.

For Sale - Oneway Easy Core bowl coring system. Very lightly used. Includes base plate,9", 11" and 13" cutting knives. The entire setup retails for over $700. Asking $425. 509-319-5174 between 11am and 7pm

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InlandNorthwestWoodTurners...Librarian Sabrina Murphy [email protected] General Meeting March 7th, at 6:30 Woodcraft 212 N. Sullivan Rd. Spokane, Wa. This is the first attempt at