MEETINGS
First Saturday of the Month
Doors open 9:00 AM
Meeting begins 9:30 AM
Rockler Woodworking &
Hardware
7503 Brookpark Rd.
OFFICERS & DIRECTORS
George Raeder, President
330-836-0147
gpraeder@msn.com
Don Gasler, Vice President
440-284-2998
donald.gasler@tri-c.edu
Chester
Gordon, Secretary
216-221-9818
Chester@TwoGordons.com
Jim Bohmer, Treasurer
330-867-2482
gigibone@aol.com
Betty
Werner, Member at Large
440-933-8109
rawegw@attbi.com
Howard Kasdan, Member at Large
440-247-8849
HPKasdan1@aol.com
Brian
Becker, Newsletter Editor
330-659-5961
bbec31@adelphia.net
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DEMONSTRATIONS & PROGRAMS
December
6, 2003
ANNUAL NCWT
FUNDRAISER AUCTION
Donate your unused
tools, fixtures, jigs, wood, any gadgets and hardware that would be of
use or interest to woodturners and woodworkers. The proceeds of
the auction support our professional demonstrations as well as
additions to our library and tools.
Please encourage donations from companies that can help out
NCWT. They will be recognized in our newsletter and on our website.
January 3,
2004
Featured
Demonstration
NCWT Member Greg Jensen
McNaughton Turning Tools and Systems
Turn and Learn
Turned Miniatures
Turn a set of three related miniature items.
Each item must fit
in a 1 1/2" cube.
Raffle
Bring your extra wood, magazines, etc., to help our monthly
fundraiser
Show and Tell
Show off your latest projects.
Get some advice, give others inspiration.
Brag a little!!!
WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
Frank Manley,
Broadview Heights, OH
Walter J. Malaski, Jr.
Sagamore Hills, OH
Walter J. Malaski, Sr.
Sagamore Hills, OH
WELCOME VISITORS
Frank Manley,
Broadview Heights, OH
Kent Hilty, Findlay, OH
Ed Shirley, Rocky
River, OH
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President's
Turn
by George Raeder
This
month I am pleased to report that the "Willard Wood"
purchase authorized by the club for $400 will gross over $2000, with
the exact amount to be determined after our upcoming auction. Value to
club members is the equivalent of two professional demonstrators next
year. We should all thank King Heiple for his tireless work in
transporting and preparing much of the wood, along with assistance
from Tom Heffernan and Jim Bohmer. Thank you all.
Thanks
also is extended to Greg Jensen for setting up the Stuart Batty hands
-on workshop November 20-23, along with congratulations to the ten
members who had the foresight to sign up for this excellent learning
experience. As mentioned last month, Stuart is a terrific woodturner
and instructor, and we hope to engage his services again next fall for
a full membership weekend demonstration.
Lastly,
I would like to comment again on our December meeting annual auction.
Bring stuff! Bring money!! Comb your premises and that of your
neighbors and relatives for anything of value to woodturners. Unused
tools and equipment, motors from old washing machines, overstocked
sandpaper, apparatus left over form an abandoned hobby, anything else
of value in working order; and, of course, good blanks of wood!!!
Obviously, that four pound chunk of ebony you don't know what to do
with would fetch a good bid.
Seriously,
this yearly event along with club dues provides the basic funding for
our professional demonstrators and other activities we all enjoy. So
after you have donated all that good stuff, trade lots of money for
other members good stuff at the auction. In any event, come and have a
rousting-good time. It's always been a great meeting and a lot of fun.
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Road trip to see the shop of
Wayne Jenkins
by Jim Pugh
Dick Gray organized a field trip with John Blainer and Jim Pugh to pay
a visit to Wayne Jenkins and his shop on Monday, Nov. 17. We
performed this trip in a manner reminiscent of the Pony Express.
John rode his horse from Cleveland to the stable of Jim Pugh in
Elyria, who then rode his horse (with John riding side saddle) to the
barn of Dick Gray in Amherst. After a short comfort stop, Dick
hauled us out to Wayne's place. Now Wayne lives just about as
far west as some of our members live towards the east. For those who
have an Ohio map, Wayne lives very close to the junction of Routes 2
and 61.
Just to give some of you a handle on who Wayne is, he turns the
exquisite open space segmented pieces that you have been seeing on the
show and tell table. Wayne also turns other segmented pieces that he
has successfully sold at the Woodcarvers Show.
Wayne lives on a smallish farm (60 acres) that backs up to Old
Woman's Creek and has a nice supply of turning wood in the form of
standing timber at the back of his property. His shop is in a
building that was probably once a large two car garage/shop. He
still has room to park his pickup truck on one side without cramping
his woodworking space. And in an adjacent barn, Wayne has his stash of
turning stock buried in sawdust in a stable stall. He convinced
some of us gullible city boys to take several pieces of Austrian Pine
to see if we could turn a bowl similar to one from Norfolk Island
Pine.
In his previous life, Wayne was a career Air Force fighter pilot
and also had his own small plane that he flew out of his farm until a
couple of years ago. Wayne is a young 75, married and probably
has kids but I neglected to ask, sorry.
So, it was a good chance to see another shop and a nice way to
spend a dreary day.
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