Announcements:

 

Next meeting:  April 10th, 2012

Place:  New Location, Los Altos, Time:  7PM.

 President's Challenge:   Lidded box  (see video demo link)

 Agenda:   Non-wood turned objects demo:  Guy Michael.

         High-end Kitchen utensils in May:  Bonnie Glover.

 Clewes demo scheduled for Mar 11th -   will be rescheduled for later in the year, probably in the Fall.

 

Club Meetings - 2012:

Jim 

 March:  Jim Gott demonstrated a lidded box.

Videos are now up.

 

February:  Tom Howard demonstrated thin-necked goblets.

  

Tom Howard

January:  see newsletter archive 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.

 

Board meeting in September, minutes this Link.

 

Sept meeting:  Michael Podlone (physician at El Camino Hospital) presented a medical view of wood and dust toxicity.  See this link for the video.

 

Demonstrations

 

Clewes Clewes

Rescheduled to sometime in late Fall: Jimmy Clewes

A link to his website is here.

 Place is Rich Johnson’s shop.  See Club email for address. 

Brochure.

Webpage:  details added as available.

 

 

 

Priddle Priddle

Next demonstration:   Graeme Priddle on May 5th, 2012

Joint with SVW.  

A link to his website is here.

 

 

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.