Wood turners club in State College, PA
The Reeds Gap Fall Festival, Saturday Oct 8th, was a great success. We had a lot of interest in woodturning and our club. There was about 1200 people at the event. It was a lot of fun and we met a lot of good people.
Special thanks to Travis Gross, Brian Hummel and S. Bear for helping setup, turn, schmooze the crowd, tear down and clean up!
New club member is a great demonstrator. He drew a crowd for sure.
As a non-profit organization we need to post our tax return.
Our club is delivering a couple classes this month at The Rivet in State College, PA.
Wed Date: Jan 19 2022 From: 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
orWed Date: Jan 26 2022 From: 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
$32 class fee
$8 materials fee
This class will occur during a single, 3-hour session. This class is appropriate for beginners and no prior experience is necessary. In this 3 hour class, students will be introduced to the 4 processes involved in turning a twist-type Slimline ball point pen. These processes include drilling 2 pen blanks and gluing brass tubes inside the blanks with epoxy, mounting the blanks with pen bushings in a pen mandrel on the lathe and turning the pen blanks to match the pen bushings, sanding and polishing the turned pen blanks, and, assembling the pen using a pen vice. Turning a pen blank requires good tool control and a delicate touch with the roughing gouge and attention to detail while sanding, polishing, and assembling the pen.
Each student will take home their assembled pen at the end of the class.
Reserve your spot at The Rivet
Additionally there will be one general turning class scheduled in February as a private class on Saturday Feb 5, 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Email Paul Demmert for information.
Dave Betler demonstrated his technique for making Stump Boxes. A turned box that he then carves and wood burns to create a realistic looking stump. We had a hybrid meeting using some equipment from the Rivet. Unfortunately the audio never really worked well enough for people watching at home which you’ll notice if you watch the video. Hopefully you can see how Dave does it despite the lack of audio.
We are pleased with the recognition our group got in the CentreArts magazine about many talented local artists and organizations. Check out page 6 & 7
