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February 2012 Finger Lakes Woodturners Meeting

Posted by on February 9, 2012 No comments

Finger Lakes Woodturners will hold our regular February club meeting on Thursday, February 16th.  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 Turning an Off-center Platter by FLWT Vice President, Bruce Trojan. 

If you are interested in what it takes to turn an object offf-center on the lathe then this one is for you.  Bruce will teach us all about the entire process and the special techniques needed to produce a beautiful off-center platter.  Come out and join us for an informative night, enjoy the company and and learn some new turning techniques.

Hope you can all make it!

Finger Lakes Woodturners AAW Grant purchases

Posted by on January 31, 2012 No comments

Last year, Finger Lakes Woodturners applied for an Educational Opportunity Grant (EOG) from our parent organization The American Association of Woodturners (AAW).  Our request was for grant proceeds to support purchasing additional educational materials for our library and for new mini-lathes and equipment to support our efforts to teach the art of Woodturning.  In April of 2011 we were awarded a grant of $750 to support our efforts.

We are pleased to announce that with the proceeds from the EOG grant and minimal additional club funds we have purchased a selection of additional books and DVD’s for our growing library and also two mini-lathes from Penn State Industries.  This gives the club more educational material on woodtutrning and two great lathes to support workshops and demos for our members and the general public.  Thanks to all who participated in the grant application and of course to the AAW for providing us with the funds to improve the capabilities of our club.

Pictured above, you can see one of the two mini-lathes and the accessories that came with it.

Finger Lakes Woodturners Turn Heads With Polyrhythm

Posted by on January 8, 2012 No comments

Recently, the Victor. NY Post ran an article on the FLWT “Polyrhythm” project and win at the 2011 AAW Symposium.  The article and a few photographs can be seen here.

Subsequent to the run in the Victor post, the article was run in all of the area Messenger Post newspapers, here.

January 2012 Finger Lakes Woodturners Meeting

Posted by on January 6, 2012 No comments

Finger Lakes Woodturners will hold our regular January club meeting on Thursday, January 19th.  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 a demonstration of turning a 5-inch Hand-held Mirror by Mike Hachey.

This project will give you an opportunity to develop both face grain and spindle turning skills with the added bonus of creating a nice gift item. Please join us at the next meeting to see the project turned from start to finish.

Hope you can all make it!

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

Posted by on December 9, 2011 No comments

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.