South Puget Sound Woodturners

Member Meeting March 18, 2010; Symposium

18th – Membership Mtg
Symposium
20th – Sawdust Session
30th – Board Mtg Les Johnson’s

Spring has sprung!

We kick off spring with the first of three mini symposiums scheduled for 2010. The broad spectrum of woodturning topics covered at each of these events is extremely helpful in filling in areas of your turning skill set! All 10 demonstrators will be doing something different and are eager to help you further your abilities. If there is a particular demonstration you would like to see at the next mini symposium let either Jim Cotter or myself know and we will try and fill that request.

Additionally if you would like to share something that you do, we are always looking for new ideas and people to bring it to the membership. I will be demonstrating how to sharpen tools on the clubs Wolverine Vari Grind tool sharpening system. So if you have dull tools and would like them sharpened, bring them to the meeting and I will try to get a good edge on them.

Our monthly “Show & Tell” will be a “Show” only table setup to showcase your fine turning examples, so bring a piece or two to showoff! There will not be a wood raffle this month, so you can leave your maple burls at home or you may simply drop them off at my house “no questions asked”.

Mark April 10th on your calendar for our annual spring clean up at Bob & Nancy Sweazey’s shop. Most of you know that Nancy generously donates the use of her shop for our club’s monthly sawdust sessions and mid week classes. The spring clean up is our way of saying “Thank you”. I will be passing a sign up sheet around at the meeting. All are welcome and lunch will be provided to everyone that shows up. Personal enrichment is guaranteed!

See you on the 18th. Have fun, be safe and make some shavings.

Pat

Bonnie Klein Cruise and Learn to Alaska

Hello Wood Carvers & Woodturning Clubs and Instructors,

Bonnie Klein has agreed to demonstrate and teach onboard the Holland America Line Zaandam the week of August 27 to Sept. 3, 2010. You are invited to join her to learn a new craft or hone your wood working skills.

There will also be Creative Paper Crafts workshops from a STAMPIN UP insructor.

PS: In June 2011, Pam Gresham returns to teach in Bermuda. Her husband Pete will teaching at her side.

Kathleen Gardner Tansey, CTC MCC Group Specialist, Direct 253-630-7755
Affiliated with TRAVEL LEADERS – Travel Center, Inc of Tacoma, WA 800-982-4442
Calendar at www.travelcenter4u.com & www.PricelessSunsetJourneys.com<>

Kathleen G. Tansey CTC MCC DS
Group Travel Specialist, 253-630-7755 vm
www.PricelessSunsetJourneys.com

SPS Woodturners in the News

A recent article from the Fife Free Press about our club.
http://www.fifefreepress.com/article/1985

Wondrous wood
Fife Free Press
By Jill Russell Pat McCart knows that woodturning is a craft that requires … people from as far north as Seattle, east as Buckley and south as Olympia. …

Meeting Thursday February 18th

Bob Espen lived in Anchorage, AK.for 23 years. While there he helped found the Alaska Creative Woodworkers Association and the Alaska Chapter of the AAW. He participated in several juried art shows at the Anchorage Museum of Fine Arts,The Portland Rose Festival, and Beneath the Bark in Provo Utah.

He has done demos in Bremerton, Olympia, Seattle, Portland, Salem and Eugene,as well as The AAW in Tacoma and Portland. He has been turning for over 20 years and does a variety of things, bowls,rolling pins, oil lamps.wall hangings, boxes and other things.

His demo will be multi-centered turning using 3,4,or 5 different centers. It is not as difficult as you may think, or as dangerous. The plain box has just 3 separate axis but requires 5 separate chuckings but the pierced one has 5 separate axis and required 13 separate chuckings.