2020-12 December Newsletter
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Gulf Coast Woodturner December 2020 Newsletter President’s Corner 2021 dues are due. Please renew your membership if you haven't already. You can go to our website and use a credit card, preferably yours, or send a check in care of Walter Mooney. The Ornament Exchange will be different this year. The deadline for photo entries is December 14th. Camp Hope is a residence program for combat veterans with PTSD. GCWA has donated pens made by members, later did a demonstration, and most recently conducted a pen class with four lathes at their facility. We will conduct another pen turning class there the afternoon of January 16th and could use additional volunteers. Please contact me or Walter Mooney about helping our vets. Gold Gallery: Photos of your projects should be sent to Scott Haddix for inclusion in your section of the Gold Gallery on our website. Formerly, Show and Tell ribbon winners were automatically added to the gallery. Now we ask that you take a photo of each project and submit it. Speaking of photos, in the Members Only section of our website there is a Gallery of Rogues ie. GCWA members. This is where you can browse the photos to refresh your memory, especially since it's been so long since we have met in person. It may also be used to find the name associated with a face you recognize. About half of the members have photos posted. If you are absent from the gallery please take a selfie and email it to our webmaster, Scott Haddix. When you join our online meetings it would be nice if you "join with video". It is more like a meeting when we can see each other and using video does not degrade the session. Our January meeting will be the 16th, the normal third Saturday and will be a Zoom session. The Mendenhall Community Center is always closed the third weekend of January so we had previously reserved the 23rd, but now that's not happening. I hope we can soon return to meeting in person and have donuts together. If you can't make it to the Saturday morning meeting, we offer another opportunity to join other club members to enjoy an evening with a demo via the IRDs at the Virtual Open Shop. An email is sent prior to each meeting with the Zoom link. Have a Merry and Blessed Christmas and to some, Happy Hanukkah. Chuck Graham Click HERE to pay your dues online or send a check for $25.00 to: GCWA,%Walter Mooney, PO Box 800214, Houston TX 77280-0214 January GCWA Board Meeting The meeting will held via Zoom conference call on January 4th at 7:00PM. If you are interested in attending please contact one of the Board Members for the Zoom access information. Page 1 of 15 November Presentation - Lyle Jamieson In case you missed November’s presentation Lyle had an excellent presentation on making a small hollow form using his Hollowing System. Many more pictures can be found HERE on the GCWA website. Lyle’s website can be found HERE Page 2 of 15 General Information - George Kabacinski Open Shop Night - Cypress We are continuing with the SECOND TUESDAY (Virtual) Open Shop meet ups. The December meet up is already passed. We set yet another new record for member participation for the Virtual Open Shop format with 64 participants! That is a whole lot more than would fit in my shop for an actual meet up. We had a great demo by turner/artist/author/educator and all-around nice person, Linda Ferber. Linda shared her techniques, methods, and tools she uses for carving small turned objects into fanciful art pieces. Linda graciously allowed us to record her demo for member only viewing. We will get it edited and loaded so members can access it through the member only section of our web site. Plans are to continue the Virtual Open Shop format for members utilizing IRDs until such time that it is safe to go back to meeting in person. So, at least for a few more months. Watch your email for the announcement of our guest demonstrator for the January VOS on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. That is, of course, the SECOND TUESDAY. Doing a quick video of your shop, a special tool or jig are all excellent ways to bring others to your shop using the wonders of virtual meetings. If you have any suggested topics for future VOS Zoom sessions, would like to be a presenter, or wish to submit photos or videos for inclusion in an upcoming VOS ring up George Kabacinski or drop a note to [email protected] Click HERE to pay your dues online GCWA 2020 HOW Class Update - George Kabacinski We are moving forward with the first Live Remote Hands-On class with CINDY DROZDA. Some updates to the information published last month are listed below. Registration is OPEN. We need 10 students. At present we have five openings. The registration fee is $75.00 per student. Additionally, the board has approved a ‘audit’ classification for this class. The fee to ‘audit’ the class is $50.00 per person. Individuals who audit the class will have the microphones muted for the entire class and will be limited to a single connection. • Topic: Gilding • Instructor: Cindy Drozda • Date: Saturday, January 2, 2021 • Time / Duration: Probably starting at 9:00 am and going for six hours with a break for lunch. • Class Size: Ten hands-on participants. • Project: Each student MUST have their own project ready for gilding in the class. Instructions on preparing the project piece will be provided this week. • Pricing: $75 for each hands-on participant; $50 for each person auditing the class. • Materials: Logistics for materials is especially challenging with the combination of Covid and the holiday season. Therefore, we will provide a list of student supplies needed for the class as well as sources. Students will be required to secure their own supplies for the class. We expect to have the supplies list available in a couple of days. • Registration: OPEN. Please send an email to the address below if you would like to participate in this class and indicated whether you will be a hands-on student or will audit the class. If you have any questions, please reach out to the address below. Please note the ability to ‘audit’ this class is deemed practical only because of the nature of this being an on-line format. There should be no expectation that auditing hands-on face-to-face classes will be provided when we return to that format post Covid. As always, if you have an idea for the GCWA HOW class or would be interested in teaching a HOW class please contact George Kabacinski or Chuck Graham or drop an e-mail to [email protected] Page 3 of 15 GCWA Meeting Presentations - George Kabacinski The year of 2020 is rapidly coming to a close. Wow! Will you miss 2020? It certainly has been ‘different’. One of the changes in 2020 have been our reliance on Interactive Remote Demonstrations. It seems the majority of our members like the format, given the limitations of not being able to meet in person. It does let us have a chance to interact a bit as a group, and recently we have been seeing a number of international turners that we may not have been able to bring to Houston as readily as having them join us on Zoom. I think that is a good thing. So maybe there has been some good in 2020 after all. Due to a death in the family, Glenn Lucas had to postpone his scheduled demo for our November virtual meeting. It’s a part of life and is hardly ever on our timeline. As it turned out, it was only days before our meeting. We were able to book Lyle Jamieson who joined us from his studio in Traverse City, Michigan. It was great that Lyle was able to fill the gap on such short notice. We had a good crowd and there was good feedback on Lyle’s demonstration. Upcoming Meeting Presentations include: • December 19, 2020 – We have scheduled French turner / carving artist Laurent Niclot to provide a demo on his awesome miniature teapots. Laurent is actually in the states and will be broadcasting his demo from this side of the pond. His miniature teapots are fantastic creations, and he drew a large crowd when I saw his demo at an AAW Symposium a couple years back. This should be another great demo from yet another international turner. Being the last of our meetings this year, it’s a great time to drop in if you haven’t yet experienced the Interactive Remote Demo format. Check out Laurent’s website at http://laurent- niclot.com/?page_id=1722 • We are awaiting a reply from Glenn Lucas on rescheduling his demo and we will get that on the calendar as soon as possible. While it does appear we will be able to return to face-to-face meeting sometime in 2021, we will continue to use the virtual meeting format and remote demos for at least a couple more months. A broadcast e-mail will be sent with the virtual meeting connection information to all GCWA members. This will be sent two days prior to the virtual event and again the morning of the event so it is fresh in your Inbox. This would be a good time to pay your 2021 Dues so you stay on the email distribution.