I am particularly looking forward to the June OCWA meeting. Along with the great camaraderie our group enjoys, I’ll have the opportunity to see what jigs and fixtures your fertile minds and able hands have come up with. During last month’s woodworking demonstration by Mike Rafferty, we got to see how a simple jig can lead to an exquisite finished product. The boxes that Mike showed us how to make were absolutely flawless - thanks in part to a very simple shooting board to trim the miters to final dimension. I hope to see more of the same at the special Show & Tell during the meeting. Just a reminder, we will have a drawing amongst the entrants for a cash prize of $25…in case you need some incentive to rummage through your shop to find that long lost jig to share with the rest of us. We’re still working on plans for a hands-on jig workshop and hopefully I’ll have more information at the meeting. While on the subject, I’ve been freshly inspired to try something new by a woodturner who shared his skills with us last month. Dave Hout gave a particularly interesting demonstration of metal spinning, and though it may not be woodworking as such, the pewter is formed over is a shaped jig turned on the lathe from hardwood. Not to steal Vic’s thunder, it was a great demonstration by a talented craftsman. Now I have a new reason to spend money on tools. Oh boy! OK boys and girls, it’s time to mark your calendars. We have firmed up the dates for the David Marks Two-Day Woodworking Seminar. It will be held on October 23 & 24 at Laguna Tools from 9 AM to 4PM. Lunch will be provided. David offers a varied list of seminar subjects that each take about a half day and include:

Resawing veneer on the bandsaw Bentwood lamination Double Bevel Marquetry and Router Template Inlay Gilding & Patination Cutting Dovetails on the bandsaw Cutting curved joinery using router templates Slideshow on furniture design

From the list we will select several topics to be discussed/demonstrated during the two day event. If something on the list is particularly interesting to you, be sure to let me or Drew

know. There will be different subjects featured each day. The pricing options for single day or both days are: OCWA Mem-bers: Single Day $45, Both Days $80, Non Members: Single Day $50, Both Days $90. We’ll start taking advance reservations at the next meeting. If you are not familiar with David’s work, I encourage you to look at his web site http://djmarks.com. You might also remember him from the television show he had on DIY Net-work for a couple of years. I lifted a couple of images from his web site to show you exam-ples of his artistry. If you would like to be added to his email newsletter, you can enter the following URL in your Internet browser http://www.djmarks.com/emailsubscribe.asp.

Sawdust & Sawdust & Sawdust & Shavings Shavings Shavings Volume 27 Issue 6 June 2010

President’s Message Craig Chambers

IN THIS ISSUE

President’s Message 1

Woodworker’s Sawdust 2

Woodturner Shavings 3

Show and Tell 4

Toy Program 5

Freedom Pens 6

OC Fair 2010 7

Meeting Dates 9

Book Review 8

Hello fellow woodworkers,

Boy ‘o’ boy, May’s meeting was great. Mike Rafferty showed up and de-lighted us with his sharpening skills. He then proceeded to cut a perfect 45 degree angle with a shootboard and a miter plane. He promised to flatten the veep’s 5’ workbench but only managed to scrape some fine shavings from the end with a finely tuned scraper. Thanks again to Mike for sharing his hand tool prowess. I’m working on a one day workshop at Mike’s shop where we can make one of the shootboards he demonstrated at the meeting.

The 2 x 4 contest was a success. Man, all the creativity in our association! A chair, many toys, a sled, some art and a half eaten oar! Thanks to all who entered.

June’s meeting is shaping up great. I’ve spoken to Richard Goodman, owner of Laguna Bamboo, to come and share his experiences working with bamboo. Bamboo is probably one of the greenest products on the planet. It grows what, 3’ an hour or something like that. You can have a full tree in less than 3 months. Wait, did I say tree? Last time I checked, bamboo’s in the grass fam-ily. Anyway, Richard is an ex builder and wanted to change course in his ca-reer. He’s been at cutting up bamboo and making it into entry door, cabinets, furniture, etc. The list is too long to mention. I’ve asked Rich to bring some doors, veneer, a chair and such to share with you. You will be blown away that all these products are made from 4 x 8 sheets that he resaws, glues back together, than table saws to get the desired effect for trim lumber used in his construction techniques. You don’t want to miss his demonstration.

The July meeting is going to be on new products. I have lined up Allen Kinsley from Festool to show us the latest and greatest from this high end company. Don Vargo is going to bring some spray products from Apollo Spray Systems. Also Rob from Hafele will show some interesting hardware.

Thanks for showing up to the meetings and see you in June.

Woodworker Sawdust Drew Schellenbarger

Board of Directors

President Craig Chambers (714) 761-9245 chamcj@pacbell.net

Treasurer Ralph Crowther (949) 588-2922

Vice President Drew Schellenbarger (714) 450-2365

Secretary Ed Straub (714) 536-4568

Woodturners President Victor Cohn (562) 252-2580 victor@cohnmail.net

Public Affairs Chairman/Newsletter Don Scott (714) 533-7883

Director at Large Bill Rogers 714) 637-2912

2nd Director at Large Ralph Alder (714) 544-3328

Past President James Santhon (949) 481-2821

Committees

Badges Len Musgrave (714) 532-4778

Toy Program Bill Rogers 714) 637-2912

Library Ollie Vaughan (949) 278-5939

Nominations & Elections Bill Rogers (714) 637-2912

Refreshments Glenna Whitlock (951) 245-6342

Welcome /Membership Art Dunbar (949) 830-3569

Mentor Chairman James Santhon (949) 481-2821

Resources George Plummer (714) 540-4527

OC Fair Ed Straub (714) 536-4568

Webmaster Larry Marley (949) 412-6710

Web Database Aaron Fleischer (949) 279-3586

Welcome - New Members! Phil Hartsfield Costa Mesa Richard Hodgin Cypress

Hello WoodTurners. Another month, May, has come and gone with a triple dose of turning events. On May 20, 2010 Past Woodturner President Dick Foreman hosted a 2 day class at his home shop with DIY TV personality Dave Hout as the instructor. That very same night, we held our regular monthly meeting with longtime member Bob Gibbs doing the demo. And on the following Saturday, 30 of us participated in a one day Demo by Dave Hout at Laguna Tools. What a busy week. One thing we know we can count on from a Bob Gibbs demo is how he will have created a hundred new ways to make pen blanks to turn, out of anything that is not nailed down. This demo was no letdown. In addition, Bob passed out

10 free bags of pen blanks he made with the hope they would be returned to Pen Lady Ruthie for the Freedom Pen Project. And, as usual, when the demo was finished Bob lifted up the magic cover in front of the lathe with another 60 or so pen blanks he had prepared for the members to take home and turn. Thanks from the whole group, Bob, for a great show and some really new ideas in pen making. We started the break at exactly 8pm so we would have plenty of time for the Monthly Chal-lenge and the Show n’ Tell. I had announced earlier that Dick Foreman and I had visited the El Camino Woodturners meeting and were very impressed with the interaction of the group during the Challenge and Show n’ Tell. With that in mind, I asked everyone who had brought something that night to please come up and share with the group how they had made their item. I hope the members were as pleased as I was at how much interest there was in the various methods of turning, usage of wood, and

different finishes that were explained. Thanks to all of you who participated. The Challenge for the night was to turn an item with ‘FORM’ as the main goal. With Bill Haskell as the judge, Ken Cowell won the Master Class and the $25 prize money. The Apprentice class had 8 different members enter-ing with the “Daniels’ brothers, Tom and Jim, taking 1st and 3rd place. Sort of like having the ‘Earp’ brothers as the new Sheriffs in town. Tom won 3rd place and $20, Don Kehoe who wasn’t personally there, but a friend had brought his work in, won 2nd for $25, and Jim Daniels won 1st place for the grand prize of $50. What a fun was to make money and it was in cash. We went on to the Show n’ Tell and many, many of the members got up and shared how then had created their work. I think we all had a great time and I want to continue the practice of leaving plenty of time for the Challenge and Show n’ Tell in future meetings. Oops, almost forgot the Whistle Chal-

lenge. There were lots of entries and the Ole Guy, Ross Gilroy, won 1st place and $25. When it came to demonstrating how obnoxious blowing their whistle could be, however, Les Rogers was the only member with courage to standup and make a fool of him-self, but he won a $20 pair of ear protectors for his effort. You’re the best Les. Al Whitcomb and Ruthie Ingram sold the 50/50 tickets. The winner got to choose a cash prize of $90 or the last known ‘Eggstractor’ on earth. Yeah, Right. Would whoever finally did HAVE to take home the last one of its kind kitchen tool, please plan on doing a demo for the members so they can fully see what they are missing? Next months Monthly Challenge will be to turn a pen out of as outrageous a material as you can

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Shavings President’s Message Vic Cohn

Turner Committees

Outside Programs Dick foreman (714) 637-6175

Pen Projects Ruthe Ingram (714) 536-3624

Workshops Vic Cohn (562) 252-2580

Wood supplies Jeanette Gonzales (562) 417-7750

Refreshments

Video/Sound Ralph Alder (714) 544-3328

Challenge

50/50 Drawing Bill Rogers (714) 637-2912

AAW Membership Victor Cohn (562) 252-2580

Logo / Shirts Harold Hardy (562) 429-1671

Nominating

Special Projects Jerry Nininger (949) 631-7530

Show & Tell Photos OCWA

dream up. Let’s show Bob Gibbs he really did cause us to think of a new material to use to make a pen. Next months demo on June 17, 2010 will be by OCWT member Dave Tilson who will show us the secrets of how to finish a pen that will sell for at least $250. You don’t want to miss this demo. Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day.

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2 x 4 Contest

Shavings - continued

Thank you Bob Gibbs for a wonderful Freedom Pen demonstration and generous give away of your creative pen blanks. I want to also thank you and Eileen soooo much for your check in the amount of $400.00. You and Eileen are so supportive of the Freedom Pen Project so on behalf of the troops and me I just want you to know how grateful we are for all that you do! As I shared with everyone at last night’s meeting the cost of the pen kits is going up to $1.75 per pen kit therefore I ordered another 600 kits at the old price of $1.35 per pen kit which means that I now have $1,057.50 on my next American Express bill. My thanks also to the Orange County Woodworking Club for the balance of the $1,000.00 that was budg-eted for the Freedom Pen Project. I also want to thank Jim Daniels who donated his $50.00 prize money to the helmet and everyone else who generously donated. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!!! You guys and gals are truly ‘angels’ Turners who have turned 200 plus pens this year: Bruce Potter 210, Ruthe Ingram 243, Bill Rogers/Lutheran HS 252, Linda Bruins 282, and Bob Gibbs with 440 Bill Rogers and the Lutheran High School students chose to make Freedom Pens for their service day on May 14th and turned over 100 beautiful pens.. Bill invited myself, Bruce Lewellyn and Bruce Potter to assist the students and I don’t know who had more fun, the students or us seniors! Thank you Bill……I don’t know how you keep up with all the projects that you volunteer for!!! You must be related to Superman! The Bayou Woodturners are now at 2,665 pens shipped so this means we need more pen turners to help us catch up. Please get involved as this is not only interesting and fun but the rewards are great!!! I am sharing a couple of emails and pictures so you will see why we all participate in this nationwide effort to support our troops. Hello Ms. Ingram, I just received one of your pens and I wanted to thank you plus Orange County Woodworkers. By chance, I and my family live on the northern end of Camp Pendleton which is considered San Clemente\Orange County. I really appreciate your com-pany’s thoughtfulness and it really does represent the Spirit of the American People. It’s folks like yourself and other’s that send care packages to us out here in Afghanistan that make our commitment to completing the mission that much more fo-cused and resolved. You can be comforted to know that while we miss our families and friends terribly, yours and others sup-port easies the sting of separation. Again, thank you for everything you do for the Marines, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of our great nation….. Semper Fidelis, CWO4 Phil Veeneman TCP&E Officer I MEF FWD G-6 To the members of the Orange County Woodworkers and the

Freedom Pen Project, I am a retired Marine that is now serving in Afghani-stan supporting the Marines as a con-tractor here at Camp Leatherneck, I wanted to take time to thank you all for your support of our troops and knowing that great Americans like you make it easier to endure deployments so far from home. I am from Lake Elsinore myself and seeing these were made so close to home makes it that much more meaningful. Thanks again and Semper Fi. R/S Norman Cook IMEF FWD G-4 BCS3 FSR Camp Leatherneck, Af Unit 42511 Each pen is just a small token of our ap-preciation and love for every recipient who is making the sacrifice to keep us safe here on the home front. Bless you all for your continued support. Hugs, Ruthe

Freedom Pen Project Ruthe Ingram

Nationwide Total = 108,869

OCWA Total = 16,466

Bahret, Bill 30

Bilevich, Robert 20

Bonta, Charlie 40

Bruin, Linda 282

Foreman, Dick 20

Gibbs, Bob 440

Gilroy, Ross 40

Ingram, Ruthe 243

Inskell, Ed 30

Marley, Larry 10

Musgrave, Len 10

Potter, Bruce 210

Rogers, Bill (LHSOC) 252

Rogers, Les 130

Siqueland, Torger 125

Thobson, Eric 10

Tillotson, Don 10

Tuzzolino, Terry 10

Vaughn, Ollie 10

Wilmont, Fred 40

The Carob Tree Ed Straub Those that were there will remember the discussion we had about the objects made from Carob. Well, we can count on Ed for doing the research and coming up with this article about the Carob tree. Enjoy!

And a few more interesting tidbits about the Carob tree . . .

The term "carat", the unit by which diamond weight is measured, is also derived from the Greek word kerátiοn (κεράτιον), allud-ing to an ancient practice of weighing gold and gemstones against the seeds of the carob tree by people in the Middle East[citation

needed]. The system was eventually standardized, and one carat was fixed at 0.2 grams.

In late Roman times, the pure gold coin known as the solidus weighed 24 carat seeds (about 4.5 grams). As a result, the carat also became a measure of purity for gold. Thus 24-carat gold means 100% pure, 12-carat gold means the alloy contains 50% gold, etc.

Pro Demo — Dave Hout Dave Hout gave a demo at Laguna Tools on metal spinning. Now this reporter was not that interested in metal spinning and just went to observe. But let me say I was impressed!

Dave started out talking about the uses for metal spinning and how it is still in popular use today for things like light shades, rocket nose cones, musical instruments and lots of uses in the medical field as well as everyday pots and pans. It is strange that so little is known about a skill that effects our everyday lives.

Dave then proceeded to talk about the materials used in metal spinning and it is remarkable how few there are. When we turn wood, we can choose between hundreds of different kinds of wood, but in metal spinning, Dave only mentioned four (Aluminum, Copper, Brass and Pewter).

What was also amazing is that you cannot buy the tools (other than a lathe) because nobody makes them anymore. You have to make your own. So Dave proceeded to describe how to make the tools and tool rest you need using standard cold rolled steel (tool steel is not needed because you are not sharpening them and they don’t have to hold an edge).

Now to do metal spinning, you do need some wood turning skills because you have to make a form to shape the metal to. For basic turning, the form cannot have any negative draft or you wouldn’t be able to get the finished product off of the form. For shapes like vases with openings smaller than the shape, you have to use segmented techniques and make a form that can be dissembled and removed through the opening.

Then Dave mounted a piece of Pewter in the lathe and proceeded to push the metal around until he had a small bowl. He even was able to roll the edge! It was almost magi-cal. Now maybe I will have to reconsider my attitude on metal spinning. Just what I need, another reason to collect more tools!

After spinning the bowl, we broke for lunch and Victor surely didn’t disappoint us as he had a veritable feast ready for us. Nobody went away hungry. In fact before the day was over, between donuts for breakfast, candy bars for break and all that lunch, I think I put on a couple of pounds. Thanks Vic!

After lunch, Dave proceeded to finish the pewter bowl by polishing it. But in order to hold it to polish the inside, he had to talk about the different vacuum chuck options avail-able on the market. He even talked about how you can build your own vacuum system. This was some good stuff!

Then Dave related some very interesting points about making a bowl from wood like we have all done. He started with the different ways of hold-ing the wood and how to consider the grain pattern and what to do with the tool rest.

Where it really got interesting was when Dave showed us a few tricks in grinding our tools and even some new tool designs that will help us to make better bowls. He started off by showing us how to be ambidextrous and hold the tool in a way to minimize the amount of chips that came

flying at us. He answered the age old question about cutting uphill or downhill—the grain orientation determines the direction. Think about how you would sharpen a pencil (with a knife).

Dave showed us how to use a weird looking bowl gouge that was made from a rectangular bar of tool steel. He shaped a grinding wheel to grind the inside flute and the outside was ground almost square across the end. When I first looked at that gouge, I thought who would want a tool like that? Then Dave put it to wood and it was amazing! The rectangular shape allowed it to sit and stay on the tool rest at the proper angle to minimize catches and that angle provided the most amazing cut. It was actually acting like a skew but inside the bowl! I am going to have to try that one! He even does the same thing with a spindle gouge and an aggressive grind.

Dave’s teaching technique was very effective. He worked at getting audience participation. He wanted to hear all the ways that we do and have done things before he showed us how he does them. Now here is something simple that we can all do . . . Have you ever made a bowl and had these dark streaks inside the bowl that you just couldn't sand out no matter how hard you tried? I think we have all seen them, I know I have. Well, do you know what causes them? I thought it was just improper tool control and I needed more practice. According to Dave, it is crushed fibers from the sharp ridge on the back side of your bowl gouge. When you use that for a fulcrum to guide the cutting edge, you are putting quite a bit of force on a very small surface. The solution is simple, just get a soft abrasive wheel to slightly round the transition between

the grind face and the shank of the tool. The slight radius spreads the forces over a wider area and it no long crushes the fibers! That tip was worth the price of admission and everything else including lunch was free!

To top it off, there were several members that were able to attend the 2 day hands-on training with Dave at Dick Foreman’s house a couple days before this demo. They were actually able to spin a bowl themselves. They each brought their own mini lathe and Dave provided the tools and tooling needed. They were so stoked about it that all four of them were in the front row on Saturday. They wanted more! It is always good to learn something new. If you weren’t there, you missed out on some good stuff. Don’t miss the next one!

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200 S. C Street Tustin, CA 92680

WHEN?

Woodworker’s Meeting Thursday June 3rd, 7:00 pm

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