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Welcome back to another great season of wood turning demos, discussions and inspiration. We have an exciting new schedule of demonstrations organized by Adam Christiaanse for a variety of skill levels from beginner to advanced. We have topics that cover Oval turning, a Rose Engine Lathe, bowl savers Hands-on turning nights and more. We are starting off with a demo on bowl turning by past President, Perry Niehaus. The "5-Minute finishing tip" is now replaced by a new segment called "Ask the Expert" where there is a brief opportunity to ask any question you have about any woodturning unknown you have and hopefully an expert will provide an answer that helps you out. Don't be shy... It could just be a curiosity you have ...like "What's a Rose Engine Lathe?" or "why do I get those nasty catches and how can I avoid them?" The mid summer turning event at Hougen Park proved interesting as members tested out their croquet mallets on the mostly round, wood spheres and attempted to dodge around the goose dodo. Then we sharpened up on the difference between white and red oaks and red horse chestnut and horse chestnut. This was followed up by expert BBQ skills and small talk about serious life issues. Thanks to all who made it happen. The book we used was "Trees of North America" by Alan Mitchell

The "Presidents Challenge" is designed for participation. Many of us are hesitant to try something new. This aspect of the evening hopefully will challenge some of us to make the month's project and bring it in. A number of our members were able to at-tend the national woodturning event at Portland Oregon. You may want to ask them for some of the highlights. I have included some images from the event. Check with Terry Horne, Ross Patterson, Bob Gonzales, Lee and Gloria Heberts, Ian Fulford and

Jim Axelson among others. By the time you get this letter the West Coast Roundup will just be starting September 7-9. If you have been away all summer and are won-dering if there is still room for registration, the answer is yes; that includes one day registrations. http://www.gvwg.ca/Symposium2007.htm. Come out and join many of

the others already registered. Murray Sluys President

President’s Corner

October 11 Meeting,

Focus on Fundamentals Ed Pretty

Demo Topic: Basic Bowl turning by Perry Niehaus

Ask The Expert

President’s Challenge: A bowl

Member’s Gallery: Bring a turning

Wood Raffle: Donate some spare wood

Goodies:

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Turner’s Corner

Special points of interest:

• Registration this month

• Bowl Turning Demo

• West Coast Roundup

September 7-9 Richmond

Inside this issue:

President’s Corner 1

Executive & Mentors 2

F O F, Quick Tip 2

Symposium Portland 3

Rose Engine 3

Webster’ Corner 4

Classifieds 6

Next Meeting September 13,

Focus on Fundementals Ed Pretty

Demo Topic: Rose Engine Lathe by Jon Magill of Widbey Is WA

President’s Challenge: A roll of 12 beads and 12 coves

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SSeptember 2007

Most turners run their lathes too fast. If the shavings hitting your hand feel hot, the RPM is set too high and will only result in a poor cut and premature dulling of your tool edge

FVWG Executive

Quick Tips

Mentors

F O F

is a basic

program for

those new to

Woodturning. It

meets 6:30 to

7:00

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President Murray Sluys 604-794-3108 mjsluys@shaw.ca

Vise President Lance Murphy 604-796-2700

Past President Ian Fulford 604-820-2227

FOA Coordinator Ed Pretty

Newsletter Editor Gerald Blenkarn 604-858-9162 gerthebear@hotmail.com

Web Master Colin Delory 604-576-1172 cdelory@telus.net

Membership Chairperson Wayne Cunningham 604-855-5690 wayne04@telus.net

Treasurer George Geurts

Librarian Lance Murphy 604-796-270

Program Coordinator Adam Christiaanse

Social Conveners Marian Maynard

Raffle Roger Pitts & Robert Caffrey

Wayne Cunningham(Abbotsford)604-855-5690 Colin Delory(Surrey)604-576-1172

Ian Fulford-(Abbotsford)604-613-4830 Joel Elder ( Pitt Meadows)604-317-3416

Jim Peardon(Abbotsford)604-852-1645 Ross Paterson(Chilliwack)604-858-3953

Jim McMath(Abbotsford)604-870-0467 Bob Burke (Chilliwack) 604-796-9678

Bill Olsen(Surrey)604-574-4548 Sam Nelsom (Agassiz & Harrison)604-796-9678

Summer Event

Summer Event Summer Event

Focus on Fundamentals Sep 07—Lathe setup & safety Oct 07—Turning between centres, beads & coves , practice using gouge & screws

AAW Symposium Portland

Inside Story Headline

Rose Engine Lathe Demo Coming Next Month

Jon Magill of Widbey Island Washington designed a kit for building the rather complex Rose Engine Lathe, making it affordable to more turners. He will be our guest next month

The Lathe in the picture is not the one he designed. His kit is mostly made from MDF. Jon gave a number of presentations at t the Portland AAW symposium.

Small box made

with Rose

Engine Lathe

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June 07 Meeting Betty Sager—Wood Carving

Goodies—Sep 07 Pretty, Radke, Rempell Revell,Sawyer, Soth Goodies—Oct 07 Allen, Armour, Axeison, Bird, Birch Burke

We meet at Robert Bateman School

35045 Exbury Ave. Abbotsford BC

Room N-103 (Wood Shop) Your Address Line 3

Phone: 604-794-3108 Email:mjsluys@shaw.ca

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Woodturning Classes, taught by Murray Sluys are held the third Saturday morning of every month at 49950 Patter-son Road, Chilliwack, Next one is "Turning Nice bowls"September 15, 9am- 12pm, October is a Pepper Grinding Project, see www.murraysluys.com for details. 3

Black Walnut bowl blanks 5x12-$50; 4x9-$22; 5x11-$42 requires rough turn-ing first. Walnut finishes well with Min-wax wipe on Poly. call Murray at 604-794-3108

End Sealer. The Guild is offering wax end sealer to its mem-bers and friends as a fund raiser. It will save a lot of green wood from cracking and the price is substantially lower than anywhere else. A cost at$17 for 4 litres and $10 for 2 litres. This effort was supported by Bow River Specialty Woods. Call Murray at 604-794-3108 or email mjsluys@shaw.ca

Classified Section

Calendar of Events

Web Site

www.fvwg.ca

07-09 Sep 07 Fri-Sun West Coast Roundup Symposium Richmond Hotel & Convention Center

13 Sep 07 Thursday FVWG Meeting Perry Niehaus & Ian Fulford— from tree to bowl

11 Oct 07 Thursday FVWG Meeting Jon Magill, Ornamental turning

WEBSTER’S CORNER: Club Website: http://www.fvwg.ca Check out our interesting sites. Click on LINKS and check them out. The education page is always looking for more Woodturning articles. If anyone has articles he or she would like published, e-mail copy to Colin at: cdelory@telus.net or mail him a copy. Address: Colin Delory, 192511—76th Avenue, Surrey, BC V4N 3G5

EDITORS CORNER:Hope everyone has had a good summer. As you can see we have changed the look of the newsletter. If you have any comments on the NL, please don’t hesitate to let me know. If you have any articles, wanted or For Sale Ads, that you would like published in the Newsletter , then e-mail to gerthebear@hoymail.com or phone 604-858-9162. All classifieds or articles must be in my possession no later than the 30th each month to be published in the next Consecutive Newsletter. Thank You