Members examining items on the Show & Tell table
Examples of "square" bowls brought by Jamie Donaldson His second project tonight was like the one in the lower right
Mike Colella shooting S&T Gallery stills
Bert Bleckwenn making an announcement
Phil Brown, large silver-maple platter equipped as a wall hanging
Phil Brown, large cherry bowl
Elliot Schantz, cherry dish
Elliot Schantz, bowl
Don Van Ryk, "design opportunity" dish
Don Van Ryk, oak bowl with walnut, maple, and osage orange insets
John Adams, maple salt mill
John Adams, black burl shaving brush
Ed Karch, bottle stoppers and holder
Ed Karch, walnut box
Richard Webster, maple and walnut segmented bowl
Richard Webster, big-leaf maple box with ebony finial
Gary Guenther, spalted, burly, red-maple bowl
Mike Blake, pens of ambonia and bois de rose
Jamie Donaldson, winged, "square", lidded pot; in a word, "wow"
Eliot Feldman announces our demonstrator, Jamie Donaldson
Jamie starts with a rectangular block -- nothing round here
Jamie explaining the process
A jig for showing the smallest and largest capability of a given set of chuck jaws -- helpful for sizing tenons
Using a golf ball jam chuck, attached to the live tail center, for extra safety
The wood's-eye view of a shear scrape; turning lots of air
Cutting the shadow at the outside edge
Removing center material with a gouge angle that goes straight into a shear scrape on the wings
Time to evaluate shape and answer questions
Back off the tail stock now
Removing the center
Checking rim thickness and uniformity. A nice wavy "square" bowl ready to reverse to complete the foot
Jamie's padded jam chuck and the bowl
Chuck it up between centers again...
...to turn the tenon into a proper foot
Ta da...
The end result -- a very nice, wavy rectangular bowl; cool
We're going to get another one -- starting with a new block
A golf ball on the live tail center makes a nice chuck that applies pressure without setting a point
Turning the periphery with lots of air again
Check out the thickness -- we want it very uniform
Answering a question; we're nearly there
A second one successfully done. Very nice.
Jamie pulls his TSA-defined "ray gun" on Eliot Feldman as Elliot Schantz looks on. A good time was had by all -- thanks, Jamie, for opening our eyes to not-round things off the lathe
