Meeting October 4, 2023

Our October meeting was held on October 4, 2023 at the Peters Valley Woodworking Studio. Attendees were Steve Ackmann, Rick Wortman, Ed Nikles, Jim Cerra, Scott Hendricks, Joe Kopec, and guest and potential new member Mike Baklarz.

Steve reported on the activity at the Peters Valley Craft Fair and Rick Wortman reported that the treasury was the same as last month.

Show and Tell

Rick Wortman show the finished product on his Cherry salad bowl nested set. He also brought along some fine examples of offset turning he has completed. He also brought the finished platter that he had started at the June meeting.

Ed Nikles brought four nut bowls made of black birch. it was noted how heavy and dense the wood feels, and the beautiful figuring in the wood.

Scott Hendricks brought a larger walnut vase.

Joe Kopec brought a small laminated bowl of cherry and walnut that he has started at the craft fair and finished at his home machine. He also brought a small offset turned sculpture .

Jack Delaney brought several yoyo’s he made following Dave Robinson’s demo at the last meeting

Steve Ackmann brought a small bud vase made out of highly figured Norway Maple that had recent fallen in his yard.

For this month’s demonstration we tried our hand at offset turning as shown in our August meeting with Beth Ireland. We brought some square blanks and with the help of all of the members we figured out how to mark the rounded blanks to make a nice offset. Then new members Jack and Mike took the marked blanks and worked to make an offset turning. Results below: