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Alabama Woodturners Association April 2006 |
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A member of the American Association of Woodturners |
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Come
see us at the Homewood
Senior Center - 816 Oak
Grove Road, Homewood, AL |
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Alabama Woodturners Association April 2006 |
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A member of the American Association of Woodturners |
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Come
see us at the Homewood
Senior Center - 816 Oak
Grove Road, Homewood, AL |
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Events
Officers
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Pat Johnson
Secretary Treasurer Directors:
Web
Master
Newsletter Editor
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Well,
I just returned from two weeks in Florida and I can just barely remember
what the March meeting was about. Good thing I keep notes!
We had one new member join at the meeting, Judy Ryals of Millbrook.
Welcome to AWA Judy!
He’s indicated that he can do a workshop on a weekend for some
hands-on...for 6 to 10 people. Let
us know if there is interest in this workshop.
The demonstrator Pat Johnson has lined up for April is Ed Lewis,
a member of to Tri-State Woodturners in Chattanooga, TN.
We had some door prizes at the last meeting, two gift
certificates from Craft Supplies for $15 each and two nice wood chunks
— a piece of pecan from
Jerry O and a piece of walnut from Worth Barham.
We also had an excellent lunch thanks to the work of Judy
Osmundson, Shirley Thomas and Gay Austin.
Will Pate and Johnny Carpenter cooked the burgers and dogs which
were done to perfection. I
gathered all the food supplies and now appreciate more what Judy and
Jerry were doing for meals in the past.
Judy coached me well though so I got most of it done.
They still had to make an emergency run to fill a few gaps.
We will have the drawing for the One-Way chuck at the April meeting if we sell enough tickets.
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Barron Bartlett
who organized the drawing says we are only about 50 bucks away from
having enough money to pay for it.
In the Training Department, Will has organized a "next level" training class to teach intermediate turners about the use of the various tools. He quickly signed up six students and there will be three instructors. It should be an excellent learning experience. The class will follow our meeting on April 8th at 1:00. I hope he schedules another one soon. Don’t forget the AAW symposium coming up in June. A family event will prevent my attendance but I hope we have plenty of representation for AWA. The Southern States Symposium at Gainesville is almost here. I will be coming from Savannah Georgia to the meeting dragging my RV after a visit with grandkids so I will be staying at an RV campground on the lake but just 15 minutes away. Don Blankenship has agreed to help get our equipment over there for the meeting but will need some help. I would like to huddle with those going to Gainesville after the meeting to discuss organizing things. I would like some experienced hands who have gone before to sit in as well to get us on track.
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My last item is about that log end sealer wax we
discussed in the last meeting. We plan to order a drum for the May meeting
and sell it at the clubs cost, trying to keep it to $5 a jug as before. We
will know more details at the April meeting. We will get a 55 gal drum and
Pat Connell will manage that for us. We will have a sigh up sheet for
those interested and ask you to bring your one or two gallon jugs to the
May meeting. We want to be sure that all members that sign up get some
sealer so we will limit the quantity to 2 gallons until everyone who
signed up gets some...if they are present. You might bring an extra jug or
two for those who forgot theirs.
See you at the April Meeting! Dave Chanslor President 2006
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BOARD MEETING NOTES FROM MAR 11, 2006 Attendees: > Newsletter — We discussed the cost of the
newsletter published in color...was about $220 last month because the per
page costs to print in color is 89 cents. We print copies to send to members
who don’t have Internet access and put copies at Woodcraft for public use.
We agreed that in the future, the Newsletters would be in black and white.
(We may do a color front page on special occasions.) > 501C — We are currently classified as a non-profit publicly supported organization by the IRS. We are in an "Advance Ruling Period" which ends December 31, 2006. At that time, we have 90 days to complete form 8734 which will report to the IRS about our income and expenses for the 5 year period since we applied for non-profit publicly supported status. We discussed the requirements and what records are available to complete the form. > We discussed publishing the AWA financial information on a regular basis. The agreement is to publish a quarterly report on the private section of the Web Site. > Dave announced that we plan to increase the storage capacity on the Web site. Harold Jones says as the site has grown, we are in need of more space on the server. The complete minutes of the Board meeting are available to any member interested |
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| Items for Sale (This list will be automatically purged each month for items older than 3 months) | ||
| As you can see, we’ve purged all old items for sale. Most of them had been around for several months. Any one with a usable item for sale, please send the details to Jerry Hanchey via email and I’ll get it posted for three months (sooner if it sells). Yes...please do let me know if your item sells so we can remove it from the list. | ||
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| Wayne’s Wood
Chucks —
Wooden Screw Chuck This article will cover how to make a glue block chuck, a jam chuck and a screw chuck. This may be useful for us beginners in the club who are winging this hobby on a shoestring budget. This article will assume that you do not have a chuck and (like me) you can’t live like our new club President Dave in the lap of luxury at his retirement mansion on the lake with spare supernova chucks sitting around not being used!! In my case my Dad left me a craftsman lathe with a homemade faceplate on the headstock and dead center for the tailstock. Like me, I know you were saving part of your gas allowance (yeah — I told my wife I needed an increase because the gas prices went up, but I guess my secret is out now) to buy that nice four jaw self centering scroll chuck with dovetail jaws for about $200. I have bettered my situation some, because I did squander $10 and bought a harbor Freight drill chuck and a used ball bearing live center for another $5. By the way — see Barron Bartlett and take some of your lunch money (the gas money allowance increase didn’t work—$2.65 a gallon now!!) buy a couple of chances on the nice chuck our club is giving away. Many of us, beginners, with little or no money want to know how to get started with bowl turning with the equipment we have. I began looking and found that the glue block, jam chuck and the screw chuck are very old methods of holding a piece of wood in any size lathe so you may turn a bowl or other things we may wish to turn. If future articles (if the editors will allow after my comments about Dave) I will provide details and plans to make more homebuilt chucks from scrap. The PVC chuck, Longfellow chuck, the wooden collet chuck, threaded wooden faceplates, wooden vacuum chuck and others, which can be made cheaply from scrap. Lets quit dreaming and start making our first chuck from scrap — it’s easy and costs less than two sodas. We need to begin by making a simple glue block. |
Take a piece of scrap 2" x
4" wood, put it between centers, and turn it to about 3’ outside diameter
and about 1½" thick. Apply a cut out piece of paper (for easier removal)
and glue this glue block to your bowl stock. Fasten both to your faceplate with
wood screws, mount to the lathe and turn your bowl, both outside and inside.
Sand it and separate it from the glue block by force or a handsaw. Now turn
another piece of 2" scrap material for your jam chuck. You need to
carefully size this outside diameter and taper to fit the inside of your bowl
snugly. Screw it on to your faceplate, jam the bowl onto the jam chuck piece and
without getting aggressive, face off the bottom with a slightly concave shape.
Now lets make a screw chuck which can be useful for making candlesticks etc. Make a glue block and glue it in the center of another piece of scrap 2 x 6 wood that is about 5" square. Cut the corners off with a saw and mount to the lathe between centers. Turn this 5" square portion until it is round. Remove from lathe and in the center, drill a hole smaller than a #14, 1½ " long self-tapping sheet metal screw. Then drill another hole from the back of this formerly 5" piece, so that the head of the screw is countersunk and when you insert the screw in this hole, the screw will stick out about ¾ ". Fasten this screw chuck to your faceplate and get it centered best you can. Then you turn the lathe on and it wobbles, and you adjust and readjust until it runs true. Now, take your work piece (fallen tree limb to make a candlestick) and screw it onto your screw chuck and "get to turning.
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dues for 2006 are still only $30.00 and are due yesterday. Please see Philip Duffy at the next meeting and get your membership current for 2006.
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For
those interested in joining
our club, it is
a great way to share and learn woodturning techniques.
With over a hundred members, the experience of our members ranges
from novice to professional turner.
Contact
Philip Duffy at 256 355-4201 or Dave Chanslor at 205 669-5196
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Location of Meeting -- From I-85 N, exit 256B (From I-85 S, exit 256A). Turn West on Oxmoor Rd. Go about .5 mi — halfway there take the left fork at the traffic light— Turn left onto Oak Grove Road and go about .2 mi. The Homewood Center is on the right. |
