INW Newsletter April 2018 From President Doug: From the Editor: We started the month with a slight change to the monthly meeting, adding in a Show-off table, as a trial As feature. a club, Ron we Gooley are in brought a period in many of transition of his best concerning pieces, and his how very the first club bowl shares that he information made in 2003. with The members. board would appreciate An excellent comments example about of quarterly this is the or re-design semi-annual of repetition our web to site. let the Changes membership in the enjoy newsletter work of some will our also impressive occur. turners. We encourage We will be and discussing ask for this articles issue at from future you, board the meetings. members of this club. So far, The 23 club editor members wants have all members registered to to attend become the Portland more active Symposium. in the Cal creation Hanson of helped the contents us understand this how newsletter. to do segmented This newsletter turnings, and is shared by you some and not for so you. obvious, but very useful tips for turners of that have not done any segmented turnings. Thanks to Cal for the preparation he did for the demo. On April 21, Kristin LeVeir made a very interesting presentation to 22 club-members. Her work is astounding, and she makes it seem so easy to do. Kristin s demonstration of wood bending was very interesting, and using Charlie Benson s piece (Gold Flamingo) as part of her PowerPoint emphasized the use in turning. Kristin s demonstration was inspiring on This edition is an example of some changes to the newsletter. several different levels from bending to carving and coloring. She shared her methods for de- Below veloping is her link individual to our webpage: inspiration. The normal Riverview Saturday was changed this month from the 3rd Saturday to the 4th Saturday because of the conflict with Kristin LeVeir. We had 9 members attend, and Ron (Gooley) helped several make boxes. He will also demonstrate at our May 3rd meeting showing us his new video method of deep hollowing, and a new bowl-saver that he has used and enjoys quite a bit. Over the last several weeks the club has accumulated a significant amount of wood, some at Carl Bodenstein s home and some at Riverview, with more coming in the near future. We are contemplating a club wide cutting at Carl s in the latter part of May. The board has been discussing a fee for future cuttings, primarily to offset costs incurred in the accumulation and preparation of the wood. Please feel free to offer your opinion to Board members (or attend the Board meetings). Part of the Board rational is that 20 or so members profit from the cutting, but the whole club incurs the cost. In the past month, our Newsletter editor Shelley Hays has advised me that he needs to relinquish the role of editor (despite the high pay) and would like another club member to take over the job. Our club Secretary Will Lloyd-Davies has asked to be replaced for health reasons. I am asking any club member who could step into either position, please talk to me or any member of the Board of Directors. Vickie Prindiville has agreed to join the INW Woodturners Board of Directors. Doug, INW President dougeaton@mac.com
Show and Tell / Exhibit Table: Please bring your current work. We anticipate having a table for critique for those that want constructive appraisal, as well as a table for those that just want to show their work without critique. We encourage learning and getting new ideas from evaluation, but some work needs none, and some artists prefer not to participate in that fashion. The choice is always yours! ******************************************* Raffle Table: Please feel free to bring extra wood, new or used tools, or other items for the raffle table. The money raised from the raffle helps us maintain day to day operations of the club. ******************************************* Treasurer s Message: Dues are per annum, beginning at each New Year, January 1, 2018. Renewal and new member dues are currently $30.00, including family memberships, with students registered as members for free. Make checks out to Inland NorthWest Woodturners or INW for short. Please remember the dues and membership for INW have no relation to membership or dues for AAW. We prorate annual dues for NEW MEMBERS ONLY till June 30th, after which a minimum dues for the remainder of the year is $15.00. All renewing members are $30.00 for 2018. ******************************************* WEBSITE UPDATE: our website is up and running and getting better all the time. Members and visitors are encouraged to view the new features at: http://inwwoodturners.com/ ******************************************* FUNDAMENTALS AT RIVERVIEW: On the third Saturday of each month there are demonstrations and opportunities for hands-on experience under the mentoring of more experienced club members starting at 9:00 am until????? Riverview Retirement Community is located at 1801 E Upriver Dr, Spokane, WA 99207 and the workshop is located just south of the main entrance on Ross Ct. 2018 Board of Directors President Doug Eaton dougeaton@mac.com Treasurer Carl Bodenstein cjboden@earthlink.net Secretary Will Lloyd-Davies wlloydda@gmail.com Demonstrator Coordinator Ron Gooley crgooley@gmail.com Webmaster Ron Valley rvalley@comcast.net Membership Pat Hickey patrico3808@gmail.com Newsletter Shelley Hays sandrhays@netscape.net Librarian Sabrina Murphy sabrina13060@aol.com General Meeting: May 3, at 6:30pm Woodcraft 212 N. Sullivan Rd., Spokane Valley, WA Newsletter Suggestions Encouraged Have an article, comments, or suggestions for our newsletter? I would appreciate hearing from you! Email to: sandrhays@netscape.net WoodTurner in the subject line please.
Department of Veterans Affairs Internment service was held on Thursday, April 19th at the State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake, WA. It was a beautiful day and the event was extremely well attended. Present representing INW were Frank and Carl. Carl snapped this picture of a KC-135 mading a fly by. Seventy (70) unclaimed remains were put to final rest in the service. Urns are made and donated by woodturners, cabinet and furniture craftsmen alike. If you would like to donate an urn of your making, details can be obtained by emailing Frank or Carl.
Kristin LeVier presented an all day demonstration at WoodCraft on Saturday, April 21st. It was an eye opening and jaw dropping session and Kristin s delightful personality made the day especially enjoyable. The presentation included aspects of compressed wood turning and shaping into art forms, embellishment with various methods of paint and stain, carving and texturing. The session started at 9AM sharp and we were still at it till after 5PM! Some shots of the day follow.
Project of the Month - Chatter Tools By Frank E. Hutchison Chatter tools are not the first tool you think of or get as a woodturner. We focus on gouges, parting tools, scrapers and skews because they are the tools that we use the most. And chatter tools are really finish tools used only after everything has been turned and often sanded. Making a Chatter Tool In theory a chatter tool can be any piece of metal which can vibrate, i.e., chatter. In theory, you can take a piece of metal and hold it with pliers and it will function as a chatter tool. rounded shape because I have another chatter tool with a pointed shape. The handle allows you to get more consistent results. I used a sandwich of two pieces of walnut with some yellowheart veneer to create a space for the metal to slide in for making my handle. The veneer was the same thickness as the metal, making a convenient spacer. And it added some interest to the handle. After the sandwich was glued together, I turned it to a pleasant shape that fits my hand, but I didn t turn it round. The final shape was an oval with a flat spot, so it won t round off whatever I put it on. There are two parts to a chatter tool the metal and the handle. The metal can be an old hacksaw or bandsaw blade which is grind with the same grinder you use to sharpen your tools. As shown here, I ground a I needed some way of holding the metal in place which I did by drilling a hole through the handle along with several holes in the metal (see above). I then countersinked a shallow hole to fit a nut in the bottom of the handle (below).
I made a knob to hold the blade in place by turning the knob to shape and drilling a shallow hole for a screw head then a hole all the way through the knob sized for the screw shaft. After finishing and parting off, I then epoxied the screw in the knob and the matching nut in the bottom of the handle, being very careful to not get epoxy on the threads where they would engage with the nut. Use of a Chatter Tool A chatter tool is simply a form of scraper and all the rules for the use of a scraper apply to a chatter tool. The tool is angled down below the plane of rotation. The tool rest is usually above the plane of rotation, i.e., the center of the turned object. In addition, chatter tools work best on end grain of hard woods, but they can be used on face grain as long as the tool will generate vibrations. An entirely different tool, the texturing tool, can be used on the foot of bowls to add interest and detail. Other considerations are the shape of the blade and the degree of flexibility. For example, below is a sample of chattering done with two different chatter tools: The outer, narrow ring was made with a commercial chatter tool with a stiff blade and a sharp point; The inner, broad ring was made with the chatter tool described above which has a flexible blade with a rounded edge. I colored both with a red felt tip pen to highlight the patterns generated. Bonnie Klein uses chatter tools extensively with her spinning tops they add considerable interest in what would otherwise be bland designs. Experiment for Your Best Use and Results Because there are several variables in the use of a chatter tool, there is no hard and fast rule for its use. You need to experiment which can be expensive if you re buying your chatter tools. But as shown here, it s not hard to make your own. And it s likely you have all the materials you need in your shop right now you re probably been referring to them as scraps and junk but you can put them to good use with a little effort. A Final Thought The process described above for making the knob works for any size knob you may need in your shop (or elsewhere). The only requirements are a machine screw of sufficient length, a nut of the proper size that matches the machine screw and a piece of wood. Total time required is only a few minutes plus the time for the epoxy to cure.
Bowl by Ron Gooley Australian Burl (Eucalyptus spp.) Pitcher By C. S. Schwartz Walnut (Juglans nigra )
WANTED AND FOR SALE ITEMS We are using the Newsletter as a mechanism to list MEMBERS' ONLY items for sale or wanted. Please submit all requests for listings to the Newsletter editor at: newsletter@inwwoodturners.com All items will be listed ONLY once on request, and if not sold or acquired during that month's newsletter, a new request for listing must be submitted. INW is acting as a listing agent only and is not responsible for the item, it s condition, pricing, or any other logistics of any resulting transaction. Furthermore, INW takes no fee for any listing or transactions that take place as a result of the listing. Listings will stay on the Newsletter for one month only unless specific new request is made to extend the listing into the next Newsletter. No commercial listings are allowed for members that have business interests in the items being listed. INW has sole discretion to not list or remove a listing that it feels is not in it s general membership s interest. Lister s contact information should be name and an email address only. No phone numbers will be included in a listing for any reason.
All INW, We just wanted to make you aware/remind you of the following upcoming events for INW: 1. A few of you have not submitted your dues for 2018. Rather than a separate email to you, you know who you are. Please make your payment on line on the Store and Dues page, or in person at the next meeting, March 1, 2018. We will be declaring March 15th as a deadline date this year and if you are not paid up by then, you will be removed from our roster and web site member access. Sorry, we have to run some of this organization like a real business! 2. The AAW Symposium in Portland is a definite go on the $25 registration discount for INW members that pay through INW and have us send a roster and single check in for the groups payment to AAW. Again, there must be a deadline on this and payment, either by the website (preferably) or in person at the March 1 meeting will be required to receive the $25 discount off the normal $325 price that AAW charges. If you are interested AFTER the check from INW to AAW goes out, you are out of luck as the agreement with AAW is a single submission of payment and roster. We currently have 3 people listed that have already paid in full to AAW and will receive a refund from INW for their overpayment, once all is approved by AAW. If you have already prepaid to AAW, PLEASE respond to this email and let Carl know. 3. The Board met yesterday and approved, based on expressed membership interest, the purchase in bulk of CA glue, pursuit of the smocks for final pricing, the INW sew on patches. There was not currently enough interest in the Walnut Oil or Anchorseal to proceed to a new purchase. The web site STORE AND DUES page will have a listing for CA glue beginning next MONDAY, and it will stay active till one week after the March 1 meeting. You may order 16 oz bottles of CA glue and 16 oz bottles of Accelerant. Specific thickness of CA glue MUST be specified (Thin, Med, Thick, etc). Extra 4 oz bottles and tips are included automatically. We will let you know when order of the smocks is available. 4. A new format will be used at Thursday night meetings: the wood raffle will be held immediately after the show and tell and critique tables are done, and immediately before the evenings demonstration. You are asked to put your ticket stub on the wood, or wood grouping, that you want to claim, and pick it up immediately after the conclusion of the meeting. Also, the show and tell and critique will be separated by placement on separate tables. If you want to just bring a piece in to show, perhaps to describe, but NOT to have critiqued, please put it on the table labeled Show and Tell. The table labeled Critique is for pieces that the turner is interested in having a more detailed review and real critique of, including design, execution, finish, etc. It is the general feeling of the Board that the only way any of us can improve our turning skills is by constructive feedback. Submissions do not need to be exceptional to be critiqued, but we hope to encourage an attitude towards growth via constructive criticism at all levels of turners. Many OTHER members will benefit from hearing constructive critique of similar skill level pieces. 5. The Board is less aware than we would like of which of you turn, what lathes you use, what tools you use, and what we can do to help. ewe will try to work on this database and what to derive from it as time goes on. You may see a lathe blank on the Thursday sign in sheets. Please feel free to list what lathe you have when you sign in. As always, the Board welcomes your comments and critique of OUR performance in making your club what you want it to be!
Volunteer Opportunities The Inland Northwest Woodturners is a volunteer organization meaning that everything is performed by members who give of their time to conduct the business and activities of the organization. Besides helping to promote woodturning, volunteers also develop friendships by working alongside their fellow woodturners and you can learn new skills as well. Volunteering is not time consuming. Board members spend 6-10 hours a month on their duties but most volunteers only contribute at meetings or special events. For example, the video assistant is responsible for setting up and operating the video equipment during our regular monthly meeting. It usually takes less than a half hour to set up before the meeting and 15 minutes to take down after the meeting and the rest of the time is during the meeting and you re already at the meeting! Current volunteer opportunities and their estimated time commitment per month are: Video assistant (~1 hour) Assistant webmaster (~4 hours) Facebook coordinator (~4 hours) Assistant Coffee Coordinator (~1 hour) Assistant Program Coordinator (~2 hours) Assistant Newsletter Editor (~2 hours) Cutting Party Coordinator (~1 hour + event) Assistant Special Event Coordinator (~1 hour + ~5 hours per event) Assistant Librarian (~1 hour) Wood Raffle Coordinator (~1 hour) Club Photographer (~1 hour per meeting or event) Give of yourself help your fellow woodturners (and yourself) and have fun while you re doing it! Training will be provided! If you are interested in learning more about volunteering, contact the president, Doug; the webmaster, Frank; or the treasurer, Carl, at any meeting or come to the monthly Board meeting at Frankie Doodles on the third Thursday at 11:30. (If it s your first time, the club buys your lunch!) The Inland Northwest Woodturners are on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/inwturners/)! You can post pictures as well as comment on posts. We encourage you to like us on Facebook!
We have created a page on the INW website inwwoodturners.com. called Store that will allow anyone to make their dues payments or donations on line by credit card. If you are still waiting to make your 2017 membership dues payment (only a few of you are still outstanding), now is your chance! The system is secure and it processes completely on our own web site, using an application from our already existing Square account. The integration is seamless, safe, and really cool! The fee to the club for each transaction is the same as our normal Square credit card processing fee, and the efficiency makes it well worth that expense. Should you wish to check it out, and are willing to spend $10 (or any multiple of $10 you would like) as a donation to the club, the last item on the list is for Tax Deductible Donation and is listed at $10, but you may change the quantity to be any multiple of $10 you would like. (for example put quantity 10 for a donation of $100). I would very much like your feedback if you use the method to donate, pay your dues, etc. I am hoping to be able to add other items like donated tools and even wood to the listings and would let everyone know when new items are posted for sale. If anyone is interested, Square integrated seamlessly with our Word Press created web site, and PayPal required us to write code to create the equivalent store. Since we have a Square account already, it was a no brainer!