March - San Diego Woodturners
March - San Diego Woodturners
March - San Diego Woodturners
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<strong>San</strong> <strong>Diego</strong> <strong>Woodturners</strong> Page 11 <strong>March</strong> 2013<br />
(Class - continued from page 10)<br />
to turn a ball, pound some dents<br />
or designs into the ball, sand it<br />
down and add water. Guess what<br />
happens All those dents you<br />
made come right back up and it<br />
will amaze your friends.<br />
Next, Michael decided to try<br />
making a bracelet that would<br />
bend. He had never made one<br />
before so it became a learning<br />
and teaching lesson. It didn’t<br />
take long for all of us to be making<br />
several bracelets and then we<br />
got to decorate them. We tried<br />
to figure out what size would<br />
fit most women and it didn’t<br />
take long to get a few different<br />
sizes for different sized women.<br />
I used my Master Carver with<br />
a couple different tips to make<br />
some designs and them I added<br />
some color. There are so many<br />
possibilities.<br />
The next day, we started on an<br />
end grain box long box. Where’s<br />
Allen Brooks when I need him<br />
We made a long box out of<br />
poplar that was cut at different<br />
angles and glued back together<br />
into a different form. It was<br />
the first time I had used a hook<br />
tool to hollow with and I really<br />
was impressed with the ease of<br />
use. I found out I was using it<br />
wrong when I tried a ring tool<br />
and scared myself half to death.<br />
Imagine that…<br />
using a tool<br />
wrong Michael<br />
made a form that<br />
I am now finishing<br />
and I will put<br />
it in the raffle<br />
or silent auction<br />
later this year.<br />
By the way I had<br />
Michael sign it<br />
and so now it’s a<br />
collaborative art<br />
piece!<br />
The last day, we<br />
spent most of it using all the different<br />
Milk Paints, Transparent<br />
dyes and lots of different carving<br />
burrs and wood burners. There<br />
are so many ways to change a<br />
plain piece of wood into something<br />
spectacular with some<br />
decorations.<br />
After the demo, Michael and<br />
Marilyn moved onto the Arizona<br />
Symposium and spent some time<br />
with family there. That was the<br />
main reason we couldn’t have<br />
the classes after the demo instead<br />
of before. They wanted to<br />
spend a few days with family before<br />
the next big demonstration.<br />
If there is enough good response<br />
we may be able to get him back<br />
out here since I believe he is doing<br />
a demo in Los Angeles next<br />
year. He won’t do a demo but we<br />
may get him for another class<br />
that hopefully would fill up.
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