A Chapter of The American Association of Woodturners
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D ECEMBER , 2009
T HE WOODTURNERS ’ LOCAL RESOURCE
P RESIDENT ’ S M ESSAGE
Q UICK U PDATES
Northwest Woodturners
meetings are held on the 1st
Thursday of each month at
7:00 PM. See
www.northwestwoodturners.
com for details and map.
My thanks to all of those Northwest Woodturners that
came out to help staff our booth at the Woodworking
Show. As usual, it was lots of fun and we had the opportunity to extol the pleasures and virtues of woodturning to those unsuspecting folks that passed by. If
you didn’t get there, you missed the Wall of Woodturners. NWWT, Cascade Woodturners and the Salem club, about 15 of them with five lathes, were all
stationed together; 75 feet of enthusiastic wood turning demonstrations. It was pretty impressive. I think
we made a few contacts that could very well turn into
new members. The show seemed to be well attended,
or at least as well attended as in past years, speaking to
the popularity of woodworking in the Portland area.
Next Meeting:
None (Christmas Party)
Turning Challenge:
None
S TAFF
December brings us to the end of another year, an
Lori Hennings
unusually busy year, at Northwest Woodturners. A
glance back reveals a year filled with outstanding demonstrations and classes; the Battys, Michael Hosaluk, Binh Pho, and Cindy Drozda. It saw
the incorporation of NWWT and the purchase of a pair of outstanding lathes to support
our classes and learn to turn events. It was a busy year with many outside events. I hope
this year will be mostly about woodturning.
December bring us to the annual Christmas party, another chance to sample the excellent
cuisine from Fred's better half. Also a chance to show off our skills comes with the spouse
gifts. It seems like some of our best work comes out with in this special set of pieces. Perhaps it's that once a year realization that they put up with our hobby, including all the sawdust and stumps lying about the house.
December is also the time to look forward to the upcoming year. Joe has another outstanding calendar of demonstrators scheduled for Northwest Woodturners. In 2010 we
will host visits from Bob Rosand, Nick Cook, Marilyn Campbell and Mike Jackofski. I
don't think we could stand the spectrum
of wood turning much more completely.
Mike Jackofski (www.mikejackofsky.com)
is noted for his sculptural hollow form
turnings as well as his whimsical sculptural
pieces.
Mike Jackofski - “Still Rollin’ Along”
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President
Mike Meredith
(503) 522-0531
[email protected]
V. President
Joe Jedrychowski
[email protected]
Secretary / Treasurer
Owen Lowe
(503) 538-5325
Board of Directors
Walt Brown
Jim Hall
Fred Kline
Bob Mach
Mike Stalder
Librarian
Chris Dix
Raffle
Tom Willing
Supplies
Tom Helzer
Newsletter & Web
Scott Blackman
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I think of Bob Rosand (www.rrosand.com/) as a master of the small piece. He’s known for his
ornaments and lidded boxes, but his work spans the practical and artistic aspects of woodturning.
Everyone knows Nick Cook ( www.nickcookwoodturner.com ). He’s recognized as one of the
consummate teachers of wood turning. His youth instructional
collaboration with Bonnie Klein at the AAW Symposium is an
annual event. Nick is thought of as a maker of the practical; the
honey dipper, the wine stopper, the peppermill, and last but
not least, the magic saltshaker. It was at Nick’s demonstration
in Albuquerque that I first saw this nifty little project. If you
Bob Rosand
visit the Nick’s website you’ll see that his work expands far
beyond useful items. Everything he makes is done with skill
and an eye to line and proportion.
Nick Cook
I was captivated by Marilyn Campbell’s work the first time I saw her “Black and White “
series (www.marilyncampbell.ca). Her use of epoxy as an adjunct to wood as a medium produces remarkable results. However, her use of epoxy as a component of an inlay is innovative and striking and, perhaps
more importantly, something we can master in a class situation.
So we move into 2010 with new opportunities to expand our skills. Our calendar is in full,
which brings me to the last subject to be addressed. I’d like the membership to make suggestions about the local demonstrators to be scheduled. I’ve opened a thread on the club
website asking for suggestions of topics or specific demonstrators that the club would like to
see in the coming year. If we can, we will find demonstrators to satisfy those topics. Make
your interest known and will move into another outstanding year for Northwest Woodturners.
Marilyn Campbell
See you on Saturday December 5th at the Christmas party.
Mike
Don Woodward
Bob Tuck
Phil Lapp
N EW Y ANKEE W ORKSHOP N O M ORE
On October 16, 2009, WGBH Boston announced that no further episodes of New Yankee Workshop would be
produced. Abrams stated, “We’ve had a great run, built challenging projects, met wonderful woodworkers
and received loyal support from millions of viewers.” This years closing episode will mark 21 seasons.
While Norm is hanging up his shop apron, he continues to keep his tool belt on for the This Old House series.
I would love to see the garage sale at the Yankee Workshop.
Tom Helzer
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S HOW AND T ELL
Steve Newberry
Jim Hall
Phil Lapp
Marilyn Campbell
Lloyd Johnson
Lee Parks
Dan Baker
Lori Hennings
Gene Shaw
Bob Tuck
Don Woodward
Lloyd Johnson
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M AGIC S ALT S HAKER - E D M ALESKY
Mike Meredith turned one of these amazing salt shakers. He referenced the instructions of Ed Malesky from Florida. Below is his
instructions available on his website.
This tutorial is my version of the Magic Salt Shaker that Nick Cook
showed us during his demonstration. Make sure that if you give this
salt shaker away as a gift, that you provide instruction on how to fill
and how to get the salt out.
1. Begin by turning a blank into the basic salt shaker shape. I make mine
between 3 ¾ - 4" tall and about 1 7/8" in diameter.
2. I like to shape the shaker with a bottom and a top section. You can
design the top section to look just like a conventional salt shaker to
push the illusion.
3. Use a 1 ½" Forstner bit to drill a hole in the bottom about an 1/8"
deep. This will provide the lip to which the funnel will be glued.
4. Use a 1 3/8" Forstner bit to drill out the center of the shaker. Drill the
hole about 2 7/8 - 3" deep.
5. Finish turning the shaker body and sand.
6. You’ll still need to jamb chuck the body to finish off the top.
7. Prepare a jamb chuck the same diameter as the hole drilled in the
shaker body, in this case 1 3/8".
8. Mount the shaker on the jamb chuck and finish the top and do final
sanding.
9. You can now finish the shaker body.
10. Now you need to turn the funnel insert.
11. You can either use the same wood as the body or switch to a less expensive wood. The first thing to do is to size the bottom of the funnel
to fit into the bottom of the body.
12. It needs to be a snug fit to help minimize the seam line.
13. Use a 1/8" drill to provide the fill/exit hole. Since I made the hole in
the body 2 7/8" deep, the overall length of the funnel should be about
5/6" shorter, or 2 ¼". Make sure you drill that deep. If the drill doesn’t reach, you can drill deeper after you begin to cut the filling funnel.
14. Using a spindle gouge, form the filling funnel. You only need to cut
the funnel about half the overall funnel length. Make sure the transition into the fill/exit hole is smooth. I use a small spindle gouge to
smooth this transition.
15. Finish shaping the funnel to the required length.
16. Notice the lip formed on the bottom of the funnel. There needs to be a
nice lip to rest on the ledge in the body from the larger Forstner hole.
Make sure there is also some relief above the lip that is no larger than
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the main body hole, ie. 1 3/8".
17. Create a jamb chuck to mount the funnel. I do this to allow
me to turn a little depression on the top of the funnel to help
salt exit the shaker.
18. The depression is added with either a small gouge or skew.
19. Add a bead of CA glue around the ledge in the body and insert
the funnel.
You fill by pouring salt down the funnel and shaking a bit.
To serve salt, hold the shake upright and just jog the shaker up and
down and salt will come out of the bottom.
Larry Keller & Fred show’n how it’s done.
Reed Gray - Throwing Chips
Mike Meredith’s Magic Salt Shaker
Kathleen Duncan
Phil Lapp
Tom Willing - Busy Bee at the lathe, and a wonderful photo
Happy Holidays
and
David Williams - Turning big at
Serious Lathe Debut 11/08
Happy New Year
L OCAL E VENTS , C LASSES ,
AND
D EMO ’ S
Date
Class/Demo
Location
Instructor
12/12
Beginning Lathe Turning
Woodcraft
Bob Tuck
12/19
Turning Christmas Ornaments
Rockler
Staff
12/19
Hand Made Gifts
Woodcrafters
Bob Tuck
12/20
Intermediate Lathe Turning
Woodcraft
Bob Tuck
12/20
Power Carving
Woodcraft
Homer Reese
Many other fine classes and demos are available from your local stores:
Woodcraft Store at (503) 684-1428 Email [email protected]
Rockler Store at (503) 672-7266 Email [email protected]
Woodcrafters Store at (503) 231-0226 Web page: http://woodcrafters.us/
E DITOR ’ S N OTE
Submissions to the newsletter are due by
the 20th of the month. Articles, tips, web
links, classified ads, or other items pertaining to woodturning are welcome.
Scott Blackman
Newsletter Editor
Phone: (503) 807-8100
E-mail: [email protected]
All other business should be directed to:
Northwest Woodturners
13500 SW Pacific Hwy, #185
Tigard, OR 97223
C LASSIFIED A DS
Guidelines for Classified Ads: Ads will run for three consecutive months. Please submit your ad by the 20th of the
month. The Editor takes no responsibility for spelling or grammatical errors. All woodworking items, for sale or wanted, are
For Sale: Powermatic wood lathe, 21” throw x 38” bed length. Many lathe tools, 2 boring bars, Vicmarc chuck + shark
jaws, numerous bowl blanks, turning stock of various wood. $4500, Mike Studebaker (503) 648-1417
For sale: Pen blanks, 3/4"x3/4"x6", bandsawn, about 20 different kinds, 4 for a dollar plus shipping. Mix or match, depending on supply. Contact Don Woodward at [email protected]
For Sale: Old lathe made by Vico (pictures below). Contact Susan Curington at (503) 357-4844
Show your NWWT Membership Card to receive a discount of your purchase at Gilmer’s, AllSharp Sharpening
Service & Sales, Rockler, Woodcraft, Woodcrafters, and Crosscut Hardwoods. Membership has benefits.
13500 SW Pacific Hwy, #185
Tigard, OR 97223