Hi All,
I hope everyone is getting to do some turning.
We had 38 attendees for February’s meeting with 48 members now paid up for 2026 dues.
The Folk Art Festival was a success, and we made $272 for the club selling member donated items. Two people who stopped to talk to us at the Festival came to the Open House on Saturday with the husband interested in joining the club.
The demo was by Joe Nycz on cutting threads with a 60° cutter head in the headstock. Both the inside and outside threads are cut by advancing the wood pieces into the turning bit in a very controlled manner advancing by an indexing threaded shaft. See the demo writeup for more details
There was a light turnout for the open house Saturday, with the two new people stopping to see the shop. We did a shop clean-up following the open house in preparation for Phil Holtan’s return on March 21st. Cleaning helpers were Paul M, Bob E, Ron B and Dan B.
April’s demo will be by Dan Brandner on manually making duplicate small pieces like cribbage pegs or chess pieces. This was from a request by Grayson Schwartz. Thank you Grayson.
We had another suggestion from Kate Mullins on techniques on shaping a bowl rim. We are planning that presentation for June.
We will have the raffle drawing for the Robust tool first thing at April’s meeting, and start the next raffle which will be ongoing for the next 3 months.
Feed My People bowls can still be brought in to the meeting. John Layde will pick them up at the May meeting.
The President’s challenge for the April meeting was to turn two matching wooden Easter eggs.
Looking forward to seeing all who can make it to our April 1st meeting.
Dan
