Monthly Archives: December 2011

December 2011 Finger Lakes Woodturners Meeting

Posted by on December 9, 2011 No comments

Finger Lakes Woodturners will hold our regular December club meeting on Thursday, December 15th.  The meeting will be held at our normal meeting location and will begin at 6:00pm with a show and share of members work.  A quick business meeting will commence at 6:45pm.  Following the business meeting we will have our featured event.

This month will feature Hollowing Tools and Techniques using Green Wood by FLWT President, Mark Mazzo. 

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about what it takes to create hollow-turned vessels, this one is for you.  Hollowing is sometimes looked at as too difficult but really it just takes a few tools and some patience and perseverance.  Hollow forms can be made in all sizes and a small form is well within everyone’s reach. At the meeting, Mark will show you a selection of tools used to turn, measure and hollow green wood and he will demonstrate the procedure for mounting and hollowing a small vessel starting with a small green log.

Hope you can all make it!

Malcom Zander Lecture and Workshop at FLWT a Success

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For our November meeting, Finger Lakes Woodturners hosted Malcolm Zander who is known for his exquisite forms and delicate pierced details.

Malcolm did a Friday night lecture on Form and Design in Woodturning and followed that up with a lecture and demonstration on his techniques for thin-walled turning using dry wood on Saturday morning.  On Saturday night eight FLWT members tried their hand at applying the techniques that Malcolm taught with their own thin-walled bowls.  Turnout for all of the segments from FLWT members as well as members from other area woodturning clubs was great.

For more details and pictures on the event and take a look at our December Newsletter and the associated photo gallery.