New Members Michael Hanrahan and Steven Leshin - Welcome to MCW!
New member Michael Hanrahan at the Silent Auction table with walnut, eastern red cedar, mulberry, and osage orange, plus a gift certificate
Stan Sherman and Richard Webster conversing at the Silent Auction table
Ed Karch showing David Ellsworth's new, first book
Richard Webster - mulberry square, 4-footed bowl
Richard Webster - figured koa square platter with exquisite chatoyance and figure
Ed Karch - cherry vessel hollowed with an Ellsworth bowl gouge on a long pipe handle - carved end and burned rim
Ed Karch - pottery or nottery? Dyed, burned, and grouted red maple pot from an Ellsworth class
Stan Sherman with an in-progress segmented vessel
Gary Guenther - macacauba shawl pin and block - mate to the one that produced this pin and three others. ID from "unknown" to macacauba by Ed Karch
Mike Blake - tropical wood tool handles for finishing file, modeling tools, slotted nut driver, and scratch awl
Two squares for the Chapter Challenge, a month early - Gary Guenther's sealed but unfinished paela amethyst holder (could double as a tea candle) and Richard Webster's 4-footed mulberry bowl
MCW President Phil Brown auctions off Stuart Batty's demo bowl from the July meeting
Eliot Feldman's samples of his thin, small-mouthed hollow forms made with the various tools demonstrated this evening. Believe me, these are not easy!
Watching Eliot in action
Eliot using the Stan Townsend Elbo tool
An outrigger (like this one from CA Savoy) can be a simple but effective constraint on a hand-held hollowing tool
Eliot hollowing with the Keith Clark Deep Hollowing System
Yeah, this is fun, isn't it?
Showing how to set the laser alignment on the Keith Clark Deep Hollower
Here's how the laser beam works to show you the wall thickness...
Eliot shows that simple hand tools are also effective
It takes an extremely bent tool to make those reverse curve tops; yikes!
The Don Derry hollowing system in action
The Don Derry hollowing system with its very solid laser attachment
An arm brace like this Stewart system is a goo way to break in to hollowing
