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Some of the members gathering before the meeting begins |
President Jim Vasi gets the meeting started |
The turnout for the meeting was about 45 members |
Dave Korn gets the show and tell started |
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It was bowl night as Jim Vasi show his latest bowls |
Jim Schellinger shows a square turning and a hollow vessel |
Continuing the bowl theme, Steve Imerese explains his segmented bowl |
After showing his bowls, Eugen Schlaak unveils his root ball turned vessel |
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Rich Mialki has been busy making tools and miniatures |
Frank Stanko shows and explains his box elder turnings and bleaching process |
After the break, Kurt Hertzog starts the demonstration on work mounting techniques |
Kurt explains the various drive centers from spur through safety through Stebb centers |
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Here he shows simple ways to quickly find the center of a piece |
After explaining faceplates, glue blocks, and friction pads, Kurt shows various examples of them |
Kurt draws a picture of the workings of a pin chuck and then demos it's use |
After explaining the various screw mounting possibilities, Kurt drills and screw mounts a bowl blank |
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He moves on to homemade friction drives and vacuum chucking techniques |
Kurt shows how to use various tailstock mounted items to help support work, including a tennis ball |
He explains the use of stretch wrap to help support items when the tailstock has to be removed |
Kurt finishes the demo with techniques of mounting and supporting deep hollowed turnings |
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Photos by Kurt Hertzog & Ken Hertzog |
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