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The annual OCWA Auction has come and gone, and it was very successful in that we col-lected over $3,700.00 dollars to help with our Christmas Toy Program, and Military Pen ef-fort. Who knows what we might have garnered had the California, Los Angeles, Orange County, Anaheim Angels had not been losing to the Kansas City Royals on the very same night of our auction, but I digress. Only 69 people showed up, and out of that group, 41 people actually participated in the auction process, which makes the outcome even more surprising.

I want to thank Al Missbrenner, Larry Marley, Len Musgrave, Ralph Crowther and all of the people who volunteered to help with all of the work that goes into this type of event. All of you did a fantastic job.

A very special thank you goes to our very special Auctioneer, Mr. Craig Chambers, who with his usual aplomb was able to wring out this much money out of so few attendees in such a short period of time. An amazing effort put on by an amazing guy.

While I’m thanking everyone involved, I also have to acknowledge our very generous membership that not only donated their wares, and time, but also came through with the wherewithal to purchase it all back that made this an incredible night indeed. Thank you.

Christmas Party The annual OCWA Christmas Party will be on Friday December 12th starting at 6:30 p.m., and going until the last dog is hung, or 9:00 p.m., whichever comes first.

It will be a potluck affair with the OCWA providing the entrees, and the membership providing their favorite side dishes, or desserts. In lieu of a side dish a donation of $10.00 dollars will be accepted.

There will be door prizes, and a gift exchange. The gifts for the exchange shouldn’t be more than twenty-five dollars, or can be hand-made objets d’art of our membership. Hand-made stuff is always appreciated by your fellow woodworkers.

Please make your reservations early, so we can determine how much food to order. This can be done on our website ocwoodworkers.com. Each member may have one guest unless you have the family member-ship, which would entitle you to two guests.

November Election At November’s meeting, we will have our yearly election for the following year’s officers. As of this writing we still do not have a nominee for the Vice President’s position. The Vice President is also the Program Chairman for our general meetings, and if we don’t have a Vice President you may have to see the “Unknown Turner” for the whole year. That should be incentive enough for someone to run for VP.

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Volume 31 Issue 11 November 2014

I N T H I S I S S U E

President’s Message 1

Calendar of Events 2

Woodturners’ Shavings 3

Toy Story 4

Show and Tell 5

Keith Gotschall Demo 6

Meeting Dates 8

President’s Message James Santhon

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Our nominees are as follows: President, James Santhon VP, ?????? Treasurer, Ralph Crowther Secretary, Frank Andrews Public Affairs Chair, Larry Marley Directors at Large, Al Missbrenner, Ollie Vaughn, and John Marshall.

After the nominees are announced prior to the election, we will then open the floor for additional nomina-tions. Please remember that if you are going to nominate someone for a position please find out from that person if they’re interested in running, so as to avoid any embarrassment.

Show and Tell With the holidays almost upon us, we know you must be making something for your friends, and relatives, so why not give us a preview of those beautiful items on our Show and Tell table at this month’s meeting. We would love to see them.

Safety Here at the OCWA safety is always important, and especially so around the holidays what with the pres-sure to get gifts made in time for Christmas, so here are a few suggestions.

Start your gift projects early, and don’t rush. It’s when we rush that we make mistakes, so we really don’t save any time by taking short cuts on safety. Take your time, use safety devices such as push sticks, clamp downs, or any other device to keep your digits from harm, and please always wear your safety glasses.

We want your holiday season to be injury free, so you can fully enjoy your time with your family and friends during the most joyous time of the year. Happy Holidays.

James Santhon

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• C L U B O F F I C E R S & C O M M I T T E E S •

Board of Directors Club Committees Woodturners Committees

President James Santhon 949-481-2821 Badges Len Musgrave 714-532-4778 Outside Programs Bill Haskell 714-528-4783

Vice President Greg Madrigal 714-539-1818 Mentor Chairman Fred Wilmott 949-367-6671 Challenge Ross Gilroy 714-680-4570

Treasurer Ralph Crowther 949-588-2922 Webmaster Larry Marley 949-412-6710 Special Projects Jerry Nininger 949-631-7530

Secretary Jerry Nininger 949-631-7530 Toy Program Bill Rogers 714-637-2912 Pen Projects John Marshall 949-582-2997

Turners President Robin Hoff 714-505-2688 Refreshments Jim Steinmetz 714-842-8793 Audio/Video Ralph Alder 714-614-4461

Public Affairs Larry Marley 949-412-6710 Resources George Plummer 714-540-4527 50/50 Drawing Al Whitcomb 714-931-0555

Director at Large John Marshall 949-582-2997 Library Ollie Vaughan 949-278-5939 50/50 Drawing Bill Rogers 714-637-2912

2nd Director at Large Ollie Vaughn 949-278-5939 Welcome Art Dunbar 714-536-4568 Refreshments Jim Steinmetz 714-842-8793

Director at Large Al Missbrenner 562-866-2873 Newsletter David Tilson 714-330-4786 Wood Supplies Jeanette Gonzales 562-417-7750

Property Master Ralph Alder 714-614-4461

• M A R K Y O U R C A L E N D A R •

The Woodworking Shows OC Fairgrounds Oct. 31– Nov. 2

OCWA Dinner Tustin Sr. Ctr. Dec. 12

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October has come and gone with ghosts and goblins galore. None of the trick-er-treaters wanted a baggie of shavings so I had to make do with wrapped candies. They just don’t appreciate the smell and feel of fresh wood shavings anymore. They probably don’t want coal for Christ-mas either.

Our October program by Frank Andrews was most inter-esting. His presentation on the making of “Frank’s Handy

Handle” was very informative and well re-ceived. His excellent handout certainly sets a benchmark standard for future demonstrator presentations. Although there will not be a “Challenge” or “Show and Tell” for next month it would be neat to see some examples of “Frank- type” handles on the “Show and Tell “table in December.

The November 20th meeting will feature “Finally Finials by James” with our own James Santhon demonstrating his considerable talent. Also, the Turner’s Group will be electing a new Turner’s Group President. After three years, it is time for me to step aside and let someone else have all the fun. Ross Gilroy is heading up the can-didate search. Please contact him if you are interested.

ANNUAL TURNERS CONTEST The OCWA Annual Woodturning Contest will be held during the November 20th meeting. Now is the time to put the finishing touches on that special entry. Cash prizes will be given in all classes. This is always a super event. You need to be part of this.

Saturday, November 22, 2014, Craig Chambers will again be hosting a driveway turning workshop at his home. The project will be Birdhouse Ornaments. It will run from 9:00am to about 3:00 PM and cost about $10.00 for materials. Lunch is on your own. Bring a folding chair and basic lathe tools if you have them. There will some loaner tools available. If you have a mini or midi lathe, by all means bring it along. Craig will be sending out an Email with more information to all members in the near future. Assistant mentors are needed.

The OCWA has purchased a brand new Jet VS 1221 Midi lathe with digital readout. It is due to arrive in mid-November. I hope we can unveil it at the November meeting. The fine folks at Rockler Orange arranged for special “classroom” pricing direct from Jet on this lathe. It is a beauty and it should, with user care, be a real asset at our various outside events and of course in our booth at the OC fair. There is a small catch. We will be putting into place a usage SOP so that it doesn’t end up trashed, modified, and missing parts, and covered with unidentifiable grunge. Each of you should be sure to thank Mike the next time you are in the Rockler Or-ange store. He is a real solid supporter of our club and activities.

I had an opportunity to attend the Orange County Wood Carvers’ Show and Sale this past weekend. What a neat event! Some of the carved birds looked as if they were ready to take flight. There were numerous turn-ings on display and for sale. Our own members Bill Bahret and Doug Turner had tables at the event. They seemed busy and enjoying talking the many attendees. I want to be sure Doug brings his handcrafted out house and the “3 piece chicken dinner” to the next meeting. I strongly urge you all to attend this event next year. It is usually held about the middle of October in Santa Ana.

Robin Hoff

Woodturners Shavings Robin Hoff

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At the October Toy Workshop we had 32 people and one dog on a bright and hot sunny morning. Ed Smet had his usual 40 or so Keep-sake boxes to assemble and pre-pare for the next step. Allen had many legs, paws and wheels for his pull toy that needed sanding and spraying. Len, Mag Roger, Al and Charles were busy sanding, spraying and add-ing dolls to the 200 or so cradles we had com-pleted this year. Our thanks to Marie Turner for making so many dolls this year, I’ll bet she can make them blindfolded. We had nine members of the Orange High School Honor Society at the workshop to help in sanding and assembling. It

is great to see them here helping and it is also great to have them help when it gets to the clean up. Those tables are getting heavier each week or we are getting older each week.

The November toy workshop will be November 8th at Bill Rogers’s house from 9 am to noon. It will be the last workshop of the season so we hope you can attend.

Bill Rogers

Toy Chairman

Welcome - New Members!

Thomas Contreras Huntington Beach

Interest: General Woodworking, Woodturning

Nettie Dokes Irvine

Interest: Cabinet and Furniture

Leonard Duarte Anaheim

Interest: General Woodworking, Woodturning, Hand tools, Toys, Restoration, Furniture

Dennis Fitzgerald Cerritos

Interest: Furniture

Toy Story Bill Rogers

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Show & Tell Photos

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OCWA Christmas Dinner

The Annual OCWA Christmas Dinner will be Friday night December 12th at the Tustin Senior Citizen Cen-ter at 6 pm. Signup will be on the web site. Again this year you will ask to bring either an appetizer dish or a vegetable dish or a desert dish or 10 dollars per couple. We will welcome any one to help with set up, serving and clean up, call Len Musgrave at 714-532-4778 to help. If you don’t have a computer to sign up call Len and he will register you. Register as soon as you can so we can plan on the main dish which will be provided by the OCWA. If you have never attended our Christmas Dinner you are missing a great so-cial event and some good eatens.

Len Musgrave 714-532-4778 Dinner Chairman

OCWA hosted Keith Gotschall, a pro-fessional production woodturner from Salida, Colorado. You can see his work on his website at keithgotschall.com. Keith does pro-duction work on a lathe that can turn 12 feet and 6 inches and no more. He challenges us to ask him how he knows this (must be he tried something larger and couldn't do it).

Keith's demo was made possible because of the generosity of Laguna Tools making their warehouse available to us. Thank you Laguna Tools! Laguna is going to combine their warehouses and will have a special price on some excess equipment. You can call them for more information if you are interested.

Keith went though the intricate details of 4 different projects during the course of the day. He kept amazing us with the ease that he performed each element. But through it all, he emphasized the different techniques that made it look easy. We only had 21 attendees, so those that missed it really missed a treat. I don' think anyone left there without learning some-thing new.

Before Keith started his projects, he spent some time on the basics. They do bear repeating because everything he did after that was built on those basics. One of the questions he is always asked is how fast does he turn. He was working on a Laguna lathe with a digital readout and commented that this was the first time he actually knew how fast he was turning. He says that as a rule of thumb, take the RPM's times the diameter and uses a target value of 6,000 to 9,000 to come up with a basic speed.

As for tools, Keith started with a roughing gouge, but was adamant that it be called a Spindle Roughing Gouge and not ever to be used on a bowl. That is an important safety rule if you value your body parts, because us-ing a roughing gouge on any end grain is asking for disaster. Then Keith emphasized rubbing the bevel with any gouge. That is the only way to control the tool. If you are not rub-bing the bevel, then you are scraping and the quality of your cut will suffer.

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Keith Gotschall Professional Demo Don Scott

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Most people using a roughing gouge start in the middle and wonder why they have trouble with it. It is be-cause after the first plunge into the wood, there is material on both sides that prevent the gouge from mov-ing either direction. The proper way is to take small cuts at one end of your material. That way when you go back to make the next cut there is space for the gouge to move into. I had never heard it explained so clearly before.

There are only three types of cuts in woodturning. Straight, beads and coves. Everything you make can be achieved if you master these three cuts. The roughing gouge and the skew are used to make the straight cuts. Then you can use gouges to make the beads and coves.

Keith proceeded to demonstrate all of these cuts while making his first project, a winged bowl out of poplar by turning on two different axis' (he normally makes them from pink ivory but chose poplar for the demo because of cost). After he was done, we discovered that what he made was actually a Scottish Quaich (a two-handled drinking vessel). What was amazing was that the first portion of the project was turned as a spindle and all the cuts were made by cutting downhill (from the top of each bead down to the bottom of the bead and from the top of each cove down to the bottom of the cove). On that piece, he marked the direction of the cut and then when he re-chucked the piece as a bowl, he showed how the direction of the cut in relation to the grain was exactly the same.

Another pearl of wisdom that was found at this demo was a little jig that Keith made that shows the maxi-mum and minimum size his chuck would open for both tenon and recess chucking. Gonna have to make me one of those. Sure will save a lot of time during layout. It is simply a square of material that has notch-

es or marks to indicate the appropriate minimum and maxi-mum diameters.

His next project was a lidded sugar bowl out of curly maple. When you make some bowls, you want a snug lid, but for a sugar bowl you want a good but loose fit so that it can be lifted with one hand. For making a lidded bowl, Keith always starts with the top. After sizing the top, he will then make the bottom to assure that the top overlaps the bottom. If you make your bottom first you may find you don't have enough material to make if fit like you want it. During all of this, Keith kept remind-

ing us to ride the bevel with our gouges and skews to be able to properly control the quality of the cut. Don't push too hard into the wood, let the tool cut. If you push too hard you will create dips where the wood cuts easier and this condition will grow worse as you progress making your piece out of round. It will then be necessary to correct this problem before you proceed.

Keith then made an off center turned platter out of curly maple. On the top of the platter, he made a series of beads. To accentuate the beads, he took a small piece of purpleheart and whittled it into a point and used it to add just a touch of color at the bottom

of each bead. Some of the color was from the purpleheart and some was from a slight burning from rub-bing the wood. Quite an interesting technique. When Keith turned the platter on the second axis, he em-phasized to lock your tool to the tool rest with your hand and take light cuts as you slowly rotate the tool

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into the material to minimize the jumping that normally happens when cutting a lot of air. Mark you secondary axis in line with the grain of the wood for maximum strength.

Keith's fourth project was a milk stool from sugar pine with three poplar legs (he has been informed that a true milk stool only has one leg). He thinks this makes a great gift for a new baby. First the mother will use it to sit on, then as the child grows he will use it as a table. Later he will use it as a step stool, then even later in college to hold his beers. When he has his own family he will pass it down and it becomes a family heirloom. Not bad for an afternoon's work. Keith used a story stick to show how to make the legs match and to save time during the turning process he showed how it is easy to design with fewer diameters (using the same diameter for several different elements) which means you have fewer calipers laying on your lathe and less chance of grabbing the wrong one (he says ask me how I know this). Each leg was made with those same three cuts (straight, bead and cove).

During his final comments, Keith emphasized that production turning doesn't need to be fast, but it does need to be smooth. Most of Keith's work is commission work and only 15% of his work is sold in galleries. Keith then described and demonstrated the different type of

pommels. I never knew there were so many types. He demonstrated a square pommel, an angled pommel, a curved pommel and a lamb's tongue pommel (the last one being the hardest to duplicate and the an-gled pommel being the easiest). He also demonstrated a weighted bead and a penny bead.

A great demo and a good time had by all. Thank you Keith for a very educational day! Look forward to seeing you again and hope it is not another 7 years before we do. You made everything look so easy. Now I have to go make some shavings!

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WOODTURNING CONTESTS RULES

The Orange County Woodturners will hold Annual Woodturning and Pen Turning Contests, and the nam-ing of The Fred Adam Polychromatic Award recipient, during the monthly meeting in November of each year. The rules of the contests are as follows:

1. All entries must be a members own work.

2. Entries will be accepted in two classes, for each of the two contests:

a. Master Class - Experienced turners who have sold work or won a prize in any turning con-test.

b. Novice Class - Beginning and intermediate turners who do not meet the Master Class defi-nition.

3. All entries must be lathe-turned pieces; they may be embellished with carving, inlay, or other deco-ration.

4. Entries shall not have been entered into any other contest in any venue, i.e., this will be the first contest this piece has been entered into. Club “Show and Tell” is not considered a contest.

5. Judging will be done by an independent panel(s) selected by the Turning Club president or an as-signee of the club president which will evaluate:

a. Quality of work

b. Design and originality

c. Use of material

d. Other factors the judges see fit to consider

6. The judges’ decisions will be final.

7. A member may submit up to three entries, in each of the Woodturning and Pen Turning contests, but may only receive one prize in each contest.

8. Prizes in each class are a combination of cash and gift certificates in the amount determined by the Turning Club president. The judges may award additional honorable mentions.

9. Entrants must be members of OCWT.

10. All segmented entries of both contests qualify for The Fred Adam Polychromatic Award in addition to the above awards. Polychromatics is the building up of the work piece by gluing many separate pieces of material together before or during turning. Polychromatics is to include closed segment-ed, open segmented, stave and any other turned pieces made up of many pieces. A glued up block of three or four pieces is NOT considered to be polychromatic turning.

11. Three time “1st place” winners in any of the three above contests are no longer eligible to win again, or win prizes, in that contest. Pieces may be entered for the other contests.

Rev: 14 November 2010

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