JANUARY 2009 NEWSLETTER

Meeting was called to order by club President Jack Gregory at 7 pm on Janayr 21, 2009

Jack introduced guests, Ken Thurman, Pete Horton and Jack Rice.

Ken Thurman was welcome as a new member and as the program demonstrator.

OLD BUSINESS
Jack Gregory gave details on club name tag to be bought for members by club. Lost tags will cost $3.00 and special clips tob e paid for by individual Club members.  Following discussion, motion was made and seconded and approved to purchase name tags.

NEW BUSINESS JML-1229 12"X12"
A new Jet Lathe model JML-1223, 3/4 HP was made available to the club for $450.  Catalog price is $545.
After discussion of several superior features, including, power, speed control and increased capabilities, Russ Bolton made a motion to buy the lather.  Motion was seconeded and vote was to buy the lathe.

CLUB T-SHIRTS are available with club logo and members name.   Details were given by Larry Friedrich, who will be club contact for ordering.

MEMBER COMMENTS
Vice President Paul Pouliot Reminded members that the BLOG http://brevardwoodturners.blogspot.com/ is
available for your comments.

WOOD AUCTION
Harvey Driver again served as auctioneer. Some outstanding ready to mount camphor bowl blanks have been contributed by Paul Pouliot, including a turned and cored piece yiedling two ready to go projects.  All contributed wood is appreciated and benefits our club treasury.  We thank Mike Mogilevsky for tracking and collecting..

DEMONSTRATION
Ken Thurman , using African Blackwood turned a number fo finials, some not much bigger than a hypodermic needle.  Ken passed the results aroungd with a magnifying glass.
Larry Rittenhouse used his camera and projector to allow everyone to see what would have
been impossible to see, otherwise, during the actual turning.
Thank you to both.

NEXT MEETING:
Wednesday February 18, 2009 at 7 pm at the Christian Church of Port St John
Demonstrator:  Charlie Shrum - Turning Tea Lights

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Minutes submitted by
Vern Burgess
Secretary

                                              THE PRESIDENT'S TURN
Things did not happen as thought they would at the last meeting of the Florida Woodturning Symposium Committee, and to make a long story short, Brevard Woodturners will not be a member club of the symposium and I will be an "at large" member of the committee.  We will not give up on this and perhaps there will be a change in the future.

There has been a change in the symposium program that could affect our club.  There used be a "turn around" competition where a team of three turners would turn one or sometimes three pieces in a given length of time.  At the symposium one of the turners suffered an accident when the piece he was turning came off the lathe and struck him in the face, resulting in a visit to the Emergency Department and a few stitches.  As a result the "turn aournd" will no longer by held and in it's place will be a Chapter Collaborative contest similar to the one held at the AAW National Convention.  There have been no rules as of yet but I would think they would be close to what the rules for the AAW contest are.  This is something we might want to think about doing.  We certainly have the talended people and it would be good for the club to give it some thought.  We can discuss it at the meeting.

Was that a neat demo or not?  Thank you Ken for an enjoyable and instructive demo.  We hope you will come back and do the thread chasing or the small box demo in the future.  The show and tell was another winner!  I thought Bill Piastuch did a great job on the tulip vase, but I must admit to a liitle bias!
Good Turning and I will see you on the 18Th

Jack Gregory
President