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A Chapter of The American Association of Woodturners Northwest Woodturners meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM. See www.northwestwoodturners. com for details and map. Next Meeting: July 9th Turning Challenge: Hollow forms S TAFF President Mike Meredith (503) 522-0531 [email protected] V. President Joe Jedrychowski [email protected] Secretary / Treasurer Owen Lowe (503) 538-5325 Board of Directors Walt Brown Jim Hall Fred Kline Bob Mach Mike Stalder Librarian Chris Dix Raffle Tom Willing Supplies Tom Helzer Newsletter & Web Scott Blackman Q UICK U PDATES As the club year moves along, summer arrives with notes of anticipation for fall and less sweat as I turn. Hopefully, thoughts are turning to, among other things, gathering wood for the wood auction in August. Every day I think, or certainly my wife thinks, that I should reduce the pile of maple burl, cherry and English walnut in front of our house to transportable and salable pieces. Then I remember that my chainsaw is still in the chainsaw hospital (nothing serious, just an oiler gear failure in an old saw that I should have fixed myself) and I’m spared for another day, at least. I’ll get it done before the auction. I see that wood out front as just really big pieces of bark mulch. Others disagree. I should remind the members that the wood auc- tion isn’t limited to wood. Anything you think might be more useful in someone else’s shop is fair game; turning tools, power tools, hand tools, and just about everything can be someone else’s treas- ure and a great benefit to the club. I’m getting ready to take off for Albuquerque and the AAW Symposium. I really don’t know what to expect since all I saw of the Portland Symposium was the Instant Gallery and the tool show. I didn’t register for the symposium because I figured, cor- rectly, that I wouldn’t have time to go to the dem- onstrations and that everyone I wanted to meet would eventually show up at the Instant Gallery. I hope I will not find the demonstrations as disap- pointing as I’ve heard other members describe them; couldn’t see very well, didn’t do much, not enough time, just showed slides. Perhaps we have been spoiled by our club demonstrations. I’ve al- ways found them informative and at least, well presented. The exception may be the sand- paper guy that really had no clue about woodturning. Even then, I still learned something. As I said, perhaps we have been spoiled. Having seen how much work went into organiza- tion of the symposium, how many people we had to put to work, and how well we were organized (Tom literally wrote the book on the subject) I hope the Albuquerque club with its 60 some members has a lot of Red Bull on ice. They will need it. I volunteered to do a shift in the Instant Gallery, so I guess I’ll see first hand how well they did. Happy Turnings, Mike P RESIDENT ’ S M ESSAGE J ULY, 2009 THE WOODTURNERS ’ LOCAL RESOURCE VOLUME 14, I SSUE 7 WWW. NORTHWESTWOODTURNERS . COM Allan & Stuart Batty, “Mmm That’s good Coffee Tom is that a hint of M2 Steel? Photo by Tom Reiman
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A Chapter of The American Association of Woodturners
Northwest Woodturners meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM. See www.northwestwoodturners.com for details and map. Next Meeting: July 9th Turning Challenge: Hollow forms
STAFF
President Mike Meredith (503) 522-0531 [email protected] V. President Joe Jedrychowski [email protected] Secretary / Treasurer Owen Lowe (503) 538-5325 Board of Directors Walt Brown Jim Hall Fred Kline Bob Mach Mike Stalder Librarian Chris Dix Raffle Tom Willing Supplies Tom Helzer Newsletter & Web Scott Blackman
QUICK UPDATES
As the club year moves along, summer arrives with notes of anticipation for fall and less sweat as I turn. Hopefully, thoughts are turning to, among other things, gathering wood for the wood auction in August. Every day I think, or certainly my wife thinks, that I should reduce the pile of maple burl, cherry and English walnut in front of our house to transportable and salable pieces. Then I remember that my chainsaw is still in the chainsaw hospital (nothing serious, just an oiler gear failure in an old saw that I should have fixed myself) and I’m spared for another day, at least. I’ll get it done before the auction. I see that wood out front as just really big pieces of bark mulch. Others disagree.
I should remind the members that the wood auc-tion isn’t limited to wood. Anything you think might be more useful in someone else’s shop is fair game; turning tools, power tools, hand tools, and just about everything can be someone else’s treas-ure and a great benefit to the club.
I’m getting ready to take off for Albuquerque and the AAW Symposium. I really don’t know what to expect since all I saw of the Portland Symposium was the Instant Gallery and the tool show. I didn’t register for the symposium because I figured, cor-rectly, that I wouldn’t have time to go to the dem-onstrations and that everyone I wanted to meet would eventually show up at the Instant Gallery. I hope I will not find the demonstrations as disap-pointing as I’ve heard other members describe them; couldn’t see very well, didn’t do much, not enough time, just showed slides. Perhaps we have been spoiled by our club demonstrations. I’ve al-ways found them informative and at least, well presented. The exception may be the sand-paper guy that really had no clue about woodturning. Even then, I still learned something. As I said, perhaps we have been spoiled. Having seen how much work went into organiza-tion of the symposium, how many people we had to put to work, and how well we were organized (Tom literally wrote the book on the subject) I hope the Albuquerque club with its 60 some members has a lot of Red Bull on ice. They will need it. I volunteered to do a shift in the Instant Gallery, so I guess I’ll see first hand how well they did.
Happy Turnings,
Mike
PRESIDENT ’S MESSAGE
JULY, 2009 THE WOODTURNERS’ LOCAL RESOURCE
VOLUME 14, ISSUE 7 WWW.NORTHWESTWOODTURNERS.COM
Allan & Stuart Batty, “Mmm That’s good Coffee Tom is that a hint of M2 Steel?
Photo by Tom Reiman
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July meeting
rescheduled for
July 9th. Due to the Fourth of July
Holiday.
Northwest Woodturners had the pleasure of entertaining Allan and Stuart Batty for three classes and two demonstra-tions this past month. Allan Batty has long been one of the iconic figures in woodturning. As the foremost proponent of the skew chisel, the go-to-tool for the woodturning trades-man, Allan has become know world wide as a teacher of woodturning and keeper of woodturning knowledge. Those that attended the club demonstration were treated to an exhi-bition of Stuart Batty’s techniques for bowl turning. By no means limited to bowl turning, Stuart’s seven principles (see Learning To Make Perfect Cuts in Woodturning posted on the club site) are applicable and essential to any woodturning project. The overriding message from Allan and Stuart was that we can and should learn to make cuts that require minimal sanding; no more 60 grit gouge work.
What the classes did was not nearly as important as why they did it. The three classes covered essentially the same topics even though one was designated as a beginner’s class. Stuart’s comment was that “we do the same stuff but we just expect advanced turners to do it a bit better”. The classes focused on making the basic cuts in spindle (sorry Fred, there was a frightening number of skews involved) and bowl work cor-rectly and efficiently. It takes a very short time to realize that Allan and Stuart, who was an apprentice with Allan, both view efficiency and economy of effort as essential to turning. When you were paid by the piece, as turners in “the trade”
were, time was truly money and doing it right the first time was the only way to work. That’s the fruit of the 400 years of woodturning experience that was distilled and passed along to the next generation in the British woodturning apprentice-ship, now a thing of the past.
The tidbits of information fell like the rain through Tom’s shop roof. Absorbing all the information presented was not
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TWO BATTY ARE BETTER THAN ONE
If you have this, please contact Scott Blackman @ (503) 807-8100 or by email @ [email protected]
HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
Allan Batty inspects the grinder - Photo Michael Meredith
possible, but the classes were able to focus on the importance of body and hand position in tool presentation. There was an understanding the Bonnie Klein was right: ABC is how you start, but that “rubbing the bevel” really means “floating the bevel” over the cut, letting the edge do the work. We learned that, in the view of these demonstrators, with a few excep-tions, 40 degrees is the magic sharpening configuration. Along with being the included angle for a beaver’s tooth, as we learned, 40 degrees is the correct bevel angle for all gouges, as well as wing sweep in the case of the bowl gouge.
We learned that free hand grinding was faster and more accu-
rate than jig grinding, at least when Allan and Stu-art do it. I’m not sure I’m ready to sign off on that one yet, but I do under-stand the rationale for hand sharpening to take into consideration the effect edge shape has on V- and U-shaped bowl gouge flutes. We learned that if you leave a drop of water on your tool as you sharpen and stop when it evaporated, you’ll never overheat the tool, regard-less of alloy. Most impor-tant, for beginner and advanced turner, we saw that when you make cuts correctly, the result is smooth and tear-out free. We learned that these teachings must have some validity as the wind blew down a maple tree in front of Tom’s shop just as we were standing in the door contemplating from where the green wood for the next day’s class would come. It was taken as a good omen.
It was a pleasure for Hannah and me to host Allan and Stuart Batty. I’m not sure we’ll see Allan touring again but I hope we can look forward to welcoming Stuart Batty back to NWWT in the near future.
Mike Meredith
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TWO BATTY ARE BETTER THAN ONE - CONTINUED
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Jim Hall - Pierced, Textured, Painted
Ryan Partridge - Pen/Pencil Set and box, where craft meets art.
Stuart showing how it’s done - Photo Michael Meredith
It seems that we often get quite hung-up with these two terms. Which is it Art or Craft? Are you an artist or a Crafts-man? Is the object an art object or craft object? It is often quite easy to hang an object with one or the other and can make it stick due to the singular issue of utility. If it is strictly for a utilitarian purpose it is usually Craft, but not always. Also, is it really important in all cases? An interesting way to view this issue is: To be a good artist you also need to be a good crafts-man. ALSO To be a good craftsman you need to be a good artist. So which is it and does it really matter to us? I think probably not.
Jim Hall
ART VS . CRAFT OR IS IT CRAFT VS . ART?
Show your NWWT Membership Card to receive a discount of your purchase at Gilmer’s, AllSharp Sharpening Service & Sales, Rockler, Woodcraft, Woodcrafters, and Crosscut Hardwoods. Membership has benefits.
M IKE WONSER - JULY MEETING
Mike Wonser will speak on, "The Art of Woodturning" and comment on/critique items NWWT members bring in. He will talk about design, composition, and form for about twenty minutes, then critique about a dozen items. These can be items previously brought in for show and tell, or items you are having trouble with, are exceptionally proud of, or items with which you find yourself at an impasse and want direction.
Mike Wonser and his wife Mary moved to Oregon City from Bend last summer, and soon afterward, joined the Guild. Here is a sampling of his professional experience taken from his resume:
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Steve Bigelow - Heavy spalting
The Lyle Jamieson Demonstrations and Hands on Classes has been cancelled
for July
1995–present Central Oregon Community College–Community Education, Sisters, OR. Taught photography short courses and workshops.
1998–2008 Adjunct professor, (retired) Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR. Taught Introduction to Art History, History of Modern Art, Native American Art History and Intro. to Visual Arts; taught Modern Art History for Oregon State University, Cascades Campus, Bend, OR and several classes/workshops in art history and photography for COCC Community Education.
1992–1997 Owner, Wonser Gallery, 351 W. Hood St., Sisters, OR.
1969–1992 Professor of Art (retired) Adams State College, Alamosa, CO. Taught undergraduate and graduate classes in painting, drawing, design, art history, photography, photography history, and color theory.
1982–1990 Director of Public Affairs–Adams State College, Alamosa. Responsible for the planning, administra-tion and budget of the college’s public relations, publications, and alumni relations programs, news/sports information services, and print shop operations. Also served as public relations counsel to the Presi-dent of the College, was involved in marketing planning, assisting the President with fund-raising pro-grams, and served as executive secretary and college liaison to the Alumni Association Board of Di-rectors.
1987–1989 The ASC Assistant to the President and Director of Foundation. Responsible for designing and im-plementing a college-wide development program and served as Director of the ASC Foundation.
1966–1968 Art Instructor, part time. Central Oregon College, Bend, OR.
1963–1965 Graduate Assistant, painting and drawing. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
SHOW AND TELL
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Gene Shaw - rod building experiment Steve Bigelow - Inlaid pen
Jim Hall - Pierced Trio
Roy Ackley - Opened Bruce Schafer Roy Ackley - Closed
Steve Bigelow
June’s challenge was a travel mug. Apparently, there was some confusion of what that was because none came for the chal-lenge. This is a kit that is sold at the Woodcraft stores. It’s a very interesting project. Try it some day. July’s challenge is Hollow forms.
Q: What is the differ-
ence between genius and
stupidity?
A: Genius has limits.
- Stuart Batty
SEVEN PRINCIPLES THAT LEAD TO PERFECT CUTS
1. Grain
2. Chucking
3. Sharpening Cutting Edge
4. Tool Rest
5. Lathe Speed
6. Stance
7. Technique (Push Cut Style)
For more info. See the Myfamily site.
13500 SW Pacific Hwy, #185
Tigard, OR 97223
EDITOR ’S NOTE
CLASSIFIED ADS
Date Class/Demo Location Instructor
07/11 Eccentric Turning Woodcrafters Bob Tuck
07/18 Beginning Lathe Turning Woodcraft Bob Tuck
07/19 Intermediate Lathe Turning Woodcraft Bob Tuck
07/25 Intro to Segmented Turning Woodcraft Lloyd Johnson
07/25 Turning ice cream scoops Rockler Staff
08/06 Exploring Art & Woodturning www.woodturningguild.com
Many other fine classes and demos are available from your local stores: Woodcraft Store at (503) 684-1428 Email [email protected] Rockler Store at (503) 672-7266 Email [email protected] Woodcrafters Store at (503) 231-0226 Web page: http://woodcrafters.us/
Submissions to the newsletter are due by the 20th of the month. Articles, tips, web links, classified ads, or other items pertain-ing to woodturning are welcome.
Scott Blackman Newsletter Editor Phone: (503) 807-8100 E-mail: [email protected]
All other business should be directed to:
Northwest Woodturners 13500 SW Pacific Hwy, #185 Tigard, OR 97223
LOCAL EVENTS , CLASSES , AND DEMO ’S
For Sale: Jet JWL-1220 VS lathe and stand. Purchased in November 2008 and is in excellent shape. It comes with a super Nova chuck and all of the rest of the accessories, spur center, face plate, tool rest, live center and work lamp. I have upgraded to a larger lathe and I only have room for one. Original cost was $926 with discounts. Selling now for $550. Contact Ed Eggling at 503-310-8978
For Sale: Oneway 1640 wood lathe. New condition. Comes with 24" Bed Extension/Outboard Attachment, Wheel Set, Live center and Axminster Chuck with 2 sets of jaws. $4000.00. A deposit will hold it for 30 days. Jim Haeger 360-560-2608 [email protected]
For Sale: 20" Oneway Easy Core system. Extra new replacement cutter tip, Clamp Block, and Instructional Video. The 3 knife set includes: Knife #2 5" 12" to 14" dia. Knife #3 6 1/4" 14 1/2" to 16 1/2" dia. Knife #4 7 1/2" 16 3/4" to 18" dia. $500 If you have a different size lathe, you can order just the post for around $80.00. Jim Haeger 360-560-2608 [email protected]
Guidelines for Classified Ads: Ads will run for three consecutive months. Please submit your ad by the 20th of the month. The Editor takes no responsibility for spelling or grammatical errors. All woodworking items, for sale or wanted, are welcome.
