NOR-CAL SHAVINGS March, 2003

NOR-CAL SHAVINGS

March, 2003
http://www.norcalwoodturners.org

PRESIDENT'S NOTES

Two months have passed and quite a bit has been accomplished. We have our two Jet Mini Lathes with all accessories ready to go!

Our educational grant request has been approved in the amount of $731.25. It is going to help a lot in our educational program.

Our first chance to try them out is at the Woodworking Show at Cal Expo on April 25th to 27th. We need everyone to help in the booth for the three days. We need you to demo on the lathes also (AAW members only), so please sign up at the next meeting.

Do you like the changes in our meetings? Let us know!

Don’t miss Trent Bosch coming to my shop on March 21st and repeated on March 22nd. I guarantee you will enjoy and learn from him.

Would you enjoy small hands on sessions in my shop on a variety of subjects on Saturdays?

If any of you know of a good location for a Nor-Cal Club Picnic this fall, let us know.

We have received a letter of thanks and appreciation from Modesto J.C. Gallery Director, Val Lee, for all the wonderful turnings which made the show a great success.

Kirk
March 2003

NEWSLETTER NEWS....

We now have an Adobe PageMaker program. This newsletter is my first attempt at using it. Starting next month we plan to send EMail newsletters to everyone who indicated their EMail address on the Membership Application! You will need an Adobe Reader program which can be downloaded free from the Adobe site. Those without EMail will receive hard copies as in the past.

March Program

We will have a presentation by our mentors

Please welcome the following new members

Lou Gonzalez - Stockton
Rich Johnson - San Jose
Perry Kesterson - Sacramento

NOR-CAL Woodturners
Ethel MacLeod Hart Senior Center
915 27th Street, Sacramento, CA
(between I & J Streets)
General Meetings on the 4th Tuesday at 7:00 p.m.

President	Kirk Stubbs*	(H)916-428-7099
	Email: kstubbs@softcom.net
Vice President	Russ Swenson*	916-363-5816
	Email: rswenson@eduhsd.k12.ca.us
Secretary	Dale Blue*	916-686-6644
	Email: adblue1@attbi.com
Treasurer	Barney Oldfield*	530-887-8344
	Email: barneyol@garlic.com
Newsletter Editor	Sonja Lemon*	916-428-6178
	Email: rslemon@lanset.com
Book Librarians	Rollie Bowns*	916-685-2930
	Email: rkbowns@earthlink.net
Historian
Board Member	Dan Clark*	530-878-0931
	Email: clark921@onemain.com
Board Member	Dick Lambert*	916-484-1666
	Email: melamber@pacbell.net
Web Master	Michael Cox	916-456-6304
	Email: mik@wygit.com

Dues for the calendar year are $30 per member and $10 for spouse (if they desire to join).

Commercial memberships are available for $50 per year. This membership includes yearly advertising in the newsletter. Ads are to be business card size and may be changed from month to month.. Contact Treasurer Barney Oldfield for more membership information.

Newsletter deadline is the tenth of each month. All submissions should be sent to Nor-Cal Woodturners, 4560 Green tree Drive, Sacramento CA 95823-1936. EMail to: rslemon@lanset.com. Proprietory names which may be included herein are for information purposes only, and no endorsement of any particular product or supplier mentioned or criticism of others not mentioned by Nor-Cal Woodturners is implied.

All submissions should be sent to

Nor-Cal Woodturners
4560 Green Tree Drive
Sacramento, CA 95823-1936

E-Mail to: rslemon@lanset.com.

March

We will have a presentation by our Mentors

CALENDAR

Mar 21-22	Trent Bosch Workshop Stubbs shop
Mar. 25	Gen. Mtg., Hart Sr. Ctr., 7:00 p.m.
Mar. 31	Bd. Mtg., 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop
Apr. 22	Gen Mtg., Hart Sr. Ctr., 7:00 p.m.
Apr. 25-27	Woodworking Show, Cal Expo
Apr 28	Bd. Mtg., 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop
May 27	Gen. Mtg., Hart Sr. Ctr., 7:00 p.m.
June 2	Bd. Mtg., 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop
June 24	Gen. Mtg. Hart Sr. Ctr., 7:00 p.m.
July 7	Bd. Mtg., 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop
July 22	Gen. Mtg., Hart Sr. Ctr., 7:00 p.m.
July 28	Bd. Mtg., 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop
Aug. 26	Gen Mtg. Hart Sr. Ctr. 7:00 p.m.
Sept 8	Bd. Mtg. 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop
Sept 23	Gen. Mtg., Hart Sr. Ctr. 7:00 p.m.
Sept 29	Bd. Mtg. 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop
Oct 24-25	Mike Mahoney Workshop
Oct. 28	Gen. Mtg. Hart Sr. Ctr., 7:00 p.m.
Nov. 3	Bd. Mtg., 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop
Dec. 9	Christmas Party, Hart Sr. Ctr. 7:00 p.m.
Dec. 15	Bd. Mtg. 7:00 p.m. Stubbs Shop

MENTOR'S OPPORTUNITY

LOCATION	NAME	PHONE
Citrus Heights	Herb Medsger	916-725-3120
Davis	Charles Brownold	530-756-5010
Davis	Bill Flewelling	530-753-2664
Elk Grove	Mets Lerwill	916-686-5312
Fair Oaks	Bob Adam*	916-961-1275
Granite Bay	Tom Castaldo	916-791-7544
Sacramento	Leonard Klima	916-334-7218
Yuba City	Norm Hinman	530-673-5056

*Chairman
The Mentor program is available to members who have questions about turning, Nor-Cal programs, and to get a better 'feel' for the club. Check in with the Mentor in your area and get acquainted! There is a Mentor signup sheet at the front of the room for those needing help, check it out.

Announcements

1. This is the last time I’ll mention dues! If your dues are not paid by the end of this month, this will be your last newsletter. Since it is sometimes hard to remember whether or not you have paid, please check your address label. If there is a red dot, we have not received your dues. If you have paid and there is a red dot, please see Barney. Dues are $30 per member per year and $10 per year for a spouse should they desire to be members. Moneys may be sent to Barney Oldfield, 11170 Meadow Brook Drive, Auburn, CA 95602 or paid at the meeting. Please include the membership application that was sent to you. This form is important, as it insures the new roster will be correct. Also be sure to check whether or not you are an AAW member.

2. Commercial membership is also available for $50. This includes a business card sized ad in the Newsletter for one year. The ad may be changed at any time. Contact Barney Oldfield.

3. Don’t forget the members only Swap & Sell table. Please unload your vehicles from the parking circle by the door, then move your vehicle to the street so others have room to unload.

4. Be sure to check out our web site at www.norcalwoodturners.org. Mike Cox has done a terrific job on it as our new Web Master. Mike has posted all the pictures taken at the meeting - in color - so take a look and view your beautiful turnings!

5. Leanne Pierson gave the first book review on the new Library book the Club recently purchased. Let Rollie know if you would like to participate in the book reviews.

6. Kirk requested interested members to bring in a small item that does not take very long to turn and would be easy to make during a demonstration process at shows and schools. If you are one of these volunteers, please bring in your item to the March meeting with a brief description and time required to complete it. We are gearing up for our new Educational Program which will debut at the April Woodworking Show at Cal Expo. The idea of the program is to have at least two people turning on the lathes and a third person explaining what is being done. This will allow the turners to keep working. The turned items will then be given to someone in the viewing audience at the show.

7. Woodcraft receipts may be turned in to Barney Oldfield (Treasurer) at the meetings. The receipts should be no more than 6 months old. Woodcraft gives us a 3% rebate on these receipts which the club uses to purchase raffle items, books, etc. from Woodcraft.

8. Bill Flewelling is the one to see if you need Greenwood sealer. The sealer comes in 5 gallon containers and costs $32. Contact Bill at 530-753-2664 to make arrangements for your purchase.

9. Our expedited raffle distribution worked very well at the February meeting! Those who participated were able to view all the drawn numbers on a white board. If you didn’t win, you didn’t have to stick around waiting for numbers to be called! This is a big timesaver and we will continue with this practice. Get your tickets early!

10. Dick Lambert will be taking sign-ups to work at the Cal Expo Woodworking Show, April 25 - 27. We will need several people for each shift. Shifts will last from 2 to 4 hours.

Members' Gallery

We had a GREAT Show and Tell Table at the January meeting! Thanks to everyone for participating.

Our speaker for the evening was allowed a maximum amount of time for his presentation, so we did not have a Show and Tell. However, pictures were taken of items on the table. The last picture is of a platter that was not signed and no information on the signup sheet and I have no clue who turned it. Sorry! All items received a lot of attention during the break. Very nice work, everyone!

Sonja Lemon turned this small Mahogany bowl.

Barry Hanna turned several items: This beautiful Mesquite bowl, a Pear platter, Olive bowl, and Olive vase.

Mets Lerwill turned these nice vessels: One of Camphor and one of Pistachio.

Steve Reed did a very nice job on this Sycamore and Walnut birdhouse.

Bill Flewelling brought in this interesting piece, a ball in a container. He also brought in a natural edge Cork oak bowl, a ‘holey’ vessel, cube in cube, star in cube, and some lattice work.

Dan Clark brought in a very nice salad bowl set.

Ken Martin turned this very nice bowl.

Herb Medsger turned this Pin Oak bowl and a mini vessel of Tagua nut.

Glenn Robisonturned this lovely Maple bowl with raffia lacing and beads.

Chuck Quibell, our guest speaker for the evening, turned this lovely Madrone bowl and a second Camphor bowl.

Bob Hoseadid a very nice job on this Antler pen and pencil set and a Cottonwood bowl.

Tyler Hosea-Small turned this very interesting small Walnut candy jar.

This is a very nice bowl. Would someone like to claim responsibility for it?

Thanks to all who brought in their turnings! Everyone enjoyed them.

The rest of the Pics...

FEB. PROGRAM RECAP

Chuck Quibell’s topic was Wood Through the Eyes of a Wood Anatomist, a subject he is very well versed in. He had a number of charts for reference and presented us with an introduction to wood. He explained the cellular structure of woods and other plants and explained the characteristics of tissue and how it holds plants together. He explained the difference between plants that produce only primary tissues (herbacious) and those that produce secondary tissues (wood).

He talked about how the walls of cells grow, long, narrow, thick, thin, and how these walls relate to the different trees. He explained that one way to identify softwood (conifers, etc) was to study the cell structure which grows on a vertical plane. Hardwoods, on the other hand, have an intertwining cell structure which creates the figured grain patterns.

The second half of his program was slides of cell patterns and he explained these. Part of his explanation was about how wood gets its fiddle back, curley, ribbon, and other textures.

There were many questions asked and answered at the end of the program.

Thank you, Chuck, for a most informatiive the program.

Trent Bosch Program...

Date: March 21, repeat on March 22

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Location: Kirk Stubbs’ Shop (Corner of Matson and Sylvia in Sacramento

Cost: $25.00

Lunch: Bring your own, send out, or go get it.

This program is open to all tuners, in our club and other clubs in the vicinity. If you are interested in attending this demo, either Friday, March 21 or Saturday, March 22, please sign up and pay the $25.00 fee at the meeting or send your money to Barney Oldfield, 11170 Meadow Brook Drive, Auburn CA 95602. You may also contact Barney via EMail at:barneyol@garlic.com. The same demo will be given each day. There is no limit for seating, but reservations are a must.

If you are at all interested in learning something new, methods, techniques, or ideas, this will be an excellent class to attend. Trent will begin by explaining how to prep wood and go through all the processes to achieve a well designed piece. New turners are greatly encouraged to attend this program.

See last month’s Newsletter for more description of Trent’s work.