The Monthly Newsletter of Yellowstone Woodturners
Billings, Montana

February 2006                          Vol. 7, No. 2

Minutes:

Minutes of the meeting held Wednesday, January 11, 2006:

With our President Ed Auker out of town the meeting was opened at 7:00 PM by Vice President Wayne Hoffman.  There were 28 members and guests present.
Minutes of the December meeting were accepted as printed on the Web page.
The VP called on Treasurer Mick Hogg for his report.

Old Business: None

New Business:

Walt Ricker introduced "TJ" Comstock as the new owner of the Billings Hardware.

VP Hoffman called on Beckman to give a report of the brainstorming session which was held at Hoffman's home on Saturday, Jan 7 with four officers and 7 members. This meeting was held with the idea of deciding on a direction that the club should be going and to figure out how to get the newer members involved.

Beckman covered 24 different ideas that had been brought up and elaborated a little on some of these items.

Floyd Creekmore covered the show and tell portion and urged the newer members to join in this part of the program.

Red O'Connell suggested that the club should have a committee on advancement and education to help the newer members. Red was appointed chairman of this committee along with Ray Curtis and Ron Musgrave. (Ray is new member of our club, having signed up tonight). (This committee will present a report at the upcoming meeting. R.F.)

Ron explained that there will be a learning session held in his shop on Saturday, January 21.  There will be two sessions:  the first session will start at 10 AM and the second session at 2:00PM. There will be five lathes available and they would like at least 5 newer members for each session with five more experienced turners available to help. It is planned to be turning tops at the first session and Christmas ornaments at the second session.  You can also bring something that you are working on and would like some help with.

A sign up sheet was passed out among the members.

The location of Ron’s shop will be available on the web. The address is 506 Sioux Lane in the Heights but like Ron said you cannot get there from Sioux Lane, but must enter thru the alley.

One of the items discussed at the brainstorming session on Saturday, January 7 was for the club to supply some soft maple.  Mick Hogg cut this into 2x2x7 inches long and these were available at the January 11 meeting.  All members were encouraged to take a couple home and turn out some tops which will be given away or sold as some demonstration in the future.

Name tag was presented to Paul Spencer.

Mick Hogg called on ATJ@ and said front and center after which he asked ATJ@ what the possibility of our club continuing to meet at the Billings Hardware and ATJ@ said he would be glad to have us continue meeting there.

Open Shop: 
Pictures of the open shop held during January 2006 at Ron's shop can be found at Open Shop.  R.F.

Misc:

Dan Schindler introduced Chuck Sallade from Red Lodge and explained that the Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery will be hosting a woodturning and furniture making class that will be put on by Chuck and himself in Red Lodge on each of the four Saturdays in February running from 10 AM until 2:30 PM.

Dan also had a flyer covering a symposium in Colorado, so if interested contact Dan.

Show and Tell:

Stan Lambert had a vase made from some Blue Spruce which had been turned green.  He also displayed a towel rack that the kids from his church were helping to assemble and sell as a money making project.  Stan said he would appreciate any wood supplies for this project.

Bradley Fachner had a small turning of Tiger Wood.

Jerry Evans made a plate from Hard Maple and a pencil holder from Juniper.

Red O=Connell had several small bowls that he called layering or scrap wood bowls.

Ralph Torrence had a couple figures he had made , the various colors in the figures were different colored woods.

Dave Torrence had a kitchen helper.

Demonstration:
The demonstration for tonight was the use of the club's tool sharpening grinder by Mick Hogg, but there were no tools available for sharpening, so this will be held at a later date.

The sharpener was set up for inspection.

Dwaine W Beckman, Secretary

This Month’s Meeting:

Unless you are notified otherwise, the February 8 7:00 P.M. meeting will be held at Billings Hardware on Grand Ave. Please bring your own chair.
Enter and exit from the building via the north entrance door that is next to the loading ramp. Parking is available on the north side.

Editor’s Notes:

Newsletter Deadlines:
Submissions for the newsletter must be received at least 10 days before our meeting. Material received after that date will not be included in the newsletter for that month.

President: Ed Auker (406) 665-1723
Vice President: Wayne Hoffman (406) 598-4285
Secretary: Dwaine Beckman (406) 248-9383
Treasurer: Mick Hogg (406) 656-7724
Librarian: Marjorie Ferrin (406) 656-1744
Photographer: George Hoffman (406) 259-9023
Technical Advisor: Dan Schindler (406) 373-5892
Newsletter Editor: Randy Fortiner (406) 245-7875
E-Mail: jlfortiner@gmail.com
Web Site:  www.yellowstonewoodturners.com

“One Good Turn” is the monthly newsletter of Yellowstone Woodturners, Billings, Montana  -
a local chapter of the American Association of Woodturners.