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July 2009

Capital Area Woodturners Newsletter

The CAW Newsletter is the official publication of the Capital Area Woodturners, Inc. and is a chapter of the AAW, and is published for the information of its members.

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1st Annual CAW Swap Meet You know those tools you have that you never use, and can't remember why you bought them? Sure you do, we all do. That special gouge that never cut the same as in the demo. The carving set, special rasp, hollowing tool, wood bleach, dyes, extra wood, that kind of thing. Someone else may need it more than you. Bring them to the July meeting, sell them to, or swap them with a fellow CAW mem-ber.

“Bark”ing Bowls by Tom Boley Tom Boley will present “Bark”ing Bowls in July. Tom, a hobby woodworker all his life, became a wood-turner in 1995 and a full time custom architectural woodturner in 2005. Now, doing custom woodturn-ing for both restoration and new construction, he hardly has time for the artistic, keeping up with the needs of his customers and also managing the “business” side of the business. But one of his favor-ite areas of turning is natural edge bowls. He has explored other styles of natural edge beyond that of the basic natural edge bowl. These are the square natural edge bowl, the natural edge bowl cut “on the bias,” and the log bowl. On Saturday morning, Tom will demonstrate the square natural edge bowl. Just before lunch, Tom will describe the bowl cut on the bias and the log bowl. He says that the pieces which always seem to sell first at craft shows are those with a natural edge. Tom has always enjoyed turning square bowls so combining

the natural edge with the square shape seemed just the “natural” thing to do.

On Friday, the day before the CAW meeting, Tom will host a workshop on natural edge bowls. The first bowl will be the square natural edge bowl. Time permitting, turners will also be able to turn a natural edge bowl cut on the bias. We’ll talk about the log bowl so turners will know about this very interesting style of natural edge bowl turning. Cost of the workshop will be $35.

Tom’s shop is located out in the country on Black Oak Ridge in Loudoun County, VA. Friends are always welcome to visit but should call ahead to be sure he will be there and not out visiting customers or buying wood for the architectural side of the business. You can contact Tom at 540-338-1718 or [email protected].

1st Annual CAW Swap Meet & Tom Boley

Tree of the Month: Dogwood The word dogwood comes from dagwood, from the use of the slender stems of very hard wood for making 'dags' (daggers, skewers). The wood is highly prized for making loom shuttles, arrows, tool handles, and other small items that require a very hard and strong wood. There is a Christian legend of unknown origin that proclaims that the cross used to crucify Jesus was constructed of dogwood. As the story goes, during the time of Jesus, the dogwood was lar-ger and stronger than it is today and was the largest tree in the area of Jerusalem. After his cru-cifixion, Jesus changed the plant to its current form: he shortened it and twisted its branches to assure an end to its use for the construction of crosses. He also transformed its inflorescence into a representa-tion of the crucifixion itself, with the four white bracts cross-shaped, which represent the four corners of the cross, each bearing a rusty indentation as of a nail and the red stamens of the flower, represents Jesus' crown of thorns, and the clus-tered red fruit represent his blood. Blossoming at Easter, the flowers remind the faithful of Jesus' death and resurrected life.

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July 2009

CAW President’s Message (Gerry Headley)

I hope you had a chance to come out and enjoy our annual picnic in June. There was plenty of food for all: BBQ pork and chicken, fried and grilled chicken, some great baked beans, lots of good fruit and some great desserts to name a few. I'd like to thank Susan and Manny Fernandez for all their hard work in getting this picnic set up and going. There's a lot that goes on in the background in setting this thing up and more in the foreground. Susan and Manny were busy setting up the food and getting it ready before we were finally ready to chow down at 11:30. CA Savoy also did a tre-mendous amount of work in setting up the picnic. He brought the coolers and drinks, along with the lathes and accessories. Thanks to his work, we got a chance to do some turning on our Saturday while relaxing and enjoying our company. We turned a lot of small projects on the lathes and had great weather to do it. Manny and Susan must have some good connections for picnic weather. At our next meeting on July 11th, we will get to have our old friend, Tom Boley, come and do a Sat-urday demonstration with a workshop on the Friday before. I always look forward to seeing what he brings, because he has a lot of well-tested techniques and advice. We will also be trying something new. After Tom's demo, we will try a CAW swap meeting and tailgate sale. So, if you have that spe-cial tool or special piece of wood that looked so good when you bought it, but never used it, bring it to the swap meet and see if you can find someone to buy it or trade it for something else that looks good. I think I might have a number of those things myself. See you there! Gerry

Do you want to get rid of some “stuff/junk” in your shops, garage’s, and home?

If so, bring it to the July 11 CAW meeting at Bryant HS. You can sell it, trade it or just give it away to fellow turners.

All woodturning, wood carving and pyrography items are welcome: hand tools, power tools, wood, blanks, decorative materials, videos, DVDs,

books, old pen kits, lathe accessories, safety equipment, etc.


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About Our Members (Joyce Beene & Phil Brown)

CAW members picked up three awards given in the wood category given by the Creative Craft Council at the June 5th opening. John Noffsinger received 1st Place for vessel #469, 2nd Place went to Patrick O'Brien for Fluted American Elm Bowl, and Honorable Mention went to Lynda Smith-Bugge for her Interactive Bowl and Band Saw Cutout piece. This multimedia exhibit is a joy to see, and it remains open to July 11th. The Strath-more Mansion is at 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD. For further information see: www.creativecraftscouncil.org/ and www.strathmore.org/fineartexhibitions/exhibitions.asp#20293983 Arboreal Aesthetics is a nice article in the June issue of élan magazine (page 33) on Tom Boley's architectural turning business, however it shows a nice spalted hollow vessel from his artistic and speculative side.

Phil Brown, Eliot Feldman, Stuart Glickman, Gary Guenther, David Jacobowitz, Ed Karch and Stan Sherman lent pieces for a May exhibit by Montgomery County Woodturners in the wall case at the Potomac Public Li-brary in Potomac, MD. Images of each piece will be on the MCW web site. John Headley (Gerry Headley's son), age 11, is selling some of his pens through Artfx in Annapolis, MD. He had a display and demonstration on June 7th, on the First Sunday in Annapolis Art Show. With a home made dust collector and midi lathe, he turned eight pens out of Cocobolo, Padauk, Purpleheart, and Ebony. AAW invited John Noffsinger to do a piece for The Spindle exhibit, which contained works of more than 50 art-ists and was auctioned for benefit of the Professional Outreach Program at AAW`s symposium in New Mexico, June 26th to 28th. Locally, John's "#486 Stone Tower " was juried into the Art League`s June All Media Members Show at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria. On Sunday May 23rd, Pete Ward and CA Savoy were interviewed regarding the Eagle Head Cane project by WUSA9 TV. To hear and see interview, go to: www.wusa9.com/rss/local_article.aspx?storyid=86337 George Van Dyke is preparing for a solo exhibition opening July 24 at the Rawls Art Museum, 22376 Linden St, Courtland, VA (west of Norfolk). Depending upon the interest of participants who register in advance, Bob Stern and Aaron Grebeldinger teach either an introductory lathe class for turning pens or a bowl turning class on the third Saturday of every month at the Wood Shop on Gunston road at Fort Belvoir. Clif Poodry teaches each month with BEGINNING BOWL TURNING on July 25, September 19, and November 21. Then he alternates with ADVANCED BOWL TURNING on August 15 and 16, October 17 and 18, and Decem-ber 19 and 20 at the Woodworkers Club in Rockville, MD. See: http://www.woodworkersclub.com/practice%20class1.htm Aaron Grebeldinger will teach Bowl Turning on Saturdays July 18, and August 1, 10 - 5 PM. Nate Johnson teaches The Art Of Wood Burning on Saturday, August 29th, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM at WOODCRAFT in Springfield, VA. Call the store at 703-912-6727 to register, or see www.woodcraft.com/stores/store.aspx?id=327&nav=classes. Tom Boley will be teaching Turning a Plate on August 22nd. Class is from 10am - 5pm at the Leesburg WOOD-CRAFT store. To register, call 703-737-7880 or email them at: [email protected]. See the class schedule at: www.woodcraft.com/stores/store.aspx?id=575&nav=classes . Mark Supik offers six Saturday class on different subjects in July, August, and September at his commercial Bal-

Don’t Be Shy! Promote yourself. Tell us about your woodturning activities in the CAW Newsletter. Send your information to us by the second weekend of the previous month. Deadlines tend to be early in the month. Send to: Phil Brown, [email protected] or call (301) 767-9863 or Joyce Been at [email protected] or call (703) 978-2032.


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About Our Members - Continued (Joyce Beene & Phil Brown)

timore shop, with emphasis on between centers turning and bowls from green wood. The lathes and shop are a treat to see and use. The shop is just a few blocks west from the Lombard Street exit off of I895. For details see: http://www.marksupikco.com/School/schoolcurrent09-1.html Call for Entries Wood Turning 2009 at the Columbia Art Center, September 12- October 11, 2009 is a joint exhibit of Montgom-ery County Woodturners and Chesapeake Woodturners. See the prospectus, application, and commission contract on the MCW web site under Upcoming Events and Forms at: montgomerycountywoodturners.org/upcomingevents.aspx Pieces juried into this exhibition will be shown on the MCW web site. Craft Forms 2009, 15th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Craft, December 4, 2009 – January 23, 2010. Entry Deadline is SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, and fee is $40. Download the prospectus from www.wayneart.org/exhibits/pdf/craftforms_2009.pdf. For more information see: www.craftforms.com/ Turned wood no bigger than 5" in any dimension (in the spirit of a miniature) is welcomed at The 76th Annual International Exhibition of Fine Art in Miniature, November 22, 2009 - January 2, 2010, at Strathmore Mansion, North Bethesda, MD, sponsored by The Miniature Painters, Sculptors, & Gravers Society of Washington, DC. Ap-plication fee for nonmembers is $30, with hand delivery of pieces to Ingrid Barnes, or $45 for mailed submis-sions, due by September 26th. Download a prospectus with instructions for delivery from www.MPSGS.org. Send inquiries to Nancy Still, 301-977-2190, or [email protected] Exhibits Chesapeake Woodturners has an exhibit up at the Maryland Federation of Art on State Circle in Annapolis, MD through July 26th. The Creative Crafts Council 2009 exhibition continues at the Mansion at Strathmore through July 11th. It has turned wood by six CAW members. Strathmore Mansion is at 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD. For more information see: www.strathmore.org/fineartexhibitions/exhibitions.asp#20293983

Classes The 2009 Fall Arrowmont catalog is out with three woodturning classes of one week duration and two week-end classes in September and October. Classes are: Contain Yourself, by Clay Foster, September 20-26. Green Wood Meets the Bowl Gouge, with Bobby Clemmons, September 27 - Oct 3. Scrapwood Turning Projects, by Robert Rosand, Oct 4-10 Wood & Words: Building a Vocabulary for Expression, with Betty Scarpino, Oct 16-18 Defying Gravity: Legged Bowls & Vessels, with Alan Hollar, October 23-25. See their schedule at: www.arrowmont.org/registration/commerce.pl?page=fall2009-grid.html&cart_id= ACC Recognition. (Taken from ACC press release, except for last sentence.) Robyn and John Horn are recipients of the 2008 Aileen Osborn Webb Award for Philanthropy from the Ameri-can Craft Council. For over 25 years they have built a substantial collection of contemporary crafts in their home just outside of Little Rock, AR. Both are recognized as national leaders in the promotion and support of craft across a range of media. Their creative nature -Robyn, a wood turner and sculptor whose work is dis-played in museums across the country, and John, a letterpress printer who teaches at Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC - became the driving force in building a collection to serve both artists and the commu-nity. They are founding members of the Collectors of Wood Art, and initiative which strives to promote the value of woodworking as an art form. In 2007 the couple received the McColl Award from the Founder's Circle from the Mint Museum of Craft + Design in Charlotte, NC. Robyn received the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award from the American Association of Woodturners. They regularly offer their home for fund raising events


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benefitting the Arkansas Arts Center where Robyn serves on its Foundation Board. She also serves on Advisory Committees for the Wharton Esherick Museum in Paoli, PA and the San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design. Through the Windgate Foundation, Robyn has supported numerous woodturning endeavors such as lathes for the sculpture studio at Maryland Hall in Annapolis, and lathes for the classroom at VisArts in Richmond, VA. Items from AAW Call for a Marketing Volunteer AAW is developing a marketing plan to cover all aspects of the organization. They want someone with exper-tise and experience in the marketing field. If interested in helping AAW promote woodturning contact Mary Lacer at [email protected], or 651-484–9094. Call for 2010 Demonstrators Interested in demonstrating at the AAW's 2010 symposium? Watch for announcements in the journal and on the web site. The 2010 symposium, to be held in Hartford, CT, is the AAW's largest annual event and generally attracts more than 1,000 woodturners. For more information contact the AAW offices at 651-484-9094 or email.

Mark Supik and his crew appeared on MPT at 7:30 PM, Thursday June 18th on the "Made in Maryland" seg-ment of Your Money and Business. (http://www.mpt.org/publicsquare/ymb/ At the AAW Symposium in Albuquerque, Mark Supik had a piece in the POP exhibit. Mark had turned bowls on display in the Artists As Collectors show at the Columbia Art Center in June. See the bottom of: http://www.columbiaartcenter.org/index.cfm?page=exhibits or one of his pieces on their brochure at: http://www.columbiaartcenter.org/files/ArtistsCollectors.pdf

Bob Horowitz ("Bob the Woodturner") will be a featured artist in July at the Artists' Undertaking Gallery in historic Occoquan, VA. The month's theme is "Summer Woods." Bob will feature his natural edge bowls. He and his co-featured artist (who does beautiful pastel originals and prints of nature scenes) will host an artists' reception on July 25 from 2 to 7 pm. CAW members are welcome to visit.

About Our Members - Continued (Joyce Beene & Phil Brown)

Participants in the Creative Craft Council opening: From left to right: Neil Kagan, Jorge Salinas, Patrick O'Brien, Lynda Smith-Bugge, John Noffsinger, Bill Pierce (not a CAW member), and Phil Brown.


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May 30, 2009 - I spent the day in Richmond attend-ing the “Ingrained – Women and Wood Art Sympo-sium.” It was well worth the short trip and was a day long adventure in woodturning. The Visual Arts Center is an old dairy factory where milk was bot-tled in the early 20th century. It’s a large factory/warehouse type of building and very conducive to artistic demonstrations and exhibits. There were six woodturners there for the day and we covered all aspects of woodturning and other related crafts such as carving, woodburning, etc. There were actual demonstrations from Betty Scarpino, Bar-bara Dill and Hayley Smith. Betty discussed her

‘pod’ forms and how she makes them. She also discussed how she’ll frequently cut apart her turnings and use the pieces to form new, sometimes complimentary turnings. A quote from her demo stayed with me and it is “Always pick the best piece of wood…don’t save the best until later.” She said she made that mistake earlier in her career and its best to always choose the best first. Hayley Smith also provided us with an amazing demo. She is primarily interested in contrast, color and surface of her turnings. She uses a scorching tech-nique using a pencil propane torch to provide black coloring on her turnings. She also adds a bit of “lamp black” to the oil she uses to seal the scorch. This makes the black velvet looking and consistent. A wire brush is also used to give her turnings a ‘rough’ texture if she wants to contrast it with the smooth. Barbara Dill gave

a demo on multi-axis turning and I won’t go into detail on that as our club had that demo at our May meeting. Connie Mississippi and Michelle Holzapfel gave slide show presentations on their work and other wood artists. These presentations were very helpful and enlightening as they were about design, form and the more artistic part of woodturning. Virginia Dotson ended the day with a talk on her laminating techniques and how she places various blocks of laminated wood and veneers to create her signature bowls. She indicated how she preferred the ‘open form’ of a bowl because you can see the inside and outside of the piece. Like Hayley, Virginia is also interested in contrast be-tween light and dark primarily. It was a wonderful symposium and I look forward to next year.

From The Editor (Christine Zender)

All the female woodturners who attended the symposium.

Top left: Betty Scarpino, Left: Virginia Dotson. Right: Hayley Smith.


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I am asking for your participation in our journal American Woodturner. The journal offers many things packaged neatly between two paper covers: it records our history, showcases our work, discusses techniques and tools for producing our work, offers us projects to improve our skills, and critiques the work of our professionals. It is a large and complex undertaking to try and satisfy our diverse mem-bership.

Our journal is a member driven publication and is dependent on your participation not just as a reader, but also as a contributor. We welcome your input in creating content that represents inter-ests of all segments of the membership. If you do not see the type of articles or work that you think should be included in the journal, please write and let Betty Scarpino or a board member know. Bet-ter yet, write an article yourself on a subject that is near and dear to you. If you believe that you are not a writer, partner with someone who can work with you to put your thoughts and ideas on paper. That person may be your spouse, a friend, or another club member. If you have a project that you have developed, or a technique you would like to share, take some step-by-step photos of your process and write a set of instructions that will allow others to do the same. Here is a link that ex-plains what you need to do to provide.

If you have an idea you would like to discuss with Betty before you proceed, she can be reached by clicking here. She will be happy to talk with you about how you might translate your idea into a publishable piece.

Finally, many of us have made a jig to make a task easier, stumbled on a shortcut to speed up pro-duction, found interesting storage solutions for tools and other turning paraphernalia, made tools for a particular task, and discovered general tips to help us in our shops and with our turning. You get the idea. Please share those with the rest of us in our Tips section. Send your email tip to John Lucas or by snail mail at or 529 1st Avenue North, Baxter, TN 38544. You may be rewarded with seeing it in print and a check for $35.

June 2009 AAW Board Letter From Jean LeGwin

Month Meeting & Event Information

July 11 Tom Boley turning a natural edge bowl and the 1st annual CAW Workshop and Swap Meet.

August 8 J. Paul Fennell Carved and pierced hollow forms. Workshop is FULL. There is a wait list. Workshop = $110 (carving, embellishing hollow forms with rotary tools)

September 12 Alan Hollar “Now you have a burl, what are you going to do with it? “ Workshop = $50

October 10 John Jordan Workshop = $90

November 14 Mark St. Leger Workshop = $70

December 5 CAW Christmas Woodturner’s Ball

January 9 TBD

February 13 TBD


July 2009

Woodturning Symposium In Provo, Utah - (Frank Stepanski)

When a very good friend, Guilio Marcolongo, of Wonthaggi, Australia notified me he was to be a feature demonstrator the 30th anniversary of the world’s longest running woodturning symposium in Provo, Utah my destination was set. With 377 other participants, 25 demonstra-tors, 100 demonstrations, and a plethora of special events, this was with no doubt the best woodturning event I’ve attended in my 12 years of this exceptional hobby.

The officially scheduled Woodturning events start at 7pm Wednesday evening. However, for the hard corps attendee, woodturning re-lated activities start Wednesday morning at the Craft Supplies "Super Wednesday" event. With multiple professional demonstrators conducting

demonstrations throughout the day, a BBQ lunch, a super "clearance sale" area a 16:45 raffle of cool wood-turning items was really a great way to start my weekend adventure. Craft Supplies was selling raffle tickets for a donated Powermatic 3520B lathe. Funds raised from ticket sales were going towards woodturning scholar-ships.

The Wednesday evening Pen Turners Rendezvous kicked off the official Provo Woodturning event. The demon-strations are free to attend, you have the option to purchase a Raffle ticket, and I was encouraged to do so as I had inside information that "everyone wins something." Sure enough I won an autographed Russ Fairfield “Finishing Secrets" DVD. Those few who did not receive a raffle prize were offered consolation gifts of five genuine Bethlehem Olivewood pen blanks. Sweet.

Mike Mahoney, the Symposium coordinator, opened the symposium by presenting a history of the Utah Woodturning Symposium, paying special tribute to Dale Nish who attended a similar event in Philadelphia. Dale said "if they can do this out east we can do it better out west" and the Provo Woodturning Symposium was born. Mike also informed us there were a number of young woodturners attending this year. When ac-companied by an adult guardian, their attendance fee was waived. Mike also mentioned they had six mini-lathes and tools which would be raffled off and distributed to six lucky young woodturners. More on this later.

Kip Christian (former Provo Woodturning Symposium coordinator) announced his son Preston’s wedding re-ception which was that Thursday evening. This was planned by Preston as an opportunity to allow his fellow woodturning friends to join him and his new wife Lisa’s joy (very nice thought by an exceptional young man). Guilio, one of Preston’s mentors, very much wanted to attend. As I had the wheels, off the two of us went (I in my best woodturning attire, jeans, tennnies and CAW collared shirt.) We had a very nice time socializing with Preston’s family and friends, and also had the honor to meet Kip’s father. All present were really marvelous people.

After the opening ceremonies everyone was invited to a very nice selection of exceptionally delicious home-made fruit filled rolls, an assortment of fresh fruit, croissants, coffee, orange juice, and chocolate milk. This won-derful refreshment break was served each of the three days and was a very nice touch.

The trade show had a nice variety of vendors selling woodturning products. Incorporated with the vendor area was "Hands on Woodturning" where you could try out lathes, carving tools, hollowing jigs. You could as-semble and turn one of the snazzy laser cut Kallenshaawn pens (http://www.kallenshaanwoods.com ) and a

Frank Stepanski and Guilio Marcolongo


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variety of other related products, and of course the Youth Woodturning area, which was always manned ready for eager wood turners.

The Instant Gallery contained nearly 500 pieces of finely crafted pieces of art. There was quite a broad range of skilled wood turning for everyone to enjoy.

Thursday evening events consisted of a swap meet, egg cup race, and evening demonstrations. Cindy Drozda & David Nitt-mann conducted a “Right Brain, Left Brain” discussion (there will be a DVD available from this). Also were hands on woodturning as well as access to the instant gallery for perusing.

What is a woodturning symposium without the people… Gorst Duplessis in cargo shorts complete with "pocket gallery". I met Mark and Brian Gizi. Though they call themselves pen turners, their products are nothing short of spectacular miniature pieces of art. Gizi’s pens sell in four digit price range and let’s just say these are not your typical slim-line kits. Custom clips, nibs, and tips consisting of silver and brass inlays, and intricately carved overlays. There is nothing kit-like about a Gizi pen. One need not be a pen turner to appreciate the level this father and son team has raised the art of pen turning. Talking with David Nittmann on his work, which he spends in the neighborhood of 450 hours to create (450 hours = 8 hours a day for about 60 days). I com-mented to David he obviously has patience and he said "You only need patience for things you don’t like to do.” I thought wow, that’s kind of deep.

The Friday evening dinner feast consisted of a broad variety of vegetables, meats, and desserts (yum). They even served coffee. They conducted a live auction and raised funds during this auction which were placed towards the promotion of youth woodturning. Additionally Mike Mahoney announced an anonymous donor was kind enough to place $1,000 in the pot to go towards the purchase of some additional mini-lathes for the youth wood turners attending this year’s symposium. Mike produced one of his beautiful huge salad bowls and requested we pass the bowl in an attempt to raise remaining funds required to purchase a lathe for each of the youth wood turners. After dinner, the live auction, raised over $10,000. All funds will go towards further-ing Youth Woodturning Education. I walked away with a one of a kind Nish/Nittmann collaborative piece.

Some of the demonstrations I elected to attend included Hans Weis-folg Drunken and his saturn box sessions, Cindy Drozda and her magical finials, David Nittmann’s mesmerizing basket illusion decora-tion techniques, Guilio Marcolongo’s emerging box and turn-a-duck, and Bert Marsh’s exquisite flowing lines of a natural edge bowl.

Mike Mahoney hosted a demonstrator symposium after party at his beautiful home, being a chauffeur I was honored to attend this event as well. A very nice way to wind down after a four day, event filled, woodturning weekend.

The western base of snow capped Wasatch Mountains of the Uinta National Forrest, Utah Valley University (UVU) is a picturesque site to conduct any event and is especially brilliant when surrounded with

fellow woodturners from around the world. For those who require advanced planning, the next symposium is tentatively scheduled to take place over the second weekend of May 2010.

Woodturning Symposium In Provo, Utah - (Continued)

Saturn box by Hans Weisfolg Drunken

Spiked sphere by Christian Delhon, France


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How long have you been actively turning? I have been turning about 7 years. I started before moving to the area but since I hadn’t taken any classes, I wasn’t having much luck so didn’t spend hardly any time doing it.

How much time do you spend in the shop turning? My turning comes in cycles. I spend most of the time I have turning during skill enhancement days, other than that, it is a day or so infrequently.

What do you typically like to work on? I like doing bowls and have recently gotten into turning hollow forms that mirror the pottery of the Southwest Indian tribes. These are significant to me since I grew up in New Mexico

What is your most memorable moment in woodturning? Probably when I was asked to enter a piece I had turned into an art show and found out that the gallery owner purchased the piece before the show opened. I had priced the item to insure it didn’t sell since my wife wanted to keep it but was sur-prised anyway.

If you had to choose a favorite piece you’ve made, what would it be, and why? I turned a platter many years ago from poplar. Since it was so plain, I dyed the platter and it came out pretty nice. It cracked on the edge so I did some burning to conceal the crack. I have had a lot of compliments on this piece but one of the best things about it is that few people can figure out what the wood is due to the dye. (The platter is shown in the photo to the right.)

What are the largest and smallest pieces you have made? I’m not sure I can remember what these pieces would be. I am in the process of turning the largest hollow form I have attempted so I’ll see how it comes out.

Have you entered any competitions, shows or exhibits? If yes, can you give us some details? I guess the art gallery entry, discussed above, would fall into this category.

What is your favorite wood to work with? Least favorite? Why? I like spalted maple a lot and like most turners, I love any burl.

For someone that is considering woodturning as a hobby, what advice would you give them? The best advice I could offer is to realize that one doesn’t need every gouge and tool made and the most expensive is not always the one that is needed to get the job done.

Is there anything you’ve never tried to turn? I’ve never done off-center turning, maybe some day.

Meet The Turner - Richard Sherwood


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What lathe are you using in your shop? Can you tell us your likes/dislikes about your lathe? I have a Jet 1642. I like it a lot as it does everything I need it to. It provides for complete ver-satility. I started with a cheap Harbor Freight lathe so when I got my Jet, I was in heaven.

Tell us about your workshop. My workshop is approximately 400 square feet. I really enjoy being able to walk into it and pick up where I left off on a pro-ject. I have too many tools so sometimes it’s crowded but I just keep moving stuff around. Even after having it for 6 years, I continue to change the layout and arrangement of the tools.

What are your favorite turning tools? Why? I have a Crown detail gouge that I use a lot. It has a long bevel on it and allows me to get into corners and do many cuts that I wouldn’t be able to effect with another tool.

Where are you from originally? Where do you currently live? I grew up in New Mexico and have lived in Bowie for six years.

What else do you like to do aside from woodturning? I still do a little “flat work” and handyman work and I still enjoy the contracting work that allows me to visit most parts of the world and many different countries.

What is your occupation / past occupation? I am retired from Federal law enforcement. I use this back-ground in my present contracting work with two Federal agen-cies and various companies.

Tell us something we don’t know about you. I turned a beautiful spalted maple bowl; it was rather large and really beautiful. I had finished turning it and had even put a couple of coats of finish on it but was having trouble getting the finish to dry. I put the piece back on the lathe to deal with the finish, vacuum chucked it and had it fly off the lathe. It flew up and hit me in the lip, bounced back onto the lathe and broke into several pieces. This reminded me that I need to do a bet-ter job of thinking about safety, even when turning.

Meet The Turner (Continued) - Richard Sherwood


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Annual CAW Summer Picnic

The annual summer picnic was fun and festive. Woodturning demonstrations , good food, and friendship were in abundance. Did I mention the good food!


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Do you want help with a specific project or improve your general woodturning skills? Then the CAW mentor-ing program is for you. You can contact Annie Simpson, at simpson. [email protected] for an explanation of the process or assistance in finding a mentor in your area.

Welcome! We are happy you’ve chosen to contribute your talents to our club. We look forward to the contri-butions you will make and the pieces you will bring in to Show & Tell. Your participation will add to our mutual love of woodturning and to our collective knowledge and skill. Membership in the CAW Chapter is open to anyone interested in the art and craft of woodturning.

Become A Member Of CAW Today! CAW Application

http://www. capwoodturners.org/cawa.htm

We want to hear from you! Your comments and articles are welcome for the CAW newsletter. Please submit by the 15th of the month for the next newsletter. Email or contact Christine Zender.

Contact info on last page.

CAW Mentoring Program

CAW New Members!

Jay Grossman Annandale, VA

Mary & Mac Garrison Arlington, VA

January 8 - Mark Supik February 12 - Ed Karch

March 12 - Stan Sherman April 9

May 7 - Barbara Dill June 11

July 9 August 6 - J. Paul Fennell

September 10 October 8

November 12 December 10

Montgomery County Woodturners Meeting Schedule - 7 - 9pm For more information: montgomerywoodturners. org

Quick! say aloud what color you see in every word, NOT the word you read.

Explanation: The Stroop test is used in neuropsy-chological evaluations to measure mental vital-ity and flexibility, since performing well requires strong attention and self-regulation capability.


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C. A. Savoy places orders throughout the month. Check your catalog or website at: www. oneway.on. ca. Email your order to C. A. at [email protected]. C. A. makes every attempt to have your order within one week. Items can be picked up at Bryant Center on the 2nd Wednesday or last Tuesday during the Skill En-hancement workshops, at the monthly meetings or by special arrangement. C. A. can also ship your order to you. Payment is due upon receipt of your order. CAW Oneway Sale: 20% off most products except lathes. Plus shipping. Free shipping on orders over $1000. Will provide quote upon request. Happy and safe turning!

2Sand. com is a Maryland-based coated abrasive specialist serving woodworking and woodturning work-shops, founded on the principles of fast service, fair prices, and superior products. We carry sanding discs, sandpaper sheets, and woodturning tools, and we can ship them to you today. If we offer a product on our web site then we have it in stock and ready to ship. R. J. Stroman, a CAW member, operates 2sand. com. Contact Rob at [email protected] or (800) 516-7621 or visit their website at: www. 2sand. com

Whether making gifts for your family or items to sell in craft shows, it’s time to get your order in for Penn State pen or project kits. Check out the new Penn State website at www. pennstateind. com and email Amy Rothberg at [email protected] with your orders or questions. Also note that Amy is a Teknatool dealer of Nova and Super Nova chucks and accessories.

Vendors

This brief article to the left was found in the July 1922 copy of Popular Mechanics. Has anyone seen this form of “chip cleaner” used on a modern day lathe or is it even possible?

Words that rhyme with “tailstock:” matchlock • padlock • armlock •Belloc •deadlock, headlock, wedlock •hemlock • fetlock • airlock •breeze block • gridlock • ziplock •flintlock • Shylock •forelock, oarlock, warlock •roadblock • woodblock • sun-block •gunlock • lovelock • firelock •hammerlock • fet-terlock • interlock •Enoch • kapok • epoch • sham-rock •bedrock • pibroch • Sheetrock •Ragnarök • bed-sock • windsock •shell shock • aftershock • fat-stock •Bartók •deadstock, headstock •penstock • tail-stock • feedstock •tick-tock • laughing stock • live-stock •nostoc, Rostock, Vladivostok, Vostok •rootstock • Woodstock • bloodstock •gunstock . Have I missed any….?


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Skill Enhancement Point Of Contacts C. A. Savoy: [email protected] Don Johnson: [email protected] Al Melanson: [email protected] Patrick O’Brien: [email protected] Alan Becker: [email protected] Please contact C. A. Savoy if you would like to reserve a specific lathe for skill enhancement.

Dates To Remember - July 11 — Monthly CAW Meeting At Bryant HS (8:30 - 3 pm) July 8 & 28 — Skill Enhancement Workshop At Bryant HS (9-3 pm; $5 fee if using any tools (Lathe, band saw, drill press, etc. ) Must be AAW member to use any tools. Watching is free.

2009 Meeting Schedule

January 10 “Its Your Turn” July 11 Tom Boley, Swap Meet

February 14 Wayne Dunlap August 8 J. Paul Fennell

March 14 Walt Bennett September 12 Alan Hollar

April 11 CAW Symposium October 10 John Jordan

May 9 Barbara Dill November 14 Mark St. Leger

June 13 CAW Picnic December 5 Christmas Party

CAW 2009 Officer Roster President, Gerry Headley, [email protected] (410) 286-5958 PO Box 164, Owings, MD 20736

Vice President, Bill Bearden, bebearden@verizon. net (540) 972-9595 120 Eagle Ct., Locust Grove, VA 22508

Treasurer, Phil Mannino, [email protected] (703) 250-2876 11543 Clara Barton Dr., Fairfax Station, VA 22039

Secretary, Al Melanson, [email protected] (703) 250-6781 5561 Ann Peake Drive, Fairfax, VA 22032

Program Director, Mark Wollschlager, [email protected] (703) 329-6305 5914 Otley Dr., Alexandria, VA 22310

Operations Director, C. A. Savoy, [email protected] (703) 765-7268 1309 Gatewood Dr., Alexandria, VA 22307

Newsletter Editor, Christine Zender, [email protected] (703) 425-7114 5512 Lakewhite Court, Fairfax, VA 22032

Club Support Volunteers Tom Boley, Newsletter Proofreader Philip Hall, Show and Tell Photos Richard Chilcot, Video Library Aaron Grebeldinger, Education Outreach George Salinas, Bryant Display Window Jonathan Hess, Walter Fink, Raffle/Auction Mike DeWan, Walt Fink, Raffle/Auction Bob Pezold, CAW Clothing Annie Simpson, Mentor Program Priscilla Glasow, Group Buys Lou Norris, Coffee Center Ed Karch, Wood Identification

Monthly Meeting Details For July 11, 2009 8am - Set up for the demo. Look over the For Sale items. Have a cup of coffee and donut with your fellow turners. Discuss the “show & tell” items or rent a video. Talk tips and techniques with other members.

9am - The tape/DVD library will be open (except during business meetings and demonstrations. ) The CAW has an opening for a “Show and Tell” photographer. See a board member if interested.

10am - Noon Tom Boley ‘s Demo

Noon - 1pm Lunch

1pm - 3pm Swap Meet

3pm - 4pm - Clean Up

If your contact information changes, including your email or mailing ad-

dress, please contact Phil Mannino at [email protected]

Directions: From VA or MD, take I-495/I-95 towards the Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River. Take Exit 177A (Rt. 1 South) on the VA side. Approxi-mately 1. 9 miles south, you will pass the Beacon mall complex with Lowe’s on your right. Drive past the main entrance to Beacon mall, go 4 more stop lights (about 1/2 mile. ) The 4th stop light is Popkins Lane. Turn left and go two blocks. Bryant Center entry is on the right. Drive to the East side of the building. Parking is on the side or in the rear of the building. The en-trance to the wood working shop and meeting rooms is off the back cor-ner of the east side of Bryant Center.

Monthly Meeting Information - Bryant Adult Education Center 2709 Popkins Lane, Alexandria, VA

Map with driving directions here: www. fcps.edu/maps/bryant.htm


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Christine Zender, Editor Capital Area Woodturners 5512 Lakewhite Court Fairfax, VA 22032

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