MINUTES OF OCT 11,2006

Meeting opened at 7:00 PM by President Ed Auker, there were 23 members present including two new members who signed up tonight, namely Clinton Balstad and Eddy Leuenberger. Welcome to the Club.

Mick Hogg had two pens he had made, one where he wrapped a gold chain around a core and epoxied it in place. Really neat.

Jane Swaby had two small bowls, one of maple and one of chokecherry.

Stan Lambert had a Christmas decoration made of apple and walnut and 3 bowls, one from a burl.

Red O’Connell had a fir bowl that he had done some decorative carving on.

Paul Spencer had 3 Christmas ornaments and a Russian Olivewood bowl.

John Tuttle had a large bowl made from butternut and also a large cutting board.

Floyd Creekmore Had a large basketball trophy that he had made for the school This is a traveling trophy for the double AA schools and after he had made this one he was told that he had to make two of them, one for the boys and one for the girls. 

MINUTES.

The minutes of the September meeting were accepted as printed in the news letter.

TREASURER’S REPORT

Mick Hogg gave the treasurer’s report, and we are still in the black.

Miscellaneous

The subject of dues was brought up, but the by-laws state this must be handled at our December meeting.

Correspondence

President Ed said he had been contacted by the Jail House Gallery in Hardin and they will be having a Holiday Christmas Bazaar to be held on November 18^th and they have spaces available for rent. A 10X12 foot space with one table for $15.00 or two tables for $25.00 this Bazaar to be held at the Middle School from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM

 COMMITTEE REPORTS

The A&E committee said they need a head count for the January 20^th symposium at the November meeting so they can give the caterers some idea how many to prepare for and this count could be adjusted at the December meeting. They want the checks covering the symposium at the December meeting. The cost has been firmed up at $25.00 and this covers the lunch, which will be at Ron’s shop and any money left over after paying for the lunch (which will be catered) will go into the raffle fund.

They will have coffee and cookies available through out the sessions..

Martin Robinson gave a report of the symposium at Bozeman, some of the items covered were the clamps mounted on the end of the lathe to hold the bowls while carving designs on them. Told of the how fast Al Stirt removed material from the bowls he was turning also the demonstration of the use of the vacuum chuck

OLD BUSINESS

Ed Auker said that the Jail House Gallery was happy to have some of our members displaying their turnings and had sent some checks covering the items they had sold.

At the November meeting those of you who had received bowling pins please bring in the items you turned from these pins and it sounds like you are to bring them to the meeting, concealed in a paper bag and there will be numbers assigned to each one and they will be judged by the members for the most unique item turned.

Saturday Oct 14^th the Club will demonstrate wood turning at the Billings Hardware tool sale. The turning will be done inside the store in the area where we hold our meetings. VP Hoffman passed out assignment times for those who had already signed up to work this tool sale. Bring your own wood for this turning.

NEW BUSINESS

President Auker asked for volunteers for nominating committee to choose officers for next year there were none so it will be handled at the November meeting.

The business meeting was closed and coffee and cookies compliments of the Billings Hardware, was enjoyed by all.

DEMONSTRATION

John Wasden was to head up the demonstration tonight but he had called Martin Robinson and said that because of the predicted stormy weather in northern Wyoming.  He thought it would be a bad idea for him to be driving home late at night in a snow storm so the demonstration was put on by Stan Lambert, Martin Robinson and Red O’Connell.

This demonstration was on sanding and they used as a guide, information from a sanding seminar put on by Bruce Hoovar at Loveland, Colorado that Stan and Martin had been to.

These three members put of a very informative program and some of the highlights were.

1-Have a bright light that will cast shadows to show areas that need to be sanded more.

2-Power and Inertia Sanders

3 -Areas to hold your power or inertia sanders.

4-RPM of bowl and sanders

5-Wet sanding

6-Moving up through various grits

7-various types of power sanders.

8-solutions to problems

Dwaine W Beckman, Secretary

A copy of the handout has been posted to the Project folder on the website.

From the Librarian

Marjorie Ferrin

A new book has been added to our library:  Woodturning Wizardry.  By David Springett

This book has challenging projects including spheres with in spheres, delicate lattices and much more.  As David Springett says, "If I can do it, You can to."  He includes lots of pictures and explicit instructions.

Our library contains lots of books, videos and magazines available for checking out at our monthly meetings