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San Diego Woodturners Page 16 March 2011 Last Minute Trip to Mesa by Mavis Porter Members may remember receiving Marshall Chapman’s very generous offer of a free admission to the seminar in Mesa, Arizona; I was the early riser who jumped at the offer. I was lucky enough to hitch a ride there with Scott Van Hoften and Tom Lightener, who were fine traveling companions. The seminar was attended by about ten club members. There were eight demonstrators and forty eight demonstrations; and it was located at an excellent Convention Center which was within spitting distance from the hotel. The Instant Gallery was stunning, a few examples follow; David Nittmann Jason Clarke Hans Finsterwalden Betty Scarpino Mel Genge Lyle Jamieson Mike Mahoney
San Diego Woodturners Page 17 March 2011 Desert Roundup Seminar Reviews by Mavis Porter Lyle Jamieson The basic bowl seminar, which was not that basic because Lyle chose a piece of olive from the crotch of the tree; it was triangular and selected for its probable good grain. When he mounted the wood, he used a laser from behind the headstock to make sure the wood was evenly distributed given its strange shape. Lyle also emphasized balancing the wood and tightening the tail stock hard enough so that the wood could not be moved by hand before turning on the lathe. His other emphatic lesson was to search out your face plate and do not use the chuck: the chuck will introduce some wobble. The face plate must have holes added to it, and the wood must be attached with size 12 x 1 ¼ sheet metal screws, an impact driver should be used to tighten the screws. The face plate has to be seated on the tail stock with no padding or anything else that could introduce wobble. Lyle said he did not know he had so many rules. If you want more go to www.jamison.com . I also took his hollowing classes which were interesting but mainly emphasized his patented laser system for knowing how thick the wood is, it works well but I am not sure it is any better than many of the other systems. Christian Burchard How to make balls, or as he prefers, spheres. Like Jaimeson, Buchard eschews the use of a chuck, and prefers to glue wood onto a block attached to a face plate. He turns the balls by using three perpendicular lines as guides. I believe he always uses wet wood and very often it is madrone burl, which is plentiful in South Oregon where he lives. He uses many unconventional methods including drying wood in a microwave, and putting the balls in a very hot oven to dry before the final turning. He also decorates the balls with various lines and will move the ball on the face plate by loosening a couple of screws and wedging in underneath to make asymmetrical patterns. Burchard also makes thin beautiful bowls which are allowed to distort while drying and are then sand blasted and finished. I took his seminar on design and he showed some very “way out” designs: in many of these the work on the lathe has to be a very small portion of the total work. I recommend looking at his web site because I failed to get any good pictures. www.burchardstudio.com He did recommend a book “Understanding Wood” by Taunton Press. Mark Sfirri Off center turning, having taken the class I remain almost as confused, and think the only way to get my head around it is to play with it. Sriffi makes elongated bodies, which remind me of those done by Alberto Giacometti, as well as shapes that make it very hard to understand how they could have been turned. I have not found his web site but his work is readily found by googling his name. He provided us with a schematic for making multi-axis candlesticks and a couple of other projects; I would be happy to fax these to you or make copies. Mark recommended a book called “Anatomy for the Artist” unfortunately there are two books with that title.
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