Demonstrations

I enjoy sharing my love of turning wood. My unique sense of humor and passion for woodturning are most evident in my energetic demonstrations. Contact me if your club needs a demonstrator and we will work out the details.

Topics

Sharpening:: The basic focus of this demo is the sharpening of the bowl gouge with a “finger nail” grind using the wolverine system with various jigs. A small amount of time will be spent on some of the other tools in the bag, i.e. spindle gouge, scrapers, and roughing gouge.

Basic Bowl Turning: I will talk about and demonstrate many aspects of bowl turning including safety, drying, twice turning, sanding, finishing, line and design. Depending on time available, a turning demo will include a small salad bowl, a natural edge bowl and a dried bowl blank.

Walnut Insert: In this demo, I will show the steps I use to insert a slice of a walnut into the edge of a bowl.

Basic Bowls and a Little Beyond: This is a very poplar combination of the two demonstrations above.

What’s in that Screwed-up Wood: Here I will attempt to share what I see in burls, crotches, and other screwed up pieces of trees. Using a combination of finished turnings, and pieces of wood, we will discuss the options and bring some into reality by turning pieces as time allows. We will discuss safety, drying, sanding, finishing and of course, line and design.

Coring: In this demo, I will share my knowledge and experiences in coring with the McNaughton system. I will begin with basic bowls and work into burls.

Burls-Burls: Every burl is different and requires some imagination to find everything that is inside these wonderful bundles of joy. I will share my thought process with you as we look at several burls and cut into several of them. This demo will include coring, turning, sanding (discussion only), and finishing.

Demonstrations Schedule

---