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Inside This Issue:

Woodchuck Board

Info. 2

Random Shots: just ask 2

The President’s Turn 2

Treasurer’s Report 3

Mentor List 4

Woodchuck Profile 5

2112 Design Competition 5

Offset Turning w/ Russ 7

Resource Section 9

Bulletin Board 9

AAW News 10

Woodchuck Survey 10

Artwork From Woodchips 11

Liability Insurance 12

Demo Schedule 12

Classified Ads 12

May Meet ing: Wednesday, the 16th At Ted Fink’s Shop

Due to temporary closure of the Vermont

Woodworking School, it will be unavailable to us for our May meeting. Therefore the Wednesday, May 16th,7-9 PM meeting will

be held at the workshop of Ted Fink who will be demonstrating the design, wood se-lection and turning of a sandwich plate.

(Sandwiches will not be provided but cook-ies and brownies will be). Ted will have only ~ 8 chairs available so if

you have a folding chair please bring it with you to the meeting. Directions: From the traffic light at the cen-ter of Shelburne village proceed westward

on Harbor Rd. for 0.1 miles to the left turn immediately past the Community School and go 0.1miles to the second right, Davis Ave..

Ted's shop is at the sixth house on the right # 136. Come in through the garage to the shop.

Directions: From the traffic light at the cen-ter of Shelburne village turn westward

( right if headed south and left if headed

north on Rte. 7). you will cross RR tracks after 200 feet. Proceed 0.1 miles to the left hand turn immediately past the school on

the left. This is School St. Go another 0.1 miles to the second right, Davis Ave. Take Davis Ave. to the 6th house

on the right #136. Come in through the garage to the shop.

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MINUTES OF WOOD-

CHUCK MEETING, April 18, 2012

7:02 President Nick Rosato

calls the meeting to order, welcomes the group, and begins introductions, with

each member mentioning the first lathe he/she began with. Nick announces that from

now on, meetings will end by 9:00 p.m. He also announces that if members want specific help from club mentors, to

arrange to come to the

meetings at the Woodwork-er School an hour early. Ted Fink requests members

to tell him the titles of videos they wish to order and he will do so.

Russ Fellows reminds mem-bers that if they sell anything out of their shop, to consider

AAW insurance since con-ventional Homeowners insur-ance will not cover shop acci-dents.

7:22 Ted begins the monthly Raffle with bundles of maga-

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Minut es of t h e Apri l M e et ing —To by Fulwi le r

Random Shots– I Just Had To Ask.

A couple of weeks ago,

Larry, a Randolph based con-tractor, asked me if I could produce a set of spindles to

support a porch railing. He had a job downtown on one of our venerable homes, and

most of the supports had age-rotted. The only way to at-tack this job was with a dupli-

cating lathe. So, I posted an email notice to the Wood-chuck list. With 49 current members and about 45 non-

current members, I expected I’d get a few responses. And I did.

I have already passed the sample post off and I ex-pect to hear shortly how

much Larry will be charged, and how long it will take to get 20 posts completed.

It’s not a hard job if you

have the right tools; it’s a fairly simple set of beads and the posts will be painted, so

any close-grained wood will do.

You probably remem-

ber that at the last meeting I showed a 5-sided platter. I complained that the formula I

tried to use to determine the length of each edge did not work using an Excel spread-sheet. I got the formula from

a book I own, “Math On Keys”, which was written for use with a scientific calcula-

tor. That was really frustrat-ing. I ended up using a pro-tractor to lay out the edge

cuts. Measure out a 72 de-gree angle and repeat. Then use a straight edge to mark

off the chords. Primitive, but

it works. Dave Buchholz was in-

terested in my problem. He

went to work at home using the sine formula, and sent me a spreadsheet with formulae

for up to 21 sides. I have it plugged into my

conversion table spreadsheet

& I can access it at will. Thanks, Dave!

I’m glad I joined The Woodchucks because of the

willingness to share infor-mation and skills. Our meet-ing nights are full of fun as

well as having a serious theme. I hope all of us are getting as much out of the

club as I am. Well, I’ve got to get

back to work.

Arny

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Woodchuck Turners of

Northern Vermont

Board of Directors

President: Nick Rosato The Sculpted Tree

150 West Canal Street Unit 3 Winooski, VT 05404 802-999-2976

[email protected] Vice– President: Michael Perron

656 Pollander Rd. Jeffersonville, VT 05464 802-644-8947

[email protected] Secretary: Toby Fulwiler

1941 Ridge Rd. Fairfield, VT 05455 802-827-3779

[email protected] Treasurer: Ted Fink

PO Box 850 Shelburne, VT 05482 802-985-2923

[email protected] Member-At-Large & News-

letter Editor: Arny Spahn Reporter, Assistant Editor, and Proof Reader:

Cil Spahn 1626 Hebard Hill Rd. Randolph, VT 05060 802-728-4799

[email protected] Member-At-Large: Craig Hall

823 Westman Rd. Cambridge VT 05444 Phone: 802-644-5344

[email protected] Member-At-Large: Ralph

Tursini 1011 Cady Hill Rd. Cambridge VT 05444

Phone: 802-644-5131 info@vermont woodturn-ing.com

Woodchuck Chatter

The President’s Turn—Nick Rosato

Woodturning Adventures

My friend Shawn's inlaws asked him to remove a 34" diameter maple tree from their backyard. The crown had been removed

by a tree service, but the 12' trunk was standing straight and clean like a totem from decades past. I have never dropped a tree,

except once. And if my dad found out about my handling of that tree certain circumstances would become clearer. Nonetheless, I'm still not confident in my

abilities to drop a tree larger in circumferance than my ankle and taller than two of me. In my book, there are only a few things more

manly than cutting down a tree. Some of them are a firm handshake, a bison burger, and English Leather cologne.

The owner wanted the tree to fall in

a certain spot as not to disturb underground irrigation stuff. So to encourage the tree to fall in our favor we tied some rope and chain

from the tree to another, smaller tree thirty feet away. We had a winch to tighten the chain. Ryan was designated winch-worker for this operation. I declined the role because I

didn't want to be responsible for encouraging

a one-ton tree to fall in my direction. And Ryan is stronger than I. (Or so I told him during the occasion.)

Shawn took his beefy chainsaw and cut out a wedge from the base

of the tree. He did it in two


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effortless motions. I couldn't believe he nailed it. I expressed my enthusiasm but

he was more cynical, "Mumble mumble grr could have been cleaner... grr grr... curved the cut, jammed grrr mumble

mumble..." Meanwhile the chainsaw was roaring in the background and he was down on one knee examining the empty

space. He went to the opposite side of the tree and proceeded to cut another slice. The tree began to wriggle a bit. Ryan was tugging on the chain / rope, flexing,

glancing at his biceps every couple of seconds to see them strain. He tugged and pulled and yanked and grumbled and spat

through his pursed lips. After all, he was encouraging a one-ton tree to fall in his direction.(Ryan proof read this document

and insisted that he didn't really do those things.) Funny thing is that if the tree did want to fall in the opposite direction it

probably would have pulled the other smaller tree with it and Ryan too, holding on with two hands as he launched into the

air like a kite. That, my friends, would have been a weekly winner on America's Funniest Home Videos.

During this operation my role

was simple. Watch. I felt that was a rather useless role so I made like I was doing something by kicking dirt and organizing

our equipment. I wanted to be close to the tree when it fell to feel its thunder. The tree began to move in such a manner

that I assumed on-guard position. I looked up at it from my semi-squatting stance ready to dart in any direction necessary. It

was definitely going. Shawn did something out of my view and Ryan pulled and the tree fell as desired. Once Ryan realized the seeds of his labor were about to come

into fruition he scampered out of the way. I hopped back and forth, excited. That tree hit the ground with an awesome

thud. It felt like Thor’s hammer. Nonetheless, I wanted to jump with primal joy like the monkeys at the

beginning of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. We bucked the log at 24" lengths. We had to halve each section because

they were that heavy. We winched the chunks onto the back of Shawn's truck and took two loads back to the shop. I

feel fortunate to have good friends to help with these endeavours.

I returned to my shop that

afternoon and really wanted to turn a

bowl. My back was a bit sore and I worked physically harder than I had in a while, but that's no excuse for dismissing

the desire to turn. In my book, there are few things more enjoyable than turning a fresh slice of wood. Some of them are

women, coconut shrimp, and the hand-massage portion of a manicure.

I cranked up the stereo in my shop and pushed “play“ on Paul Simon's Take me to the Mardis Gras. In the opening

riff he plays the acoustic guitar with a plucking technique that slaps the strings onto the fret board. This creates a sound

that punches sharply and echoes in an empty chamber of reverb. Then Paul's voice rolls in with the grace of a flowering

tulip. The drums thump in softly, building the foundation of a soothing song. Genteel. Comforting.

Take your burdens to the Mardis Gras. Let the music wash your soul.

At then end of the song, horns are wailing, a trombone slides up and

down, some clarinets prance in the background while others screech a high

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Treasurer's Report

Balance Forward $2777.25 Income Anchor seal 24.00

Raffle 28.00 Dues 20.00 Hats 25.00

Expenses Woodstock booth 795.00

AAW insurance 50.00 Donation 50.00 Balance Forward $1979.00

Ted Fink Treasurer

The board of directors of WTNV gratefully

acknowledges receipt of 2012 dues from the following members : Ted Beebe, Dale Bergdahl, Bill Blakeney, Larry Bose, Bob Bouvier, Michael Boylan,

John Brislin, Dave Buchholz, Janet Collins, Greg Drew, Tom Dunne, Russ Fellows, Cheryl Ferry, David Ferry, Ted Fink,

Mike Fitzgerald, Toby Fulwiler, Tyler Gebhardt, Barry Genzlinger, Al Gilbert, Edd Gross, Brian Hehir, Kevin Jeness, Joe

Laferriere, Sherb Lang, Bob Martin, Gary A. Moreau, Sean Murray, Mickey Palmer, Michael Perron, Jim Phelan, Harvie Por-

ter, Randy Ramsden, John Reilly, Larry Rice, Nick Rosato, Bill Rowley, D. Ed-wards Smith, Nancy Smith, Adam Solace,

Ira Solace, Arny Spahn, Priscilla Spahn.

Mike Sturges, Marybeth Tevis, John Tichonuk, ,Ralph Tursini, Bill Walsh, Bob Zeliff. (Scott Bennett, Dick Montague, Michael Mode and Al Stirt are lifetime non paying members) Dues for 2012 are $25. Checks should be made out to “WTNV” and sent to Ted

Fink, PO Box 850; Shelburne, VT 05482.

President’s Turn Continued

Please note: The following privileges are only available to dues-paying members. Video library use, mentoring pro-

gram, Klingspor and Hartville Tool discount lists, bulk purchase discounts, Woodstock participation.

Woodchuck Mentors These Woodchucks are able and willing to help other Woodchucks

wanting some hands-on instruction.

Craig Hall: Bowls, spindles, & hollow forms.

802-644-5344 [email protected]

Cambridge

Dick Montague: General turning, all aspects plus tool sharpening.


Groton

Ralph Tursini: Spindles & bowls, vacuum chucking.

802-899-6863

[email protected] Cambridge

Ted Fink: Bowls, spindles, & box-

es. 802-985-2923

[email protected] Shelburne

Russ Fellows: Segmented vessels.


Jericho Bill Walsh: tool sharpening


Northfield

Greg Drew: Tool skills. Finishes.. Portable mill & chainsaw work.

802-527-6207 personal-

[email protected] Georgia

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pitch. The joy and passion of Mardis Gras finishes out the finely crafted song. My

daydream ended when I raised my glass to the world as I stumbled drunkenly into my Bourbon Street hotel room!

Since I have been turning, I often compare my process of creation to what I

think others experience with their respective craft. While I have played bass guitar for fifteen years, I've never written a song. I serve

songs best as an accompaniment. I compare that role to something like a turquois filler. A solid turquois bowl would be cringing, but

when it fills in the cracks on a dark mesquite bowl it can sometimes add beauty.

I was on my way to a mental Mardis Gras that afternoon. I used a face plate to secure a 19" chunk of soft maple to the lathe.

It was ridiculously heavy and wet. As it spun on the lathe it spewed a rooster tail of water into the air. I thought about inventing a

battery operated face shield wiper to keep my view clear. (If I see one of you guys selling these on the market anytime soon I'll be

talking to Barry Genzlinger about my patent rights because he's always talking about them at our meetings. I think this is his subtle way

of reminding us that his name closely resembles the word gunslinger.)

Mardis Gras is somewhat of a titillating event. And, while it may be inappropriate to discuss in detail, I had a heck

of a time turning that chunk of maple. No, there were not any tap holes, so you can save those jokes for another time. I thought about

the sensual curves of a beautiful bowl and how they resemble the curves we find in nature.Or better yet, on women. About how

my sharpened steel rod sliced through the wet, dense wood. About how I gripped my tool with two firm hands... (When

woodturning starts to become sexual it's time to go for a walk.)

Nonetheless, during said walk you may find yourself still thinking in the same vein. So, for argument's sake, a tool sharper

than George Carlin's wit penetrates 150lbs of dripping wet, blond maple, slicing, screeching, tearing away woodshavings resembling strands

of Richard Pryor's curly hair. The water spewed from the rapidly spinning wood is dripping down your face sheild and soaking

into your shirt. Might as well take it off, the

shirt that is. Keep the shield on for

protection, if you know what I mean. You are dangerously close to danger. You're sweating. You love what you are doing. This feels

awesome. Just an elbows distance from your heart a giant piece of wood is spinning, humming at a vibration that elicits a low E. I

don't know about you, but I can jam like this all day long. Seven days a week. I'll take my double-ended Oneway steel and make that

wood scream all day. Heck, I'll even take minimum wage, so long as I get a 401k and dental.

I finished the outside of the bowl and flipped it around to core the inside. I have the

Oneway coring system, which works quite well. One of the most fascinating things about woodturning is how a four-jaw chuck can

hold a seventy-pound piece of wood and spin it without failing. I cored the bowl using the largest coring tool I had and set it aside. I

finished turning the big bowl intending on doing a onceturned. I finished the big bowl, sans sanding, and set it aside. I let the bowl dry for a couple days before sanding. Even

though the bowl warped considerably, the sanding went smoothly as I did it stationary.

The bowl marked the first time I had cut down a tree and turned a bowl in the

same day. It was great even though I didn't really cut down the tree. It's sort of like in southern California when, in the winter

months, you can ski Big Bear mountain in the morning and then catch a tan while surfing in the pacific ocean in the afternoon. Yes, it is

fantastic.

Oh yea, about that Mardis Gras

thing, if only a woman's shirt was lifted for every woodshaving that successfully wrapped around my neck I would have aimed better!

Ha!

nick

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President’s Turn Continued

Woodchuck Profile— Greg Drew

I originally hail from Rhode Island. My Grandfather and an uncle on my mom’s side were tool makers for the jewelry

industry. I guess I have them to blame for being a tool junkie. Actually, I tend to make what I need rather than buy it.

I got interested in wood working

very early on. My first expensive tool was a radial arm saw I bought with money I saved from my paper route. An epiphany

came on a vacation to Maine with my family. There was a home accessories company making things from logs through finished items. We were told by the camp

ground their scrap pile was where to get firewood. Their scrap pile consisted of beautifully milled thin pine wood that had

been thrown out of their production line for cracks or stains, but other than that had already been cut into really cool

shapes for assembly. I have to thank my parents for their patience as a great deal of this wood was gathered up and hauled

back to Rhode Island with no intention of burning it. When I got back I found a Rhode Island sawmill that had a great

scrap/slab pile to scrounge through.

During my senior year in high school,

a serious skiing accident (yes, screwing around on a bunny slope), waylaid my plans for going into woodworking. Instead

I went into radio broadcasting with WIPS in Ticonderoga, NY. I sold advertising and produced commercials for them on the

Vermont side of the Champlain Valley. When the station hit some hard times I wound up back in Rhode Island. A friend

of my family that I had worked with when I was in school needed some help. So I

told him I’d help him out temporarily ‘til I found a “real” job. Hence I spent the next

30 plus years of my life learning the ins and outs of being a pipe organ builder. A nice perk of the job was having free run

of the company woodshop.

With the proceeds of organ building I

purchased a tree farm in western Rhode Island. An infestation of Gypsy Moth cat-erpillars that took a heavy toll on my red

and white oak necessitated buying a small portable sawmill to maximize the salvage. Now I had more wood than I knew what

to do with and I needed my own wood shop. It also brought about a desperate ad in a national magazine, Wood shop News,

“Help! hobby run amok need to sell some wood Cherry, Oak, Maple $1-$3/BDFT”. The editors of the magazine couldn’t re-

sist the bait and it resulted in a cover pic-ture and a 4 part article about my tree farming/ sawmilling, my forest landowner

advocacy work, my turning and small fur-

niture pieces, and my work as a pipe or-gan builder.

By 2002 I sort of retired to become a stay at home dad. In 2006 my wife was offered a promotion that would involve

moving. Of all the places I could have said no to, she said we would have to move to Vermont in the Burlington area. Still har-

boring a soft place in my heart for the Champlain Valley since my days in radio, I was hooked and landed.

We now live in a big 180 year old brick farm house with great views that

has both a summer and a winter wood-shop. (which are needed because I’m also the 24/7 general contractor of a 180 year

old brick farm house ) When I’m in the woodshop I like working with maple, cherry, and black walnut. My work tries

to showcase the art within the tree’s grain and natural shapes. You can see some of my pieces at Jim Holschuh’s

Grand Isle Artworks Gallery. Being a lifelong musician, I like music in my shop. I’ve recently gotten hooked on Pandora

Radio where I can program an artist or style of music like Chris Botti /jazz trum-pet or Maggie Sansone/Celtic hammered

dulcimer.

I’ve been a member of 3 different

AAW chapters over 20 or so years and have yet to find a woodturner I can’t learn something from or be inspired by,

from the first time student to the sage veterans. A sincere thanks to all of you.

Greg Drew your Personal Woodsmythe


Exercise your creativity! Part of the Fine Woodworking Festival in Woodstock is a design competition. The Festival will

be held at Union Arena in Woodstock, VT September 29 & 30th. We will have a dou-ble booth at the Festival for exhibiting and

selling the turned pieces of our members.

You are also encouraged to partici-pate in the design competition which has 5 categories of woodwork. The 3 that

would pertain to woodturning are: Production Woodenware: Includes

established lines of commercially sold

products. (i.e. bowls, toys, games, gifts,

utensils etc.) Custom Woodenware: Includes

one-of-a-kind (i.e. bowls, games, toys,

games, gifts, utensils or furnishings that are not furniture or artistic works.

Carvings/Sculpture: Includes cus-

tom artistic turnings, carvings, instru-ments, boats, and other items not con-sidered furniture or woodenware.

As a renter of a booth at the show the WTNV gets one free entry into the competition. ( Entries prior to 6/1/12 are $15 and $25 thereafter)

You can win our ‘free entry’ by bring-

ing your competition piece to the Wednesday September 19th 2012 WTNV meeting. The winning entry will

be voted on by the members present.

You can download entry forms and view

other information about the Design Competition at www.vermontwooddesigns.org

Ted Fink

2012 Design Competition

http://www.vermontwooddesigns.org


zines (Woodcraft, Woodworkers Journal),

maple and mulberry wood blanks, a ma-hogany board, a roll of 120 grit sandpaper, and several $10 gift certificates to Wood-

worker’s Supply. 7:30 Show & Tell Nick shows a large 18 x 17 maple bowl

that discolored due to lemon juice treatment; solution seems to be re-sanding whole bowl;

Mickey Palmer recommends using con-ventional garage-door weather strip-ping to seal vacuum chuck pieces; he

also shows a technique for reproduc-ing ‘aged color’ using a mixed styrene/sanding-sealer solution: “Being pathologically cheap, I’d rather

make than buy.”

Ted shows two square platters made after watching Nick’s presentation last time as well as several small “flowing

bowls” turned from small burls &

sealed with wipe-on polyurethane;

Dave Buchholz shows a chip bowl made

to hold a ceramic salsa bowl & a spalted maple bowl;

Al Waller shows a big spalted maple

bowl; Arny Spahn shows a ‘go no go’ gauge

and a spalted maple hollow form with

wipe-on poly;

Sherb Lang gives a plug for new mem-bers to use experienced members as mentors, crediting both Ted Fink

(skew) and Bill Walsh (sharpening) for help; he then shows a skew han-dle, mallet, and candle holder he

made with a skew; 7:55 Demonstration: Russ Fellows

demonstrates “Offset Turning” (see

Russ’ handout “Offset, Eccentric, and Multi-Axis Turning”.

8:30 Arny selects Greg Drew for next

month Woodchuck “profile.”

9:00 p.m. sharp (!) Meeting adjourns. Respectfully submitted by

Toby Fulwiler

Apri l M eet in g Rep or t Cont inu ed

Volume 9 issue 5 Woodchuck Chatter April Demo: Offset Turning with

Russ Fellows

Russ recommends looking at the following

websites to see the work of some well-known turners: 1. Jean Francois Escoulen,

www.escoulen.com 2. Mark Sfirri, www.bucks.ed 3. Barbara Dill, www.barbaradill.com

There are other chucks for offset turning; the Escoulen chuck runs close to $500,

and is available from Vicmarc and assorted dealers. Russ opened his demo with a 3-sided tool

handle. The wood is turned on 3 parallel axes—that’s the plural of axis; not axises. Russ then went on to show the use of the

Sorby wobble chuck for very eccentric

shapes. Go to P. 8 for more.

Here are three different styles of offset turning. On the left, a layer of a non– concentric bowl. In the middle, rings turned offset

but on axis. On the right, a multi-axis candlestick using a Sorby wobble chuck.

Sorby eccentric chuck from Packard

Tools, # 118702, $349.

Sorby wobble chuck, from Packard tools,

#118730, $99.95 Penn State off center chuck,

#CS600, $139.95


More April Demo

Not your ordinary pepper mill.

An eccentric bottle stopper.

First cut using the Sorby eccentric chuck. The Sorby chuck has two angular parts

which can be rotated to produce varied amounts of off axis wobble.

By loosening the lock screw, a second

axis can be chosen.

1. 2.

3.

4.

Forming the second layer. Either a detail

or skew gouge can be used; whichever you favor.

5.

Here’s the result of the second cut.

Keep your eye on the “shadow” image while turning.

6.

How far do you want to take this?

What the well-dressed Woodchuck will

wear.


The Resource Page—Additions Welcome

1) Lathrop Maple Supply, Hewitt Rd, Bristol, Vermont, 802-453-2897. With a newly expanded inventory area, Tom

has a fantastic supply of local and imported wood. His new division, "Exclusively Vermont, LLC, specializes in high qual-

ity Vermont lumber and mill products and FSC stock is available.

2) Forest Products Associates, ( www.forestproductsassociates.com), 75 Oak Hill Rd, Greenfield, MA, 01301, 413-

772-6883. Located just over the line south of Brattleboro, this old family-run business has a great inventory of U S

and imported lumber, and a big burl and exotic section as well. They are Vermont WoodNet members and are nice

folks to deal with.

3) Northend Hardwoods, 31 Adams Dr. (off Williston Rd just before Industrial Ave) Williston VT, 802-864-3037. A

full range of U S and imported woods, cabinet grade plywood, and a new department for turners with lots of

thick, dry stock to choose from.

4) Sutherland Welles Ltd., No. Hyde Park, VT, 800-322-1245. (www.sutherlandwelles.com). Right here in our

own back yard, they make the best Tung oil products in the U S. Call with an order and it goes out the same day!

5) Bad Dogs Burl Source,(www.burlsource.com) They are down in Belchertown, MA and have an incredible inventory

of Australian and North American burls. 413-213-0248

6) Johnson Lumber, Route 116 in Bristol, VT. 802-453-4884. Another good "local" source for hardwood lumber of

all kinds.

7)www.exoticwoodsusa.com. They offer a 15% discount to any member of an AAW chapter. Type

in 'exoticwoodsusaaaw' in the coupon code box.

8)Griffin Exotic Woods These folks came up in a search for something else, and I ended up buying a couple things

from them. Their prices were fair and the service was good. http://www.exoticwood.biz/

9) Sinclair Mill Works in North Danville VT http://www.sinclairmillworks.com/home.htm. 802-748-0948. He special-

izes in figure Vermont species. His prices are very reasonable.

10)Woodturning Videos and eBooks by Steven D. Russell http://www.woodturningvideosplus.com/ . This website is full

of tips & instructions for turners.

11)Mike Jackofsky—hollowing tools. www.mikejackofsky.com. Also sells thru Craft Supply.

12)A website that sells only sanding supplies. (http://www.2sand.com/) Their prices are great and their service is super

fast.

13) CA Glue Source—http://woodenwonderstx.com/ZC_WoodenWonders/

This space will be available from now until it no longer serves for quick notes about upcoming stuff. If you have heard

of anything you would like to share, send it to The Editor by the 10th of the month.

Woodchuck Bulletin Board

http://www.forestproductsassociates.com

http://www.sutherlandwelles.com

http://www.burlsource.com

http://www.exoticwoodsusa.com

http://www.exoticwood.biz/

http://www.sinclairmillworks.com/home.htm

http://www.mikejackofsky.com

http://www.2sand.com/

http://woodenwonderstx.com/ZC_WoodenWonders/


What others are saying

about our symposium . . . "It was my first visit to an

AAW-symposium. I'm im-pressed what great event you have organized! I'm al-

ready looking forward to San Jose!" Hallvard

"...and just wish the confer-ence was twice as long for more time to catch up with

everyone and see more." Graeme

"The family members in at-tendance enjoyed the

event immensely. Our four youth learned so much with the exposure. It was so worth the effort." Bob

"I plan on visiting the trade show, gallery, and exhib-

its. That's very nice that those things are accessible at no charge." Terry

Youth Woodturning Pro-gram at symposium

This will be the eighth year for the Youth Woodturning Pro-gram held at the annual AAW

Symposiums. The program started in 2005 in Overland Park, Kansas, with 62 youth

participants and has been going strong ever since. In the 7

years since its inception, 400

youth have participated and 170 of them have been winners of a "woodturning package",

consisting of a Jet mini-lathe, stand, chuck, safety gear, and

woodturning package,". We would like to thank our sponsors and invite you to

bring your child or grandchild to learn to turn...

AAW News

Woodchuck Survey _ Toby Fulwiler

Subject: Interest level Very Somewhat Not

1. Tool sharpening, demo & hands on 13 4

2. Basic Bowl Turning 9 5 4

3. Segmented turning 6 10 2

4. Basic spindle turning 5 6 6

5. Hollow form turning 14 2 2

6. Saturday Wood Bee (cut & collect wood) 12 5 1

7. Saturday demo by invited guest turner 14 3

8. Are you willing to pay a small fee for guest turner? 12 5

9. Saturday clinic with mentors (beginner) 5 6 6

10. Saturday clinic with mentors (intermediate) 6 6 4

11. Saturday clinic with mentors (advanced) 10 6 1

12. What is your favorite part of our meetings? Show & Tell

10

Demos

13

Welcoming

2

Other wishes of members:

demo on offset turning talk or demo special tools broader range of demos club group purchases such as masks, glues, etc. one-on-one tutorials 6-7 p.m. on club meeting nights expert assessment and review of club member items demos of eccentric, multi-axis, and other weird techniques talk on how to mount and turn for differ-

ent grain effects more cookies (we should ask for volun-teer cookie bringers, don't you think?)

cheers, toby


Incredible Wooden Chip Artwork by

Sergei Bobkov 53-year-old Sergei Bobkov has patented a unique technique of creating amazing sculptures out of Siberian cedar wood-

chips. “It’s not very interesting to do what oth-ers can. To create something out of noth-

ing in a completely new way is far more inspiring”. This is how Sergei Bobkov ex-plains the unique form of art that he creat-ed. He says many people compare his art-

works to taxidermy, because they both look so much like the animals they repli-cate, but Sergei believes they are as differ-

ent as light and darkness. Whereas taxi-dermy is all about death, his wood-chip art symbolizes life.

This resident of Kozhany , Russia , has developed his very own technique, that prevents wood-chips from falling apart in

time. After creating about 100-150 chips, from 2-3 inch long cedar stick, he puts them in water for several days. Then, mak-

ing use of his surgical precision, he carves the chips into any shape he needs. Sergey has been doing this for some time

now, but he has only created 11 wood-chip sculptures. That’s because just one of these incredible artworks takes around six

months to complete, at a work rate of 10 to 12 hours a day, with no days off. Sergei Bobkov focuses on wildlife creatures, and

he studies their anatomy for months, be-fore starting work on a sculpture. Even though he was offered $17,000 for his wood-chip eagle, Sergei Bobkov de-

clined, saying his art is not for sale.

Artwork from Wood Submitted By Toby Fulwiler

Members of WTNV who are

giving public demonstrations are covered by the AAW-sponsored liability policy un-

der the following conditions: You must be a member of AAW and WTNV.

The event must be

“sanctioned” by WTNV. That is, you must notify the Treas-urer, who will provide a copy

of the cover sheet for the pol-icy. You must also notify the editor of Chatter so you can

be listed in Future Wood-

chuck Sightings. The demonstration must have wood turning as the main sub-

ject.

Policy on AAW Liability Insurance

In House

Demos:

May 16th: Sandwich Plates— Ted Fink

June 20th: Spinning

Tops—Joe Laferriere

July 18th: TBA

August: Picnic. Date TBA

Classified Ads I have a cast iron Oliver lathe with a 12” swing

36” turning length, sliding headstock and 3 tool

rests. The headstock is threaded 1-1/8 X 8. It

has a live center and an adapter for a scroll

chuck.

Asking $700.00

Craig Hall

802-644-5344

Well I am changing careers and heading for California to start a PhD at Stanford. The wood shop is for sale if anyone is interested.

I've got a beautiful European combination machine if anyone wants a full shop in a one-car garage.

If any of you are looking for great deals on my lumber stash, just email me what sizes and species you're looking for and I'll send pictures & prices when I get back 5/19. Lots of wide hardwood boards, legs/turning blanks, exotic shorts, and 1/2" QS Oak for drawers.

It's all got to go by the 22nd : ) -- Joe Powers [email protected]


Upper Valley Turners

May 19th Meeting of the UVWT at Thetford

Academy 9:30-3:00 1. This meeting will focus on turning boxes. After a demo by Heath Boyer everyone will

have an opportunity to turn a box. We will be doing this with both traditional tools and with non-traditional tools. So if

you have any non-traditional tools such as a Termite ring tool, Sorby hollower , Easywood tool, etc. please bring it so oth-

ers can try using these tools.

2. We will have an afternoon session of

show and tell so bring anything that you think may be of interest to the group, such as your latest turning projects (s), wood to

swap, a problem you want help resolving, etc. 3. Last we will have a demo of making min-

iature bird houses..

mailto:[email protected]

may meeting: wednesday, the 16th at ted fink’s...

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