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May 2015 Volume 28 Number 5Our Motto: “All The News That Fits ... Gets Printed”

Next Meeting: Thursday, May 28, 2015Meeting Start: 6:30 PM

Handley-Meadowbrook Lions Club 6013 Craig Street Fort Worth, TX

Inside This Issue

This Month’s Program 1

Making Good Shavings 2

Club Challenge Program 4

Last Month’s Program 5

Swat 10

Beads of Courage 17

Empty Bowls 18

Mentors 19

Calendar 20

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President's report for May 2015

* Welcome to our new members: Miguel Chiusano, Ron Day, Clifford Dewitt,Kathy Douthitt, Steve Dymond, David Hoenig, David Miller, Jack Panzeca,Larry Stephens, and Scott Wisdom.

* If you have not had your photo made for our new directory, this week'smeeting will be your last chance. We have 160 club members and I am sureno one can recall everyone's name and put a face to it. I know I can't. Thatis why the directory, with your photo, is so important. David Carter will betaking photos Thursday. Wear your club shirt if you have one. However, ifyou do not get your photo taken, there are a lot of goofy clip art images wecould substitute. We will not be using the old directory photos.

* If you didn't come to the all day Open Shop you missed a great time forturning and sharpening instruction, swapping tools, buying materials,scoffing up hot dogs and general camaraderie. There were about 52attendees at the height of the day.

* Congratulations to our SWAT registration scholarship winners. ToddCompton won the "SWAT never been before" registration. Susan Cardinand Jim Barkelew won the two WNT sponsored registrations and eachreceived a banquet ticket from WNT. The WNT sponsored registrations arefunded by our Christmas dinner auction. It is not too early to start thinkingabout a nice turning to donate to that.

... makingGood Shavings

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* Our new Beads Of Courage program is off to a good start. Remember, notonly do your turned boxes help extremely ill children but you receive threeChallenge raffle tickets and a chance to win tools at SWAT for each vessel.* Speaking of Bob's Challenge, don't forget to bring in your toothpick holder.* We had a 21 bowls for Empty Bowls brought in last month. Great job.Remember you get one Christmas dinner raffle ticket for each bowl turnedduring the year.* See you at 6:30pm Thursday and be safe. We don't need a "safetycoordinator".

Glynn Cox President

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Who’s up for a Challenge?We have some very talented people in our club. It's fun to watch how theskills of the membership, in general, are improving. I know that, personally,I have learned some techniques that I wouldn't have tried had it not beenfor the challenge.

Our challenge for April was to turn a platter.  There was some discussionon when a platter became a bowl, but it ended with all entries beingacceptable.  We had the largest turnout yet with 37 members turning 43platters.  This is over 25% of our membership, so it was a really goodchallenge.  The platter sizes ranged from saucer size to one that was 17inches in diameter.  Wood used varied from simple pine, exotic woods andone that was recycled from a 50 year old end table.  A lot of members sawJimmy Clewes demonstration and so a large number of platters had coloradded.  Hopefully this next month will have even more membersparticipating. This is a good opportunity for members to try something newand for all of us to see the creativity of our membership with the differenttoothpick holders turned

Below is a list of members who turned platters for the April challenge.

Dale Abshire Mike Barnhart David Baulch Tom BeattyBrian Begina Josh Boaz Bill Boehme Ken CardinDavid Carter Bob Clark Wayne Clowers David ColleyGlynn Cox Fred Denke Tom Echols Rick GauthierJimmy Gill James Haynes Bill Holt Brian HaysJohn Horn Sandy Jarrell Randy Johnson Dick KochJohn Lauderbaugh Ray Moyer Ronnie Nuzum Louis Oberhen

There is still time to tackle the challenge for this month and the weather isperfect for working in the shop. I hope all of you will try the tooth pickholder challenge.

See you Thursday,

Bob Wiggins

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Last Months Challenge

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Last Month’s DemoWoodturningFundamentals

by Roger Jones

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The 2015 SWAT Symposium is less than 3 Months awaySWAT is one of the largest wood turning symposiums in the world.

NOW is the time to start planing to attend

The 2015 SWAT symposium will be August 21-23Waco Convention Center, Waco, Texas

Host HotelsHilton Hotel Marriott Courtyard

113 South University Parks Drive 101 Washington Ave254-754-8484 254-752-8686

Special rate until August 5th or until the Last day to bookgroup block is sold-out, whichever comes first. July 29, 2015

Be sure to mention SWAT while making your reservation to get the special rate

For other accommodations in the Waco area,please visit the Waco Visitor center

Early Registration is available through August 1st

20-25% cheaper)

GO TO SWAT Registration

Instant Gallery 2014Instant Gallery Item Entry Process

Who:   Any SWAT registered attendee, vendor or demonstrator.Where: Check items into Instant Gallery Waco Convention Center, McLennan Room208, submit only through Instant Gallery representatives.When: August 20, 2015....after 3:00 pm., or during the Symposium hours on August21-23, 2015.Entry Fee:   NoneLimit: of items submitted: No more than 10 per artist. Inventory form, availableonline or at the symposium, required.GALLERY DRAWING (Blue Tickets)

1. Six of the most outstanding turnings from the 40 donated artpieces are selected for the special Gallery Drawing.2. Tickets are $2 per ticket and blue in color.

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3. Drawing purchasers have the option of placing one, all, or part oftheir ticket purchases into the specially marked container of theirchoice.4. One winner is drawn from each of the specially markedcontainers.

5. Drawing is Saturday evening following the banquet.

2 for 1 Drawing entrees from SWAT's gone bye

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TWO-FOR-ONE GALLERY DRAWING(Part 1)

RED TICKETS1.Turned art pieces are donated to SWAT by artistsselected from across the SWAT region. Approximately40 turnings are donated.2.The red tickets are priced at $1 per ticket or $5for 6 tickets, $10 for 12 tickets, and so on.3. All tickets drawn as winners are returned to thetumbler to be eligible to win again, thus “Two-for-One.”4. Drawing is Saturday evening following the banquet.

TWO-FOR-ONE (Part 2) TOOL DRAWINGRED TICKETS

1. Assorted wood, turning tools, turning accessories,and a large format Vic Marc lathe.2. Two new Jet 1221 Midi Lathes.3. The same Red tickets from Saturday night4. Drawing is Sunday following lunch.

The 2015 SWAT Rotation schedule is available on the website

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More about SWAT in the next newsletter

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One last thing

We are in need of volunteers to operate the

video system at SWAT.

Ideally, there will be 2 people in the room

for each of the 9 sessions. One to operate

the system and one to introduce and assist.

The new system is not difficult to operate

and training will be provided.

The sign-up sheet will be on James's desk

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Friendly ReminderThe Beads of Courage Program has been taken on as a major project by our club and we need yourhelp. We need you to signed up and make a lidded bowl that will be taken to SWAT in August. Checkout last month’s newsletter for additional details.If your name is not listed below please let me Know. Check out the website: http://www.beadsofcourage.org

Members accepting the Challenge to date1. Brian Begina 6. John Horn 11. Ray Moyer2. John Weaver 7. Ron Schiller 12. Jeff Allen3. Tom Beatty 8. Glynn Cox 13. Dave Narducci4. Bob Clark 9. Sandy Jarrell 14. Scott Wisdom5. Bob Wiggins 10. John Lauderbaugh 15. Don Christiansen* (* - Completed and turned in)

What is Beads of Courage?This program is designed to support and strengthen children and families coping with serious illness.The program lets the children tell their story using colorful beads as meaningful symbols thatcommemorates milestone they have achieved along their treatment path. The average child gets 500beads.Hospitals ServedFort Worth Area Cooks Children Hospital Texas Health Harris Methodist HospitalDallas Area Children’s Medical Center Children’s Medical Center, Legacy Medical Center Children’s Hospital Parkland Health and Hospital System

GuidelinesTurned boxes need to be about 6 inches in diameter, (5” minimum)Have Beads of Courage engraved or burned on the lid if possibleMake sure the lids are easily removableFinials should be easy for a small child to grasp but not elaborateIf not a turned box is should be 4x6x4 inches

Woodturners of North TexasOur club has taken on the Beads of Courage as a project and encourages our members toparticipate. As part of our participation we will giving an additional 3 Challenge Raffle Tickets for eachbox.Bowls can be turned in to Ray Moyer at our regular meetings or they can be taken to SWAT. SWAT’scontest does not require you to be at SWAT for competition/prizes.

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Empty Bowls 2015 Turn-A-Bowl-A-Month

Turner's Name Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Total

Bowl Of MonthMemberSandy Jarrell 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4Glynn Cox 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3Ray Moyer 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4JohnLauderbaugh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Ron Howe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Jimmy Fife 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Bill Collins 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Josh Boaz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Tommy Schutz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Not Bowl OfMonthMemberDavid Baulch 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2John Solberg 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3Roger Jones 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Ronnie Nuzum 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2DonChristiansen 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Grand Total 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21

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Name City Specialty

Beasley, John Denton, General turning, Bowls

Boehme, Billy Arlington General turning, BowlsBrand, Neal Denton Spindles, Hand-chased threads, BoxesClowers, Wayne Haltom City Bowls, Pens, Lidded vessels, Segmented

Cox, Glynn Keller General turning, Tool making

Denke, Fred Fort Worth Bowls, Surface decoration, InlayDerczo, Johnny Mansfield SegmentedGill, Jimmie Haltom City General turning, Bowls

Horn, John North RichlandHills Fundamentals. Spindles, Bowls, Sharpening

Jarrell, Sandy Fort Worth General turning, BowlsLauderbaugh,John

North RichlandHills Peppermills, Snowmen, Pens, Sharpening

Marshall, Dave Fort Worth General turningMoyer, Ray Euless Spindles, Boxes, Basics

Placido, Bob Azle Bowls, Inlays, Segmented, Boxes, Goblets,Inside-out. Tops

Roberts, Larry Arlington Basics, Natural Edge VesselsRost, Steve Mansfield SegmentedSolberg, John Denton Multi-axis, Ornaments, Bowls, Pens, TopsTanksley, Jim Mansfield End grain bowls, Hollowing

Taylor, Max Fort Worth General turning, Pens, Bowls

Thornhill, Chas Frisco General TurningTiefel, Paul Southlake Multi-axis, Hollow forms, Bowls, CoringTkacs, Peter Denton General turning, PeppermillsWiggins, Bob Arlington Bowls

Mentors

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CalendarNOTE: The Regular Monthly Meetings are held on the last Thursday of eachmonth at the Handley-Meadowbrook Lions Club, 6013 Craig Street, FortWorth, TX. Board meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month atNiki’s Italian Bistro, 5237 Davis Blvd. (FM1938) in North Richland Hills.Check the WNT web site for any updates. All WNT members are invited toattend. If you would like to join the group for dinner, it begins at 5:30 PMand the business meeting starts at 6:30 PM.

May 28th - Regular Monthly meeting 6:30 PM, Lions Club, Demonstrator: Suzanne McNeill - "Anything is Possible, One Stroke At A Time"

June 9th - WNT Board Meeting

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Board of Directors

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