CONTENTS: Page 1 …. From the Headstock Page 2 …. Meeting Minutes Page 4….. Map/Directions Page 5…..In Memory Of Page8… Challenge Photos Page 9…..Library –Turning Tops Page10..Making Threads Page 11… Calendar Entry Form

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Bayou Woodturners 330 Highway Drive

Old Jefferson, LA 70121

The May meeting was held on the Saturday before Mother’s day and atten-dance was fairly light. We had a presentation on touching up and covering upproblems in the finish on your pieces by Al Reisz, who does this for a living. He sure killed a few wives’ tales about finishing for me. We will probably doanother workshop with Al in the future. On a very sad note, we lost a Master Craftsman on April 30. Reidar Klemet-sen was one of the founding members of this club and a great friend to all. He was recently diagnosed with cancer and his heart didn’t take it well. Here’s hoping that he’s making shavings in a special place today. I made a presentation for a “student membership” to the membership and re-ceived a motion to carry it forth to a vote. The proposal will be advertised in two newsletters and at two meetings before being brought up for a vote in July. Please consider this as an avenue to bring some young blood into the organization.

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Next Meeting 10:00 AM*

June12, 2004

Joel Blazek 111 Affirmed Ct. Bush, LA 70431

Directions & Map

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* Mini-Session starts at

Charlie Kragle has a new version of the Re-source Directory available. It will be sent via electronic media unless a member re-quests a hard copy. Hard copies will cost us about a buck, so take it by e-mail, store it on your desktop and use when necessary. I’m working on a version of a threading jig similar to Bonnie Klein’s product. I’ll pro-vide you with plans and specifications when it’s ready to make shavings. We’ll have a bandsaw workshop when we gather at the senior center in August. I’ve been working on this one for a while and I’ll have some great info and tips for you. Craft supplies have a deal where they will

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Eddie Castelin – President eddiecastelin@cox.net Dale Campo – Vice President d-campo@cox.net Gordon Ousset – Treasurer ousset@datastar.net Dennis Wall – Secretary martha1dennis@aol.com Jerry Markowitz – Newsletter jerrymarko@yahoo.com Ron Alexander – Book/Video Reviewer ralexan913@aol.com Dave Beehler - Library davidcbeehler@aol.com

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Meeting Minutes

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See more Challenge entries on page 8

Our May meeting began at 9:59 a.m. and let us begin bywelcoming aboard new members Rob Rosen and Chris Menendez who just signed up as of this meeting. It very much saddens us to have to report that Reidar Klemsten has passed away. Our heartfelt support and condolences go out to his family. Those of us who knew Reidar will remember him as a superb craftsman, and when it came to raffles, the luckiest man in creation. He always managed to win something, even if he bought only one ticket. He will be missed. Our website has now been in operation for six months. We are still working to improve it, and it will have a newlook in 2-3 months. The folks at AAW tell us that we have the second largest links section of any club out there. We still need more turning tips for the tips column. Remember there will be a $100 gift certificate for best tipat the end of the year plus another $100 gift certificate chosen by lot from all tips submitted. These must be your tips alone, and not copied from some magazine or other source. In addition to tips, we also need volunteer demonstrators for upcoming meetings. The WYES auction is in October. It's a great opportu-nity to get your work noticed (and, incidentally to get the club noticed). You need to submit by July 19th if you want to be in their color brochure. The Woodturners' Catalog (Craft Supplies) has worked out a new deal with us. They will grant us 1 gift certifi-cate per month. Also, they have a new club order pro-gram whereby if we as a club place an order for $1000 ormore total, they will re-price the individual items at a discount. We can either accept or reject the price on the individual items. Phil Coghill and O.B. Lacoste have formed a new club in Lafayette. The Acadiana Woodturners are now a go-ing concern. We are trying to put together a mentoring program for the club, whereby the more experienced members will teach the less experienced ones, one-on-one. However, before we proceed we need to get some legal questions answered, having mostly to do with liability and insur-ance coverage. We'll keep you posted. We officially put a motion in play to amend our by-lawsto permit student memberships for those 13-18. The offi-cial details will be in the June issue of the Skew. By law,we must announce the measure twice before it can be of-ficially voted on. That means we'll likely vote on the measure at our July meeting.

do a “club order” for orders values at over $1000. It has to be an order of at least $1000, paid by one form of payment and shipped to one address. Put an order to-gether, send it to them and they will re-price it and let you know how much you’ll save. I’ll play point man for this one and try for an order in July. Phil Coghill, O.B. Lacoste and a few others have formedthe Acadian Woodturners in the Lafayette area. We wishthem well and will support this new club as they get to making shavings Cajun style. We have offered to create a page on our Website for them to get the lathe turning. In June we will be in Bush at Joel Blazek’s place (near the site of our annual pig roast). Joel will serve a lunch and he’s got lots of room, plenty of wood, a lathe and some woodturners. What else do you need for a good time? See you there. Eddie Castelin, President, Bayou Woodturners

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e Stacked Ring Bowls: One 2” thick board, Three Bowls - Francis LeJeune

One “ring” of 2” thick Santos Rosewood.

Francis LeJeune handed out a one-page diagram illustrating how to cut a 2” thick board into two or more rings to make larger bowls from thin wood. If you did not get a copy more will be available at the next meeting.

Above: Three 2” thick rings about to be as-sembled to make the bowl at right, which is glued up and ready to turn

We are still working on a chain saw workshop for a future meeting. The folks from Stihl say they can't do the workshop right now, as this is their busy time of year. We meet next month in Bush, Louisiana, and since it's a little out of the way, I'm told a lunch will be pro-vided. We may meet at Acadian Hardwoods in July, but that is not yet certain. We'll meet at the Senior Center again in August. We're going to start taking photos for the annual cal-endar competition starting next month. The actual judging of the photos will likely take place in August. We select the last entry (the Christmas ornament) in October. Remember you can submit up to three entries (although only one will be chosen). There'll be entry forms available at our next meeting. Steve, Dale Campo's metalworker friend still has wood for sale at bargain prices. If you're interested, contact Dale. Klingspor (the sanding catalog people have temporar-ily (we hope) suspended their discount with us -- some-thing to do with out-of-date or incomplete club rosters. We'll let you know when the discount is back on. The business portion of the meeting concluded at 10:51 Dennis Wall Secretary

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Treasurer's ReportBy Gordon Ousset

Beginning Balance: $306.02Income:

Dust Collector raff $300.00Membership $30.00Cap $10.00Raffle $95.00

Total $435.00

Disbursements:Hall Rental $25.00Newsletter printing $9.14Newsletter Postage $14.00Bank fee $8.00

Total $56.14

Balance - May 14, 2003 $684.88

Two “rings” of 2” thick Santos Rosewood

Three “rings” of 2” thick Santos Rosewood

The directions are pretty straightforward from New Orleans, Slidell and Hammond they all bring you to the in-tersection of I-12 and N Causeway. N Causeway turns into US 190 W headed to Covington. As you pass Wendy’s on your right you veer to the right to US 190 Business W (you do not go over the bridge) you will goabout 3 blocks stay in right lane (you pass Walgreen’s, Rouses, and McDonalds) at the light you veer to the right to LA-21 towards Bogalusa, but don’t take a right to Abita Springs. You stay on LA21 for about 9.8 miles. You will see on your right a sign that says Waldheim fire tower, on your left you will see the entrance to our subdivision Grande Hills Estates. I will have signs at the Waldheim fire tower and in the subdivision that will have BW with arrows indicating where to turn. Our house is at the end of Affirmed, a blue Arcadian on the right with a lake in the back of the house. We will meet in the barn to the right of the house. If anyone gets lost they can call us at 985-871-9088 and we will send the search parties. If you have any questions about these instructions give me a call at work 504-279-8253 or at home in Chal-mette 504-277-1541.

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Words of Wisdom

You need only two tools: WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't, use the duct tape.

source: unknown – from the net

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Reidar Klemetsen

Reidar Klemet Klemetsen, a master craftsman, died on Friday, April 30, 2004 in Metairie from cancer. Reidar was born in Horten, Norway on June 9, 1938, son of Juul Klemetsen and Randi Olsen Klemetsen. He was a resident of the New Orleans area for the past 39 years. He worked in the custom cabinetry field for 47 years and was founder and co-owner of Nordic Kitchens & Baths, Inc.

Just a few notes from the meeting. The threading jig I was demonstrating isn’t com-plete; I will have complete details and dimensions when I have a complete package. The WYES Auction is in October. Deadline for entries to make the catalog is July 19. For more info call 486-5511.

From the Tailstock

By Eddie Castelin

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If you have any questions, comments, turning tips, articles, photos, etc. you wish to put in the Newsletter please contact

Jerry Markowitz at:

email - jerrymarko@yahoo.com mail - 620 Chambertin Dr. Kenner, LA 70065 phone (504) 464-6050

R.J. Marchand Contractors Specialties Inc.

3515 Division Street Metairie, La

(504) 888-2922

Riverside Lumber Co. 5451 Morrison Rd.

New Orleans, LA. 70126 (504) 242-6624

(10% Discount on Abrasives)

Craft Supplies USA

www.woodturnerscatalog.com

June Meeting: Turning with Plywood

Be sure to come early. Both the mini-session and the main demo will deal will how to use plywood in your turnings. Mini starts at 9:00 AM, Meeting at 10:00 AM

May meeting – Al Reisz the finer points of finish-ing and how touchup your mistakes

Wine Bottle Stopper Design Contest

$50.00 Gift Certificate/Pink Ivory Blanks How To Article with Photos of winner will be published in Woodturning Design

The Yahoo bottle stopper newsgroup (http://.groups.yahoo.com/group/stopper) on the internet in conjunction with Wood-turning Design magazine are holding a contest for the best Wine Bottle Stopper / holder design. “The contest is intended to inspire all of you to design and make an innovative, interesting, and original Wine Bottle Stopper and Container Set. Let your imagination be your guide. “ A full set of the rules can be found in the Summer 2004 issue of Woodturning Design magazine, online at www.woodturningdesign.com or at the Yahoo stopper website mention above. Submission are to be made by photographs* placed on the Yahoo stopper website by June 30th. Winners we be announced on July 9th.

*If anyone wishes to enter and needs help with photographing their submission(s), I will be happy to take the pictures at the June meeting and place them in the appropriate Yahoo website as per contest rules. Jerry Markowitz

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I have found a dealer in Canada for the Supernova. I have bought, not received yet, a complete supernova kit with 2" jaw set, woodworm screw, adapter, spanner wrench, 1" jaw set, 45mm spigot jaw set, drive spur, powergrip jaw set and spare kit of fasteners and tools for $305.00 plus 25 S&H. I found this on ebay and it led me to the website www.kmstools.com Take a look at the site when I priced it out at woodcrafters I saved about $180.00 for the package. Pass it on to anyone considering a supernova. The site has some good links to Euro-pean and Aussie websites. Joel Blazek

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Bayou Woodturners offers a Studlimited membership with the follow! Granting access to all me! Receive monthly editions o! Student members will not

til they are active member! Membership will be annua! Student members must be

membership. The change was advertised at the Mthe June and July issues of the Ske

Proposed Change to By-Laws

ent Membership in the Bayou Woodturners rs By-Laws was introduced at the May meeting. It is our practice to adver-ership, both in the newsletter and orally at the meetings.

As Proposed

ent Membership to youths between the ages of 13 and 18. This would be a ing provisions:

etings and demonstrations at no cost. f the Bayou Skew via electronic mail delivery (e-mail)

operate any equipment or be an active participant in any demonstrations un-s of the AAW. (insurance) l at a cost of $12.00.

sponsored by an active member and will receive a mentor for the first year of

ay meeting and will be announced again at the June meeting and be in both w. It will be brought forth for a vote at the July meeting

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President’s Challenge – May 2004

Open Competition Create something on a lathe, make it nice.

Divisions include: Most unusual art piece

Size matters

Tom Dunne Winner-Size Matters

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Dan Patterson Winner-Most Unusual Art Piece

Dennis Wall

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Eddie Castelin Turns Tops at the Children’s Wing of the

Jefferson Parish Public Library

Featured Article Shop Made Threading Jig By Capt. Eddie Castelin

Homemade Threading Jig by Eddie Castelin

I wanted to add something to a few turnings I have made this year. I thought threads would be a nice item for jars and containers not to mention a few special projects I had in mind for Lathezilla. I looked into thread chasers and decided that there had to be a better way. Charlie Kragle happened to ask me if I could make a jig like Bonnie Klein had for adding threads. I looked at a few photos and then the videotape and went to the shop. Theresulting prototype is what came out of a few hours in the shop. I started with a cross slide I purchased for Lathezilla, it’sa vital part of an ornamental lathe and some sort of slide was needed for moving the piece for threading. I then created a block to fit the slide to hold the ¾ - 16 all thread rods for the advancement screw. I added a ¾ - 16 to 1” – 8 adapters to hold the chuck I was going to use. Iwent with the ¾ - 16 because you have to be able to adapt to the chuck you’re going to use and this is the most common. I originally tried 8 TPI but found it to be too coarse for my needs. Then there’s the cutter, it’s from MSC and it’s the same one Bonnie Klein uses in her device. I hold it in a drill chuck with a draw rod pulling it into the Morse taper. I’m looking for a collet and nut to change that attachment. Now if you’ve ventured this far and are ready to make threads, do as I did, wing it! I use two chucks so I don’t have to move wood around. I waste off the top and put it in another chuck. Then I turn a shoulder on the bot-tom, about ¼” X ¼”, and hollow out the insides leaving about 1/8” behind the shoulder. Pull it off the lathe and put it on the side. Take the other chuck, with the top in it, mount it and turn the top true. Take your caliper and check the shoulder on the bottom, subtract .087” from it and this is the shoulder in the top. Create your shoulder, hollow the top and sand the inside and the face, this is your last chance to touch this part on the lathe. Then wipe on a layer of thin super glue to the shoulder getting threads to strengthen it. Pull it off the lathe and get ready to thread. Mount the drill chuck but not the cutter, tighten the drawrod and then install the cross slide on your bed. Install the adapter and the chuck with the bottom in it. Now

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install the cutter, which is razor sharp and that’s why you waited. Bring the wood up to the cutter and make contact with the inside edge, back it off about one turn and then move the cutter into the wood about .035” (3/4 turn) with the adjuster on the cross slide. Start your lathe and bring the speed up to about 3000 rpm. Turn the advancement knob until you cut about 4-5 complete threads on the outside of the jar. Shut off the machine and move advancement screw to take the wood away from the cutter. Do not use the cross slide to move wood once you start cut-ting threads. Now mount the top piece and do the same thing you did for the bottom. Make a cut at .035 and then check the top for fit. Do not move the cross slide ad-justment that moves the wood from left to right. This is set for threads and you’ll really mess up mov-ing that knob. If the threads are okay, you’ve done it. Fit the bottom and check for grain alignment. To move the grain you have to reduce the leading edge of the jar top until the grain aligns. You should have 6-7 threads in the top so you can make this adjust-ment. When you get the right thread fit and grain align-ment, put the bottom back in your lathe, dress up the outside and apply the finish. It took two samples for me to get the hang of it, but once I did I had fun with the parts and pieces. I have a copy of the Bonnie Klein video and will loan it to interested woodturners. Resources: All thread rod & nuts , ¾ X16 from Best Bolt Of Kenner 2726 Lexington St. Kenner. 504-469-3585 Cutter, mscdirect.com MSC # 03196052 Cross slide, useenco.com #201.2826

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Bayou Woodturners 2005 Calendar Contest

Schedule May: Announcement of Contest Rules. June & July: Jerry will setup his backdrop to take pictures of contest entries. Aug.: Display and selection of entries by random drawing and membership voting. ?? Display of sample calendar and advance orders.

Contest Entry 1. The contest is open to all BWT members in good standing and is limited to three entries per member. Members will be

limited to one winning entry each. 2. Each entry may include one or more turned pieces and include accessories and props to enhance the presentation of the en-

try. 3. Entries of each member shall be entered into one of three categories, “beginner”, “intermediate”, or “advance”, of the

member’s choosing. An Entry Form must be completed for each entry. Entry Selection

1. Section of entries will take place at the October 2003 meeting. A total of twelve entries shall be selected to be included in the Bayou Woodturners 2004 Calendar as follows:

• Three (3) by random drawing from all entries. • Three (3) by membership voting from the beginner category. • Three (3) by membership voting from the intermediate category. • Two (2) by membership voting from the advance category. • “Best of Show” from the ornament challenge.

2. All contest entries will be assigned a number and displayed by category for members viewing. The first three entries will be selected by random drawing of assigned numbers. Members will then vote for their first, second, and third chose in each category on provided ballots.

3. Entries will be award points for each vote received as follows, 3 pts. for 1st, 2 pts. for 2nd, and 1 pt. for 3rd. The points will be totaled and the three entries from each category with the most points will be selected.

4. In the case that an entry is from a member already with a winning entry the entry with the next highest score will be se-lected.

2004 BWT Calendar Contest Entry Form Name: ___________________________________________________________ Category: ________________________________________________________ Information to be used on the calendar: Title: ___________________________________________________________ Description (wood, technique, form, finish, etc.):__________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________

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Turning Threads with Edd

Inside: Make Something Nice- Challenge Photos & Winners Featured Article: Turning Threads by Eddie Castelin Stacked Ring Bowls – Francis LeJeune Wine Bottle Stopper Contest Info Calendar Contest Entry Form and much much more…

June 2004

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