Serving Southeastern West Virginia
The West Virginia Woodturners Association provides woodturners in southeastern West Virginia and western Virginia with an opportunity to meet other turners, enhance their skills, and share their skills and interests in woodturning. Send an email to info@wvwoodturners.com to request additional information about the club and its activities.
Turning Center at Lee Street Studios
All members can work in the Turning Center any time, any day of the week and use any of the Club lathes, tools, or specialized equipment such as the deep hollowing system and the coring system. Members will pay $2.00 per hour to use the Center. They will sign in and sign out, leave the area neat and clean, take their trash and shavings with them, and pay for their time at the next Club meeting.
The Turning Center will be open to the general public on First Fridays and Second Saturdays when the Lee Street Studio complex is open. A small gallery will be set up where Club members will be able to display and sell their turnings with the Club retaining a 10% commission.
Holiday Dinner December 14
The Club's Holiday Dinner this year will be held at Anne Turner’s home at 594 Private Road, Lewisburg. She has offered to make custom Pizzas and will also have Pasta Bolognese, Salad and Tiramisu for dessert. Feel free to bring your own 'adult beverage'.The cost will be $15 per Member or Guest.
The following Club members have been nominated to serve as the 2020 Club officers, and the election will be held during the meeting:
- President: Bruce Brenneman
- Vice President: Rick Lay
- Secretary: Anne Turner
- Treasurer: Gary DeGraff
- Director: Bill Sproul
- Director: Cliff Baker
- Director: Wayne Bolen
- Director: Rocky Parsons
- Director: John Pauley
Next Meeting: November 16
The Club will meet next on November 16 at Montwell Commons. Dues for 2020 should be paid then ($35 for individuals, $40 for families, and $15 for youth). If you are planning to go to the holiday party on December 16, payment of $15 per person should should also be made.
October 26 Meeting Highlights
Twenty five members and three guests attended the October meeting and participated in the door prize and raffle drawings. Members displayed several recent turnings for Show and Tell pieces. Larry Weese, a member of the Ripley club,presented a very interesting demonstration on how to use woodburning and piercing as methods for embellishing your turnings.
Show and Tell
The Show and Tell judges selected three turnings for recognition:.
Ron Manning showed three of his recent turnings.
Bruce Brenneman turned this shallow 8" bowl from the piece of redwood burl he bought at the Club auction.: .
Mike Cope turned this cherry burl bowl and used a walnut butterfly to stabilize the piece.
Additional Show and Tell Entries
Mike also created this winged heart shaped bowl.
The inner and outer flowing curves are well executed and very attractive.
Ron Manning, Bruce Brenneman, Jerald Carter, and Wayne Ailiff created these lights for the Club Challenge.
Ron's pair of symmetrical inside-out turnings received the First Place recognition for the Challenge.
Larry Weese: Embellishment Techniques
Larry Weese is a professional turner and a member of the Mountaineer Club in Ripley. He shows how to lay out woodburnig and piercing embellishment designs on a turning and how to implement them. Additional examples of his work can be seen on his website weesewoodgems.com . During the course of the demonstrations, Larry offered many useful suggestions and hints.
Embellishment allows a turner to make his work truly unique and stand out from the competition.
Hollow forms are most easily created by turning the upper and lower portions separately and glueing them together
Piercing and woodburning can be combined as design elements in the finished piece and complement the nature of the turning.
Hundreds of designs for piercing and woodburning are available from doverpublishing.com . These patterns can be scaled as needed to fit a turning
Two handpieces with different tips can be used with the 130 watt dual channel Burnmaster "Eagle" woodburner.
The most frequently used burner tips are the knife, skew, basket, writing.
Molly Winton developed this basketweave pattern using a coiled nichrome wire tip.
Simple repeating patterns can be used and the size can be adjusted on the last few repetitions to make the pattern fit the turning.
An area for embellishing needs to be incorporated in the design. A 1/8" wall thichness is ideal for piercing.
The pattern is crinkled, glued to the turning with 3M 77 Adhesive, and carefully burned using the appropriate tip.
Sit comfortably, steady your hands on the workpiece, have adequate lighting, and use a small fan for ventilation while you spend hours burning the pattern.
This attractive embellishment design incorporates both piercing and stippling.
treelineusa.com sells the NSK Presto 2 piercing tool. It is oiless, uses compressed air to run at 320,000 RPM, and uses standard dental drills and burrs.
Additional Tips and Comments
- Crinkle the paper patterns and then glue it to the curved turning with 3M 77 Adhesive.
- After burning, the paper pattern can be easily removed by soaking it with turpentine and then peel it off. Use rubbing alcohol to remove the residual turpentine.
- When stippling, use a knife tip to burn a border, then use a ball tip for stippling.
- Keep a sketchbook handy while you are turning so you can make notes for future projects.
- Printable adhesive film is convenient for printing patterns for piercing and is available from Hobby Lobby, Amazon, WalMart, and other suppliers.
- Embellishing helps differentiate your turnings from others.
- Set a fair price for your turnings. If they don't sell, move them to another outlet rather than cut your price.
- Piercing is very effective on hollow forms. Turn the upper and lower sections to 1/8" and glue the two halves together.
New Demonstrations Page
The Demonstrations page has been completely redesigned so individual demonstration topics can be easily found in the categories of Tools, Basic Techniques, and Projects.
General Club Information
For further information about any WVWA activity, call Bill Sproul at (304) 497-2319.
Supporting Companies
We would like to thank these companies for the support they have provided to the Club during the past year. Check out their websites when you are ready to purchase products that they stock.
Craft Supplies USA is a one-stop shopping site for everything a wood turner might need or want - lathes, tools, accessories, project supplies, materials, and more.
Woodcraft offers a 10% discount at the Roanoke store to WVWA members when they show a current membership card.
TurnTex supplies acrylic casting resin, solutions for stabilizing and hardening punky and spalted wood, and associated equipment.
by WVWA, a chapter of the American Association of Woodturners