MEETING LOCATION — Lighthouse Worship Center, 98 S. Trade Way, Rocky Point, NC 28457
This month's meeting features social time, club news, member sharing or projects, and a live remote demo projected on a big screen to be enjoyed together with the benefits of Q&A and personalized responses from the presenter.
Neal Brand, a master woodturner from Texas, will be the presenter and he will demonstrate turning wooden spoons.
From Neal . . .
"My first experience using a lathe was in junior high shop class where I turned a walnut lamp. I was immediately intrigued with woodturning and determined to someday buy a lathe, but it wasn’t until 35 years later that I owned a lathe and turned my second project! In the meantime, I was kept busy teaching mathematics at the University of North Texas and raising a family. I have been turning approximately 20 years. I am a member of Golden Triangle Woodturners (Denton, Texas), Woodturners of North Texas, and the Dallas Area Woodturners as well as the American Association of Woodturners. Most Saturdays between March and December, you can find me at the Denton Community Market selling my turnings.
"I do not consider myself an artist. Most of what I turn, such as bowls, spoons, spatulas, and pepper mills, I classify as functional. I also enjoy turning fun things such as tippe tops and fidget sticks. You can see some of my work at my website
thenaturallog.com.
"I will demonstrate how I turn spoons. There are two things I do not like about how people usually turn spoons. One is that there is no choice in the shape of the hollow part of the spoon, it is always round. The second is that the hollowing process requires mounting the spoon so that the handle dangerously spins around like a propeller. I intend to show an alternate way to make spoons that allows the turner more flexibility in shaping the spoon and eliminates the need for a spinning propeller. I will also talk about how to make jigs required for the process."
You won't want to miss this great, very social meeting.