The Central Minnesota Woodworker's Association is a group of men and women from around the St. Cloud Minnesota area who share a common interest in the art and business of woodworking. We meet monthly in St. Cloud to share information, techniques and topics of interest in the area of woodworking. Learn more about membership or support.
May's Woodturner's project challenge was to create a bowl. Read More to see the pictures.
Brad Knowles - Cherry Segmented Bowl - Lacquer Finish
JoAnn Johnson - Red Elm - Wax Finish
Gary Mrozek - Willow - Spray Satin Urethane with Minwax Paste Wax
Dick Beamer - Maple
Brad Knowles - Cherry Candlestick
Our next Woodturner's meeting will be June 14th at 9:00 AM at the shop of Tom Homan, 104 Hill Street West, St. Joseph. We will be continuing our series on bowl turning with various methods and products for finishing your bowl. Our project challenge for June will be “Something That Makes Noise”. Examples include whistles, wind chimes, duck calls and music boxes.
The may meeting topic will be "Sharpening Scraper Blades" and will be presented by both Rolland Johnson and Alex Neussendorfer.
The Woodturners Group met at Dick Beumer’s shop on Saturday, May10th. Dick demonstrated his Oneway 1640 lathe with the Oneway Easy Core attachment. The Easy Core System allows you to remove multiple nested bowl blanks from one piece of wood. With a 14” piece of black walnut he was able to make three individual bowls. Where conventional hollowing would have produced a mountain of shavings, Dick had but a few handfuls of waste.
John Skalla brought his Jet mini lathe and demonstrated a conventional approach to turning a bowl. With a piece of maple chucked on a tenant, John showed the basics of hollowing a bowl to produce a natural finished edge (the bark still intact at the rim). He also showed a blank attached to a faceplate and the steps in shaping and hollowing. What was interesting to note was the amount of waste produced by the conventional method verses the Easy Core System.
John had the privilege of trying Dick’s latest weapon in his turning tool arsenal; the Henry Taylor 5/8” Kryo Superflute bowl gouge. Where conventional tool steel tempering is achieved by heating, Kryo tools undergo a state-of-the-art cryogenic process in which the tool is subject to temperatures of 300 degrees below zero. The result is a complex molecular change within the steel resulting in increased wear resistance by 3 – 6 times that of heat treated M2 tool steel. For John, it was love at first try.
Our project challenge for April is to make a bowl to display at our May 21st meeting at Sauk Rapids Middle School. Bring your bowl along with a card with your name, the type of wood and finish and any other details that describes your bowl. Photos will be taken to publish on our website.
Our next meeting will be June 14th at 9:00 AM at the shop of Tom Homan, 104 Hill Street West, St. Joseph. We will be continuing our series on bowl turning with various methods and products for finishing your bowl. Our project challenge for June will be “Something That Makes Noise”. Examples include whistles, wind chimes, duck calls and music boxes.
The first meeting is intended to provide an arena for members to mingle and become familiar with each other’s business interests. At this time, there is no cost for membership and all who are interested in attending are welcome. If you plan on attending, please contact Scott Randall so that he can arrange for the appropriate materials and space.
This meeting is expected to last about 90 minutes and the agenda will be as follows:
- BBW goals
- Introductions
- An inventory of resources
- The components of a marketing plan
- Round table discussion of future topics
- A real time marketing success story
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April's Woodturner's project challenge was to create a weed pot - a vase shape with a 1/2" to 3/4" hole down the center used to display dry floral arrangements. Read More to see the pictures.
Alber Keppers - Cherry, Black Walnut, & Oak
Brad Knowles - Box Elder
Brad Knowles - Brazilian Cherry & Walnut
Jim Preusser - Spalted Maple
John Caye - Cedar
Gary Mrozek - Mountain Ash
John Skalla - Banksia Nut
John Skalla - Ironwood
The discussion will be turning a bowl by a coring tool and conventional methods. Questions? Call Dick at 251-7013 or Gary Mrozek at 252-2764
Spring Sale Tool Blitz May 15, 16 & 17 2008.
The meeting topic for the April meeting will be refacing a cabinet with veneer using hide glue and an iron.
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