LIWA Youth Outreach Program

By Marty Mandelbaum

  I would like to propose workshops for teenagers to get involved in woodturning.  The purpose of which is to enrich our community youth by becoming involved in artistic and creative activities in addition to their every day sport and electronic game activities.  Hopefully, this activity will lead to a new generation of turners, which may also generate potential future members of our club.

  According to the bylaws of A.A.W. children under age 25 do not have to be members to be involved in our organizational activities.  A number have members have volunteered to support this type activity by volunteering to demonstrate on an additional Saturday so as not to interfere with our regular club activities.

Bob Fentress

Demonstrates Miniature Birdhouses

  Bob uses a talon four jaw chuck made by Oneway to hold his 4x2x2 inch blank.  He turns a top and base which he joins with glue.  Bob uses skews, gouges, and a home made parting tool.  The parting tool was fashioned from an old hacksaw blade.  Bob uses a fostner bit to hollow the base of the birdhouse.  He sees no reason not to use any tool that quickens the pace of completing a project.
 

  Bob showed the club how to turn a jig with a #2 Morse taper.  He uses the jig to center the bird hose to accept a miniature perch and entrance.  The perch was made from a tiny scrap of ebony.  Bob believes that one member’s scrap wood is another member’s  miniature project.  Bob also showed us how to turn an expansion chuck to hollow a piece for finishing without marring the work.
 

  Bob uses Shellac and Hut to finish the project. 
 

  Thanks to Bob we learned a great deal about turning miniatures, making jigs and recycling natural resources.
 

  Bob has included some diagrams that will make duplication of his jigs easier to accomplish.

Show and Tell

  Joel Rakower maple vase with holes and black and green paint. Koa hollow textured and carved bowl much like John Jordan.  Natural edge dogwood vase.

  Richard Gordon ambrosia maple segmented finished with linseed and bees wax.

  Bob Brady 10 pieces Chinese elm, dogwood, red cedar, walnut bowls, vases. One piece had a long neck.

  Ken Deaner angular bowl, koa bowl, milo bowl, black sassafras bowl, maple vase all carved and textured

Gordon Thompson large bird house made from decking and cedar posts and finished with Pitri wipe-on varnish.

Norm Abrams tiger maple bowl and saucer.  Norm uses soapy water to stabilize the wood.  Norm carved and burned the lip.

Bob Storch made a box from Baltic birch ply.  He finishes with sanding sealer, Tripoli wax, French polish and Libron stick wax.

Jim Diamond brought in a thrift shop decanter set.  He also made a series of three oak bowls  with rings that were textured and burned.  He finished them with Tung oil.

  Joe DeMaio made a cherry burl covered box, and an East India rosewood covered box. He in addition showed a pierced walnut hollow form which he finished with tung oil.  Joe began carving the piece with the Arbortec carver and spent weeks fine tuning the piece with files and sandpaper.  The outside was turned first.  The piece was indexed and the inside was finished.

  Jim Cleary made a sewing stand from walnut, a cherry and maple bowl, and some icicles he copied from an A.A.W. Journal article. He also did a snowman and a belaying pin.  He used 3D puff paint to decorate the ornaments. 

  Lenny Mulqueen connected a Gary Sander’s piece to a polished stainless steel base to form a sculpture.  He also placed a steel arrow through a vase. 

  Charlie Panzner made several plywood platters with segmented rims, and an inside out vase.  He finished using sanding sealer and Libron wax.

  Marty Mandelbaum made an ambrosia maple vase, and a small platter form Ipe, a small carved bowl and a Padauke bowl.  He finished using Deft and Libron Wax.