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Upcoming Classes
Our club is delivering a couple classes this month at The Rivet in State College, PA.
Woodturning: Pens
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
General Woodturning
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.
January 2022 Meeting
The demonstration for this meeting was be provided by Ken Vasko. It was a really good follow-up to the presentation at the December meeting about Easy Wood Tools.
Ken covered:
- Advantages and disadvantages of carbide tools
- Pen turning
- Short demo of spindle turning and bowl turning with carbide tools
- Provided “hands-on” experience with three different tools for anyone interested
- Demo of Acks wood paste for wood sanding
- Had a drawing for Acks wood paste which Mike Lebo won. Congrats Mike and thanks to Annette and Tom for the donation.
November 2021 Meeting
Our previously scheduled presenter had to cancel for personal reasons this month so our pivot was to watch a video about befriending the skew by Alan Lacer. If you have any reservations about using the skew, join us as we watch Alan break it down, show how to sharpen it, use it for 8 different cuts and discover why it can grab and how to avoid catches.
October 2021 Meeting
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.
June 2021 Meeting
We had an informative meeting this month all about segmented turning, thanks to a detailed slide show presentation with several samples on disply by Tony Omeis. We met at the Rivet with several others joining over Zoom. We expect more hybrid meetings like this in the future to allow for the most participation as possible. Thanks to all who joined us.
Our “try it challenge” for this month is to make your own segmented object. Give it a try and show us what you made at the next meeting in the fall. Enjoy the summer and make some shavings.
Show and tell examples:
CentreArts Article
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
April 2021 Meeting
We had another GREAT demo from a member’s shop, thanks to an outstanding presentation by Mike Lebo of how to make a thin necked goblet. Good attendance, great conversation and Q&A, made for a successful meeting during the pandemic. Thanks all who participated.
Our “try it challenge” for this month is to make your own thin necked goblet. Give it a try and show us what you made at the May meeting and you’ll get a chance to win something in our quarterly drawing.
February 2021 Meeting
This meeting was all about negative rake scrappers. The result was some information which may be helpful to everyone.
Everybody has their own favorite grid. Here are a few examples:
| Turner | Top Bevel | Bottom Bevel | Total Angle |
| Doc Green | 17.5 | 17.5 | 35 |
| Brendan Stemp | 22 | 22 | 44 |
| Cindy Drozda (Vortex Tool) | 25 | 25 | 50 |
| Brian Havens Sam Angelo | 30 | 30 | 60 |
| Glenn Lucas | 33 | 33 | 66 |
| Eric Lofstrom | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| Robo Hippy | 45 | 45 | 90 |
| Dave Schweitzer | 25 | 70 | 95 |
| Mike Waldt | 30 | 70 | 100 |
November 2020 Meeting
We had another GREAT Zoom meeting from The Rivet, thanks to an outstanding presentation by Mike Lebo of his latest wood threading tool. Good attendance, great conversation and Q&A, and some terrific “show and tell”s made for a successful meeting during the pandemic. Thanks all who participated.
Mike based his threading machine on Mike Peace’s design