South Kansas Woodturners

Officers: President

John Nicholas

(316)

641-5258

Text &Voice

Vice-president

Jim Orange

(316)

529-8853

Secretary/Newsletter

Ruth Chipman

(316)

264-3516

Treasurer

Gordon Beehler

(316)

634-2269

Library

Don Anderson

(316)

777-0484

SKW dues:

AAW dues: Online

General

Family

$35 year

$43 year

$53 year

$58 year

Monthly Meeting Items:

Meeting: May 18, 2013

Meeting from 9 am to 11:30 am

at the SBEA facility.

Refreshments: DAVID PATE

Bring Back Raffle: Please

bring a turning or an item of worth

for a turner.

1: HAL PRESTER

2: GLENN GOERTZ

3: ED RUBECK

Video: None

DVD: Brad Simmons (4),

John Hayes (1), Greg Riley (2),

Nelson Gordin (1), Frank

McMurphy (1), Glenn Goertz

(1)

Books: Tony Wheeler (1),

Harley Pate (2), Hal Prester (1),

John Hayes (1)

Magazine: Harley Pate (9),

Frank McMurphy (3), Nelson

Gordin (1), Greg Riley (3)

PC cd: None

will take office in June. Ballots will be sent out

with the May newsletter and Ruth will count the

returned ballots.

The idea of possibly having either a before or

after meeting sit down question and answer

discussion each month was proposed and

discussed. The board will take this suggestion

under consideration.

Show & Tell had 11 participants and Lloyd

Curtis won the Craft Supply certificate. Greg

Riley, Harley Pate, and John Hayes did their 1st

Show & Tell and received their SKW hats.

Dave Clark had walnut wood for sale at $6.00

per board foot. The Bring Back Raffle items

were won by Don Anderson, Leroy Cole, and Hal

Prester. The monthly egg challenge and gift

certificate was won by Jim Orange. Ron Maddux

and Ruth Chipman also received gift certificates

for 2nd & 3rd. A short break was taken and then

John Nicholas with the help of his audience

demonstrated part 1: the basics of creating all

types of finials.

May Meeting: The May demonstration will be

part 2 of the techniques for making the long thin

finials.

Election of Officers: See page 2 of newsletter for

instructions on voting for the new SKW officers

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Meeting News: 28 SKW members and 2

guests (John Hayes, Chris Lamer) attended

the March SKW workshop which John

Nicholas called to order at 9:07 am. Then the

guests introduced themselves.

Gordon’s reported $1486 in the treasury with

$378 designated as library fund. Then the

minutes for March as written in the April

newsletter were approved.

Old Business: There will be no SKW booth at

the woodcarver’s show. Also, the slate of

officers was discussed and it was requested

that if any member was interested in running

for office to contact one of the board members

as the Vice-President position does not have a

nominee.

New Business: Jim Orange reported the loss

of the library supply box and asked for its

return if any member found they accidentally

picked it up with their own belongings at the

March workshop.

Conducting a shop tour day was brought up

and voted yes to be held at a separate time

from a regular meeting. Volunteer shops were

made by Dave Clark, Les Hastings, David

Paugh, Harley Pate, John Nicholas, and Jim

Orange.

The membership was informed the elections

would take place in May and new officers

This month brings more people to the shop. I

have actually begun cleaning out the

accumulation and dust. I even mounted a rough

turned bowl on the lathe to begin finish turning

it.

Our challenge for this month was to work on

beginning to turn something long and thin.

Think short finial, or other type of spindle

turning. Last month's demo was Part 1 of a 2

part session on turning long and thin. We looked

at mounting and some basic techniques of

staring a longer and thinner spindle. This

month we continue that look at getting thin.

We also have our elections coming up. The Slate

of Nominees presented last month remains the

same. We are still looking at an opening for Vice

President. Jim and I have discussed this

together. Some of the information we developed

is posted on the Blog site I was using last

summer.

I have changed that blog, at the request of a

number of members, from a restricted access

blog to a general access blog. It should now

allow any person to read the content.

http://southkansaswoodturners.wordpress.

com/

Read through these descriptions of our

leadership positions and my thoughts on the

help available for those who will be stepping into

our leadership positions for the coming year.

We need to have the open position of VP filled

for a year as VP and then a year as President.

We need to get a crew that can share the duties

of equipment, library, and cleanup. A crew

would allow members to participate and still

deal with the issue of kids, jobs, or plans made

by our family.

Please call Jim Orange or myself with any

questions, or see us at the meeting.

John

Next month’s workshop will be June 29th, 2013.

This is the 5th Sat and NOT the 3rd.

The July monthly challenge is to be some style

of a long thin finial. Be sure and bring yours.

President’s Corner

Club News

May 11, 2013

Volume 17, Issue 5

South Kansas Woodturners

Members NOTICES:

LUAU PUNCH

2 Cups pureed bananas 2 Cups Sugar

6 Cups water 1 46oz. can pineapple-grapefruit drink

1 6-fluid oz. can frozen orange juice concentrate 2 28 oz. bottles ginger ale

Mix first five ingredients together and freeze in two half-gallon (2 liter) containers. For punch, add one

quart (1 liter) of ginger ale to each half-gallon of frozen mixture.

Greg Riley,

Harley Pate, &

John Hayes

received their

SKW hats for

their 1st Show

& Tell.

Jim Orange

took 1st place

in the monthly

challenge with

his egg and

stand.

SKW Election Instructions:

Please open your second email from Ruth with the subject title of: SKW Election Ballot.

Click your ‘FORWARD’ button (DO NOT USE THE REPLY button). When the forward email comes up, 1st: in

the ‘TO’ box place the email address rachip@att.net 2nd: please either mark your ballot for individual people

in the appropriate spots, OR if you choose you can mark the space before the selection: ‘Accept the Slate of

Officers as presented’. 3rd: Type in your name in the appropriate line. 4th: Click ‘Send’ to return your ballot to

Ruth for counting. Ballots should be returned no later than Friday May 17, 2013 at 6PM. Counting will take

place Friday after 6pm and results reported on Sat. morning at the meeting. Be sure to vote!!! If you have no

access to a computer, please print the ballot, mark appropriately and US Mail the ballot to Ruth Chipman,

425 S. Elizabeth, Wichita, Ks 67213

Sandy Fitzig,

Lloyd Curtis,

Ron Maddux,

Charles Wood,

Scott Hackler, &

Leroy Cole were

among the

participants of

the monthly

Show & Tell