OFFICERS & DIRECTORS

King Heiple, President
216-464-2083 • kingheiple@ameritech.net

Jim Pugh, Vice President
440-458-6224 • jpugh@eriecoast.com

Tom Heffernan, Secretary
216-464-5383 • theff7@att.net

Jim Bohmer, Treasurer
330-867-2482 • gigibone@aol.com

Jim Duxbury
440-237-6116 • cyberdux@attglobal.net

Don Gasler
216-351-9540 • donald.gasler@tri-c.edu

WEB SITE & NEWSLETTER

Thad Badowski
440-498-9636 • tbadowsk@en.com

Brian Becker
330-659-5961 • bbec31@adelphia.net

• September 7, 2002
Candlestick or pair

• October 5, 2002
Christmas ornament

• November 2, 2002
Gavel (to become the club gavel for next two years )

• December 7, 2002
None, Annual Auction

DEMONSTRATIONS & PROGRAMS

• September 7, 2002 Selection of Grand Turning Award for GLWC show

• October 5, 2002
Thread Chasing with Bill Bettiker

• November 2, 2002
Election of Officers & Directors
Recognition Day

• December 7, 2002
Annual Auction

President's Turn
by King Heiple

Remember, from 1-5 PM after this meeting we are having a Hands-On session for "less experienced" turners. 10 of you are signed up! Bring your own tools. We will have some also but we should get yours sharpened to perfection as well. Don't forget your safety glasses. We will draw lots for lathe assignments just before we start. Extra observers are welcome but will not work on a lathe.

We will try to have enough wood but it's always safer to bring a piece of your own. Six of you specified "bowls" but don't bring anything larger than 7" diameter. Better to bandsaw round as well.

The other four will do spindle work. We will have some cherry candlestick blanks but bring a "first trial" piece for yourself. Something like a 2+x2+x12" just to practice cuts on before starting the candlestick project. Remember a piece of hardwood turns better and teaches better that a cheap piece of 2x2! A green branch 3" in diameter x 12" is a great learning blank for spindle work.

Our "instructors" will be: Skinner, Pugh, Gray, Bohmer, Duxbury, Blainer and Heiple. It should be a fun afternoon. Remember, cleanup at the end is mandatory!

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Try taking a look at the Minnesota Woodworkers Guild newsletters. The April one is a blast. A parody on Fine Woodworking magazine called "Fair Woodworking". Includes shop tips: i.e. a reader has discovered metal pointy things at hardware store called "nells" which can fasten wood together without glue! But require hammering. Also a feature article on "Ball and Claw Foot Pedicure"! Plus more. You shouldn't miss it.

Thanks to Bob Skinner for demonstration of segment preparation and gluing techniques for his segmented bowls. Bob demonstrated how he cut the segments, both glued up and solid, to appropriate angles to prepare for gluing. A handout was passed out that had a chart for number of segments, cut angle, and width to prepare bowl rings of varying diameters. Bob placed the segments against a steel jig to line them up, and pressed them onto a strip of masking tape to hold them in alignment. He then glued the segments with Tightbond 2. Bob chucked the ring and faced one side, then glued it to the previous assembled/turned pieces, then faced the other side to prepare it for the next ring. The rings are added until the bowl is complete.

Bob held a very informative question and answer session touching on such topics as favorite saw blades, finishes, inlay techniques, ring squaring and much more.

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Bob Skinner's presentation.

Tom Heffernan presented a project by the Shaker Heights Nature Center that was started when they had to cut down a 95 year old oak tree. They are going to follow the One Tree Project format and ask artists to create works from the lumber from this tree. For more information contact Tom Heffernan or the Shaker Heights Nature Center.


Club Challenge (Covered Candy Dish) winners were Wayne Jenkins, first time winner; and Dick Gray, multiple winner. Attendance award went to Stanley Stoberski.


Raffle earnings were $154. There were many, many wonderful pieces of wood, magazines, and other raffled at the meeting. This is how the club earns it's monthly funds, so join in, support the club, and walk away with some really great stuff!!!




The August issue of the NCWT Newsletter was temporarily housed on a different server while we were in the process of getting a new host server for our Web site. It's where it belongs now and you can access it from our Newsletters page. Also, additional pictures from the Annual Ice Cream Social have been added to the August newsletter online. Click here to see them.

Woodturners at the Carving Show
by Thad Badowski

September will mark North Coast's third appearance as participants in the Great Lakes Woodcarvers show at the Strongsville Rec Center. The woodcarvers have held this show for a long time, outgrowing its previous home at the Rocky River Nature Center.

One show staple is a raffle, held hourly, with a grand prize being a really outstanding carving. Our club was asked to participate in this raffle, and the board decided to create synergy between the September Meeting Club Challenge and the Woodcarver's Raffle.

In 1998, before the Akron symposium, NCWT had a juried process to select 3 pieces for the Fitchburg challenge, to be displayed at the Akron Library alongside the best selections of other clubs across the nation. We had club members select the top 6-8 pieces by biscuit ballot, then reviewed and critiqued each piece before a final club vote to select the final 3. This process helped us as a group to evaluate pieces, to see our work thru the eyes of others.

A similar process will be used in the September Club Challenge. We will pick one piece, which will be donated to the Woodcarver's raffle. The club will award a $150 honorarium to the turner of the chosen piece. Again, we will have the club members select 6 pieces. Then, the board / officers will lead the group in a critique session, discussing each piece. We will then vote, perhaps in one or two run-offs, to select the final prize winner.

Any type, size or nature of turned work may be entered in the Club Challenge, but some simple rules should be followed.
• Suitability to the audience: This event will draw people who appreciate wood art- unlike, perhaps, a prize at a charity auction. However, the winner might not be familiar with woodturning. In Example, a 1/16" thick Del Stubs Bowl might not be appreciated.
• The piece should exemplify woodturning, and, the woodturning elements should stand on their own; i.e., a turned and decorated/carved/pierced piece must have a good basic form. If the piece's primary merit is as a carved piece, with mediocre turning, then it should not be entered in the Woodcarver's competition. (this is not saying that carving is bad, just that it must primarily exhibit good turning.
• The piece must have craft-gallery quality finish and workmanship no sanding marks, runs, cracks, drips in the finish, etc.
• The piece should have a value equal to or greater than the award. This value is determined by the turner, but will be taken into account in the judging. ( The idea is to make sure that the GLWC raffle prize has a definite value and brings credit to our group- an impeccably finished wood top might have the best craftsmanship and design, but not be judged of enough value to be selected.)
• The NCWT Board of Directors reserves the right to not select any piece, if none meet the criteria.
I think this presents an interesting challenge- one could probably win this by turning a 2' diameter solid ebony bowl, but the wood alone could cost 5 times the award!

Good Luck!

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