Texturing was this month’s demonstration. Rick had the pleasure of displaying his talent again as our demonstrator. He stepped through various ways of texturing and decorating turnings.
Some species of wood are rather plain. These species respond well to additional design elements.
Some example that were shown were:
- Applying a stain or dye
- Woodburning accents
- Beading tools
- Texture and chatter tools
- Wire wheel attached to a drill
- Guitar wire used for burning in lines.
Our second member participation activity was also introduced tonight. Les Morgan brought in pile of 6′” wood blocks. The activity is to turn whatever strikes us and bring it to the next meeting. From there we will let the project evolve into trying various finishing techniques and maybe have a small scale design competition.
This should prove to be an interesting exercise.