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Ron Williams started out our November meeting with a discussion of future events. We have an exciting schedule ahead!
The weekend of November 15 thru the 17th, Phil Holtan will be demonstrating turning at the Tool Crib of the North in Fargo. He's excited about getting to use a Powermatic lathe this year!
Our
next meeting on December 12th will be our first Christmas Party. It will be at our normal meeting time of 7:00. It will be a casual get together (no meal) with horsdevours (I can't spell that!!) and a cash
bar. Ron will provide more information as the date comes closer.
On January 9th, Roger Johnson will demonstrate turning miniatures.
February 13th will be bowl design, and this will be by Bob
Carls. We visited Bob on our road trip last spring (Bob is from Aiken MN).
Also in February, we will have our 2nd annual Tool Making Day. Jim McTavish will be leading this event (that's me!).
On March 13th, we will have a short trip to Wahpeton ND. We plan on meeting at Gene's shop, and then driving to Wahpeton to visit a shop (I can't remember the persons name, sorry!) where there is a very impressive
large lathe. This lathe was used to help with the large turnings used for the stav church at the Hjemkomst center in Moorhead.
The April 10th meeting is open for ideas!
Also in April (11-13th) is the
Woodcarvers show at the Doublewood Inn in Fargo. There is also a Turning Symposium in Mandan ND on the 12th and 13th.
May 8 will hopefully be a demo by a guest turner.
And during the summer will be
informal show and tell meetings at club members shops. Be sure to volunteer and invite the club to see your shop!
November meeting....
Gothard Knuteson was our demonstrator. Knute turns Christmas ornaments. Knute as a method
for evenly dividing the circumfrence of a turning using a scrap of paper. He wraps the paper around the circumfrence of the turning, and marks
both ends of the paper. Then he pulls the paper off, and then marks it into evenly divided segments. Here he is starting turning the ornament. It sure is nice to have our video system for watching! After the outside of the ball area of the ornament is turned, he uses a forstner bit to start the hollowing process (the blank was pre-drilled with the "viewing" holes in the sides of the turning. And now the forstner bit is to it's final depth. After drilling, he uses a homemade (sorry, "specially crafted hollowing" tool to hollow the turning. Here are a few more shots
of Knute image07, image08, and image 09.
Thanks Knute, for giving us a great show!
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