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COMING UP!
Monthly Meeting:
3M Abrasives
April 5th
Stuart King demo
workshop
April 22nd
Santa Clara Wood-
working Show
April 2123rd
Bonnie Klien demo
workshop
April 30th
Rich Johnson showed a bowl steady
rest of metal with
roller blade wheels.
He bought it in
Utah at the Craft
Supplies sale sev-
eral years ago and
has used it about
20 times. [A steady
rest supports long
pieces such as tall
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Dick Pickering organized our
March meeting around Jigs and
Fixtures. Setting the tone for the eve-
ning, he kicked things off by presenting
one of Tony Bryhans jigs. Its a vacuum
chuck made of a HUGH dog dish. It fts
Tonys VB-36 lathe and uses a Shop Vac as
a vacuum source. Following Dicks lead,
several members then presented devices
theyve bought or built to make life easier
in the shop.
March, 2006
INSIDE
Feature Story 1
Pres Sez 2
Turning Out 3
AAW Notes 10
Contact Us 14
Beginners Mind 12
Your Library 13
Club Notes 14
Staff Reports 15
For Sale 16
Calendar 16
Ironman 17
Richs steady rest.
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Join us Wednesday, April 5th at 7
P.M., when a 3M rep talks to us about abra-
sives at Rich Johnson's Woodturning Center in
San Jose.
Rich's Center is located behind his home at
14979 Joanne Ave., San Jose. From Hwy. 680,
take the McKee Road exit East about 1.5 miles
to Toyon Ave. Turn left and go 0.6 mile, turn
right onto Joanne Ave.
Bring your chair and items for Show and
Tell. We all learn together.
PRESIDENT' S CHALLENGE: WITH BARK
It
is amazing to me
how fast this year
is going by. I am
having trouble keeping up.
We have a lot on our plate
with all the demos, shows, and
club activities. We have three
things going on this month and
they all require your partici-
pation. We have sign ups on
our Yahoo site. We need you
to sign up for these things as
soon as you can. We also need coverage for the
Woodworking Show, 4/214/23. That weekend
is going to be very busy for us but I know we
can pull it off. The sign up sheet will be on the
shop door. Sign up where you can help.
How did you like the Jigs & Fixtures
Night? I thought it was great! We had some
neat stuff to see. Thanks to Dick Pickering for
putting it together!
Ard (our program chairperson) has come
up with some great programs for our meetings.
Some of the ideas were from you the members.
Thats what we needed, group support and
interest. Good stuff is a commin!
Now is not too early to start thinking of a
couple things that are sneaking up on us real
quick. The May 3rd meeting features our an-
nual Top Night. We NEED to work on some-
thing to challenge Gary!! He keeps winning
for the longest time! Cant someone challenge
him? There will also be other awards beside for
the longest spinning top, and they will be an-
nounced at the April meeting.
We also have our July/Swim/Potluck/Sale/
Turning Show day! This is a great place to sell
shop stuff you just do not want any more. Items
are sold by silent auction, with each piece hav-
ing a starting price and an auction sheet.
This is also the day we have our club Turn-
ing Show. This is your chance to bring your
turnings from the last year and try for a ribbon.
First, second, and third places will be awarded
in each category. There is also Best of Show
award.
We will have a Bar-B-Q with potluck food.
That has been great in the past and is something
to look forward too also: lots of eatin stuff!
BY THE WAY...
Have you signed up for the UTAH Sympo-
sium?? That is getting here real fast also. Some
of the people that are going are staying at the
Travel Lodge on University Avenue. We are
driving and are ride sharing.
So our plate is quite full and this is only
April!
PRES SEZ
Next month...
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TURNING OUT
Presidents Challenge and Show & Tell
Continued on page 4.
Phil Roybal showed a chatter
tool of steel and brass with a walnut
handle, fnished with Watco and wax.
Hes now selling these tools through
The Sawdust Shop in Sunnyvale.
Rich Johnson worked with recent
visitor Chris Stott to fnd a U.S. source
for Stott parting tools. Rich now has
these tools for sale at $20 each.
Michael Wiley showed a cocobolo
bowl, unfnished.
Jim Gott showed a cork oak natu-
ral edged bowl, fnished with Deft. He
also brought an ash box in the shape of
an apple, with a blackwood stem.
Steve Rosenthal brought a bottle
stopper of walnut, fnished with Wipe
On Poly. He had a load of them in his
car when he visited Thomas Cruz win-
ery, so he showed them the stoppers.
They bought them all.
Ayman Sayed presented a buckeye
bowl with ebony collar, fnished with
lacquer.
Clockwise from top left: Phil
Roybal, Jim Gott, Steve Rosenthal,
Ayman Sayed, Michael Wiley, and
Rich Johnson.
T
Show and
Tell
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Challenge continued from page 3.
Presidents
Challenge
Rich Johnson showed a mulberry
plate he turned for an AAW event
back in the mid-90s, where there was
a lack of eating ware. He showed us
others out of willow, eucalyptus, and
other woods. He also showed a spalted
silver maple goblet and an egg cup of
bocote.
Rich Parftt made a cracker of
cocobolo, fnished with 50% Deft.
Bob Bowers presented a mystery
wood toothpick holder, fnished in
Wipe On Poly.
Mike Rude brought a cup of pep-
per wood, fnished with 50% Deft.
Ayman Sayed showed a lidded
maple box, fnished with Friction Pol-
ish.
David Feind brought a scoop of
ash, with no fnish.
Steve Rosenthal presented a
canary island pine bowl intended as
a lamp shade, which he had fnished
with tung oil.
Jim Gott made a scoop of ash and
fnished it with wax.
Herb Green created a mortar and
pestle of ash. He also showed a make-
up eye cup, under 2, made from a
tagua nut. He didnt make it to the
meeting, but his turnings did.
Clockwise from top left: Rich
Johnson, David Feind, Steve
Rosenthal, Jim Gott, Herb Greens
mortar and pestle, Ayman Sayed,
Mike Rude, Bob Bowers, and Rick
Parftt.
Continued on page 11
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Continued from page 1
hollow forms so they can be hollowed
without the vibration that would occur
if their only support was a chuck at
the foot of the work.] Next, he showed
a masonite plate with a line of chalk-
sized holes in it. Equipped with a nail
and a piece of chalk, it used to serve
as a compass for marking 11-18"
diameter bowl forms on tree pieces as
he harvested them in the feld. Today,
Rich has replaced with compass with
a set of masonite circles, 530" in
diameter. Back in the shop, he se-
cures one to a log with a nail and cuts
around it with a bandsaw to get a bowl
blank with a center perfectly marked.
He drills out the center hole to accom-
modate a 1" pin chuck for turning the
outside of his bowls.
Rich then showed a vacuum
chuck: a big faceplate covered with
neoprene, which accommodates
large bowls with turned rims. Most
of Richs pieces have natural edges
however, so he made a smaller face-
plate of MDF with concentric grooves
turned in it, and has a series of PVC
couplers from 2 " to 6" in diam-
eter, faced with neoprene, to ft those
grooves. They hold natural edge bowls
by their inside surfaces. Rich recom-
mends using a vacuum gage with these
clamps and setting a moderate level
of vacuum. Above 15" Hg., the pieces
move and can even implode.
Phil Roybal brought a series of
devices for surface decoration. The
frst was an open-topped box that
clamps to the lathe to support a router
above a turned piece. Phil can use the
fxture, along with a long, bearing-
guided, futing router bit from Mag-
nate (www.magnate.net) to follow the
contour of a turned bowl, cutting futes
into the sides.
Sometimes, he wants to add
drilled or plunge-cut features to his
turnings. These might be accent holes
at the end of futes in a bowl, or inlaid
Continued on page 6.
Top to bottom: Rich Johnsons
chalk compass, masonite circle
guides, vacuum faceplate, and
PVC vacuum chuck.
Top to bottom: Phil Roybals router
futing fxture, the futing bit, drill
press tool with Foredom motor
hangar.
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he forged from a steel rod. It attaches
to tables or the lathe by means of a
pipe clamp.
Phil showed a carving stand he
built out of welded steel plates and an
old Wilton Power-Arm vise. It clamps
to the lathe ways, and a threaded rod
on the Power-Arm accepts a 1 "-8
lathe chuck with the work mounted in
it. The turning can then be rotated in
three axes to position any part of its
surface for carving.
Phil fnished by showing a hand
rest for his banjo, to support him as he
does detailed carving on the turning.
Herb Green had watched Curt
Theobolds video on Segmented Turn-
ing and saw the big sanding disk Curt
used to fatten segments. He wanted
one, and decided to build it. He frst
made a 20" disk of MDF and glued
and screwed it to a dedicated face-
plate. He faced the plate off with a
gouge to get it fat, then glued a sand-
ing disk to the MDF. He made a sand-
ing table that sits on his lathe ways
and holds workpieces at the midpoint
of the disk. He wound up with a large,
variable-speed sanding disk for just a
few dollars.
Frank Salinas showed a Long-
worth chuck he made of Baltic birch.
This tool serves the same function
as the Cole chuck jaw plates some
of us use to hold fnished bowls by
their rims for turning the feet. Franks
chuck has two counter-rotating
plywood plates with spiral grooves
housing bolts with rubber bumpers.
The bumpers tighten to self-center
bowls and hold them by their rims. He
cut the spiral grooves with a router on
a compass base, locating the center of
rotation for each arc halfway between
the chuck center and the edge of the
chuck plates.
Franks also interested in marque-
try, and showed a tiny miter box for
cutting veneers with a small back saw.
elements around a pen. For these he
mounts a 1" steel tube in the banjo and
attaches an old Craftsman drill press
designed to hold a portable electric
drill. Hes modifed this press with
a welded plate that holds a Foredom
(rotary tool) handpiece instead of a
drill. He can drill or plunge to a pre-
set depth, then rotate the work or not,
depending upon whether hes drilling
holes or routing arcs of circles.
The above set-up requires a
Foredom motor to drive the hand-
piece, so Phil brought a motor hangar
Top to bottom: Phils carving
stand, Phils hand rest, Herb
Greens disk sander and table.
Top to bottom: Frank Salinas
Longworth chuck, the chuck holds
a bowl, miter box, and Louis
Cubes.
Continued on page 7
Jigs, continued
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His is set up and marked with mea-
surements for Louis Cubes, named
for the French king who commis-
sioned the design. Frank cuts veneers
of three colors into equal width strips,
then tapes them in six-layer stacks and
cuts the stacks at 60 angles to give the
perfect diamond shapes.
Ard Sealy has a furniture shop in
Lake Tahoe, and makes cabinets with
adjustable shelves. He showed off
a commercial router jig from MEG,
with a set of holes to guide a plunge
router in cutting a row of shelf pin
holes, precisely spaced and accurately
aligned.
Bob Bowers brought in a
bandsaw sled he uses for running
small objects through the saw. He also
brought in a center-drilling fxture
which holds pen blanks so he can ac-
curately drill centered holes through
them.
Gary Petretti likes to do a lot of
work off the lathe: carving, painting,
or otherwise decorating his pieces.
He showed a set of socks flled with
sand and tied. They hold a turning in
any position as needed. Gary uses a
pair of socks, one inside the other, for
each sandbag so they dont leak sand
through the weave.
Rich Dege presented a variety of
devices. First was a plywood face-
plate for use with his vacuum chuck.
He started with a plywood round he
bought at OSH, then epoxied it to
a nut that fts his lathe. He faced it
off and covered the plate with 3/16"
closed cell foam, also from OSH, to
make a good vacuum seal. He also
showed a set of ABS couplers that
ft over the Shark jaws on his chuck.
He turned a groove in the end of each
coupler and flled it with hot melt glue
to serve as a gasket. Then he uses
them to vacuum hold bowls as Rich
Johnson does.
Rich showed off his sphere-mak-
ing fxtures. First was a cup chuck
with a wooden #2 MT on it. (He told
Top to bottom: Ard Sealys shelf
pin jig, Bob Bowers bandsaw
sled, Bobs drilling fxture, Gary
Petrettis sandbag work holders.
Top to bottom: Rich Deges
vacuum faceplate, sphere-making
tooling, sphere cup chuck, fxture
to reproduce Morse tapers,
sandpaper disc cutter.
Continued on page 8
Jigs, continued
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us how to set up a gage based upon
a commercial taper to size a wooden
taper.) He turned grooves on the end
of the cup and attached an O-ring as a
gasket. For the tailstock end, he uses a
crutch tip with a hole that exactly fts
over his ball bearing live center.
For cutting sandpaper discs, Rich
uses a worn out 2" hole saw with the
teeth ground off. He employs a rubber
mallet to drive the die into an end
grain piece of wood.
Rich showed a gauge that clamps
onto a bandsaw blade to measure
tension by the stretch of the blade. He
built it from an article in Fine Wood-
working Magazine. We have one (with
instructions) in the club library. These
are useful to check the calibration of
your bandsaw tension gauge.
Rich likes to turn little tops, for
which he needs " dowels that are re-
ally round. So he made a dowel maker
thats rather like a pencil sharpener.
It fts on the lathe and holds a cutter
made from an old fle. He feeds square
stock through it and the device trims
them into dowels that are round within
a thousandth of an inch or so.
When Mike Rude wants to cut
big rounds on his bandsaw, he attaches
a table with a foor foot and a pivot
point upon which he places the pieces
to be cut. The table is marked with
various diameters so he can quickly
set it up to cut rounds of any size.
He showed a holder for drilling
pen blanks straight and true, and a
roller blade wheel with a sanding disk
head jammed into it to form a compact
sander for the sides of bowls.
Mike turns bottle stoppers with
chrome stopper inserts, and he made a
screw chuck that matches the threads
of the metal stopper inserts. Hed frst
bought a commercial version but its
screw was a little smaller than the
one on the stopper inserts, so when he
screwed an insert into place it split or
chipped the turned wood. His chuck
has the correct size thread.
Rick Parftt showed a router
circle cutter made of a fnishing nail
and a pair of rails. The rails slide into
the routers edge guide holes guide it
as it cuts big circles such as table tops.
Lloyd Frisbee showed an acrylic
disk with a set of twelve spokes of
holes, for marking off even divisions
around a workpiece. He uses this to
mark a piece for carving, the way Neil
Scobie does with his triangular pieces.
Top to bottom: Deges bandsaw
tension gauge, Mike Rudes pen
blank drill fxture, bottle stopper
screw chuck, and inertial sanding
tool.
Top to bottom: Rick Parftts router
compass accessory, Lloyd Frisbees
acrylic disc marking aid, close up.
Continued on page 9
Jigs, continued
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Rich Johnson showed a couple
jigs for gluing segments for turnings.
The two are identical, each consisting
of a frame holding a c-clamp. You put
a segment into a clamp, which holds it
while you glue another segment on top
of it. Then you do it again, until the
whole ring is complete.
Dick Pickering returned to the
stage for the fnale. He showed us a
Baltic birch plywood steady rest hed
build for spindle turning. It clamps to
his lathe ways and uses roller blade
wheels to support the wood.
Next he showed a bandsaw single-
point fence for cutting veneers. It
clamps to his saw table. He moved
on to a right angle fxture that holds
nutcrackers on the drill press to be
drilled. He showed an arm with a dial
indicator that he uses to indicate how
true his drill press table is. He found
out that his table is .025" off of level.
Dick told us how he uses a mag-
netic indicator base as a cutting stop
on machine tables, and showed a pen
blank drilling jig that uses a toggle
clamp to hold blanks in place for drill-
ing. He next showed a drill fxture to
hold nutcrackers so their arm pivot
holes can be drilled accurately.
Next he showed a table he at-
taches to his ways to hold turning
tools, since he doesnt have a tool
table nearby.
Dick showed an open segmented
lamp hed built with the aid of a
fxture that fts on his lathe. It sports
an index wheel that fts on his spindle,
along with an index pointer. The
fxture holds a piece while another is
glued above it with the correct inter-
segment gap. His design was derived
from William Smiths description of
a similar tool in his book, Segmented
Wood Turning.
Dick showed a set of shim blocks
for assembling pens in a vise, so he
doesnt have to move the vise jaws
very far to press together the different
length sections of a pen.
Top to bottom: Rich Johnsons
segment glue fxture, Dick
Pickerings spindle steady rest,
single-point bandsaw fence, and
nutcracker drilling fxture,
Top to bottom: Pickerings drill
press table alignment tool, another
nutcracker drill press fxture, a
table that clamps to the lathe ways,
and the index pointer for an open-
segment glue-up fxture.
Continued on page 10
Jigs, continued
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He showed a set-up he uses to
cut segments for his turnings. He has
a Dubby sled with side runner on his
table saw. The side support keeps tiny
pieces from running into the blade. He
made a wooden L" 10 inches long,
so he can use his saws rip fence as a
length stop. The L" reaches across
the side support to position a piece
properly on the Dubby sled.
Next Dick showed a horizontal
boring table with clamp that he uses
for his ShopSmith, and a fxture he
uses to make drawer handle pulls with
a router. (He does that for a furniture
refnisher.)
Finally, Dick showed us a stack of
story sticks for one of his nutcrackers.
These allow him to quickly mark and
cut sets of identical pieces.
It was a great evening, and prob-
ably everybody went home with at
least one new idea.
Top left: Nutcracker story sticks.
Bottom left: Dubby angle cutting
sled for a tablesaw.
Jigs, continued
Jigs? Fixtures? Whats the Difference?
Jigs guide tools as the tools cut. Think of a dovetail jig that guides a router to
cut the pins and tails of that classic joint. Fixtures hold work in position for
an operation. Pen turners might use a pen blank drilling fxture to hold blanks
vertical and centered under a drill bit.
AAW Ornament Drive
symposium or mail
them to Greg Streif,
7308 Abbott Glen Dr.,
Crestwood, Ky., 40014
gregstreif@insightbb.
com . This is a great
opportunity for chapter
members to have fun
building their turning
skills and, at the same
time, to help sick kids
in need. What a deal! If
you have any questions,
contact Greg.
Each years AAW Symposium
features a return to the community
project. This year in Louisville, AAW
will collect Christmas ornaments.
They will be delivered to Kosair Chil-
drens Hospital in Louisville. Each
year the hospital collects ornaments
and decorated trees and auctions or
sells them to raise money. Last year
they raised almost $400,000 to help
kids in need.
AAW is asking each chapter to
turn as many Christmas ornaments
as they can and bring them to the
Christmas ornament, Jim Gott
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Presidents Challenge, continued
from page 4
Michael Wiley showed a honey
dipper of maple, fnished with lacquer.
Dick Pickering made a platter out
of bubinga, fnished with tung oil.
Becky Frisbee made salt and pep-
per shakers with turned Corian caps
on cherry bodies, fnished with EEE
and CrystalCoat.
Lloyd Frisbee turned a sugar bowl
of redwood burl, fnished with 50%
Deft.
Ard Sealy created a lidded box
of black walnut, fnished with bar top
lacquer. He also showed a tiny make-
up goblet of bloodwood and a makeup
name tag of naval orange.
Al Gore showed a rolling pin and
a slat box of ash, both unfnished; and
a pink ivory makeup name tag.
Craig Thorson presented a pigs
tail for turning barbecued meat. The
handle is mahogany, fnished with
50% Deft and HUT wax.
Phil Roybal showed a stack lami-
nated basting brush of canary wood
and dyed birch, fnished with Watco
and wax.
Howard Cohen made a pepper
mill of assorted woods, and a pounce
pot of olive, fnished with friction
polish.
Phil Roybal and Dave Feind won
the Presidents Challenge raffe.
Clockwise, from top left: Michael
Wiley, Al Gore, Craig Thorson,
Phil Roybal, Howard Cohen,
Ard Sealy, Lloyd Frisbee, Becky
Frisbee, and Dick Pickering.
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BEGINNERS MIND
What I wish somebodyd told me...
Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, part 2
by Mike Pogue
elses project) didnt look that great on
my favorite wood.
Looking back, instead of splitting
my budget between cheap and expen-
sive, I should have set aside a third
bucket of money just for experimenta-
tion. I discovered that it was impor-
tant to try many different tools, to fnd
out what would work best for me.
Now I make sure my budget al-
lows me to buy an interesting tool (or
two), to see if it fts me and my way of
turning. If it does, great! If it doesnt,
I dont worry too muchafter all, its
part of the learning experience.
Tools that helped a beginner
(me) succeed
I discovered three tools that re-
ally stand out in my mind now. They
greatly improved the quality of my
work, and made turning safer and
more enjoyable.
Hey, experiment with them. If
theyre not for you, just give em
awaythey might be somebody elses
Best Tool Ever!
Inertia Sanderabout $30 at Craft
Supplies
Imagine a roller skate bearing on
the end of a stick, plus some Velcro,
so you can attach a circle of sandpa-
per. Friction against a turning object
causes the sandpaper to turn at just the
right speed, without a motor. It works
best on the outside of things, where it
instantly
gets rid
of those
ugly
circular
sanding
marks.
I didnt
believe
it would
work until I tried it. Now, Im an
Inertia Sander Fiend.
EEE-shineabout $18 at Craft
Supplies
Its a brownish waxy cream with
Tripoli abrasive in it. Sand through
the grits (with the inertia sander, of
course!), and apply a dab of this stuff
with a paper towel (lathe running), to
get the effect of a couple thousand grit
sandpaper. Imported from Australia,
expensive, and worth every penny.
Works best on darker woods.
Hemostatsabout $5 at Harbor
Freight
Something about a spinning
hollow object on a lathe makes me
NOT want to stick my fngers inside.
Hemostats are lockable stainless-steel
clamps that look a little bit like long,
thin scissors. Roll some sandpaper
into a tube and fold it in half. Grab
the insides of the tube with the he-
mostat, and lock it down. Stick this
inside your spinning project, instead
of using sandpaper wrapped around
your thumb.
This way, youll still have a thumb
left to operate your lighter.
Next month: A couple of things
most beginners forget about
I suppose its possible to start a
fre by rubbing two sticks together, but
thats not for me.
Just hand me that lighter, please.
Sure, I wouldnt have the charac-
ter-building experience of carefully
selecting sticks, fnding dry tinder, and
watching the curls of smoke emerge
from tiny, red embers while feeling
my connection to ancient, fre-starting
cavemen. On the other hand, Id be
making some piping hot caveman din-
ner in about 30 seconds fat.
Buying tools for woodturning is a
lot like starting a freyou can choose
either cheap, character-building tools,
or time-saving, more expensive tools.
When I frst began woodturning, I
decided to spend most of my budget
on expensive stuff, and the rest on the
cheap stuff. Then I started ordering.
The cheap stuff didnt always
work so well
So, the moral is: I should have
bought more lighters, and fewer
sticks, right? Nope. What surprised
me was that the expensive stuff didnt
always work so well either. Some-
times that special jig wasnt as versa-
tile as it looked, or the fnishing goo
(which looked beautiful on somebody
Beginners Mind Rule #2:
It will take extra time (and
money) to fnd your own
unique way of working.
Experiment.
Diane Charolette. Image from
BigStockPhoto.com
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YOUR LIBRARY
by Al Gore
LIBRARY RESOURCES RELATED TO THE JIGS AND FIXTURES PROGRAM OF 3/1/06:
Books:
3 Best Shop Jigs America WoodWorker
15 Shop Tips Americas Best Woodworkers
21 101 Shop Secrets Master Craftsmen
Tools: (Many of our tools can be considered Jigs or Fixtures)
1 Bandsaw Tension Gage
2 Tachometer
4 RPM Meter
5 Cassinger Template
6 ATV Dolly Contact Tom Donnelly
7 Sharpening & Grinding the Lacer Hook Tool From Phil Roybal
8 Color Wheel
9 Plastic Index Wheel
10 Woodline Spacer Fence System
LIBRARY RESOURCES RELATED TO THE PRESIDENTS CHALLENGE FOR APRIL: WITH BARK
VHS Tapes:
22 Natural Edge Bowls Rich Johnson
23 Natural Edges & Hollow Forms Chris Stott
31 Turning Bowls Chris Stott
76 Turning Green Wood Michael ODonnell
80 Natural Edges and Hollow Forms Chris Stott
83 Natural Lipped Bowls Ken Bullock
Books:
Several of our Books include examples of bowls, goblets, and other turned objects that include bark. Take
a look.
NEW AT THE SVW LIBRARY THIS MONTH:
Books:
37 Woodturning Masterclass Tony Boase
38 500 Wood Bowls Lark Books
39 Woodturning Bowls, Platters, Hollow Forms Best from Woodturning Magazine
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CLUB NOTES
SVW needs YOU
It takes more than the of-
fcers and program chairs to make
our club function at its best. If your
name's not in the column at right, we
still need your help in smaller ways to
manage some of the club's activities.
This is a HELP WANTED ad, and
we need you to respond. There are
always things that need doing here. In
particular, we need:
Volunteers for shop tours
Volunteers to staff the booth at the
upcoming Woodworking Show
Members to write up their profles
for the newsletter
Short articles for Chips & Chatter
Please volunteer to Rich Johnson
and help make our activities happen.
Sharing
Knowledge
MEMBERS: Please contribute your
expertise to our newsletter. The editor
will help you get your article ready if
need be. Deadline is the 12th of the
month.
OTHER WOODTURNING
CLUBS: you may use materials in
this newsletter for the beneft of other
turners. Please credit Silicon Val-
ley Woodturners and the newsletter
month and year for any material you
use, and mention our web site: www.
svwoodturners.org. Note that if weve
fagged an article as having been
reprinted from another source with
permission, you must secure that same
permission in order to use that mate-
rial.
VOLUNTEER INSTRUCTORS
The turners below have graciously
offered to open their shops to help
members who want to learn to sharp-
en, try something new, or master a
technique that just doesnt seem to be
working. We all love to share. You just
have to ask.
Willing to help? Contact Phil
Roybal to join this list.
Rich Dege (408) 272-8122
Jim Gott (408) 265-9501
Rich Johnson (408) 254-8485
Phil Roybal (408) 255-4789
Join Silicon
Valley
Woodturners
Want to join a great group of
turning enthusiasts in an atmosphere
of sharing and camaraderie? Be-
come a member of Silicon Valley
Woodturners.
We meet on the frst Wednesday
of each month. See page 2 for details.
Drop in at any meeting and check
things out. To join, contact Rich John-
son (see listing at the right).
Learn more about our club on the
web at www.svwoodturners.org.
SVW Contacts
President
Rich Johnson (408) 254-8485
latheart@pacbell.net
V.P./Program Chair
Ard Sealy (408) 937-8771
asealy@pacbell.net
Treasurer
Craig Thorson (650) 341-7550
RPS@wwdb.org
Secretary/Editor
Phil Roybal (408) 255-4789
prmguard-svweditor@yahoo.com
Sunshine Chairs
Lloyd & Becky Frisbee
408 978-6219
bigguy95124@yahoo.com (Lloyd)
lfrisbee@pacbell.net (Becky)
Photographer
Jim Gott (408) 265-9501
jgtimp@aol.com
Apparel
Dick Pickering ((408) 227-9821)
calwoodart@sbcglobal.net
Ways & Means
Steve Dahout (408) 981-6183
sdahout@yahoo.com
Webmaster
Steve Rosenthal (408) 923-6562
sailinsteve@sbcglobal.net
Librarian
Al Gore (650) 254-1173
allan_gore@peoplesoft.com
(with Craig Thorson, above)
PAGE 15
STAFF REPORTS
RICH JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
The Home and Garden Show
seemed to be a good show. Craig ran
it in Richs absence in spite of hav-
ing pneumonia, and we took in about
$1100. Our new lathe box worked
much better than the old one.
The Santa Clara Woodworking
Show will come to town April 22
nd
.
We have a free booth. Those who do
booth duty must have a show name
badge on to get in without buying a
ticket.
Al Gore got the name of two peo-
ple who want things turned. One wants
basswood Christmas tree toppers to
be painted, and one wants a small urn
for her cats ashes. Al will call Herb
Green about the urn.
ARD SEALY (VP/PROGRAMS)
Ard is trying to plan meeting
programs and is soliciting ideas. He
has a 3M representative coming next
month from St. Paul to talk to us about
abrasives. Hes also working on get-
ting some power tool reps to come to
our meetings. He needs ideas so please
talk to him.
CRAIG THORSON (TREASURER)
Treasury reports are available to
members. See Craig.
Craft Supplies will give club
members a 10% discount on many
products. You have to tell them youre
a club member. Also, we get a dis-
count if we place an order of over
$1000, so we have some incentive to
batch our orders together. Somebody
would have to take responsibility to
organize this if we want to do it.
DICK PICKERING (APPAREL)
Dick is ordering more hands,
since were about out. We have lots
of patches. Be sure to wear your SVW
insignia when you work shows as an
SVW staffer.
AL GORE (LIBRARIAN)
We have three new books in the li-
brary, donated anonymously. We have
Tony Boses Masterclass, The Best
from Woodturning Magazine, and 500
Bowls. Checkout is $2 per month.
PHIL ROYBAL
(SECY/EDITOR)
Our new roster is available on our
Yahoo site. Our newsletter has a cou-
ple new columns, from Mike Pogue
and Al Gore. Members who havent
paid their 2006 dues have been re-
moved from the Yahoo list server.
LLOYD FRISBEE (SUNSHINE)
Let Lloyd know if a club member
needs a get-well card, a new-member
info packet,, or some other contact
from the club to get him or her feeling
good again.
Other Business
NEW FACES
Rich Horton of Los Gatos is our
newest member. Hes been turning 8
months, but has considerable experi-
ence as a sculptor. Please introduce
yourself to Rich at a meeting and
make him feel welcome.
Lampshade bowl by Steve Rosenthal
PAGE 16
Even Roy wants to know...
How did you do that?
Rich Johnson's
Woodturners' Boot Camp
Learn the basics, from chainsaw
to polish. An all day class. Book
available. Sign up now. (408) 254-
8485.
FOR SALE
CALENDAR
April
5TH
Regular club meeting. 3M will talk to
us about abrasives.
22ND
Day-long demonstration by Stuart
King at Rich Johnsons Woodturning
Center.
21-23RD
Santa Clara Woodworking Show
26TH, 27TH
Bonnie Klein hands on class at Rich
Johnsons Woodturning Center.
30TH
Day-long demonstration by Bonnie
Klein at Rich Johnsons Woodturning
Center.
May
3RD
Regular club meeting: Top Night!
5TH7TH
San Jose Home and Garden Show at
the McEnery Convention Center.
June
7TH
Regular club meeting
14TH17TH
Craft Supplies Super Wednesday Sale,
followed by Utah Symposium at BYU
in Provo, Utah.
Nova 3000 with 1 1/2 HP variable
speed Leeson motor (220V). 16"
swing and 45" spindle capacity
with factory accessory bed exten-
sion. Includes factory stand with
capability to fll legs with sand.
This is a very solid machine in
excellent shape. $1100. Location
Livermore, CA. Phone # 925 443-
5562
Drill Press for Sale $25.00
1/2'' chuck capacity
Table tilts 45 left or right
Depth adjustment gauge
Motor: 1/3 HP, 120V, 60 Hz, 1750
RPM
Double insulated, UL listed
Five speeds: 620, 1100, 1720,
2340, 3100
Spindle stroke: 2''
Maximum swing: 8''
Column diameter: 1.89"
Throat depth 4''
Table size: 6-5/8'' x 6-3/8''
Base dimensions: 11-1/8'' x 7''
Overall dimensions: 9''W x 22-
1/2''H x 17''L
6 Jointer for sale $75
45 table
Contact Lloyd Frisbee
Cell 408-813-9214
Bigguy95124@yahoo.com
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I
Ironmen are those who com-
plete all 12 Presidents Challenge
projects for 2006. Those who meet
the challenge are awarded distinctive
IRONMAN name badges. A green bar
in the chart below means that person
has completed the project for the
month indicated.
You neednt be a great turner,
you just need to participate. Make
something in our Challenge theme and
bring it to the next meeting.
Editors Note
If Ive overlooked your Presidents
Challenge entry somehow, e-mail Phil
at prmguard-svweditor@yahoo.com.
IRONMAN
IRONMAN CHALLENGES FOR 2006:
Mar. Treen
Apr. With Bark
May Top
Jun. Glued
Jul. With Stem
Aug. Hollowed
Sept. With Lid
Oct. Altered
Nov. With Holes
Dec. Gift
J F M M J J O S A N A D
Bob Bowers
Howard Cohen
Steven Dahout
David Feind
Lloyd Frisbee
Rebecca Frisbee
Al Gore
Jim Gott
Herb Green
Rich Johnson
John Overmire
Rick Parfitt
Dick Pickering
Mike Pogue
Steve Rosenthal
Phil Roybal
Mike Rude
Carolyn Salinas
Frank Salinas
Ayman Sayed
Ard Sealy
Craig Thorson
Michael Wiley
IRONMAN RULES
Entries must not have been shown before.
If you miss a months Challenge, you may
bring it to a Sawdust Session, or to the fol-
lowing meeting.
If you bring a make-up Challenge to a
meeting, you must also show the current
months Challenge piece.