Month: October 2025

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2025 Reeds Gap State Park Fall Festival

The Reeds Gap State Park Fall Festival demo on October 11th was an outstanding success. Approximately 50-75 people visited our booth every hour. Ken Vasko, Steven Tuttle, and Jim Hopkins were there representing the club, answering questions, and demonstrating our craft. People loved watching them turn tops, trees, mushrooms, and honey dippers and viewing our displays.

We gave out about 100 tops. There were no more tops left! Congrats to all those who made them. We touched a lot of future turners. In the last half hour, we had to turn more tops. Coloring was a hit. 

Kylie Orndorf, from DCNR, thanked us profusely and wants us back next year! They put on a nice event! The food was great and inexpensive as well.

Everybody loved watching Smokey learn to turn! He knows his timber!

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October 2025 Meeting

Our October meeting included a presentation about turning a bowl out of a white cedar burl and debrief of the recent woodturning symposium from Jeremy Sinclair and our normal show & tell and wood auction.

Richard Garland’s Presentation

Richard Garland provided a slide show demonstration titled “Tree to Bowl –
White Cedar Burl”. Below you can see the log with the Burl which was cut from the log and cut in 2 pieces, one of which, Richard prepped for the lathe and turned into a large bowl with great grain. One challenge was dealing with tear-out due to the grain and softness of the cedar. Nice bowl.

Jeremy’s Tour of the Symposium

Everyone enjoyed Jeremy Sinclair’s enthusiastic summary and slide show of the
Lancaster Mid-Atlantic Woodturning Symposium. Amazing world renowned woodturners were there to demonstrate their skills and teach attendees the tricks of the trade. Vendors were also there to show off their products with many opportunities to find deals and pickup the tools you need. We hope that more members will attend next year’s event the 3rd week, September 2026.

Show & Tell