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May 2017 Volume 4, Issue 5 Monthly News Special Interest Articles: May Meeting Highlights Page 1 Beads of Courage Page 2 Quarterly Woodturners Challenge Page 3 Individual Highlights: New Sign 2 AAW 3

Meeting Demo introduced many of us who attended to Stabilizing Wood in your Shop.

1 May 2017 Volume 4, Issue 5 Monthly News Special Interest Articles: May Meeting Highlights Page 1 Beads of Courage Page 2 Quarterly Woodturners Challenge Page 3 Individual Highlights: New Sign 2 AAW 3 Arrowmont & 4 John C Campbell President s 5 Messge Safety 6 Sponsor s 8 Corner Photo Gallery 9 Women in 10 Turning Smoky Mountain Woodturners is a Regional Chapter Our May Meeting Recap Our May Meeting Demo introduced many of us who attended to Stabilizing Wood in your Shop. The program featured John Tarpley who did a great job of balancing the application of a rather technical process to woodturning with easy to understand instructions and examples of how to use stabilized wood. John started by explaining how he learned about resins and used them Coming Up In June Our June Meeting Demo will be presented by Drue Hogland Entitled, Drying and Turning Green Wood in your Shop, this demo is one of those requested by our members in our 2016 Survey. There are many advantages to turning green wood. It s easier, less dust is created, its cooler on your tools (which meaning less sharpening) and provides more enjoyment in the process. We ll explore many of the facets of handling green wood, both during his career. He then helped us understand how he applied his knowledge to the field of woodworking. John effectively demonstrated how the equipment used in the process works and reviewed the various options in equipment and resin products. He provided a hand out that is available to our members on-line (the Resources Page of our website). before and after turning. Specialty equipment supply sources and resin product (Cactus Juice) recommendations are available in that handout. Thanks, John for an outstanding Demo! NEW ON THE RESOURCE PAGE. Jake Niedling prepared a step by step hand out for a recent Workshop at Wears Valley Ranch. We thought our members might be interested in How to Make A Chinese Hat Box. It s on the Resource Page under the Self Help tab or click on this link! HAT BOX LINK

We believe that making these informative brochures available to their customers has contributed to our membership growth over the past couple of years.

. Please keep on turning BOC Treasure Boxes. Even though we ve met the 2017 challenge, we never have enough to meet the needs of the kids at ETCH.

2 SMWTS Monthly Newsletter Page 2 of 10 New SMWTS Brochures and Sign The Smoky Mountain Woodturners Brochure has been updated. Woodcraft Knoxville and Jeffries Woods have been gracious in allowing us to place them in a counter display holder. We believe that making these informative brochures available to their customers has contributed to our membership growth over the past couple of years. At the May meeting, our new retractable sign was introduced to the membership. This sign was purchased so that we can identify our organization at meetings and at other special events and activities.. Please keep on turning BOC Treasure Boxes. Even though we ve met the 2017 challenge, we never have enough to meet the needs of the kids at ETCH.. May Boxes from Tellico Woodworkers The Beads of Courage Update Our friends in Tellico, through their woodworking club, continue to help us support this program to benefit the kids at East Tennessee Children s Hospital. At the May meeting, they contributed an additional dozen boxes to the Beads of Courage program. Our Chapter provides BOC Beads to our members at no cost for this worthwhile project. You can pick up beads from Drue at any of our monthly meetings. You are urged as well to contact Drue for the opportunity to accompany him at the Hospital as he distributes Treasure Boxes to the kids in the BOC program! For information on the guidelines for turning BOC Treasure Boxes please click on this link May Scholarship Draw Winners org/pages/woodturners.html Each month we have a draw to choose a monthly winner for our annual scholarships. The first is to Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and the other is to the John C. Campbell Folk School. At the end of each year, we hold a grand prize drawing where each monthly winner has the opportunity to be the Grand Prize Winner. Scholarships provide Tuition only for a weekend or one week workshop at the School. Our May monthly draw winners are: For the Arrowmont Scholarship, Gordon Sloane and for the John C. Campbell Scholarship, Harry Ford. We will, once again in 2017, be awarding two Arrowmont Scholarships.

00 Woodcraft Gift Card. At the December meeting, the Chapter will host the final Woodturners Challenge of the year. Members will be able to turn a Tooth Pick dispenser and enter it in the competition.

Attention all Chapter Members If you have an agenda item you would like to have discussed at our monthly meeting, please be sure to contact president, Gordon Sloane at least a week before the meeting.

Also, please let us know in advance about upcoming guests who would like to say a few words or make a presentation to the club.

3 Page 3 of 10 Quarterly Woodturners Challenge SMWTS Monthly Newsletter Page 3 of 10 Coming up in August, the Chapter will host a Woodturners Challenge. The project will be Christmas Ornaments. Members are invited to turn and bring to the August meeting, a completed Christmas Ornament to enter into the competition. Jim Vogelsang will be our judge. The winner will receive a $25.00 Woodcraft Gift Card. At the December meeting, the Chapter will host the final Woodturners Challenge of the year. Members will be able to turn a Tooth Pick dispenser and enter it in the competition. Jared Bruckner will be the judge. Attention all Chapter Members If you have an agenda item you would like to have discussed at our monthly meeting, please be sure to contact president, Gordon Sloane at least a week before the meeting. This would include discussions on special events and projects like Beads of Courage, Pens for the Troops and Fantasy of trees. Also, please let us know in advance about upcoming guests who would like to say a few words or make a presentation to the club. WOOD DRAW DONATIONS Thanks to Harry Ford, Gordon Sloane, Jared Bruckner, John Fiet, John Danner and others for providing the wood for the May Draw. AAW Updates Woodturning FUNdamentals Online, an easy-to-use integrated online learning experience designed for new turners and those who would like to build woodturning skills. The site complements the Digital Woodturning FUNdamentals publication. Discover Woodturning Online, a new web-based resource loaded with introductory and descriptive information about the art and craft of woodturning, designed to educate the general public. This is a tool, for your chapter's new turners. Special AAW Membership Promotion! AAW membership for $30, a 50% reduction on the regular $60 rate One year membership includes printed bimonthly American Woodturner journal. Only chapter members who are new AAW members are eligible. Introductory offer, applies to first year only. Special rate available only during the exclusive sign up period from April 1 through June 30, 2017 Join AAW at the reduced $30 rate at wgen THERE S STILL TIME TO REGISTER! AAW Symposium in Kansas City is coming up in June (22 nd ) Click on the Symposium Logo on the right for more information..

4 SMWTS Monthly Newsletter Page 4 of 10 John C. Campbell Update The John C. Campbell Workshop Schedule is available on-line through their website. Here s the line-up for June to 6-10 J. Paul Fennell - Embellishing Turned Wood 6/11 to 6/17 Sharon Doughtie Introduction to Embellished Objects Vessels and Boxes 6-25 to 7-8 Rudolph Lopez - Turning Bowls from Simple to the Sublime. Click on the logo on the left to access their website. What s New at Arromont Don t forget about the LOCAL RESIDENTS SCHOLARSHIPS that provide 50% of workshop tuition for one workshop per person per year. Residents of Sevier, Blount, Cocke, Jefferson, or Knox counties in Tennessee are eligible. No deadline. Coming Up to 6-9 Trent Bosch - Functional & Sculptural Woodturning 6-9 to 6-11 Charles Watson Leave it Natural 6-11 to 6-17 Marty Libman - Log to Bowl 7-2 to 7-7 Carmine & Elizabeth Prioli - Multicolor Lamination & Woodturning Click on the photo/logo to the left to access their website. SMWTS member, Bob Klassen has been named the featured artist by the Farragut Arts Council. His work will be on display at the Farragut town hall. Click on the link below for more information. press.com/articles/ 2017/05/6224.php Regional Symposium Information We ll do our best to keep you updated on the Regional Symposium calendar for You can also access up-to-date information on the AAW Website using the AAW Connect feature. 6/22 25 AAW International Symposium Kansas City, MO. 9/15 Turning Southern Style Georgia Woodturners Dalton, GA 10/13 Ohio Valley Woodturners West Harrison, IN 11/3 North Caroling Woodturning Symposium Greensboro, N.C.,

5 Page 5 of 10 SMWTS Monthly Newsletter Page 5 of 10 President s Message Our May meeting was a huge success from the feedback I received from members who were there. Everyone enjoyed the shortened news announcements and being able to get out of the meeting before the sun went down. John Tarpley s demonstration on resin stabilization of wood was interesting and knowledgeable. I m not sure if I will try it, but it sure has me thinking. Thanks John, for a great demonstration. I heard nothing but good things about our new club sign and brochure. We should have the sign at all club sponsored events and a stack of brochures. One of the reasons for the quick pace of the meeting is to have more time for showand-tell. In the past I have asked you to limit your sharing to one item (like Jake did with his box of ornaments and John Jordan did with his box of handles), but now with more time I think we can share 2-3 items with the members. I guess by now you can tell that I am pretty high on the SMWTS and everything they do from boxes, pens, ornaments and all our other projects. If I meet a woodturner I always tell him about the club and invite him to come to our meeting. That is why I wanted Bob Law and Jim Vogelsang to enter our Newsletter and Web site in the annual AAW contest. Well we just found out that we did not win in either category. We were in the top 8 newsletters and top 16 for web sites. I was a little bit down about this news until I realized that there are over 350 AAW Chapters worldwide. Probably all those Chapters did not enter the contest but I am sure quite a few did and for us to come out in the top 8 and top 16 makes me feel a little better. The judges sent us some good feedback to assist us in upgrading those areas where they thought we could improve. Bob and Jim are already incorporating some of those suggestions. However, the primary goal of both the Newsletter and Website is to benefit the members of SMWTS. We need you the members to read the Newsletter and look at the Web-site and give the editors positive or negative feedback on what you like or did not like. If we are meeting the needs of our members then we are putting out the right Newsletter and the right Web-site. Making Sawdust Gordon Members Marketplace Members interested in getting a shirt embroidered with the SMWTS Logo can do so at the Embroidery Boutique 141 Brooklawn St., Knoxville, Tn You will need to furnish your own shirt. You will need to identify yourself as a SMWTS Chapter Member. Price is very reasonable. Dave Stricker has some tools. to sell. I Ryobi 10" Surface Planer with extra set of blades, manual, and set up tools. $125 Miller Falls manual Miter Box. Great for picture frames and trim. $50 Jet 6" Jointer w/extra blade set and manual. 46" table. 3/4 Hp $350 Give Dave a call at if you are interested! Members can advertise products or services available to the Chapter. You can also advertise for items or services you need

6 SMWTS Monthly Newsletter Page 6 of 10 What s Been Happening on the Ranch? Our Intermediate Students tackled Making a Bowl from a Plank. We began the workshop by laying out the design and then demonstrated how to cut out the rings on the band saw. We then discussed how to glue the pieces together. This session also introduced the students to using the jamb chuck and the waste block as turning tools. Jake Neidling then demonstrated how to turn the completed project blank into a beautiful segmented bowl. Students each received a pre-cut project kit to work with during free shop time in May. Our beginner workshop students are off to a flying start having worked with the lathe for the first time in April. They practiced turning beads and coves and can t wait till they can make something useful on the lathe. In June, they ll learn convex and concave turning as well as an introduction to end grain. The project for the month will be a weed pot! Our thanks to Vic Kaminsky for donating a Wood Slicing Bandsaw to the Ranch. Don t forget that we still need scroll chucks (Nova Preferred) and hollowing tools for the Ranch Workshop! Woodturning Safety => Pharis Safety Corner At our meeting on 16 May 2017, I was introduced as your new Safety Officer. Each month there will be an article in our newsletter concerning safety tips. There will also be a question presented that will pertain to our upcoming meeting. This month, I spoke about my ABC's of woodturning. As most know ABC stands for Anchor your tool on the tool rest. Bevel. Find your bevel point by gently bring your tool into the proper position on your work piece and finding your cutting edge. Cut. Start your cutting However, I like to add a 'D' Danger. Make sure you have not put yourself into a danger position. We will talk about many of these hazard that one must be sure do not exist while turning your masterpiece in future articles. Be SAFE in your Work Shop, so we can See you next Month. The Question for next month is What is the most dangerous machine in your shop?

7 Page 7 of 10 SMWTS Monthly Newsletter Page 7 of 10 SMWTS SETS UP EQUIPMENT FUND FOR WEARS VALLEY RANCH Smoky Mountain Woodturners P. O. Box Knoxville, TN info@smwts.org Contact: Gordon Sloane Chapter President info@smwts.org Newsletter Editor Bob Law info@smwts.org Smoky Mountain Woodturners has set aside $800 for use in purchasing equipment for the new Woodturning Shop Building at Wears Valley Ranch during The new shop building is About Our Organization The Smoky Mountain Woodturners Chapter of the AAW meets each month of the year on the 3 rd Tuesday of the Month. Our meeting place sponsor is Woodcraft dried in and work on the inside has begun. Volunteers worked to complete the wiring of the facility earlier this month so that electricity will soon be available. John Jordan and Randy Knoxville. Meetings start at 6:30pm each month. Guests are always welcome. Woodcraft Knoxville is located at 8023 Kingston Fritchman are completing the inventory of wood currently stored there. John is working with Bob Law and the Ranch staff to determine how best to utilize the SMWTS funds once there is space available to move the shop to the new facility. Pike in Knoxville, near Trader Joes and one block from West Town Mall. Tom s Cartoon of the Month We re on the Web! See us at:

Company (USA) which is a leading edge developer of intelligent SR drive applications to industry. The NOVA Galaxi is built for the most demanding, rugged turning condition.

8 SMWTS Monthly Newsletter Page 8 of 10 SPONSORS CORNER Woodcraft Knoxville is our meeting place sponsor. We are grateful for their continuing support of our Chapter and its various activities. The NOVA Galaxi is powered by the renowned DVR (Digital Variable Reluctance) drive by their DVR technology Developments Inc. Company (USA) which is a leading edge developer of intelligent SR drive applications to industry. The NOVA Galaxi is built for the most demanding, rugged turning condition. Power to Burn: The DVR Motor delivers 2HP (220V/ interchangeable to 1.75HP at 115V) direct to the lathe spindle - which is actually the rotor assembly of the DVR motor itself. So no belts, pulleys to get in the way or soak up power and performance as in standard AC or DC powered wood lathes. The new DVR is incredibly quiet and vibration free. Click on the Nova Logo for more information! Here s what s Available at Woodcraft Knoxville in June! The Nova DVR 1644 The powerful onboard computer which controls the DVR Drive closely monitors the lathe spindle conditions (load and size) and delivers just the power and torque necessary to keep to within 1-2% of the set speed. Another feature of this new Nova product is the single piece lathe bed with 44 between centers. YOUR NOVA DISTRIBUTOR IN EAST TENNESSEE IS Knoxville With its Direct Drive, DVR advanced motor technology- It makes the perfect addition to your workshop! The Nova Galaxi will be available for deliver in June. There is a 15% discount on pre-orders until May 25 th. There is also a mail-in offer for a free Super Nova Chuck and Insert with lathe purchase.

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10 Tennessee Women in Turning (WIT) Announce Fall Retreat at Arrowmont. During a WIT meeting at the TAW Symposium this January, they came up with an exciting learning opportunity: A woodturning-weekend retreat at Arrowmont School for Arts and Crafts this coming August! With the full support of Arrowmont and the national WIT leadership, here are the details: When we have confirmed the 15 participants, they will begin discussions to ensure that everyone's needs are provided for and questions answered.. August, 17, 18, 19, 20, Arrowmont School, Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Enrollment is limited to 15, but there is a possibility for additional spaces. Signup deadline is May 1. Barbara Dill has volunteered to be the lead instructor and demonstrator. You will have your own lathe to turn your own project or recreate the demonstration of the day. You could even sign up to be a demonstrator, but this weekend retreat will have a heavy focus on hands-on. Be prepared to be covered in wood shavings every day! They have reserved Stuart Hall house on campus, where each turner will have a bed and where will jointly prepare and eat their meals. (Costs for food will be part of pre-weekend discussions.) Registration is $220 for the weekend, which will cover Arrowmont's studio fee and your dorm room. Arrival is Thursday afternoon; departure is by 5:00 on Sunday. (Special arrangements can be made for a Monday departure.) New turners are welcome - consider bringing a friend to introduce to turning. (Arrowmont has woodturning tool kits.) Interested Women Turners should contact Lou Kinsey, to secure your slot and to arrange payment: , loukinsey@me.com

CHAPTER NEWSLETTER 2014 Issue 10 PROMOTING INTEREST IN WOOD TURNING

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