Gulf Coast Woodturners Association

February 2010 Meeting Gallery

Pictures of John Horn's demonstration on getting the most out of your Mini-Lathe,
 Faces in the Crowd, and Head Shots are at the bottom of this page.
 

Advanced Category (Items made from one piece of wood by advanced turners)

1st Place Clyde Collier Ambrosia Maple Chinese  Box 9"W x 3"H

2nd Place Paula Haymond Norfolk Island Pine  "Brandy Sniffer" 8-1/2"W x 8"H

3rd Place Kendall Westbrook Water Oak Bowl 12"W x 5-1/2"H

Enhanced Category (Items that incorporate embellishment of the item by turners of all levels)

1st Place Gary Rock White Oak, Purple Heart,  Copper, Epoxy Vessel 6-1/2"W x 3"H

2nd Place Mike Stall Olive Wood Bowl 8"W x 3"H

3rd Place Clyde Collier Ambrosia Maple Art  Piece 10"W x 2"H

Intermediate Category (Items made by intermediate turners)

1st Place Mike Stall Olive Wood Bowl 8"W x 4"H

2nd Place Mike Stall Olive Wood Open Vessel 5"W x 8"H

3rd Place Dennis April Norfolk Island Pine  Open Vessel 7"W x 9"H

Beginner Category (Items made by beginning turners)

1st Place Charles Laughlus Pen Set

2nd Place Jeff Lewis Cocobolo Bowl 5"W x 1"H

3rd Place Delbert Pond Chinese Tallow Candle  Sticks 2"W x 6"H

Other Worthy Items Entered in February's Show and Tell 

gallery photography by Paul Millo

Judges

Don Fluker and Derek Hansen judged February's Show & Tell.

John Horn's Demo on Getting the Most Out of Your Mini-Lathe

John Horn is a well known Texas turner who has demonstrated at SWAT and it's predecessor (TTT) Symposiums.  At February's meeting, he discussed how to get the most out of your mini-lathe. John has an easy going style that engages the audience.  Here's a link to his presentation notes (a Word document) on getting the most out of your mini-lathe. John held the audience's attention throughout his presentation. After John's presentation, members gathered round for a closer look at John's techniques.  Here's a link to a list of projects (a Word document) edited by John that can be done on a mini-lathe. John conducted an afternoon workshop on making peppermills.  Here is his handout on peppermills (a Word document) and a picture of popular peppermill shapes (a jpg file).

Faces in the Crowd

Greg Gonzalez is our resident .End Grain Sealer coordinator, here shown "filling a jug."

Tom Enloe does a great job with GCWA's Library. Members can check out any DVD in the library...as long as they bring it back when they are finished with it (!)

The Library has an extensive collection of DVDs on turning, sanding, finishing, tool selection-- just about anything related to woodturning.

Show and Tell items on the Advanced table received a lot of interest at February's meeting...and for good reason.

Do did the items on the Intermediate table.

Mike Stall took home three ribbons from February's Show and Tell.  All the items were made from Olive wood salvaged from the aftermath of Hurricane Ike that devastated Galveston, TX in September 2008.

Clyde Collier took home two awards, here shown with an art piece that he embellished with metal paint..

Gary Rock took the First Place in the Enhanced Category.  Gary's work is highly creative and you can see more of it here.

Paula Hammond has been a consistent award winner at Show and Tell during the past several months.  Here she explains to Bill Berry, our Master of Ceremonies, how she developed this Norfolk Island Pine piece.

Chris Roth's hats are nothing short of amazing.  GCWA is full of talented turners and Chris is one of the best.

Head Shots!

John  Van Domelen

Clyde Collier

Mike Stall

Janice Levi

Carl Blair( (one of GCWA's original members!)

 candid photography by  Ric Taylor and Dale Barrack