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A Chapter of The American Association of Woodturners
Volume 18, Issue 12 The woodturners’ local resource December 2013
Presidents Message
Well, it’s been an interesting and educational
two years for me as president. I think we’ve
accomplished a lot, especially considering our
volatile meeting location issue, which has been
a long time in solving. But perhaps we have a
solution on the horizon in the Multnomah Art
Center. Centrally located, near the highway
system, a place we can store our things, hold
meeting AND classes, even do activities out-
side our normal time, such as learn to turn, or
shop time availability for those without a lathe.
Lots of options available for us as a club to ex-
plore. We have lined up Franklin High School
as our meeting place through June, while we
try to finish our negotiations and secure MAC.
Mike is trying to get us into MAC for the Janu-
ary meeting, so we can try the space out and
see what we are attempting to move into.
This way the membership can see and experience the space, we as a club can evaluate it
in real terms, and we will then be in a better place to make decisions as to funding and
other things. Keep your eyes on My Family for the January meeting location.
I want to thank everyone who has participated with me as officers and board members
throughout the last two years. I appreciate the time and effort that has been put in to
make this club work for the membership. I also want to thank those members who have
volunteered for the upcoming year. It is through volunteering that our members gain
the most from membership, and our membership gain the most from the work of the
volunteers. I’ll be here to help, as will most all the other past board and officers, some
of which continue in their rolls.
Happy holidays to all. Richard
Northwest Woodturners meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of each month 7:00PM www.northwestwoodturners.com ... details and map for. Show /tell / Challenge NO December meeting January 2014 turning President Richard Hall [email protected] phone 503 649 5582 V. President David Williams Secretary Roger Crooks Treasurer Mike Meredith Members-at- Large Bill Giffin Max McBurnett Bob Mach Steve Newberry Jim Schoeffel Librarian Denvy Larson Lynne Hemmert Raffle John Neumann Supplies Roger Crooks Newsletter & Web Barbara Hall Official Greeters Jim Moore MyFamily Administrator Owen Lowe
Quick Updates
Note: the 35th Annual Utah Woodturning Symposium “A Tribute to Dale Nish” Regis-
tration opened December 1, 2013. www.utahwoodturning.com Contact: Susan Hen-
drix, Utah Woodturning Symposium Coordinator utahwoodturningsymposi-
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November Show and Tell
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Bill Giffen
Hamilton Byerly
David Williams
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Show and Tell …
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Hamilton Byerly
Rich Becker
Bill Giffen
Teapots need good pouring areas to be efficient. Teapots should have well shaped pouring spouts that funnel the liquid in a
steady stream with well formed lips that and the slant of the spout to direct the liquid to land into the cup .and not miss or spray
the guy sitting next to you. In addition the opening should be higher than the lid of the teapot or the tea will leak under the lid
instead of through the spout. I remember a museum display of silver coffee and tea servers designed by architects. Awards were
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Library Wagon News: december … 2013
This month we shall review "Woodturning Today A Dramatic Evolution". This publication was formulated,
"Celebrating The American Association of Woodturners 25th Anniversary 1986 - 2011". From the back cover: Dis-
cover the Beauty of Wood Shaped by the Hands of a Community. When it comes to the many traditional methods of
working with wood, there's something very special about woodturning. Woodturning is easy to learn and quick to ac-
complish; with a few tools, limited practice, and a small amount of space, anyone can unlock the beauty of wood in the
time it takes to prepare a meal...A Dramatic Evolution chronicles the impressive growth of the woodturning field, and
the development of the AAW within it.
This unique perspective celebrates the connection between the two and the role this premier woodturning organization
has played in making woodturning a highly respected art form.
This publication is put out by: The American Association of Woodturners, 222 Landmark Center, Saint Paul. MN
55102, and can be found in the Northwest Woodturning Library. See you all at the next Woodturning Meeting.
Denvy Larson
The first Oregon Woodturning Symposium is now scheduled for March 6-8, 2015 at the Albany Expo Center in Alba-ny, OR. This an idea I am sure many have had and now share with us. Although 2015 is a long way off, time is of the essence and a tremendous amount of planning or organizing still needs to be completed. Terry showed us a slide show vision for this symposium and for future symposia. He explained his ideas and answered our questions. There will be three rooms. The NWWT is proposing to handle one of the rooms. This means our members will setup, take down and staff this area. We will need someone to handle the sound and projector as well as needs of the demonstrators for the three days of the demonstrations. We need your input and although 2015 is over a year away, your commitments as well! It would be great to have an Oregon Symposium. Certainly a lot of fun for all of us! What do you think?
Demo November ... Terry Gerros from Willamette Valley club
November Show and Tell
Bill Giffen
Roy Ackley
Congratulations to the Challenge winners of Christ-
mas Stuff!
My apologies to the member who turned the delight-
ful little snowmen. Couldn’t find your name tag.
Volume 18, Issue 12
In memory of our members who have recently passed on
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Thanks to all the officers, members at large and all the members who helped make 2013 a fun and successful Wood
turning year for the Northwest Wood Turners ... Even with the succession of meeting venues! We appreciate the
time you took from your busy lives to make ours more interesting!
We want to thank our demonstrators who graciously shared their knowledge, techniques and special incites to help
make us better and safer wood turners. We can use what we learned to improve our own work and try out new
techniques and new ideas to make our pieces more interesting.
We thank our business members who have given us advice and have always been there to give us the right products
to do the job.
I want to thank the many wood turners who have given me permission to print their wood turning “How To’s”, in
the Northwest Wood Turners Newsletter these past four years. They have been extraordinarily gracious in their
willingness to share their turning designs and secrets with you. We are very fortunate to participate in a hobby or
business with so many warm generous people who want us all to succeed in an exciting, frustrating and sometimes
dangerous work and fun.
Bill Rufener Bill Wood Bob Tuck
Thanks all
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Our Talented Spouses
Artist, Mary Burgess, works in watercolor painting, Ukrainian Egg design, and creates beautiful decorative papers that she
uses for handmade books and boxes. Her favorite activities during childhood included drawing, painting, or creating a
sculptural masterpiece using paper towel tubes, egg cartons and other scraps that her mother had saved for her and her
three sisters to use as art supplies. With the support of art-loving parents, she was encouraged to major in art at Universi-
ty of Oregon and later at The Ohio State University where Burgess earned her degree in Art Eduction. She became an art
instructor at David Douglas High School in Portland, Oregon where she enjoyed teaching the ancient art of pysanky
(beautiful Ukrainian eggs) and book arts in her crafts classes, and watercolor painting in her advanced painting classes.
Since retiring from teaching in the public schools, Burgess has enjoyed more time to concentrate on her watercolor paint-
ing . She is a member of the Watercolor Society of Oregon and shows her work throughout the Pacific Northwest. Her
favorite subjects lately have been her five backyard chickens who entertain the family every day.
Burgess currently teaches workshops in Watercolor Painting, Pysanky (Ukrainian Eggs), Decorative Papers i.e. paste
grain, marbled paper and more. Examples of her work can be seen on her website: This means our members will setup,
take down and staff this area. We will need someone to handle the sound and projector as well as needs of the demon-
strators for the three days of the demonstrations. demonstrations. maryburgessart.com.
Mary has two grown sons and lives in Lake Oswego with her husband, Tom Willing , wood turner.
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design
I wanted to complete my 4th year of writing design articles in the NWWT Newsletter with a quick revue of the material
we have covered up to this point. My goal was to present ways in which you could incorporate your creativity and sense
of design into your turnings. Everyone is creative and often it takes courage to present your pieces in front of your col-
leagues, especially when in an experimental state. Many turners have learned to own their turnings and not let embar-
rassment or lack of confidence stop them from saying, “Here is where I am in my wood working and this is what I am
doing. I really appreciate the opportunity to show you my work and to learn from your comments”. They know how
lucky they are to have so many knowledgeable members interested in their pieces!
In review: We have defined design as the relationship of the parts of a piece to each other. The
properties of design are formed by the choices we make. We, as turners look at a piece of wood, see
the pattern its grain lines make, feel its weight, visualize how we are going to form it as a bowl, a
hollow form, a plate or a sculpture. Our choices are myriad, and aren’t judged as right or wrong,
but rather do they convey the feeling I as a designer want to convey.
In our creations and those of our fellow turners we have touched on the following principles of design: the first was bal-
ance which we defined as our impression of the weight of our piece and how that weight is distributed. We noted that
we are shaping a three dimensional object to be viewed from all sides including top and even the bottom.
We talked about colorizing our piece including color theory. How the placement of added color follows many of the
rules painters observe. We discussed color as an essential part of our piece, the natural wood tones that we enhance
with finishes, or the introduction of dyes and paints.
We talked about utilizing alternate materials in our piece: Will it be pure wood, or some oth-
er organic material as real leaves in Phil Lapp’s turning, or inorganic metal with wood in Wil-
liam Moore’s piece. We discussed the difference between usable vs unusable art with practical
spout design on teapots and other pouring vessels hit their mark into the cup.
We continued with a discussion on the golden ratio, (the golden mean). This is a formula we can all use to give a satisfy-
ing structural balance to our pieces. Proven over time since the ancient Greeks and used by inspired thinkers over time:
artists, musicians, architects, mathematicians and others. It is intimately related to the Fibonacci series which is part of
the new design material along with fractals for 2014. Throughout the ages people have found that this ratio plays an im-
portant role in the human mind finding balance and harmony. This may be partly because the golden ratio is expressed
so often in nature; it is thought of as one of nature’s equations. Spiral sea shells, seed and flower heads, pine cones, pine-
apples, branching in trees and bushes, honey bee colonies, and the human body proportions all express the golden ratio.
We talked about the different avenues we could take to generate emotion. We want to make a connection with the
viewer. For example, we could evoke desire - perhaps by making the viewer wish to touch or feel our piece. How about
evoking intrigue. We could do that by using something unexpected - a sound, a movement, perhaps a hidden mechanical
function, or a design that transforms. This we discusses in the article on kinetic sculpture! Another emotion is humor.
By using the unexpected, or by the use of exaggeration as for example a caricature, we can catch the viewer by making
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We encourage our Northwest members to visit their
stores and find the many new products they carry
and stock up on the necessary items for their wood
turning needs.
Be sure to remind the sales clerk that you are a
member of the Northwest Wood turners! We re-
ward our turner Show and Tell and Challenge win-
ners with generous gifts based on member purchase
from our partners.
Enter the challenge and win one of these
gifts with one of your 2014 turnings.
Our Business Members
Volume 18, Issue 12
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Editor’s Notes Local Events, Classes, & Demo’s
Key: H1 Hands-on class Friday H2 Hands-on classes Friday and Sunday H3 Three day Hands-on class D Saturday Demo
Jan 2014 Annual Swap Meet July 2013
Feb 2013 Aug 2013
Mar 2013 Sep 2013
Apr 2013 Oct 2013
May 2013 Nov 2013
June 2013 Dec 2013 no meeting: Enjoy Christmas
Willamette Valley’s Demonstrators
Cascade woodturners Demonstrators
If you did not receive a courtesy email from me that
the December Newsletter was on line the beginning
of the month, please email your corrected
email address to me.
All Newsletters can be accessed from the NWWT
website or the Members Forum.
Members Only who do not have email access; please
give me your address for mailing your November
Newsletter to you.
Submissions to the newsletter are due by the
20th of the month. Articles, tips, web links,
classified ads, or other items pertaining to
woodturning are welcome.
Barbara Hall
Newsletter/Website Editor
Phone: (503) 649-5581
E-mail: [email protected]
December 2013 Dessert Pot Luck and Auction
Doors open at 5:30 for socializing and feasting. Auction begins at 6:30.
2014 Northwest Wood Turners Meeting Schedule
December 2013 Ben Carpenter Topic: Turning Green Wood [email protected] 503-645-2231
Date Class /Demo Location Time
12/07 Turning Tools New Line Woodcrafters 10:00AM-3:00PM
12/14 Marquetry Woodcrafters 10:00PM-3:00PM
12/14 Pen Turning Rockler 11:00AM-12:00PM
12/14 Christmas Ornaments Rockler 1:00PM-2:00PM
12/14 Turning Yo-Yos Rockler 2:00PM-3:00PM
12/21 Photography Woodcrafters 10:00AM-3:00PM
12/28 Relief Carving Woodcrafters 10:00AM-3:00PM
Many other fine classes and demos are available from your local stores:
Woodcraft Store at (503) 684-1428 Email [email protected]
Woodcrafters Store at (503) 231-0226 Web page http://woodcrafters.us/ c
Rockler Store at (503) 672-7266 Email [email protected]
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P.O. Box1157
Lake Oswego OR 97035
Show your NWWT Membership Card to receive a discount of your purchase at Gilmer’s, Rockler, Woodcraft,
Woodcrafters, NorthWoods and Crosscut Hardwoods. Membership has benefits. (Plus great demos)
Design … continued
them chuckle or laugh. We had some funny pieces in Show and Tell! But perhaps that is not as important as the emo-
tional response that WE get while creating the piece. And there lies the true secret. If we respond to our piece while
creating it, we can be sure that others will respond to our piece while viewing it. As Dolly Parton sings “Celebrate the
dreamer in you”
The June 2010 issue of the Newsletter encouraged you to try sketching to work out potential problems before you
touch a tool to the wood. It also contained some interesting rules on sketching. Did you know a circle is more power-
ful than an egg shape? As the circle elongates tension is relieved. It therefore has a more calming effect.
The various mechanisms we use to embellish our designs are by calling attention to the grain, the colors
and the texture. We talked about pyrography. The November 2010 article spoke about positive and
negative spaces and the magic use of lighting to enhance or cause a mood.
Since we have only finished 2010, the rest is up to you. Review the other articles at your leisure. I would
appreciate learning what articles you liked, those that inspired you and those that were not very interesting as well as
those you want to know more about. I appreciate your feedback and as members subject their pieces for review in the
Show and Tell, I also want to hear your comments.
Barb Hall
