Upcoming meetings and classes
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| There is also a good possibility that there will be additional all day Saturday demonstrations as the year progesses. Please contact Gerrit or Bob Doop if there are any suggestions or recommendations.
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- BOWL TURNING BASICS
Saturday May 17^th 9am to 4pm at Bob Doop's shop in Anacortes.
We will hold our first Sawdust Saturday with Bob Doop and Dan Tibbles
leading a session on BOWL TURNING BASICS. This session will explore all
aspects of bowl turning from both green and dry wood. Attendance is
limited to 6 participants; 4 members have signed up and there is still
room for 2 more. If we get more than 6 signing up we will hold an
additional session in the near future.
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- June 19th. Dan Ackerman from Whidbey Island will be demonstrating boxes from 11am to 4:30pm, and finials for the normal club demonstration. Bio: I started out carving and whittling as a kid and gradually invested in sculpting chisels and larger pieces of work. In 1985 I started turning and
became active in the Seattle chapter of AAW. After turning for about 6 years, Kathy and I started a rosewood turned gift item business, eventually
developing 22 designs, most of which were unique to our business. During the next 5 years the production work improved my tool handling and technique
and after the 5 years I decided to turn boxes exclusively. This gave me an opportunity to develop a box design of my own and a design to allow me to do
carving to ornament my pieces. I've been turning these boxes for nearly 10 years an am enjoying making each one unique through the design, the exotic
woods and the carving. Slides
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- FROM TREE TO LATHE
Saturday June 21st 9am to 4pm at Jerry Holmes shop on Highway 20 south
of Campbell Lake (on the way to Deception Pass).
Logger Jerry will show us the best ways to harvest our turning wood and
get it ready for the lathe. Rumor has it he may even show us how to cut
down a tree…..but first he will be talking about chain saw safety! This
session can handle as many members as want to participate. It will be a
fun day.
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- July 18th. Jack Wayne demonstrating making a bowl from a board, or Dave Schweitzer, TBA.
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- August 21st. Picnic or picinic if you prefer. More info to follow.
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- Sept 18th. Larry Stevenson from the Vancouver club will demonstrate his coloring and texturing techniques. Bio Slides of his work
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- Oct 16th or 23rd depending on JoHannes' schedule. JoHannes Michelsen, the world famous hat guy will be demonstrating and putting on a workshop...maybe two workshops if there is enough interest.
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- Nov 29th. Club dinner and silent auction.
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Events to put on your calendar
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- May 16th, 17th, and 18th we will camping together at Deming. Information will be available soon
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- July 11th, 12th, and 13th Deming Hills to Mills.
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- July 19th Children's Art Festival at the Hillcrest park in Mt. Vernon.
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- August 2nd 19th Annual Bellingham Kids Festival from 11 to 3 at Bloedel Donovan Park. We need about 20 people to volunteer to turn tops for the kids. Contact Dave Blair to volunteer.
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- Sept 13th and 14th will be another camp out. Put it on your calendar.
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