Announcements:

 

Next meeting:  June 12th, 2012 a few days after the AAW Symposium

Place:  Bridges Church, Los Altos, Time:  7PM.

President's Challenge:  Something not made of wood

Agenda:  Inside-Out Turning

 

And by popular demand:  full pics from last meeting.

Still need Volunteers for AAW Symposium:   Link

 

Past Club Meetings - 2012/2011:

Guy

 

May:  High-end Kitchen utensils -  Bonnie Glover.  Her website. New Web page with pics from this meeting.

 

April: Non-wood turned objects demo:  Guy Michael

 

March:  Jim Gott demonstrated a lidded box.

Videos are now up.

 

February:  Tom Howard demonstrated thin-necked goblets.

  

January:  see newsletter for January.

 

December Christmas Party:  a good turnout and a lot of nifty gifts exchanged.

 

November meeting:  feedback on the competition. 

 

Oct meeting:  Tom Howard discussed how to do spiral turning.  See this link for a report and video.

 

 

Demonstrations

 

Priddle Priddle

Demonstration:   Graeme Priddle occurred on May 5th, 2012, 9:30AM to 5PM

Joint with SVW.   A link to his website is here.

Priddle demonstrated off-center turning like the piece at right.

 

 

 

Clewes Clewes

Rescheduled to sometime in late Fall: Jimmy Clewes

A link to his website is here.

 

Still in negotiations on revised schedule. 

 

 Webpage:  details added as available.

 

 

 

J Paul Fennell demo occurred Oct 9th, 2011 and the Hands-on session on Oct 10th.Fennell's work

Mesquite

See the report and videos here.

 

His website is linked here.  He makes hallow forms with carved outer surfaces.

 

Paul did a fine job of showing how he accomplishes the pieces shown in the pics at left and right. 

 

Thanks to Lonnie for hosting and to Paul for a fine demonstration of his work and methods. 

 

 

 

Hosaluk demo occurred on August 12:    report and videos.portrait

Conversation

example

See this link for more details on this demo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

strange growth

 

Thanks for Jim and Dan and others for hosting and setting up this demo.