High Desert Turning

New Mexico Wood Turners; Vol. 9 Issue 8 August 2009

High Desert Turning

Calendar Year Membership: $20 individual, $25 family Contact Jack Henning [email protected] or 275-8402

Next Regular NMWT Meeting: 2009 State Fair

August 1, 2009 The dates for entering woodturnings 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM are Sept. 3 from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Sept. 4 from 8:00 AM to 6:00 August Meeting Demonstration PM and Sept. 5 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM at the Creative Arts Center The August demonstration will be by on the Fairgrounds. The State Fair Irling Smith on open segmented bowl runs from Sept 11 thru 27 and entry turning. pick-up is Sept 28. Any entrant can enter up to 3 items in each of 11 Future Meetings 2009 classes. Further information can be found at www.exponm.com or call Meeting Schedule for 2009 and Ron Bahm at 881-8845. We will be Program Topics developing schedule of video Irling Smith, Open Segmented monitors and demonstrators at our Aug 1 Bowl Turning meeting on August 1. Sep 5 Program TBA Arts Alliance Gallery Show Oct 3 Program TBA The NMWT Show at the Arts Metal Spinning & Hand-chased Alliance Gallery will be from Oct 2 to Nov 7 Threads (Michael Mocho & John 26. Set-up is Sept 30 and Oct 1 and Ellis), Annual Officer Election entry pick-up is Oct 27. The number Dec 5 Gift Exchange & 2010 Planning of entries per member is unlimited, but all turnings must be for sale. We If you would like to participate in any will start a sign-up list at the Sept of the above or have ideas for a meeting, but you may want to think program or would topics, please about entering some of your State contact John Ellis on 771-1773 or Fair turnings in the Arts Alliance email him at Show. If you would like to help with [email protected]. the Show Reception or Set-up, contact Rich McCartney.

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR 2009 Webmaster Dave Stein 266-0356 President: Rich McCartney 792-9440 Logistics: Pat Beatty 710-2497 Vice President: Larry Johnson 856-1500 Newsletter: Larry Anderson 681-8220 Treasurer: Jack Henning 275-8402 Photographer: Bill Kalb 771-1376 Secretary: Jim Preston 828-9647 Raffle: Harley Meuret 891-2170 State Fair: Ron Bahm 881-8845 Librarian: Tom Doering 994-1709 AAW Symp. Coord. Tom Cour 867-8771 Program Coord. John Ellis 771-1773 AAW Symposium toys could not be sold; but that did not keep parents from making a Dear Board and Members New donation when their children Mexico Wood Turners, expressed an interest in playing with On behalf of our patients and the cars, tops, or yo-yo’s. Remaining families that are served by Holland’s items from the symposium will be Rose, Debora and I along with our featured in our future fundraising volunteers wish to thank our club events. We thank you all… members for their continued support Les and Debora Jolley in our efforts to provide a home for those facing a medical crisis. By Classes selecting Holland’s Rose as this year’s charity for the AAW’s Return To The Community (RTTC) Woodcraft fundraiser we raised $456. It is a www.woodcraft.com special honor to be supported by our Provides classes in turning, sharpening club members and the American and carving among other things. A Association of Woodturners. partial list can be found at their web site Your donated items will give 48 year or contact the store at 342-9663 for more old Navajo artist, M. Sandoval a information. comfortable, secure, and peaceful home for the next few weeks as he Santa Fe Community College struggles to deal with treatments for www.sfccnm.edu a painful cancer. Your donations will Santa Fe Community College offers both also provide the needed assistance credit and noncredit courses taught by some to give Patricia of Colorado a place of the most prominent artisans in the to call home while she tends to the woodworking field. Classes are offered in needs of her son who cannot speak Fall, Spring, and Summer sessions. For or move. Ben was media-vac’d from more information on SFCC classes contact Fort Benning, Georgia to club member Al Mirman, one of the Albuquerque’s VA Spinal Cord unit Woodturning instructors, at 771-0490. July 7. He is expected to remain at Information can also be found at SFCC’s the VA through the end of the year. web site. rd This year’s 23 symposium of the Discounts & Rebates American Association of Woodturners has provided a wonderful opportunity to bring about Woodworker’s Supply awareness, as well as give AAW Meeting Day Sale members the opportunity to get www.woodworker.com involved with something very tangible. Holland’s Rose is this TO BE ANNOUNCED AT THE community; it is our community. MEETING Every donation whether goods or volunteered time is utilized and Woodcraft appreciated, no matter the amount. www.woodcraft.com Many of 106 items donated were Wood of the month toys. However, due to recent Purple Heart Turning Blanks concerns about lead-based finishes, Argentine Osage Orange New Mexico WoodTurners C/o Richard McCartney 6519 Sun View Drive NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120- 4835 Various Sizes 20% Off 2hp 220v motor with reversing and As always, we look forward to seeing variable speed, electronic inverter w/ you at Woodcraft. - Bill Zerby, speeds 0-1200 rpm and 0-3200 rpm, Manager 20 swing over bed. Our dear friend had an accident and passed away in CLUB CREDIT FOR NMWT May. I’m a close friend of his family MEMBERS and assisting his widow to sell this Woodcraft donates a portion of every lathe. Please phone me at 719-597- sale to NMWT members to the club 9718 for additional information or to each year. It’s not automatic, however. make an appointment to see this YOU MUST tell the cashier to “Credit lathe in Colorado Springs. this sale to the NMWT Store Donation” when you pay for your items. Extended Dovetail/Pin Jaws for the Vicmarc 100 chuck (3 ½ chuck) $35.00 Crafts Supply Ray Berry, 298-9703 www.woodturnerscatalog.com Offers a discount to members on Remember, your items for sale large orders. Craft Supply has will run for one month unless you implemented a new club support request an extension. There is no program. Visit their web site or charge for listing items, and we phone Kathy Lawrence at 1-800- welcome members to use this 551-8876 space for anything related to woodturning.

Albuquerque Hardwood Lumber  You can also run an ad to FIND or Co TRADE something? NMWT members receive Wholesale  Prices. ABQ Lumber has hardwoods, NMWT Mentor List Lampine Thermofused Melamine, plywood, veneers, and furniture grade Members are always welcome to contact white pine. the people on the following list for guidance to better turning ideas, and For Sale! techniques -- Free to members so give a Mentor a call! I’m a new woodturner and looking for a Jet mini lathe with variable speed. Name Phone Description Basic spindle turning & I’m also looking for a Super Nova 2 Bill Zerby 891-9188 chuck. Anyone have one for sale? tool sharpening Basic turning & bowl Bob Clancy 281-4469 Contact Joan Neary at turning [email protected]. Basic turning, hollowing Dan 296-9754 & segmented Shipman $3,000 - Like new Powermatic construction Segmented turning & 3520B wood lathe, used very slightly Irling Smith 865-9230 (owned only several months), Bed design Jim Segmented (open) & 877-1125 extension, Guard, 14" toolrest, tool Ferguson computer design holder, 3" faceplate, knockout rod, Basic turning, plates, John Ellis 771-1773 cast iron, holder for spindle copying, tools & handles New Mexico WoodTurners C/o Richard McCartney 6519 Sun View Drive NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120- 4835 Name Phone Description Red Basic turning & small 823-2260 Hollenbach items Preparation, inlay and Ed Hume 291-9792 polishing Turquoise Ron Specialty tools: Rests 867-0612 Phillips and steadies Pen Turning and Janet Smith 823-2439 Finishing

Gallery Of Turnings

Bob Henderson; Basswood

Bill Kalb; Cottonwood

New Mexico WoodTurners C/o Richard McCartney 6519 Sun View Drive NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120- 4835 Don Best: Segmented Bowl

Jim McLain: Screw Bean Mesquite

New Mexico WoodTurners C/o Richard McCartney 6519 Sun View Drive NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120- 4835 Equipment qnd Supplies NMWT Denim Shirts Woodworkers Supply has individual 5 Revised Prices for NMWT’s pacs of the micro mesh grits from 1500- Shirts and Hats 12,000. Cost of the individual pacs are Long Sleeve Denim Shirt $27.00 about $10.00 each. including embroidery Short Sleeve Denim Shirt $25.00 Please E-mail me with any experiences including embroidery you have had with equipment, tools or Polo (golf) shirt $22.00 supplies. “ “ [email protected] Short Sleeve T-Shirt $15.00 “ “ Web Sites Caps (baseball) $11.00 www.nmwoodturners.org “ “ Add $2 for XXL and $3 for XXXL Please visit our web site. Webmaster Names Embroidered on Shirt added Dave Stein has made many $3.00 additions and improvements that are Logo on Customer Supplied Garment very useful to club members. Check $9.00 out our up-dated web site and the Contact: Tom Cour 867-8771 great job Dave is doing. If you have not been there lately we now have a The Library Corner new section titled “Hands-On: Ideas A list of all the DVD’s and tapes will & Info”. It contains the hand-outs be listed on our web site in the near from Bill Kloepping’s demo on future. We are in the process of laminating pen and other blanks. converting all of our tapes to DVD’s. We have received two additional files The tapes will be available for check- from Bill on the “Zia” which will be out, but only by request. added to the web site shortly.

Lathes Found a good WEB site? Want to share it with other club members? The NMWT’s now have three new Then send it in to: Jet midi lathes thanks to donations [email protected]. during the AAW Symposium. We Questions or suggestions are received a variable speed lathe from welcome. Please contact the club Packard Woodworks, it was a demo Webmaster, Dave Stein at: lathe at their booth. We will have [email protected] PPackard catalogs at the Sept Suggested Web Sites meeting so we can send some business their way. We also re- www.cleanturn.net receives two lathes from Jet, they www.pennstateind.com were awarded to youths from foreign www.tufftooth.com countries, so Jet will direct ship to www.woodmagazine.com them and gave us the two lathes www.penturners.org used at the Youth Turning Program. www.woodturnerscatalog.com www.WoodTurningz.com www.woodturningvideosplus.com New Mexico WoodTurners C/o Richard McCartney 6519 Sun View Drive NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120- 4835 www.woodweb.com www.woodworkersjournal.com

New Mexico WoodTurners C/o Richard McCartney 6519 Sun View Drive NW Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120- 4835