The Monthly Newsletter of Yellowstone Woodturners
Billings, Montana

August 2007                          Vol. 8, No. 8

 Think About Turning Today!

    For those of us without an air conditioned shop its been a hot summer. That will make it a treat to do a shift at this year's Fair Booth in the "cool" Hobby Hall. Tuesday evening the fair booth committee attempted to call all our members to schedule some of
the shifts. About 1/2 are filled; you can call anyone on the list to set a time.
   Wayne Hoffman   598-4285
   Paul Spencer    861-6718
   Jerry Fachner   655-9451
   Stan Lambert    348-3499
    Martin Robinson is also on the committee but was out of town for our meeting on Tues. & so does not have a list.   Each day of the fair will have one of these committee persons in charge. They will be listed on the sheet handed out at Wed. meeting and posted at the booth.  We expect some confusion with this method: but it is our attempt not to "burn out" one chairman with
an over-load of the long days at the fair. Please understand any hitches in our "get-a-long!    The shifts are only 3 hours this year; and you can certainly sign up for more than one. There will be 3 lathes at the booth. You need to bring your own tools and chucks plus any particular wood you wish to turn.  There will also be some wood in the booth that club members have donated for you to turn if you don't have anything special that you want to work on.  Past experience has taught us that the public soon is bored watching an extensive amount of sanding; so we try to keep that phase at a minimum. It is also helpful if your items have some of the set-up work done at home. Our adoring public likes to see the chips a-flying!
   Your Fine Arts entries can still be entered (without pre-entry) at the "Cedar Hall" Building on Friday, Aug. 3 from 1:00 - 6:00 pm and on Sat. Aug. 4 from 10:00 - 5:00 pm.   This can be a good learning exercise to help us better understand what the public (and the judges) are looking for in our wood turned items.   Items brought in for display at our booth can be locked in the display cabinet. These turnings should include: a description, kind of wood, & your name; so that we can make nice uniform placards for a better display.
  Joyce will bring the 41 pieces of Iowa cherry, walnut, and maple to be auctioned / raffled at Wednesday's meeting. Last month the Approx. 30 bowl banks brought in $275 netting our raffle fund $175 after sending the nice gentleman from Des Moines a
check for $100 as "gas" money. I anticipate we can treat ourselves to the remaining wood for a bargain of approximately $2.50 each putting another hundred into the raffle fund.
   Keep making those "Bic" pens - we can't have to many!  Tops and miniature goblets are okay also.   As Ron Musgrave has so generously offered to let our club hold our monthly meetings in his shop; and those at the July meeting seemed in favor of not going back to the Career Center (due to the noisy over-head heaters) we will likely vote this month on making Ron's shop our permanent home.
   See you at the meeting.                    

                                Stan Lambert
                                Pres.
   

Minutes

July 11, 2007 at Ron’s Shop    

Called to order at 7 pm sharp.  We had 17 members and no guests tonight.                       

 Show and Tell

Ray Curtis brought his Bowling pin projects

Paul Spencer brought his segmented bowl

Joyce-weed pot? And segmented bowl

Ron- stained purple and lime segmented bowls and black walnut bowls

Dan- egg and chicken 

Minutes

Minutes were approved as written.

Treasurers report

Jane:               

            Raffle fund $859.84

            Library fund $78.62

            Uncommitted fund $1322.05.55

 Correspondence

 We received pamphlets from the Rocky Mountain Symposium in Loveland.

 Old Business

Discussion on the fair.  Sheet was sent around for people to sign up on .  We are trying to get enough volunteers so that no one person has to be there at all times. Set up is on Sun the August 10 and Tear down is Aug.18.

Brady reported on his trip to the’07 AAW Symposium.  He had a great time and won lots of prizes.

Wayne had a side show of all the art work at the symposium.

Ray Curtis felt it was information overload.(in a good way)

John on the Utah –lots of give always and well organized.

Lot of wood blanks were donated to the club from Robin Frazer.  Most of it was raffled off. The club voted to send Robin $100 for his efforts and put the other $175 that was raised into the raffle fund.

 Program

Program was the does and don’ts of a shop.  Stories were shared.

Next meeting is Aug 8 at Ron’s shop.  Thank you Ron for allowing us to meet in your shop.

Final plans for the fair and everyone should bring lots of pens and tops!!! for giveaways!

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