Paul, J Hiltz, Miles, Chris

We spent the night  studying some blanks that Miles had brought and one of Jim's as well
Leo designed a way to cut the blanks and mount them on the lathe so as to turn the inside without disturbing the outside bark .

Bowl challenges

Miles, Paul, Chris, Jim MacLean and
 and Rick were in attendance

Rick  finished up turning the large bowl
Paul mounted a medium spruce bowl and did the outside turning

Miles brought in a segmented style bowl project that he is assembling

Bowl Woes

Rick and Paul were the only attendees
Regrets: Mr. Caldwell, Mr. Martel

Some discussion on whether we should suspend membership for Misters  Hiltz and MacLean and Miles MacDonald. We finally agreed on giving them a second chance to redeem themselves but if they don't show for next meeting ,woe betide them!

Rick continues work on a big bowl using the bowl lathe. Leo adjusted the rollers-trued   them up
Leo has completed a lovely, stylistic, tall vase using a silver inlay (aluminum actually)
(Photos available later)


Paul brought a small vase that was gold painted which Leo liked
Paul had a large bowl that had lots of epoxy fill and uses a sharp scraper to clean up the outside  and remove the epoxy. Since the bowl was laying around the shape altered a little and a 3-jaw chuck will be needed to mount it for turning the inside. The outside is all finished

Leo Advised spraying on a good shellac coat BEFORE filing in with epoxy

Robert is working on making his own musical instrument using discarded hard drives, fiddle strings   and sundry other parts...very mysterious but he seems to think it will work.

Paul's Gold painted piece

Paul's vase: Black acrylic paint/whiting  mix; overpainted with a gold sparkle and then shellac

Big Bowls !

Rick, Him Hiltz, Miles, Chris, Paul

Some People brought in large blanks for turning.

Leo discussed the various paints: House paint vs Artists Craft paint vs Airbrush paints.
The differences is in the size of the pigment granules which matter as to whether the lines get blocked up in the spray gun.

If you paint using the whiting/bond/paint approach, be sure to start the sanding with coarse grain paper or the result  is a finish that is uneven

Leo demonstrated a simple jig for drilling  a log on the drill press: see photos. The jig is usable as a small stool as well!

Leo demonstrated how to use a jig on the lathe to drill angled holes at even distributions (indexed)

Rick mounted his large bowl using the spider chuck but it was too big for the machining jig-he has to start it using  hand power and a big gouge

Leos'Ammonia finished bowls

Jig to find leg height

Drill press jig-Blank is screwed on from top

Angle drilling using lathe and indexer

Ricks Bowl

Drilling on lathe