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2003-2004 Long Island WoodTurners
Association
Long Island Woodturners Association is a chapter of
the American Association of Woodturners. Our purpose is to
foster a wider interest and appreciation of woodturning on Long
Island and in the metropolitan area. We meet the third Saturday
each month at 9:00 AM - Noon at BOCES, Wilson Tech Campus in
Dix Hills . See the calendar of scheduled meetings for 2002 in
our current club newsletter.
Directions
Take the LIE to Exit 51 (Deer Park Avenue). Go East on the
service road 1 block to Westminster Avenue and turn right.
Proceed onto BOCES, Wilson Tech Campus and go to building “D”.
Our club
2002 officers are:
President – Carl Saenger -
(631)423-7624
Vice President—
Martin Rost - (631)277-7363
Treasurer
Joe DeMaio -(516) 766-5189
Secretary
Ken Deaner -(516) 239-7257
Our monthly programs are organized by
Joel Rakower -
(631) 462-1186
The club offers a wide range of opportunities for its members to
improve their turning techniques and enjoy the company of other
turners. There are demonstrations by club members at our
meetings. Renown guest turners do 6 hour workshops several
times during the year at a nominal charge to club members. A
free video and text library is available for their use. Members
are invited to participate in our monthly wood auction. All are
encouraged to bring samples of recent work to our "SHOW & TELL
and become active participants. The club participates in the
activities of the American Association of Woodturners and
encourages its members to join. Many members attend their yearly
symposium.
L.I.W.A
2002-2003 Club Calendar
Wilson Tech
BOCES
June
14—Lenny Mulqueen
July 19
–Bob Urso or Bob Brady’s
shop-Directions and program TBA– Annual BBQ Lunch will be
provided.
August 16
–Bob Brady’s Shop
–Directions and program TBA.
September—Michael
Mocho (Tentative) |
May 17, 2003 Meeting
Attendance: Ken Deaner, Carl Saenger,
Josh Barbanel, Dominick Serio, Leon Edelson, Joe Pascucci, Joe
DeMaio, Jim Diamond, Charles Panzner, Werner Wiegand, Pete
Stoltz, Sandee Larsen, Bob Fentress, Bob Brady, Harry Wicks,
Perter Richiechi, Norm Abrams, Pam Vogt, Joel Rakower, John
Wagner, Len Mulqueen, Arlold Winters, Peter Schultheiss, John
Scotto,
Treasurer
reports $2,144.99 in our account.
Norm Abrams is collecting
member donations for the BOCES luncheon.
The L.I.W.A is grateful to BOCES for allowing us to use
their carpentry shop without charge for our meetings. Every
member should be happy to donate a piece of work . Those who
did not bring a donation to the May meeting should contact Norm
Abrams (631-427-8778) to arrange for their work to be given to
BOCES the first week of June.
Jim Diamond is collecting
the work of our members for the Rockville Center Library exhibit
June 7– 28. If you missed the meeting or forgot your work
please contact Jim Diamond before June 7th.
Carl Sanenger and
Charlie Panzner attended
the New Hampshire Symposium. They were especially impressed by
the Ellsworth slide presentation. It showed forty five years of
his work in the field of wood turning.
Jacques Vessery,
Dave Lancaster and
Bob Rosand were some of
the workshop presenters at this exciting event.
The club thanks Bob Brady
for donating 32 black walnut logs. The club collected two
dollars for each log which translates into two blanks for $2.
Bob also provided several oak blanks for the visiting
demonstrator.
Condolences
Tara Hogan’s
father contacted the club to let us know that his daughter had
passed away after a long illness. Tara loved wood turning and
enjoyed coming to our meetings as long as she had the energy to
do so. We are saddened to lose a passionate wood turner.
Show and Tell
There was not enough time to do a formal show and tell at
the meeting. Please bring in your work for the June show and
tell. Those members who displayed their work in May should
bring the pieces back to discuss what they turned with all of
the members.
Transformation
By
Ken Deaner
Bob Brady
is technically one of Club’s best turners. He is always
willing to share his knowledge with our members and enjoys
demonstrating frequently for the Club. I spent a day turning
and gabbing with Bob in his shop recently and learned a great
deal. We discussed Irish grinds, sharpening scrapers, tool use
etc. .
We spoke about moving the members in the
direction of trying new techniques. We also agreed that you have
to master turning before you get too involved in decorating your
work. Bob showed me a new segmented open bowl form he was
experimenting with and I showed him some of my newer pieces.
I have posed many questions to Bob over the years. At times I
repeat questions that I should know the answers to. Bob always
comes though with a technically accurate answer to my queries.
This time I was interested in stabilizing green turnings. Wood
tends to warp. How much wood warps depends on how slowly it is
dried. Bob explained that rough cutting a number of blanks and
letting them dry in paper or plastic bags before final turning
is one way to reduce warping. A second way is to wax the piece
and let it dry. A third is to use wood that is seasoned for a
period of months or years. A fourth way is to turn thin and
evenly and design the piece so that the warping that takes place
is an integral part of the design of the piece you are turning.
Some turners use soapy water to stabilize their work and others
use low level bursts of energy from a microwave oven to dry a
blank.
Using all of this knowledge we set to turning a blank into a
bowl. The piece we turned was not as thin as either of us would
have liked. I was not familiar with Bob’s lathe and Bob could
only salvage so much of the piece that I bungled. When we were
finished Bob asked me to take the piece home. I guess he wanted
me to get it out of his sight. Before I left I suggested to Bob
that we cut some of the top of the bowl away so that the warping
would become part of the design. I took the piece home to see
what I could do to salvage it.
Take a good look at the sycamore piece at
Show and Tell and decide for yourself if too much time was spent
turning to turn a sows ear into a silk purse. I showed some
friends the piece I began at Bob’s shop. It favorably caught
their attention. You never know. |
Trent Bosch
Trent Bosch
presented a full day demonstration for the club. Trent is a
full time turner in Colorado. He makes a living as a teacher,
production bowl turner and a galleried turner famous for his
Vessels of Illusion. He
began the day by showing us how he creates the illusion.
Trent
hollowed an oak blank between centers. He likes to start between
centers so that he can easily adjust his blank for the best
orientation of the wood. He uses an Irish grind on his 1/2
inch bowl gouge for the majority of his tuning. Once the shape
is determined he creates a tenon and places the blank in a
Vicmark four jaw chuck.
Trent uses a number of airpower tools that he purchases from
Harbor Freight Catalog. He uses a die grinder (Harbor
Freight) with a Typhoon Bit (Fordham)
, a reciprocating carver (Proxon)
with (Flex Cut bits),
angle grinder (Harbor Freight)
with a home made sanding pad.
Trent uses a profile gauge to determine the shape of his
insert. He prefers maple, cherry, ash or oak. They are the
most flexible. He boils the insert and keeps it in place in the
vessels with the help of a balloon. He does not glue up his
illusion until the piece has had a chance to dry.
Trent showed the club how to turn a bowl and carve decorations.
He described how to build a kiln that holds two hundred blanks
using a dehumidifier, several light bulbs and a fan. He also
showed us how to make a beading tool to texture a bowl. Trent
soaks his bowls in mineral oil for ten minutes.
Trent is a turner who is willing to share his skills and
techniques with others. He crammed so many techniques and
ideas into a single day that everyone learned something new.
Thanks to Trent for a fine demo. Thanks to
Joel Rakower for
arranging the day and to Lenny
Mulqueen for setting up lunch. We also wish to thank
Alan Russo for the fine
camera work at our meeting. It is great seeing the tool work
through a telephoto camera lens. |
