Next meeting:  February 14th, 2012

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

       President's Challenge:  Lidded Box

       Agenda:   Tom Howard to demonstrate goblets.

Also elections and Business items.

 

 

Competition occurred

Competition information for the judged show was on Nov 5th can be found at this Link.

Pics online at this Link.

 

 

This is a great way to receive some detailed feedback, and to learn how to improve your turning skills.  See the summary of the results from the last competition:  2009 and a sample feedback form: Link.

 

Club Meetings

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.

  

August Meeting:   BBQ and Jon Sauer's demonstration of a chatter tool.

Video and description found here.

 

 

 

 

Demonstrations:

Next demonstration:  Jimmy Clewes on Mar 11, 2012.  

A link to his website is here.

 

 

 

 

 

Following 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.

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.

 

See this link for more details on this demo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Pytlik Demo occurred on Mar 13th.

He does colored hallow forms.  See the report from George Lutz and the pics from LeRoy Here    Added a link to Laura's pdf on this page.

 

See his website here.

 

See his signature work here, such as the example at left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike Mahoney Demo:    was on Oct 17, 2010

Details and report here.   Picture gallery here. 

Mike displayed a wide range of turnings and skills.

 

 

 

He demonstrated coring, calabash bowl, sharpening, hollow forms, urns, and nested natural edge bowls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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