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AAW October Chapter Newsletter

The following is the October Chapter Newsletter from the AAW

Monthly Drawings/Grand Prize Drawing

We are continuing with our monthly drawings. Nothing is required to participate other than being a member of the AAW. We have great prizes each month and will have a grand prize drawing again at the end of 2011. Walter Meier [...]

Time to Renew

SPSW members, its time to renew your membership for 2012. Dues for 2012 remain the same as 2011 at $30. Cheap when you consider all the benefits you receive. You can pay your 2012 dues to Membership chairman Jarred Hoffpauir at the next meeting, or you can download the membership form and mail in your [...]

Segmented Turners Challenge Re-vote

The Segmented Woodturners sent out this note today regarding the Summer Challenge.

Hello Fellow Segmented Wood Turners,

We had an unfortunate accident with our database this weekend and subsequently lost all the votes to the current club challenge program.

So, I need to ask each of you to recast your votes for your favorite segmented [...]

What’s New on the SPSW Website

Recently added to our website:

The July Board of Directors minutes and the August Board of Director minutes.

Pictures from the outstanding demonstration by Tones Briggs on rice bowls at the September membership meeting.

The October Newsletter.

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Segmented Turners October Chapter Summary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA”

Minature Vessel by Curt Theobald

The Segmented Woodturners virtual chapter of the AAW has released the October Club Summary. Here are some of the goings on:

The first chapter challenge is coming to an end. There are over 25 entries. The first challenge forced members to really focus on “form;” only one wood species was [...]

Port Townsend School of Woodworking Foundation Course

The following press release was sent to newsletter editor Bill Wood who passed it on to the website.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Lawson, Director Port Townsend School of Woodworking and Preservation Trades 200 Battery Way, Fort Worden Port Townsend WA 98368 Phone: (360-344-4455)5 Email press@ptwoodschool.com Web: www.ptwoodschool.com

============== Woodworking Foundation Course Announced by Woodworking [...]

October Membership Meeting

This month is the last of this year’s Mini-Symposiums. These have proven to be extremely popular events. This is the time to learn some of the techniques which you have been wondering about. As always, we will have several demonstrations set up around the room. You are welcome to attend one or all. Now is [...]

Bottle Stoppers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVzA213ikWs”

The Northeast Florida Woodturners Association (Jaxturners) have posted videos of their latest meeting demonstration. In this demonstration from the September meeting, Scott Layman and Chuck Molnar demonstrate turning bottle stoppers.

Here is the first of the four videos. You can see them all on the Jaxturners YouTube Channel.

Symposium Highlights

If you were unable to attend this year’s AAW Symposium you can still see some of the highlights. The AAW has a webpage that you will want to visit at http://woodturner.org/highlights/.

SPSW members, I want to encourage you to check out the AAW Chapter Collaborative Winners link. The SPSW Board of Directors would like [...]

Spear Point Scraper

While perusing back issues of the SPSW newsletter, the Chips & Shavings, I came upon a great tutorial written by SPSW Vice-President Eric Lofstrom on the proper use of the Spear Point Scraper.

“Do your drool over fine curves? Are you sanding out ridges & transitions in your Turnings?

Many turners have difficulty blending curves [...]