Woodturners Coffee Hour #171 October 5, 2023
Woodturning club news, best lathes for clubs, woodturning notebooks, video redundancy, Bert Delisle, wavy turning, Jim Duxbury, wave jig, Mike Peace, turned box with threaded lid, box turning sequence, lid or body tenon, Jon Wilson, burl bowl.
Woodturners Coffee Hour #172 October 12, 2023
John Kelsey, nine nesting bowls, food-safe finishes, Osmosis top oil, Odie’s oil, Minwax antique oil, Mahoney’s oil finish, Bruce Lamb, dyes burl hollow forms, rubber chuck, molds for wood-epoxy, mold release for epoxy, Dave Bleil, spinning top boxes, turned keepsake for kids, Mike Peace, bird ornaments, Jim Bowman, wood-epoxy vase.
Woodturners Coffee Hour #173 October 19, 2023
Woodturning club notes, Dave Hickman slide show, redwood burl, spalted maple, koa bowl, woodturned cowboy hat, Kathy Gower, 18 pizza cutters, Don Smith, turned lighthouse scene, Barry Price, Kai Koethe, shop-made scraper burnishers.
Woodturners Coffee Hour #174 October 26, 2023
Mike Peace, lantern ornament, John Kelsey, New Britain industrial slideshow, Shaker exhibition slideshow, Ray Simmons, first turnings from 1991, Sherri Willets, gnome ornaments, Kurt Kapp, burl bowl, Spectraply salt-n-pepper, Bert Delisle, Dom Smith, trivets with ceramic insert, needle case, Randy Smith, Turn for the Troops, Jon Wilson, red oak splitting.
Woodturners Coffee Hour #175 November 2, 2023
An excellent discussion of introducing kids to turning. Also how to turn safely when you’re older with arthritis. and other ailments. Tools to cover in a clearance class. What lathes should a club purchase – all same, or various brands? Randy Smith, off-center Christmas trees. Garold Garrett, prep for a make-n-take class. Sherry Wilets, epoxy molds with coroplast. Don Smith, lantern ornaments. Toby Bouder, lots of turned Christmas trees.
Woodturners Coffee Hour #176 November 9, 2023
John Kelsey, Osmo food-safe finishes, shop-made scraper handles, casing the burr. Ray Simmons, photo of an all-wood full-size farm tractor. John Chalikian, class with David Souza that he won at the mid-Atlantic. Randy Smith, CA finishing, Closed cell foam no stick to CA glue. Jim Bowman, bowl inserts in contrasting wood.
Woodturners Coffee Hour #177 November 16, 2023
John Kelsey, more on Osmo finishes, Osmo top oil, and Osmo polyx. Kai Goethe, candle ornament, birdhouse ornament. David Hudgel, introduction with bowls he makes. Manitoba maple, box elder. Wind shakes, ring shakes in wood – dangerous! Jeff Carroll, salt cellar, off-center pendants. Don Smith, pair of lamps. Carl Litzkow, holiday ornaments. Jon Wilson, big white oak burl.
Woodturners Coffee Hour 4-Way Panel Discussion
November 18, 2023 (no Coffee Hour on Thanksgiving Day, Nov 23)
Earlier this year four YouTube woodturners – Sam Angelo, Richard Raffan, Mike Peace, and Tomislav Tomasic – agreed to each make the same project every month and to each post a video about it. Nine projects later, the four came together on Zoom to discuss their collaboration. John Kelsey moderates the wide-ranging conversation about woodturning, turning tools, turning techniques, and design.
For more information on these gentlemen and lots of incredible content:
Tomislav Tomasic Woodturning (Dodir Drva) – YouTube
Mike Peace Woodturning – YouTube
WYOMINGWOODTURNER – YouTube
Richard Raffan – YouTube
Woodturners Coffee Hour #178 November 30, 2023
Woodturners Coffee Hour #179 December 7, 2023
Woodturners Coffee Hour #180 December 14, 2023
0:00 John Kelsey: Broadcasting from Lancaster Area Woodturners Associations’
‘headquarters, John highlights LAWA’s Zoom and related equipment setup.
5:07 Bert Delisle: Bert mentions that LAWA would benefit from incorporating a Stream Deck, with ensuing discussion.
9:00 Gerry Snelson: Smokers (vicar carrying an umbrella), and a British guard. Following is a discussion regarding making nutcrackers.
19:33 Angelo Iafrate: Renovation of his tiny (8’ x 10’) shop, including cleaning and repainting OneWay lathe, filling floor joist space with concrete under the lathe, and optimizing the organization of the shop.
35:13 Don Smith: Don shows his cracker, a Christmas ornament incorporating an elaborate finial and a ‘mystery’ elliptical shape, and Christmas trees.
41:58 Toby Bouder: Dyed dawn redwood bowl, a multi-wood lidded container, Christmas trees, followed by discussion about the co-op store where Toby sells his work and some of the finishes that Toby uses.