The landmark 1st Segmenting Symposium in November 2008 was a resounding 4th success. From that humble beginning of approximately 100 attendees, segmentedwoodturners.org was born. As an online chapter of the American Association segmenting of Woodturners, the chapter – with nearly 260 members worldwide – has become the driving force in segmented . symposium

Now is your opportunity to be a part of another great event dedicated solely to October 16-19, 2014 segmenting, set among Registration the splendor that is San Feb 1, 2014 Antonio, Texas. Join Late registration us for three days for all Sep 1, 2014 that’s segmenting ...

who should demonstrators location John Beaver, Jerry Bennett, attend Robin Costelle, Dennis Drury Plaza Hotel Daudelin, Ray Feltz, Lloyd San Antonio Riverwalk From novice to 105 S. St. Mary’s accomplished, Johnson, Bill Kandler, San Antonio TX 78205 everyone interested Dennis Keeling, Craig Kirks, 210-270-7799 in segmenting is Alan Lacer, Tom Lohman, welcome and will Wayne Miller, Jim Rodgers, benefit. Malcolm Tibbetts event pricing rotations Feature rings, Curved elements, Flying rib bowl, $250 member Segmented sculpture, Using the forum & $268 non-member gallery, & jigs, Open (includes a 1-yr segmenting, the Basics, membership) Advanced construction, Segmenting software, sharpening, and more ... membership registration

Join this virtual online club Visit for inspiration, the forum, segmentedwoodturners. members’ photo gallery, org for online registration. tips & tricks, instruction, Registration opens critiques, newsletter, Feb. 1, 2014 and more. Late registration Sep. 1, 2014 - add $50 segmentedwoodturners.org Dots Bangles zig-zag segments. Jerry also will demonstrators Learn the techniques that John uses present a new method of assembling These artists each are accomplished to create balanced and centered segmented vessels that does not in their own right and exhibit at a dots on the outside of a bangle require making half rings or expensive wide variety of prestigious galleries. bracelet. He will show how to use tools such as a drum . This Please visit their websites to fully those same techniques to create a is the best method for those with appreciate their talent. feature ring with dots. limited budgets and do not wish to compromise on the quality of their work. jerry bennett john beaver [email protected] [email protected] Jerry has been Having lived his an artist much entire life near the of his life and an Pacific Ocean, avid woodturner John derives major since 2001. Heavily inspiration from the influenced by glass motion and rhythm artists, he brings a of the ocean. fluidity to that This inspiration is is possible only by reflected in the segmenting and subsequent turning “wave” designs he incorporates into on the . He will be sharing many of his pieces. His protruding and methods and procedures for making recessed elements bring an added his unique sculptures in four sessions. complexity to his work. Segmented Sculpture Wave Bowl Techniques 1 & 2 Anyone can do segmented In these two sessions, John will sculpture. If you can scribble, why not demonstrate how he makes his scribble in wood? Jerry will cover the signature “wave” bowls and process he uses to make his whimsical vessels, including the basic concept sculptures. This slideshow presentation for making the wave. He will will include making a steel armature, robin costelle [email protected] demonstrate the he has designed turning and shaping the segmented Robin has been and show how to make multiple layers, and designing terrific bases for woodturning since waves, protruding waves, and more. your work. 2003, running You will learn how to deconstruct the gamut from and reconstruct a turned vessel while Capture Fluidity in Wood pens and bowls maintaining wall and grain alignment. with Open-Aligned Vessels Many of you have turned open to large complex segmented forms Flying Ribs segmented vessels. Have you and sculptures. John will show the process for considered aligning the segments He spends much creating elements that protrude from instead of staggering them? Jerry of his turning time teaching and a piece. His Flying Rib vases start will show how to make the most demonstrating in and around his with a rough-turned end-grain vase interesting open-segmented home state of Kentucky. Besides and are deconstructed and then vessels. He will cover design, cutting woodturning, Robin also dabbles in reconstructed with the protruding segments, turning, carving, and pottery and the occasional musical elements added. assembly. He will take the process further by introducing a wavy ribbon- instrument. like shape and perhaps a little twist. Lidded Pieces Segmentology If you ever thought about trying For beginners and the curious, Jerry lidded pieces, this demo is for you. introduces a new way to fabricate Robin will give insight on a few and place segments. The “wedgie” different forms with lid designs and sled, his secret weapon, will help finials or knobs and will show a few you make accurate segments techniques he uses for details and every time ... and it takes about 30 transitions from form to lid to create a minutes to make. The same method seamless look. He will turn an elegant can be used to make slanted and finial to top off a lidded vessel.

2 segmentedwoodturners.org Feature Ring Designs the web and the gallery, editing present works in progress, showing (1) Sometimes you just need to see it responses, utilizing the correct gallery how he determines proportions and to understand it. That’s often the way category, updating your photo size for ribbon patterns in a hollow with segmenting, especially when it listings, links, adding a link to your form. comes to fancy design ring patterns. website, resizing photos, getting your Robin will demonstrate a few of own website, and more. Eggs and Ornaments the basic designs and will show an In this session, Ray will use pieces easy way to experiment with ones that he has already glued. He will that appear to be more complex. turn the inside and outside and (2) Robin will show further design will demonstrate how the ends are techniques along with other details finished and how he uses a pen and elements that will take your to join the two halves and segmented piece to the next level. finish the outside of ornaments. Wood choices and overall design will be discussed.

ray feltz [email protected] With an interest in the creative process that goes back to his childhood, Ray was inspired by Ray Allen and Bill dennis daudelin Smith. His interest in getting there [email protected] challenging artistic Dennis has been limits was piqued in 2008 at the 1st turning for more Segmenting Symposium and now The San Antonio International than 14 years, works in ever finer detail. People Airport, only 6 miles from preferring a wide say “It can’t be done,” but Ray says the venue, is served by range of projects “It just hasn’t been done yet.” AeroMexico, AirTran Airways, derived by Alaska Airlines, Delta, Interjet, , faceplate, Tools, Jigs, and Things That Southwest, US Airways, segmented turning, Work and Some That Don’t American, and United. and ornamental This session will focus on the tools sanantonio.gov/SAT.aspx turning. During the day, he is a web and some of the jigs that Ray has developer and is one of the co- developed. He has learned through Please arrive by Thursday founders of Woodturning Online. a process of trial and error, so this afternoon ... and for your He serves as the webmaster for is an opportunity to learn from his departure plans, the symposium segmentedwoodturners.org. successes and mistakes. Ray will ends at 1 p.m., Sunday. delve into how the patterns are sized How to Use the Segmented and how the layer thickness can Woodturners Gallery and Forum change the size of the piece. Dennis will cover the necessary skills ground transportation to navigate the forum and gallery Small Dishes and Hollow Forms successfully ... login, changing your Learn how the pattern is kept flat Taxi ~$25 email and password, adding an in the bottom of small dishes. Ray Airport limo ~$18/person avatar (what’s that?), creating will show how he builds bases and and responding to a forum thread, attempts to carry the base and adding pictures to responses from pattern through the rim. He will

4th segmenting symposium - oct 2014 lloyd johnson bill kandler dennis keeling [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] With a career in Bill began Dennis is a furniture running software segmenting almost maker and companies, it by accident while one of the few was only natural reading the user’s segmenters in the that Lloyd would manual for his first United Kingdom, apply his love of lathe. The short turning since he technology to his section about was 9 years old. He love of working segmented turnings started to specialize with wood. Lloyd’s looked interesting. in segmented software, Woodturner PRO, is used in When the AutoCAD drawings turning after spending a week with more than 70 countries by thousands got so complicated as to cause Bud Latven in 2003 and started to of hobbyists. Lloyd is looking forward errors, Bill created his own software, experiment with open segment to retiring and devoting most of Segmented Project Planner, now in turning after meeting Jerry Bennett his time to segmented vessels and use by more than 2,300 people in 32 in 2004. He enjoys pushing the sculptures through innovations, countries. He continues to develop boundaries of segmented turning including new software and and expand into new areas of ... we are limited only by our hardware solutions. segmented design and extend the imagination. features of his software to support those activities. Simple Open Segment Construction and Turning Latest Directions in Software for Segmented Turning Dennis will review the process of Joint session by Lloyd Johnson and Bill Kandler. constructing a basic open segment With technology changing at an ever increasing rate, the opportunity composite bowl and will turn a small to promote segmented woodturning through software has never been open segment bowl to show how greater. Both Lloyd and Bill have invested more than a decade to easy it is. segmenting software and are the only two companies that continue to upgrade their solutions on an ongoing basis. This rotation is intended to Thinking Out of the Box present the current state of segmenting software with a demonstration of Writing for Woodturner magazine their products, followed by a general discussion of what the future may forced Dennis to come up with new bring with the evolution of computers and mobile devices. segmented designs to make each month. He will show you how he developed the polychromatic bowl, the offset Corian bowl, the staved urn, and his top-selling souvenir pieces made from colored pencils.

4 segmentedwoodturners.org Advanced Open Segment images of edges and the wood cut Construction and Turning with those edges to clarify different Dennis will show how he designed edges and their respective results. his open segment candlestick and how he built up the composite. Then Understanding and he will turn this slender candlestick to Using Cutting Tools show the process involved. Alan will explore the world of keen- edged tools such as bowl gouges, detail & spindle gouges, spindle roughing gouges, skew , and parting tools. This will include craig kirks preparation and basic applications [email protected] and techniques. Craig has worked with wood as a Understanding and hobby most of his Using Scraping Tools life, mainly building This session is a close look at a tool furniture. In 2006, that can do amazingly fine work or he purchased a become used as a crutch in place wood lathe to do alan lacer of better methods. Alan will discuss some turnings for a [email protected] a variety of shapes, different types table. After those Alan has been of edges and burrs, and the contrast and a few other furniture turning involved in between flat scraping vs. shear projects, he discovered segmented woodturning for scraping techniques. He will include a woodturning, being impressed more than 38 years segment about carbide-tipped tools. by its intricacy and all the design as a turner, teacher, opportunities it had to offer. Now writer, exhibition most of his shop time is devoted to coordinator, segmenting. demonstrator, and expert witness, Methods and Jigs for Accurate Work working in 50 states and 5 foreign Craig will review several ways to countries. His published writings ensure accuracy in your work, - upward of 150 - cover a wide including jigs and setting up power spectrum of woodturning. In 1999, he tools. He will go through the steps to was awarded the Honorary Member set up a disc sander, making sanding for that year from the American sleds, and some useful tools for Association of Woodturners for his alignment and assembly. contributions to the field.

Curved Design Elements Sharpening Lathe Tools Part 1 & Part 2 Alan will review the three steps Quit being so and add some of creating an edge: shaping & curves to your work. Learn how profiling, edge production, and to design and construct curved honing to refine & maintain the edge. elements to incorporate into your He will show digital microscope turnings and how to build the jigs to make it possible.

4th segmenting symposium - oct 2014 tom lohman wayne miller what about [email protected] [email protected] Tom began Wayne is a retired spouses? more sales executive than 20 years ago, with a 35-year starting with furniture career as both a quilt hop and moving to representative and laminated wood a manger in the Don’t miss this opportunity items. In the past semi-conductor to add to your stash! several years, he industry. He made has focused on daily presentations segmented woodturning, creating to engineers and management wooden bowls and vases from a and trained staff on new product areas of interest variety of exotic . development. In both his professional and volunteer positions, he trained San Antonio is an historical others in presentation skills. location with the Alamo Bowl from a Board National Historical Site just a This demonstration shows how to short walk away. Tours can be design and build a bowl from a Presentation Skills for Woodturners scheduled through the hotel or board. You will learn how to build You have developed a unique skill head out on your own. complicated bowls that have and have been invited to present repeated patterns and bowls that it to a group, but you have never The River Walk is an experience have swirling effects, using a scroll done any public speaking and not to be missed, with dining, . are reluctant to accept. You have shopping, and strolling along demonstrated before, but you are the beautiful pathways. not confident in your abilities. These are just two reasons why people Looking for an all-inclusive tour do not do well in demonstrating. of the city? Here are some Advance preparation is a critical options through City Tours component. Together we will explore (citytoursinc.com/tours-main): some simple methods that will give • The Alamo you the confidence to overcome • Riverboat Cruise your reservations and make you • Mission Concepción a more comfortable, confident • Mission San José demonstrator. • Buckhorn Saloon and Museum • Japanese Sunken Gardens • Texas Ranger Museum • El Mercado

6 segmentedwoodturners.org jim rodgers Tips and Tricks [email protected] This demo will review many different While Jim aspects of segmenting, methods that has learned will help produce better quality at a woodturning from faster pace. The use of a , respected local disc sander, and drum sander will and international be thoroughly discussed. Malcolm artists, he is mostly will review various segmented ring self-taught and building and stacking techniques now devotes full and demonstrate flattening, splitting, time to turning, and floating bases. demonstration, and teaching. Jim is the instructor for a woodturning Segmented Sculpture program in a northern California This demo will cover many school district, where he teaches uncommon techniques such as several semester-length turning “tubular” construction, mitered courses. Jim also coaches triangles, and “tangles.” In addition woodturning at the high school level to construction techniques, there will and offers one-day courses at local be a discussion about why or how woodworking dealers. Jim’s turning to make a statement. This session passion is polychromatic segmented will offer ways for experienced malcolm tibbetts segmenters to take their work to the woodturning, decorated platters, [email protected] next level. and hollow vessels. Malcolm has become one of the Ribbons Introduction to premier segmenters All aspects of ribbon construction Segmented Woodturning worldwide. By will be presented, including how to Jim will present the basics of stretching his design and cut compound mitered segmented turnings, including imagination, he has staves using both the and design, layout, cutting, and assembly created an amazing miter saw. Malcolm will demonstrate techniques. He will share all the variety of designs turning techniques and how to basics and the simple math required. and art pieces. disassemble and reassemble bowl components. Open Segment Construction - Checkered Hollow Forms Three Ways The checkered hollow form is based Jim will show three methods for upon the “bowl from a board” building open segment vessels, each technique. Lamination, gluing, with its advantages and limitations. designing, and cutting angled rings Videos will show all the steps of each with a parting tool will be profiled. method. This is a relatively easy project with a huge “wow factor.” No miters and no Turning Transitional Vessels math are necessary. Transitional vessels are a combination of ring segmented construction and solid woods in a single product. Jim will demonstrate his techniques for harvesting four vessels from a single ring construction and his way of “hollowing” a closed vessel.

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attend parking onsite at $15/car/night for registered guests (your bill will “I’m interested in be adjusted upon checkout) segmenting, but I don’t know where to start.”

“If only I could figure out those darned angles.”

“Please help me set the saw correctly.”

“I can see the segments, but how can I lay out a design in advance?”

“I’ve been segmenting for a while, but how in the world did he do THAT!?”

Any of these sound familiar to you? Then you should attend the 4th Segmenting Symposium. There will be something for everybody, no matter your level of expertise.

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