WNY WOODTURNERS II
Meetings 7:30 PM; Second Thursday
The President’s Corner by Kurt
Hertzog
We’re winding down to the
end of another school year. This month, we’ll have our collection of gifts that
we donate to the school staff as a small “thank you” for their kindness and
hospitality throughout the school year. Please do your best to bring in a
turning (or turnings) to help us in this effort. We’ll have a vote on the
donated items to choose winners for the three $35 prizes to be awarded,
compliments of the club. Win, lose, or draw, all of the items you bring in for
the “competition” are to be donated to the school
staff.
With the end of the school
year, we’ll be having our summer meetings at one of our member’s homes. The
June meeting will be our last meeting held at the school until this fall.
Please don’t forget to check the next newsletter and/or the website to find out
where the July and August meetings will be held. If you show up at the school
in July, you’ll have plenty of empty parking spaces to choose from.
We’re still looking for
candidates for the elections coming up in October. All of the positions are
available. We do have a candidate for Secretary but need at least one candidate
for President, V President, Treasurer, and Webmaster. Please give serious consideration
to running for one of these offices. The club runs on volunteers. Perhaps it’s
your turn to volunteer. If you have questions regarding the various offices,
contact the current holder to get the particulars. The definition of roles and
responsibilities is also defined in the by-laws. You can visit those in the
member info area of the website at: http://www.wnywoodturners.com/memberinfo/bylawsmaster012405.htm.
Don’t forget that the Erie
County Fair is coming!!!!! We need all kinds of turnings, and lots of them, to
help support our charity fundraiser. We won’t have enough items for sale if we
count on the turnings at the event. We need to get things in ahead of time. If
you need ideas, please visit the website Coming Events write-up for the link to
the “ideas” page. If not, visit http://www.wnywoodturners.com/galleries/fairexamples.htm.
Bring your items in to any of our meetings so Jake can collect them for the
Fair. You’ll have a chance at the gift certificate drawings.
As I wind down as Webmaster,
I have one last idea to implement. Way back when, Sam suggested that we allow
members to offer their works for sale on our site. While I still don’t really
subscribe to that, I think I have a workable idea to allow members to be
contacted directly by website visitors. For those who want to OPT IN, I’ll be
glad to include your email address on your gallery pages along with a statement
to the effect of “if you are interested in these turnings, please contact me
at”. Also planned is a hot link to anyone’s personal website where they have
their works available. If you own your own domain and have a hosted site, let
me know and we’ll find a way to put a link to it. While I can’t guarantee any
additional traffic, our site is now running over 9000 unique visitors each
month. With that kind of traffic, you should wind up with some additional
visitors to your site. Again, this is an OPT IN system. If you want to
participate, let me know. If not, do nothing and per our privacy policy, none
of your personal information will ever see the light of day.
Thanks,
Kurt
June Demo: Kurt Hertzog will be doing a
demo on sharpening the Ellsworth bowl gouge along with tips and tricks of using
that type of grind on your turnings.
A
reminder from Jake, that in June, the contest for projects for the school staff
will be held. The members will vote on the items and the top three vote getters
will be awarded a $35.00 prize. All items brought in will be donated to the
staff as a thank you for all they do. So turn up something and bring it in.
Summer meetings will be held at a member shop. If you think you have a
big enough area to host a meeting let us know at June meeting. Barb and Jed
have hosted in the past and will continue to do so unless someone else wants
to.
Tickets for the John Jordon demo in Oct. are available. See Kurt or Lance
We need items for the fair. Turn up some and Jake will store them. It
takes a lot of product to sell and raise $6000 or more for Make a Wish. So get
out on that lathe and make some things that we can sell at the fair for the
kids.
October elections will be here before you know it and we are in need of
new officers of the club. The existing one are leaving
except for me. So think about taking a office so our
club can continue to run smoothly.
If your are receiving a hard copy of this newsletter and have
an e-mail address, please send that address Kurt Hertzog at KHERTZOG@ROCHESTER.RR.COM. You would then receive the newsletter via e-mail each month. It
would help defer some or the cost the club spends each month.
Treasure
Jay Ferrand
reports the following for the month of Dec.
STARTING
BALANCE 2653.18
DESCRIPTION
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PETTY CASH EXPENSE
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PETTY CASH RECIEPT
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PETTY CASH BALANCE
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BANK ACCOUNT EXPENSE
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BANK ACCOUNT RECEIPT
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BANK ACCOUNT BALANCE
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TOTAL CLUB BALANCE
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MEMBER
DUES |
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10.00 |
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50/50 |
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20.50 |
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SECRETARY
EXPENSE |
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JIMMY
CLEWES SEMINAR |
110.00 |
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1000.00 |
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AAW GRANT
HOLDBACK |
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150.00 |
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TRAINING DVD |
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68.00 |
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TOTALS |
110.00 |
30.50 |
119.98 |
1068.00 |
150.00 |
1535.70 |
1655.68 |
Old
Business
Jimmy Clewes demo held on May 6th and 7th
was a great success. A big thank you to Barb and Jake, who
put a lot of time into the event to make it what it was.
A motion
was made by Jake and seconded by John O’Neal to buy a set of Jimmy’s DVD’s for
our library. It was passed
See Kurt if
you are interested in purchasing an inexpensive bowl gouge so you can have
micro beveled one for turning in small curves like the boxes that were made at
the work shop.
Kurt shared
with us that the number of hits our website get has increased a lot over the
years. He has been the webmaster since its inception and would like to step
down. If you could take over this job it would be greatly appreciated by all.
Steve Imerse, Rich Mialki, and Al Schultz are our fair coordinators this year and will have the sign up chart ready for June meeting. Consider spending a day at the fair to turn or sell.
Jim Hillberger presented the “Jim Hilburger
Living Tree Award” to Barb Berger. Congratulation Barb!!! You are one of the most deserving people I
know for this award.
Also, a big thank you to Paul M. and Jake D for making the beautiful
award. Great
work both of you.
Show and
Tell
Kurt
Hertzog: 10” Lidded
box made at Jimmy Clewes workshop; pen set from glued
up wood he showed us last month
Debbie Hachey: Jimmy Clewes lided
box
Rich Mialki: 7 pens; Christmas tree ornament he is making for the fair
Ron
Hudson: mahogany
bowl, spalted maple lidded box, ring holders, and egg cups for the fair
Paul Mazuchowski: bottle corks for the fair
Jake Debski: Jimmy Clewes lidded box;
Paul Mazuchowski: Jimmy Clewes
lidded box with inside bigger than outside
Ann Rabber: Jimmt Clewes lidded box slao with
inside bigger than outside
Ron Hudson: Jimmy Clewes
lidded box
Ben Martinke: Jimmy clewes
lidded box
Jay Ferrand: Jimmy Clewes
lidded box
Ken Schweickert: box elder candle holder
Paul Boland: ornament out of an egg with turned
top a bottom finial, it’s lucky to exist
Gerry Rucker: 3 bowls, 2 weed pots to be donate
for fair
Al Tanyi: an awl
Jim Meier: roughed out bowl – more to come
Ned
Evans: Rockler’s
Rich Mialki: Craft Supply
Bob
Harrington: 50/50
Pepper Weinheimer: Jim Meier donation: CA glue
accelerant
Jim Meier gave the demo on alternative chucking methods. Jim
demonstrated a variety of chucking techniques that offer the turner ways to
chuck their turnings and not have to always spend a lot of dollars on
manufactured chucks. Thank you Jim for a very informative demo.
I found this one in Handyman magazine: Here’s
a way to clean your shop vacuum filter without filling your back yard and your
lungs with shop dust. Put the filter in a plastic garbage bag, knot or grip the
bag’s open end, then gently spank the filter to dislodge the dust. Set it aside
for awhile to allow the dust to settle, and then remove the filter. The dust is
easily disposed of and remains in the bag.
Respectfully Submitted, Muriel Kummer