Two big reasons to attend July’s meeting: Take inspiration from Robert Duffer’s demonstration on multi-axis turning and turn one yourself for the meeting Challenge. Next, July’s demonstrator will be Big Island Engraving owner, Mark Stebbins, whose company is a major source of pewa patches for woodcrafting. Learn about bowl repair with pewa patches and other enhancements!

Mahalo!

Taking inspiration from Dale Dennison’s resin and koa demonstration at our March meeting, your challenge for May’s meeting is “resin and wood”. You must use BOTH resin and wood in your turning. As an alternative to resin, you may use acrylic paint instead, meaning your wood piece qualifies if it is painted with acrylic as well.

Put on your thinking caps!

Mahalo!

The challenge for the next meeting is ”wings and air gaps”.

Turn a piece with wings and air gaps.

Square edged platters and bowls are common examples of this but yours can be a triangle, eight pointed star. trapezoid, etc. Use your imagination!

“At our last meeting, Luther Bjornsen shared information on how to make wood translucent, in particular for lampshades. Fittingly, the challenge for the next meeting is to make an item with the word “light” in mind. Let your imagination rule in determining how you will apply the term “light”. It could be the weight of your piece, the translucency of it or however you decide the word applies. Just be sure it fits within a 10” cube. “

Honolulu Woodturners was treated to a wonderful demonstration by Aaron Hammer at our September meeting. The gifted turner captured our attention! Rob Hale mused that when he thinks of Aaron, he thinks of his signature massive calabash bowls. The next meeting’s challenge is very appropriately, a calabash! Give it a try gang! Just be sure it’s not massive. It must fit within a 10” cube.

Take up our challenge for September’s meeting: Turn a bowl, a platter or a hollow form and add a carved element to it. Carve by hand and/or powertool, it’s up to you. The piece must fit within a 10” cube. See you in September!

Meeting Challenge For July’s meeting we challenge you to turn an urn. Minimum size requirement: It must at least fit a hummingbird (it’s remains – not a live one!). There is no maximum size limit as we trust that our members will exercise good judgment and restraint (we hope!).

Put on your thinking caps for the May meeting challenge! We are asking you to turn something related to a single word–”writing”. Conjure whatever piece you desire related to this word. Think outside of the box and bring it to the May 14 meeting!