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xxPresident: Ian H Manley….…….. [email protected]
President: Jim Silva ………… [email protected]: Phil
Arcouette Sr. …. [email protected]: Lenny Langevin .
[email protected]
Gateway Turners website www.gatewayturners.org webmaster – Jim
Silva [email protected] official chapter of the American
Association of Woodturners www.woodturner.org
Minutes of the August 12, 2014 meeting of the Gateway
TurnersHands On – September 6th noon to 3 pm
(contact Ian, or Lenny, before the hands-on session if you want
help with a particular turning problem)
Next Meeting is September 9, 2014
September demo will be a refresher (round robin) on pen
turning.
October demo will be hollowing a vase.
The meeting opened at 7:05 with 12 members present. Ian thanked
everyone for coming to the club picnic.
The Old Colony Craft Fair will be October 25, and $40 has been
sent for the booth rental.
Bob Francis said the set up time for the Rochester Country Fair
is 8:45 on Saturday and Sunday. Jim Silva asked members tomake tops
to give away at the fair. Mike Grady brought in 6 tops for the give
away.
A check for $100.00 was given to Jim Zine for rent.
Phil Arcouette reported a balance of $797.84.
John Buchanan asked if anyone has any special books woodturning
books, and if they would bring them in to share. Perhapswe could
order some.
Jim Silva is going to redo the club website.
Mike Grady said the Cape Cod Turners may host Cindy Drozda
(www.cindydrozda.com/) in April. The plan was for a one daydemo and
a one day workshop. He thought that she would probably cover 2-4
items such as small vase, lidded box, making
finials.
It was suggested we put flyers about our club with pull tab
information in local libraries. A sample club flier for use at
the
Rochester county Fair was shown – 50 copies were to be made for
giveaway at the fair.
Bernie suggested we take inventory of club items. He also
reported that the company that owned Woodturning Design had
gone
bankrupt and that magazine was no longer available.
Mike Grady will bring goodies to next month's meeting on Sept
9.
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Bring Back Bob Scott was away on a vacation and so did not bring
in his item
Challenge - - make a tool handle that has an elliptical cross
section for all, or part, of its length
Lenny made an oval tool handle for asmall hammer out of Hickory.
The tool
was for a friend who will use it forsplitting small firewood
chunks.
Bernie showed an unfinished handle outof Poplar? to mount a
Hosaluk adapter.One section will be left oval to prevent
rolling on a lathe bed.
Ian took exception to using a copper ferrule on toolhandles that
used adapters such as the Hosaluk, or the
adapters made from plumbing fittings that he demo’d ayear, or so
ago. His reason is that the ferrule was
unnecessary and made for a bulky handle.
The middle picture is one of Ian’s adapter tools. The endpicture
shows a Hosaluk adapter and several uninstalled
adapters made out of plumbing fittings.
Challenge for September – Turn a bowl and bring it in before
finishing and unsanded to see how good a surface can begotten using
tools.
Show and Tell
Mike Grady showed a bowl and a container vessel made of Maple
with Walnut collars. To allow for wood drying, he used
Aileens’sTacky glue to fasten the kiln dry Walnut to the fresh
Maple used for the bases. He also brought in 2 kinds of tops to be
given away at
the upcoming Rochester County Fair.
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Ian Manley showed some weed pots made from Black Palm, Spalted
Maple, and the “striped” weed pot was laminated using Mapleand a ¼”
Bloodwood using medium CA glue. The weed pots have test tubes
inserts so that fresh flowers could be used as well as
artificial flowers. The weed pots were finished using all 3
steps of a Beal finishing system.He also showed another Red Mallee
burl bowl made from wood picked up in the Bad Burl trip of a few
months ago. The burl wasfastened to a faceplate via a wooden disk +
hot melt glue. The glue was softened when done and removed – any
stubborn traces of
glue were removed using a brass wire brush.
Jeff showed two antique baseball bats that he made for the
Hingham Baseball association that formed in 2006. The bats weigh
34-35ounces. Blanks used to be available from Barnstable, but is
now available from Bear Bros. He now uses Ash blanks which cost
$22
and an “antique” bat sells for $107.
Jim Leatherwood made a MahoganyCribbage set. The pegs are
from
Zebrawood and Goncalo Alves. He plansto make several more sets.
The set is
finished with a mixture of beeswax andmineral oil in a 1:5
ratio.
Jim Silva showed a mildly scorchedCherry bowl finished with
Walnut oil.
The bowl was sanded prior toscorching.
Detail view of the logo’s branded on thebaseball bats. The brand
is rolled onto the batsurface, and is messed up, needs to sanded
off– which can only be done a few times before
one needs to make a new bat.
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DemonstrationIan demonstrated bowl turning.
Ian demonstrated turning a bowl in a short time period. He
started with a mostly round Maple blank mounted ona screw chuck. He
usually drills a 1” deep hole and then puts 1, or 2, ¼” plywood
disks between the blank andthe chuck. The plywood disks serve to
compensate in case the blank surface is not totally flat. Also, in
theunlikely event he get a major catch, he can remove a disk and
remount the blank in the existing, mounting hole.
Ian, with safety visor, explaining aconcept.
Some of the group
He started off by shaping the outside of the bowl starting
fromwhat will be the bottom of the bowl. After removing part of
thewood, he repositions the tool rest closer to the blank to
reduce
the forces on his turning arm. The last cutting pass on the
outsideof the bowl will be made with a sharp bowl gouge leaving
a
surface free of torn grain and suitable for sanding. A tenon
ismade, using either a detail gouge, or a Skew. Ian has one
skew
whose cutting angle roughly matches the angle of his dovetail
jawchuck.
With the bowl is remounted on its tenon, he then cuts and
definesthe top edge of the bowl. His preference is to hollow the
bowl
using a plunge and pivot motion, sort of similar to
RichardRaffans’s back hollowing cut. He hollows out the first 1” of
the
bowl, then makes a final cut on the bowl’s inside lip. Then
hehollows further. By only hollowing out an inch at a time, the
mass of the bowl remains to dampen and reduce the vibration
ofthe outside edge.
Usually he uses a 5/8”, and a ½” bowl gouge with long pulled
back wings for shear scraping. When cutting theoutside he rides the
bevel using a pull cut. When finishing the inside of the bowl he
recommends leaving bumpat the center, rather than a divot at the
center – it is a lot easier to sand out the bump than to relevel
the bottom.
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Finally (but not during the demo) the bowl isremoved, remounted
using a vacuum chuck ora jam chuck, the tenon removed and any
finalshaping of the bottom is done.
The finished demo bowl with ¼” walls and a ½” thick base
Ian showed the bowl made duringthe August 2nd hands-on. It was
notkept in shavings, or a box of chips,or a paper bag, and had now
warpedinto an oval bowl. It ought to bepossible to sand it using a
drill pressmounted sanding wheel and onemember took it home to
see.
At the end of the demo, discussion took off on to the topic of
flute shapes and its effect on chip removal, shearscraping, hook
tools, etc.
Other business -
Bob Francis posed a question to the group. He had made a coffee
mug using parts similar
tohttp://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/p/54/5274/Artisan-Travel-Mug-Kit?term=coffee%20mug%20kits.Unfortunately
some boiling hot water was put in it and the outer wood container
cracked. The question how toremove the Epoxy that fastened the
stainless steel liner to the wood while salvaging both the cup and
the outerwood shelf. While the group had several methods to get the
stainless steel liner out undamaged, there was noconsensus on how
to save the wood for reuse. The conclusion reached was to patch the
wood and keep thecoffee mug for use in bob’s truck.
No wood swap was held since there was not a lot of wood
handy.
The meeting adjourned at 9:45.
Respectfully submitted – Lenny Langevin and Bernie Feinerman
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