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Although the weather still feels like fall, I think winter is lurking just around the corner waiting to pounce!

I hope we all get more time in our workshops standing in front of our lathes making shavings before the holiday.

1 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 1 Regular Monthly Meeting First Tuesday of every month 7:00 p.m. Message from the President Next meeting: Hello Wood Turners, December 2012 I just can t seem to get my mind around the fact that Thanksgiving is already behind us, the Christmas lights are already up and the end of another year is clearly in sight! Although the weather still feels like fall, I think winter is lurking just around the corner waiting to pounce! We are down to just about 3 weeks left before Christmas, so I hope you are farther along on your plans for turned gifts than I am! I hope we all get more time in our workshops standing in front of our lathes making shavings before the holiday. Our first year of meeting at SLCC in the Construction Trades building Classroom on the Redwood Road Campus is almost behind us and the venue is just great. Chad and his team are great hosts, and we want to sincerely thank them again. My thanks go out to Joe Wagner who did a great demo on turning fluted Christmas ornaments. He is always willing to help out others in the club. We had given him some time off from the demo schedule, so we were excited to hear from him again. As always he did a great job! Also as always with Joe, he was a wealth of information on making the jigs and fixtures that help him make his turning look effortless. You can read more about that in Lauren s article inside. Thanks a ton to Joe for stepping up AGAIN! Our December meeting is also on the calendar for Tuesday December 4th at SLCC, for our Christmas party. We will have no Demo, and will have a gift exchange, so get your exchange items ready and wrapped. I am sad to say that I am going to miss my first Christmas party since I joined the club, but Vernita and I will be out of town. I will miss seeing you, so eat something (Continued on page 2) December 4, 6:00 p.m. SLCC Construction Trades Bldg W S. (Conifer Way) Directions: From Redwood Road, turn west on Conifer Way which is 4610 South. Follow that street as it bends north and then back west to the second building. Look for the large lettering over a large roll up door that says Construction Trades Building. Please park in either lot B which is right next to the Construction Trades Building or lot C which is just to the west. Avoid blue-striped parking stalls. Lot A is an overflow lot that can also be used. If you park anywhere else, you will get a ticket unless you have a SLCC parking pass. Enter the building by going up the metal stairs under the Construction Trades Building sign, just west of the giant, tanpainted dust collectors. Enter the man door at the top of the stairs on your left, and turn left into the classroom. The Demo will start at 7:00. See page 3 for notes from Joe Wagner demo

2 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 2 Remember to turn something for the Gift Exchange which will take place at our December meeting. Utah Woodchips the official newsletter of the Utah Association of Woodturners President 2012 to 2013 Club Officers Jay Brown Cherry Tree Lane Salt Lake City, UT woodturnerjay@comcast.net good for me, and have a great time. Thanks again to the Gibbs and the Bests for picking up the load. I will see you again in January! Our January meeting is not that far away on Tuesday January 8th at SLCC. PLEASE take note that this is not the first Tuesday, but rather the second one to accommodate for the New Year Holiday. Kip Christensen will be our demonstrator. He always does a great demo, and has a ton of experience to call on. The hospitality time starts at 6:30 and the demo will start at 7:00. I am working hard on filling out the demonstrator schedule for 2013, so I hope some of you will volunteer to do a Demo. Our next training meeting is scheduled on January 20th at Wood Craft. We are still discussing the topic so if you want to keep having the training meeting Please me or Lauren Gibbs with your ideas for future training meetings. We want to present things that you need to learn about. Remember to bring your turner s challenge and show and tell items to each meeting. Our thanks again go out to Craft Supplies, who provides the Gift Certificates we award for the turner s challenge. Ring on finished I am always seeking your input on how we can make the club bowl better, so please send me an message and make your feelings known. Let me know how we can better serve you! Have fun, be safe, and try to make more than shavings! Jay Brown Vice President Lauren Gibbs S. Roanoke Drive Murray, UT sudwngu@gmail.com Sec/Treasurer Joe Wagner 3000 South 1000 East SLC, UT wagner50@comcast.net DVD Specialist Dave Best davidbest2176@msn.com Library Editors Photographer Webmaster Bruce Bassett bcbasse@hotmail.com Lauren & Ruthann Gibbs utahwoodturners@gmail.com Dennis Brown denniskbrown@comcast.net Russell Bateman russ@windofkeltia.com Hospitality North End - Larry Banz Hospitality Salt Lake - Eldon DeHaan eldondehaan@gmail.com Hospitality South End - HELP NEEDED Entire contents copyright 2012 by Utah Association of Woodturners

3 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 3 November 2012 Club Meeting Notes Joe Wagner Fluted Christmas Ornaments Joe again graciously shared his years of turning experience with us. He has only been turning since he was 8 or 9 (I won t tell his age but he has been turning for a very long time), and did a great demo on fluted Christmas Ornaments. Using a small Vicmarc Lathe, Joe will turn around 200 ornaments by Christmas. Keep in mind that most of us have a hard time turning two ornaments for the Christmas Party. Joe s finials were made out of holly, then colored with markers and brown ebony. The screw eyes come from parts.com and are 5/16 long. Walmart has the best hooks to bend down as they hold their shape. The finish is deft and Lincoln paste wax. He puts a ¾ spigot on all his finials and a ¾ hole in both ends of the body of the ornaments. This way he can put any finial on any ornament and it will fit. Joe starts out with a blank that has been glued on a waste block with medium CA glue. Tonight he used silver maple. He does blanks at a time and attaches them to face plates. He turns them to 2 3/8 or so with a roughing gouge and skew. Joe doesn t use a round ball. He thinks it looks funny and likes a ball that is a little bit squashed. He doesn t do a lot of measuring, he just works them until he likes the shape. He then sands them, marks the center and drills a 3/4 hole deep enough to go into the waste block. The inside is then hollowed out to take off some of the weight. Joe uses ¼ carbide cutters. He keeps the tools at about 40 degree angle. When using the hook tool, you need to keep the hook in front of the tool rest or it will keep jumping on you. Joe turns mostly by sound. After you do a few you can tell where the tool is by feel and sound. You don t want to make the walls too thin or you will get holes when you cut the flutes. The ball is then parted off. Joe then used an expanding chuck to hold the ornament from the inside, finalizes the shape, and sands it. He then mounts the ornament between centers using cone centers he made from wood to center the ornament. He used a metal indexing wheel held on with a shaft extender to cut 12 flutes on the ornament. Joe has always had troubles making fluted ornaments uniform until he came up with the method he showed us tonight. It is always nice to have someone else learn from most (I always find a few more mistakes to make) of the mistakes then show us how we can do it right the first time. It is a shock, but for Joe finding or making the parts/pieces and figuring out how to do it (Continued on page 4)

4 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 4 (Continued from page 3) is half the fun. After several prototypes, Joe had his son make an aluminum plate the fits in the banjo like a tool rest and can be turned and rotated. This allows flutes to be made in any direction Joe wants. The plate has two stops that keep the flutes uniform and keeps the router from going too far and hitting the head or tail stocks. Joe uses a Bosh offset router with a faceplate made out of MDF and Masonite. He sets the router to center height and adjusts the stops to where he wants the flutes to end. The router bits have ball bearings on both sides of the cutter so it rides on the ornament and cuts a consistent depth. After each cut, Joe turns off the router, moves the ornament to the next index mark, and cuts the next flute. There are several different shaped bits with bearings so you have a variety of flute shapes to choose from. Once the flutes are cut, Joe sands the ornament. He puts sandpaper on a paint stick so it doesn t sand the leading edge more than the trailing edge. For a finish, Joe uses semi-gloss Deft cut with a little lacquer. To avoid the Deft from flipping all over when the lathe is turned on, he puts a cardboard tube on a handle around the ornament to catch the flying Deft. Deft dries quickly on a lathe. Joe buffed the ornament on a buffing wheel system using Carnuba wax. The finials are then glued on and there is one less ornament Joe needs to make this season. Joe reminded us to always sign our pieces, but if we are selling them don t include the date. That way if it doesn t sell fast it doesn t become an old piece that is harder to sell. Most of all, Joe told us to have fun when wood turning. It s not that serious. It is a lot more fun to learn on your own than to attend lots of classes or read lots of books.

5 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 5 Ornament Samples Different Flutes Router and Router Tables Hollowing the Ornament The Router and Indexing Wheel Lining up the Router

6 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 6 Routing the Flutes Done with the Flutes Drying the Deft Buffing the Ornament Finished Ball Finished Ornament

7 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 7 Lathes from a hundred years ago

8 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 8 Month/Year Demonstrator Month/Year Demonstrator August-06 Dave Best - Segmented Demo January-10 Mike Mahoney - Madrone Nested Bowl Set September-06 Joe Wagner - Christmas Ornaments February-10 Steve Howe - Travel Mug October-06 Jay Brown - Spalted Captive Ring Bowl March-10 Mike Swenson - Natural Edge Bowl November-06 Bob Carter - Jim McPhail's Layered Bowl April-10 Tom Sorensen - Candelabra February-07 Mike Hyer - Squre Edge Bowl June-10 Kirk DeHeer - Threaded Box March-07 Jim McBride - Threaded Acorn Box August-10 Dave Best - Halloween Ornaments April-07 Lynn Jacobson - Techniques in Segmenting September-10 Lauren Gibbs - Ring Holders Club DVD s for sale May-07 Joe Wagner - Puttin' the Spin on a Spatula November-10 Gordon Nichol - Precision Boring June-07 Kirk DeHeer - Square Edge Bowl January-11 Mike Mahoney - Trio July-07 Tom Sorensen - Three Legged Milking Stool February-11 Joe Wagner - Small Scoop August-07 Bob Carter - Honey Locust Goblet March-11 John Kartchner - Bird's Mouth Bowls September-07 Joe Wagner - Turning an Acorn Birdhouse Ornament April-11 Kirk DeHeer - Tornado Shakers & Sharpening November-07 Doug Turner - Donut Box May-11 Clead Christiansen - Metal Spinning December-07 Joe Wagner - Getting Nimble with a Thimble June-11 Dale Nish - Reverse Turning February-08 Mike Mahoney - Finishes and Burial Urn July-11 Dave Bowhuis - Finials March-08 Jay Brown - Layered Polygonal Bowl August-11 Wayne Johns - Gavel April-08 Paul Chilton - Perfect Peppermill September-11 Dale Dallon - Inside Out Candlesticks May-08 Dennis Brown - Weed Pot October-11 Joe Wagner - Christmas Tree Ornament June-08 Kirk DeHeer - Bowls and Grinds November-11 Mike Hyer - Spheres July-08 Dave Best - Simple Spindles January-12 Mike Mahoney - Finishes August-08 Joe Wagner - Baby Rattle February-12 Blaine Petersen - Chess Pieces September-08 Chris Pytlik - Dyed Vessels March-12 Lauren Gibbs - Kaleidoscopes October-08 Joe Wagner - Sea Urchin and Plastic Globe Ornaments April-12 Bob Carter - Salt Bowl November-08 Doug Turner - Rose Engine Lathe May-12 Mike Swenson - Vacuum System December-08 Bob Carter - French Rollihg Pin Training Bob Carter - Sharp as a Tack February-09 Paul Chilton - Platter Possiblities July-12 Lane Phillips - What Do I Do With That March-09 John Kartchner - Beautiful Boxes August-12 Stuart Davey - Seam Ripper April-09 Joe Wagner - Dynamic Ducks (Off center turning) September-12 Dave Best - Casting May-09 Dave Best - Footless Salad Bowl October-12 Kirk DeHeer - Lidded Boxes June-09 Mike Mahoney - Hawaiian Calabash Bowl November-12 Joe Wagner Fluted Christmas Ornaments July-09 Larry Banz - Tasteful Tulips August-09 Stuart Davey - Volcano Shaker September-09 Bob Carter - Wedding Goblets October-09 Joe Wagner - Banded Christmas Ornament November-09 Jay Brown - Christmas Gift Ideas December-09 Dennis Brown - Harry Potter Wand NOW AVAILABLE: The 2012 Utah Woodturners Symposium DVD 2011 Utah Woodturners Symposium DVD is still available We also have CD s back to 1999 The CD is compatible with PC and Mac Members $8 per DVD Not a Member, $10 Cost $25.00 each and includes shipping If you would like to buy a DVD or CD at the club meeting, they are available for $20.00 by saving shipping costs

9 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 9 One of our past members, Bob Nielsen (The Bee Man), passed away last September. He left behind a bunch of beautiful apricot, black walnut, English walnut, silver maple, and other miscellaneous turning blanks. There are various sizes and shapes. All have been roughly squared and all are thoroughly waxed. Bob s wife, Ruth, would like to sell the wood and give the money to their grandchildren. Prices range from $3.00 to $15.00 per blank depending on the size and the quality. If interested contact John Kartchner ( ), Gary Cragun ( ) or Hank Cragun ( ). Anyone interested in oak banister pieces, please contact Dennis Brown. Dewalt Planer with original set of blades, $300. Fresh local honey also for sale. Contact Blaine Johns For Sale: Vicmarc 100 chuck with extended dovetail jaws. $225. Contact: JL Ivie, Creek Way, Sandy, UT Vega D-36, 36 Professional Duplicator with optional diamond tip $600 Lauren Gibbs, For Sale or Trade Rough turned bowls, platters, etc. Call Kirk DeHeer

10 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 10 Utah Association of Woodturners The Utah Association of Woodturners was formed in 1988 and is a local chapter of the American Association of Woodturners Meetings - first Tuesday of each month at Salt Lake Community College, various shops or wood stores that support our club. Check out these websites Refreshments 6:30 Meeting 7:00 8:45 pm You are invited to attend and become a part of the group. For more information contact any club officer. Dues begin July 1 st of each year: $25.00 full year $20.00 three quarters $15.00 half year $10.00 last quarter $10.00 Spouse/Additional Family member Calendar of Events December 4th: Christmas party SLCC January 1st: No meeting January 8th: Kip Christensen SLCC Best wishes for a peaceful and joyous holiday season

11 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 11 Turner s Challenge/Show & Tell

12 Number 132 Utah Woodchips Newsletter December 2012, page 12 The Utah Association of Woodturners would like to thank our Premier sponsors... Premier supplier of woodturning supplies 1287 East 1120 South, Provo, UT Premier supplier of hardwoods 1576 South 300 West, SLC, UT (801) (800) Pheasant Hollow Business Park Building No South 500 West Sandy, UT (801)

Regular Monthly Meeting

Number 129 Utah Woodchips Newsletter September 2012, page 1 Regular Monthly Meeting First Tuesday of every month 7:00 p.m. Hello Wood Turners, September 2012 Message from the President The kids are back