Ron Williams started the meeting with some announcments.  He discussed the updated bylaws for the club.  These include "job descriptions" for the various officer positions.  We are looking for members to take over some of the responsibilities of club officers.  Elections for officers will take place at the May 2007 meeting. 

Ron began the demo this month with a powerpoint presentation on determining the correct angles for drilling in the seat and legs of the stool.  After this discussion, a sample workpiece was placed between centers and trued up.  Once the leg is round, a template is brought up to the workpiece and the critical lines are drawn onto the wood.  A calipers (held in Ron's left hand) is set to the correct diameter, and a parting tool is then used to bring the workpiece to the correct diameter at that location.  One tip that Ron gave us was to start with your largest diameters first and work down to the smaller ones.  Here is a photo of what the finished leg will look like.  Here Ron uses a skew to clean up the edges of some of the wood where the parting tool was used.  A series of beads and coves is turned and the workpiece is nearly finished.

Many items were brought to this month's show and tell. 

• Brian Geffre turned a bunch of mini tops
• Some really neat pens, turned by Brian Geffre.
• Goblets by Paul Hedman
• This was a wild piece that Paul turned from walnut.  From one log, he had the courage to turn two hollow forms at opposite ends of the piece.  This had to sound like an airplanes propeller as he turned it! another photo
• A hollow form with square edges by Paul Hedman
• A hollow form by Paul
• Don Olson brought in some bowls he turned:
• bowl 01
• bowl 02
• Howard Rassmussen turned this hollow form and Izo Becic carved it. 
• Merle Valnes turned this spalted box elder bowl
• Dale Cook turned this hollow form
• Mike Brophy turned this segmented Maple and Purpleheart hollow form
• Dale also turned, carved, and burned this hollow cottonwood form
• Ron Williams turned these boxes with threaded lids
• Ryan Hoss turned these platters from a 3/4" thick board.
• pens turned from antlers, if these are yours, let me know so I can add your name!
• Guy Paulson turned and carved this bowl

Here's Ron's PowerPoint presentation from the meeting.

Ron also created this slick Shockwave animation for those of you who were unable to be there for his demo! (Shockwave or Flash plug-in needed to view).

A special thanks to Ron Williams for this months demo, and to everyone who brought items in to share!

updated 5-7-07