FRONT RANGE
“Dedicated To Doing Good Turns”
A CHAPTER OF THE
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
OF WOODTURNERS
1992
WOODTURNERS
December, 2009, Volume 9 - Number 12
pm, at the same location as last Catalog Orders sign up on the sheets
Inside this Issue year, the First Plymouth that are passed around at each
Congregational Church, 3501 S. meeting.
Upcoming Events...................... 1
News .......................................... 1 Colorado Blvd. It is located at the
December Holiday Party!....... 1 southwest corner of the Group Buy Schedule:
FRW Election......................... 1 intersection at Hampden and Group purchase orders will be taken at
Group Purchases and Colorado, approximately 10 blocks the monthly meetings in January,
south of Rockler. Use the south April, July and October.
Individual Catalog Orders ...... 1
door and parking lot. Again, many
Club Library............................ 1
thanks to Earl and Carol Weibel for Group Buy Coordinator
Featured Providers ................ 2 getting this for us.
Show and Tell............................ 2 Contact Information:
Demonstration........................... 3 Dinner and soft drinks will be
Roger Holmes – 1844 W. Plum Cir.,
Rockler ...................................... 4 provided. Feel free to bring side Louisville, CO 80027 - 303-665-8041 -
Web Stuff................................... 4 dishes, appetizers, and/or roger_holmes@comcast.net
Classifieds................................. 5 desserts. (Desserts, yes!)
Club Information ....................... 5 Del Fussell – 11455 N. Antelope Ln.,
Also, we will be having an auction Parker, CO 80138 - 303-805-2663 -
General Meeting Information . 5
of donated items with all proceeds fussell6@comcast.net
going to FRW. Feel free to bring Note: If Rockler stocks an item, please
items to donate and/or your purchase that item from Rockler at their
Upcoming Events checkbook to buy. 10% club discount. We owe that to Rockler
for being a wonderful host to our club.
Contact Bear or Alisa at 303-648-
Important Note: Even though a
3414 if you want to volunteer
turning challenge is announced for a
meeting, this does not mean that other before, during, and after the dinner Club Library
items can’t be brought for the show & in cooking, serving, and most Thanks for your support this year.
tell. Feel free to bring in what you’ve importantly, clean up. On behalf of Bob Britt, Grover
created and don’t feel you have to be a Brown, Michael Busse, Richard
master turner to show off your work.
Everyone has start as a novice. FRW Election Kuivila, Denise Newman, Bob
Olson – your hard-working
December – Friday, December 11th. We have tallied the ballots and will Assistant Librarians – I can share
FRW Holiday Party. No turning be announcing the results at the that we all enjoyed serving your
challenge. December Holiday Party. Thank needs this year, and we look
November turning challenge winners you to all who voted. forward to 2010!
are:
I conducted an inventory several
Beginner – Zac Howd Group Purchases and weeks ago, and the results were
Advanced – Mike Marek Individual Catalog very favorable. We are still
missing, from 2008, one book and
Orders one Woodturning magazine issue,
News Please see the FRW website for the
and from 2009, one Demo DVD,
one Demo VHS, and two
Group Purchases and Individual
Catalog Orders rules. Copies are also Woodturning magazines issues, so
December Holiday available at the Group Purchase table we’re doing well in preserving the
Chapter’s resources! And…those
Party! before meetings. Please make checks
payable to Roger Holmes for Craft items still might show up!
Boy, this year has zoomed by! We Supplies and Woodcarvers Supply
group purchases. Make checks for CA Happy Holidays!
are coming up on the annual FRW
Holiday Party held on Friday, Glue and Sanding Disks payable to Regards, Dave Hawley, FRW
Del Fussell. To participate in Individual
December 11th, starting at 6:30 Librarian
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Pete Holtus – Christmas Ornament
Featured Providers in beech and walnut.
Rocklers, Colorado Blvd, Denver,
provides a 10% discount for club
members – see the Rockler section on
page 5. Rockler will be keeping the
cash register open until the end of the
meeting break. Try to do your
shopping before the end of the break,
so that they can get out quickly after
the end of the meeting.
Wood Emporium, Loveland, provides a
10% discount for FRW members.
Craft Supplies offers monthly deals
with special discount codes that expire
monthly. Discounts and codes will be
posted on the FRW website.
Zac Howd – Christmas Ornament Jerry Smith – Christmas
in aspen and walnut. Beginner Ornaments.
Show and Tell Challenge Winner!
The turning challenge for the
November was Christmas
Ornaments.
Gruelt Baker – Christmas
Ornaments out of sea urchin
Mike Mareck – Christmas
shells.
Ornament in rosewood. Advanced
Challenge Winner!
Ron Ainge – Christmas
Ornaments.
Bruce Perry – Vase in Siberian
Elm.
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Gene Wentworth – Bowl (reverse)
Gruelt Baker – Bowl in Beetle Kill
Bruce Perry – Bowl in Russian Pine.
Olive.
Bill Adams – Steady rest. Plans
are available on the website, on
the how to page.
Gene Wentworth – Bowl in Honey
Bruce Perry - Bowl in Curly Maple. Locust (obverse) Demonstration
Lee Carter demonstrated his
techniques and tools for turning
talc and alabaster. He began his
demonstration with a quick how to
on making his Manzanita burl
display stands like the one below.
Dave Yeoman – Vase in Cherry &
Turquoise.
Gene Wentworth – Bowl (reverse)
Lee’s Manzanita burl stand.
Gene Wentworth – Bowl in Walnut
Gordon Butler – Bowl in Sun (obverse)
Bleached Navel Orange.
For more information Lee
recommends this video on stone
turning by Steve Finch.
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Natural Expressions Inc., 13802 E.
Williams Field Rd., Gilbert, Arizona
85295, 480-963-6552 ask for Fred.
El Paso Rock Shop, Inc.,
www.theelpasorockshop.com, 915-
857-2477
Rockler
Lee starts by gluing a piece of talc
to a waste block. Patronizing their store is the best
“thank you” we can give Rockler for
their generosity in letting us use their
facilities for our ever-growing
Lee has been featured in many membership. Keep in mind that they
publications including this article keep the register open late on meeting
on turning talc and alabaster. nights just for us. Just be sure to
complete any purchases no later than
the mid-meeting break so these poor
guys can start shutting down and go
home.
Lee refines the shape and hollows As always – all FRW members get
10% off all items, except electrical or
the bowl.
sale items, all the time. Just present
your FRW membership card at time of
purchase. (Note: This offer is only
good at the Denver retail location, and
is not valid for any other location or for
Internet purchases.)
If you have suggestions for tools or
materials that Rockler can carry,
contact Rich Johnson, manager of the
Denver store. Rockler web site:
The stone is then polished on the www.rockler.com.
lathe.
Web Stuff
The Front Range WoodTurners
Lee Cart begins his demo on Web site address:
making Manzanita burl stands.
www.frontrangewoodturners.org
You can contact our webmaster,
Jason Springfield, at
jason_springfield@yahoo.com for
The top of the bowl is finished. suggestions about content.
Next Lee reverses the bowl on a
waste block that he turned for Get the latest information about
centering, and then uses hot glue upcoming events, meetings, and
to secure the piece. view the excellent photos of the
show and tell gallery.
Lee shows the 3 step he makes to Burl Resource:
build his own waste block. ExoticManzanita.com Other sites of interest:
(Rky Mtn Woodturners, Ft Collins)
Training Resource: www.verinet.com/-drmelli/rmwt.htlm
Rocky Mountain School of www.lathes.co.uk
Woodturning, 4625 Kiva Drive, www.woodworkingbasics.com
LaPorte, CO 80535 www.treelineusa.com
www.woodturnerscatalog.com
Synthetic Stone Resources: www.kestrelcreek.com
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www.choicewoods.com have had a good home but they now Group Buy Coordinators: Roger
www.woodturner.com need a new and larger home! Holmes
www.woodturningonline.com phone: 303-665-8041
www.kazistudio.com John Montague for (Bill Sarber) 303- e-mail: roger_holmes@comcast.net.
794-1679
Mentoring Program Chair:
For Sale –10” contractor table saw. Bruce Perry
Classifieds Has router table built in on left side e-mail: sandblperry@msn.com
and extended right side wing. Contact Members, call Bruce for suggestions
Please note: All advertising in the Grover Brown at 303-985-2608 for on how to solve turning problems.
Classifieds is free, but please be sure more information. I am around most times, and will return
to notify the newsletter editor if an item
calls a.s.a.p. if you leave a message at
is no longer for sale. 303-972-4716
Ad Policy – All ads that are older than Club Information Coffee Coordinator: Randy Weems
3 months will be deleted, unless you President/Videographer: phone: 303-797-3215
contact the newsletter editor. Andy Zartman
phone: 303-859-0724 e-mail: rweems2032@aol.com
For Sale - Shopsmith Mark V which is
a table saw, Disc Sander, Lathe, e-mail: AWZartman@gmail.com
Horizontal Drill and Drill Press in one Vice-President/Program Director:
Ron Ainge
General Meeting
machine.
Shopsmith 11" Bandsaw with
phone: 720-747-4852 Information
e-mail: clu1.2@q.com
Power Stand Kit. Normal meetings are the first Tuesday
Treasurer: Warren Glover
of every month, unless otherwise
Shopsmith 6" Belt Sander phone: 303-364-1729
rescheduled.
e-mail: gloverwl@comcast.net
Shopsmith 4" Jointer Secretary/Newsletter Meeting place is at Rockler
Shopsmith 18" Jigsaw Editor/Webmaster: Woodworking & Hardware, 2553 So.
Jason Springfield Colorado Blvd. #108 Denver, CO (west
Shopsmith 12" Planer Pro phone: 720-283-4000 side of Colorado Blvd. opposite the
Model with Power Stand Kit e-mail: jason_springfield@yahoo.com mall).
Deadline for submitting material for
DeWalt 10" Radial Arm Saw Meetings are 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
inclusion in the newsletter is 15 days
Consumables such as extra saw before the next meeting.
blades, sandpaper, lathe tools, Membership Chair
clamps, etc. Alisa Limvere
phone: 303-648-3414
Original Owners Manual for each tool,
e-mail: alisalimvere@yahoo.com
complete set of Shopsmith
woodworking courses and instruction Publicity/Shop Tour Chair:
manuals. Marty Christensen
phone: 303-252-7776
It would cost $6500 to $7000 to e-mail: mecstoys@msn.com
replace these power tools at current Librarian: Dave Hawley
prices. Sale price $2800 OBO phone: 303-443-2332
This is an opportunity for someone to e-mail: dave_hawley@comcast.net
get into wood working at a rock bottom
Raffle-Wood Director: Curt Vogt
price.
phone: 303-627-2957
These tools are in excellent condition
and have been well cared for. They
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FRONT RANGE
WOODTURNERS
December, 2009, Volume 9 - Number 12
Front Range WoodTurners
P.O. Box 3696
Littleton, CO 80161