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August 2002

TAW SVMOPSIUM at Arromont School

This is my last effort through the club newsletter to entice you to attend the Fifteenth Annual Tennessee As­sociation o f Woodturners Symposium scheduled for August is'^jevening), 24"' and 25"', at Arrowmont School o f Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, T N . The learning and fellowship with other woodturners is quite an experience. You have your Registration Packet. Why not plan to attend and mail it back today, i f you have not already done so. A f $89. no for the weekend proiiram, it's a han'ain. Have fun and help your club fund our three (3) internal wood-turning scholarships, make donations to Arrowmont and the American Association o f Woodturners as well as other worthy causes.

The demonstrators are as follows; Phil Brennion -Chino Valley, AZ Binh Pho - Maple Park, IL Andy Woodard - Columbia, T N

Please mark your calendar now and plan to attend.

O F F I C E R S AND DIRECTORS

At the August meeting we wi l l elect new officers and directors for the club. They w i l l take otTice after the sym­posium and at the October meeting (there w i l l N O T be a September club meeting). I f you are interested in one o f the officer or director positions, please contact Mike Zinser at 615/292-8652. 1 wi l l add your name to the slate that wi l l be presented for approval at the August meeting.

That slate (to date) includes:

Deryl Duer Gary Mart in Ray Sandusky B i l l Gray Pete Preston

Fred Takacs Randy Trentham (one year remaining on existing term)

NEW MEMBERS

John & Jean Lovelace 278 Noah Drive Franklin, T N 37064 jwilmasr@aol.com

President Vice President Sec/Newsletter Editor Treasurer Director Director Director

UPCOMING EV ENTS

1. Turning Southern Style V H I . presented by the Georgia Association o f Woodturners at Unicoi State Park and Lodge, Helen, GA on September 13, 1 4 & 15, 2002. Registration fees are S125 00 single, $145,00 family. For more information contact Jim Hutchinson, 2197 Kodiak Drive NE, Atlanta. GA 30345-4172 or phone at (404) 633-7982. Demonstrators include Binh Pho, Linda VanGehuchten and Dick Sing.

2. The East Tennessee Woodworkers Guild announces the second annual Woodworker's Weekend scheduled for September 27 - 29, 2002 at Arrowmont School o f Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, T N . For additional information contact Rick Scott, 109 Hayes Lane, Clinton, T N 37716 or phone at (865) 435-1444 Demonstrators and/or speakers w i l l be Alfred Sharp, John Lucas and Dan Duncan. Cost appears to be associated to with the room costs at Arrowmont.

3. Tennessee October Turning Festival, October 26"" & 27"', 2002. Nashville, T N . This is an event in planning by Deryl Duer o f T A W and Hershel Mil ler , president o f Midsouth Woodturners Guild, and seeks the help o f a lhhe Tennessee Woodturning organizations. It is anticipated to include vendors, demonstrators and hands-on working areas

4. The second annual Florida Woodturning Symposium, December 6-8, 2002 at Lake Yale near Eustis, FL Reg­istration fees are $75.00 before June 30 and $85.00 after that date. For information contact Ken Jackman, Sym­posium Chairman, 19990 SW 7 1 " Place, Dunnellon, FL 34431-5175 or phone at (352)465-4702. jmerkt.bsai@,worldnet att.net. Demonstrators w i l l be B i l l Johnston, Pat Matranga, JoHannes Michelsen and Mark St. Leger.

Books of interest I glued myself to the Cambium book booth at the symposium. Here are a few that I found very interesting. You can purchase these online from www.cambiumbooks.coTin or you can get your local bookstore to order them for you.

Scratching th'' SuTfacc— Mich.ac! ¥?o?a!uk This book is prima-rily a photo book on surface design. It covers ftir-niture and turning. There are many high quality photos o f turnings and furniture demonstrating different tech­niques for enhancing the piece wi th texture and color.

Turning wood into art: the Jane and Arthur Mason collection- This is another photo book showing the huge collection o f work by the Mason's. These are the who's who o f woodturners. You get to see fine photos o f the work o f all the greats.

Turning Threaded Boxes- John Swanson He goes into very good detail on how to create boxes o f different styles that all have threaded lids. Quite interesting i f your into trying your hand at wooded threads

Turned Boxes 50 designs by Chris Stott Some o f you may remember our visit by Chris Stott. He turned a box with fitted lid in under a minute. This book doesn't show you how to do that but does demonstrate the making o f a whole passle o f different boxes. I f you get in a slump and can't think o f a good design for a box, I can highly rec­ommend this book. Most o f the designs are simple, just very well thought out. It should keep you busy for quite a while.

Classifieds

J-line lathe- Rebuilt J-line 12" swing 34" between centers. Has I 1/4x8 spindle. (i-2 morse tapers and 4 step pulley with indexing on drive spindle. Double wide bearings installed recently. This is cast iron and quite heavy. Live center, drive center and faceplate and a couple o f tool rests included. $200 John Lucas 931-525-6400 eve­nings

1 H P 1725 motor- Tiwaneese 1 hp 1725 rpm motor. Brand new in box. Wired for 115v. Make offer Joh n Lucas 931-525-6400 evenings.

Tom Vandervort and Cliff Brothers demonstrate Turned Spirals By John Lucas

The July demonstrators were Tom Vandervort and Cliff Brothers. They demonstrated various spiraling tech­niques. The demonstration started with C l i f f showing how to use the Sears Router Crafter. First the piece is turned to shape on the lathe. Then it is placed in the Router Crafter and the spirals are cut. There are a lot o f deci­sions to make regarding how many spirals, the shape o f the spirals and how far around the spindle they go. These are all covered in the manual. The piece could be turned on the Router Crafter with a flat ctitting bit and then spi-raled afterword. It 's a pretty neat device.

They no longer make the Sears Router Crafter so you ' l l have to find one on Ebay, Tve seen several for sale and prices go around $200. I got outbid on about 6 o f them and found out last night that my bid o f SI 48 was highest bidder There are 2 more for sale and the bids were up to S100 the last time 1 looked.

I f your really handy you can build one. Router Magic by Bill Hylton has complete plans for building a j i g out o f wood and bicycle gears. I t doesn't look very complicated to build and should work pretty well . I t can be purchase from www.amazon.com or ordered from your local boodstore. L found one at Davis Kidd,

There is also an industrial version o f the router crafter sold out o f England I f I remember correctly they run from about $600 up. They are heavy duty and meant for serious work. I f anyone is interested I ' l l try to find my information again.

Tom Vadervort then demonstrated doing bowls wi th spirals. He makes a form out o f plexiglass that clamps to a curved tool rest. Tom said it is easier i f you make the bowl close to the shape o f the curved tool rest His curved form was kind o f ogee shaped to give a nice graceful flowing curve to the bowl. This spiral j i g was clamped to the curved tool rest. Tom used a PVC spacer on the tool rest so he could adjust the rest while keeping the height con­stant. You can also adjust the tool rest so the router simply comes out o f the cut instead o f having to stop the cut.

There was a brief discussion o f making the j i g . Tom said not to use the microwave to heat the plexiglass. It w i l l bubble and catch fire. He used a torch holding it back a good distance and heating the plastic until you could bend it. Go slow it 's easy to bum or melt the plastic.

* l have some experience here since I worked in a sign shop a mi l l ion years ago or so. We used an oven set to 400 degrees. The plastic was heated until it was pliable and then placed in a form. For intricate shapes we made male and female forms to hold the hot pliable plastic in shape. For simple concave forms we simply pulled the plastic over the form and clamped it until cool. To change the shape a little or to add a compound curve we used a heat 2un The hear gun N.'.'ifi a'so melt or hhsr^Nt the plastic s i 'I'l.e ir on Ir i 'v poiver and heat i t slow'v You can r u t the plexiglass wi th a j i g saw or handsaw for curves and table saw for straight lines. You can polish the edges with a file or sandpaper.

Tom used a trim router to cut the spirals while the bowl was on the lathe still mounted to the faceplate. Lar­ger routers wi l l hit the headstock and you may not be able to cut the spiral all the way down. Tom used a bushing on the router to ride on the j i g . He used the index on the lathe to position the router but said that homemade in­dexing jigs are easy to build.

As I watched I couldn't help but wonder how a homemade jam chuck would work. Reverse the bowl and hold the lip probably with hot glue because the router would put a fair amount o f force on the bowl. The faceplate could be made just large enough to hold the lip. The router would clear this and you could cut all the way from the bottom to the lip. I don't know i f this would work or not but might be worth some experimentation.

That was a great demo. Thanks Tom and Cliff . Your both very good at teaching what you do.

Instant Gallery

Gary Mart in- Oak burl Ray Sandusky- 4 ash bowls, gum hollow vessel Charles Lawson-Ash table Randy M i l e s - bird house Ernest Sherrell-Chip carved plate, wood burned red tail hawk box top Don Thompson-Oak stool, oak box John Oxley-Bias turned oak bowl Pete Preston-Box with gold pen part for the top Clay Crowder- Natural edge cherry bowl Fred Tacas-VValnut bowl with carving

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Franklin Road

Hilisboro Pike

Old Hickory Blvd.

i Harpeih Hills Church o f Christ

1-65 South

Exit 74 B West

Brentwood

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Woodturners We meet on the 1 st Tuesday

o f the month. The meeting starts at 7 P M . We meet at the Harpeth Hil ls Church o f Christ-1949 Old Hickory B lvd -Brentwood, Tn 37027. Take 1-65 south o f Nashville to the Old Hickory Blvd . Exit 74-B. Cross Franklin road, going 4.1 miles (not quite to Hilisboro Pike). The church is on the left side o f the road. Facing the church, use the left side entrance, half way down the building near the back o f the sanctuary. Everyone is welcome.

Membership in the Tennessee Association of Woodturners is open to anyone «ith an mterest in the craft of woodturning. Annual dues are $25.00.

Officers:

President - Mike Zinser-615-292-8652 Vice President-Brenda Stein-615-662-1246 Secretarv/NcMsletter Editor

John'Lucas-931525-6400

Librarian-Ste\s Shores 931-596-2505 Treasurer Jimmy Campbell-931-381-9379 Imed. Past President- Bobb>-Clemons