I’ve been pretty busy the past few months and haven’t had a chance to update the blog about the meetings for the past couple of months. So I’ll make it short.
In February, Fred Klapp braved inclimate weather and came to the meeting to demonstrate his method of box turning. Once the box was finished, he donated it to our monthly raffle table, which was raffled off at the April meeting.
Chris Darrah came to the club in March to demonstrate a new hollowing tool that he is importing from England. It’s a ring tool style cutter that has a replaceable insert. Since the insert is round, it is simply turned when the edge is worn. The idea seems to be a cool way to help eliminate the frequency of sharpening for end grain turning.
Michael Bonnycastle was the guest for April’s meeting. He came up from the Woodturner’s Guild of Ontario to demonstrate how to make homemade tools with various materials that are already available around the home shop. He also showed us how to do some silver soldering of cutting tips on o the end of a tool and then grind it to the desired shape.
In all, the meetings were as informative as ever.
Next month, I hope to post my meeting information sooner.
Until then…