Meeting

Announcement: Date: Saturday, Dec 11th Time: 5:00 PM — 9:00 PM Place: Messiah United Methodist Church off Rolling Road in Springfield, VA

Program For the Month 5:00 PM!! Social Hour — Fun, camaraderie, hors d'oeuvres, soft drinks, and inspecting the items

entered in the ornament contest and the grab-bag participation

6:00 PM!! Dinner — Really great food prepared by your friends, fellow woodturners, and/or their spouses. Potluck dinners are the best eating anywhere. Meat dishes, drinks and eating utensils will be provided by the CAW.

7:00 PM!! Fun & Games — Vote for your favorite ornament and grab-bag entry; dance with someone; sing some holiday carols; renew old acquaintances and make new ones; or talk about turning = just come and have fun!! Then you will still have time to go on to that corporate function if need be.

Sharing Holiday Cheer !!!

We hope you are planning to join your fellow members of the Capital Area Woodturners for the 5th annual Woodturners Ball on Saturday evening, December 13th, in the hall of the Messiah United Methodist Church on Rolling Road in Springfield, VA. Our goal is simple: Let's all get together during this holiday season to share some holiday cheer with the members, families, and friends of the CAW; eat a hearty meal of whatever dishes walk

through the door; vote for the best holiday ornament from the members' entries; and exchange a turned object for those participating in the grab-bag exchange.

See Page 2 for suggestions about what dish to bring and share

Directions to church buildings from corner of Rolling Road and Old Keene Mill Road (Route 644) in Springfield, VA

December 2004

The CAW Newsletter The CAW Newsletter is the official publication of the Capital Area Woodturners, Inc. a Chapter of the AAW, and is published for the information of its

members. Membership in the CAW Chapter is open to anyone interested in the art and craft of woodturning

http://www.capwoodturners.org.

DIRECTIONS TO THE MEETING: From Virginia or Maryland, take I-495/I-95 towards the Wilson Bridge over the Potomac River. Take Exit 177A (Rt 1 South) on the Virginia side. Approximately 1.9 miles south of the Beltway, you will pass the Beacon Mall complex with Lowes Home Improvement Warehouse on your right. Drive past the main entrance into Beacon Mall, go 4 more stop lights – about ½ mile. The 4th stop light will be Popkins Lane. Turn Left onto Popkins Lane and go 2 blocks. Bryant Learning Center entry will be on your right. Drive to the East side of the building. Plenty of parking on the side or in the rear of the building. The entrances to the woodworking shop and meeting rooms are off the back corner of the east side of the Bryant Center.

Alternate Location for this month

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Plans for the 6th Annual CAW Woodturners Ball

Saturday, December 12th, 2004

Messiah United Methodist Church 6215 Rolling Road

Springfield, VA 22152

Post this reminder on your refrigerator door !!

Turn a Holiday Ornament for the annual ornament competition

Turn an item for the member’s grab-bag. Those members that bring a turning for entry get to take a number and take the corresponding item home!

Suggestions For Your Participation In the CAW Woodturners Ball

Bring a dish to share to serve at least 8 people Bring a cheap serving spoon for your dish Put your name on your dish

The CAW will provide a honey-baked ham; bucket(s) of fried chicken; and Lasagna casseroles. The club will also provide all the paper products, decorations, and drinks (no alcohol please).

CAW members are asked to bring the dishes below that correspond to the first letter of your last name:

A to C Hors D'oeuvres (Appetizers, social finger-foods); D to J Vegetarian, Ethnic, Salads (Green; pasta; Greek; Taco); K to O Side Dishes (Potatoes, Vegetables, Fruit); or P to Z Desserts (Cookies, Pies, cakes, & other yummies)

CAW member, Martin Angebranndt, submitted a winning design for the 2004 Capital Holiday Tree Ornament Competition for the City of Alexandria. The ornament was formally presented to the city when the national holiday tree stopped at the Masonic Temple in Alexandria on Sunday, November 28, 2004. The ornament body is a turned hollowed birch ovoid having a 3/8 inch wall thickness bearing a silhouette of George Washington in copper foil offset by a white paint oval ground. The top and bottom caps are turned from paduak for contrast. The top cap shape pays homage to the Masonic Temple. The ornament will hang from a heavy gauge copper wire connected directly to the ovoid body. All wood surfaces are sealed with a tung/linseed oil mixture and the entire ornament coated with an exterior grade lacquer. The ornaments from both the National Holiday Tree and the companion (state) trees will be distributed to disadvantaged families in the Washington DC area. This year the tree came from Highland County in Virginia.

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The Call of the Lathe

As we end this year, it is natural to look back on what we have done and ahead to what we should do. I’ll try to do both. First, no president of any organization can possibly succeed without a smart, hardworking, and dedicated group of people on whom he or she relies for ideas, guidance, research, and direction. Your officers are one of the finest teams of dedicated and cohesive players with whom I have ever worked. I have told you before that CAW is the most enjoyable organization to which I have ever belonged. Well, why is that? It’s both the officers and members who do so much for CAW – videotapes, group buys, clothing sales, set-up, clean up, and all the many jobs which must be done who come to meetings and just make it fun. I want to thank all the officers for their outstanding service to CAW this year but want to single one out for special mention.

Frank Stepanski has served as our Program Director and has done a magnificent job of it. He has spent hours and hours calling and e-mailing to prospective demonstrators, coordinating their arrivals and departures, and running all the audio-visual equipment at each meeting. We have others who also do a tremendous amount of work for CAW, but this month, a special thanks to Frank for all his outstanding service. And thanks to you, the members, for your confidence in us demonstrated by reelecting us to our positions. We will all do our best for you.

We continue to have attendance at meetings hovering around the 100 mark and continue to have outstanding demonstrations, both from outside turners as well as those from within CAW. The picnic in August and the Christmas party in December are also highlights of the year when most of us bring our spouses to include them in the action. We turned bowls from a tree planted by George Washington himself and we have participated in the Freedom Pen project

this year. It has been a good year, but what of next year? Now that we have incorporated and will be moving forward on the 501(c)3 non-profit organization status, we need to continue to expand our educational activities. We have talked about reaching out to the youth and have done so with some elementary school students. But what should we really be doing? I would submit that our target audience should be middle school and high school age youth. Someone recommended that we go to high school art teachers to offer our services for a demo or even a workshop during school hours or after school. How about CAW sponsoring a three-day “woodturning camp” next summer at Bryant School? Perhaps we could work with Woodcraft to set up a large tent in the parking lot and to attract interested adults and their kids through advertising in some of the local papers as well as through the Woodcraft newsletter/ad. And I would like to see us offer scholarships for some young people to attend woodturning classes at Woodcraft or through Fairfax County Adult Education. As the war continues in Iraq, I hope that we will continue the Freedom Pen project but expand it to make pens to give out ourselves to wounded soldiers here at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. We have a young friend who is in a tank crew in Iraq right now. Perhaps we could have our own Freedom Pen project to make pens for everyone in his unit. There is much to be done besides coming to meetings and watching those outstanding demos which Frank has once again scheduled for 2005. Your ideas and suggestions are always welcome, too. I think that 2005 will be a banner year for CAW and invite you all to join me in the celebration.

It is probably not something which I will continue to calculate, but it is interesting to know, so I did it this month for your information since several of you have said you continue to be interested. As a full time woodturner, I rely on very few opportunities for income from the craft – craft shows, galleries (yet to come, I

hope), special projects, and contracts (also yet to come). Perhaps there are other good sources of income, too. I hope so. But so far, I am now up to $7.30/hour in my woodturning job. I roughly calculated how many hours I have put into my own woodturning business in woodturning and all the other aspects of a business, such as getting wood, pricing finished items, working on my display, and expanding my web site, then divided my total income since 20 Aug by that number. Perhaps I should have actually kept track of my working hours each day, but I did that for 27 years at NCIS and decided I didn’t want to have to do that anymore! One of the Great Truths I have learned so far is that it takes a lot of work to make any income as a self-employed woodturner but the Call of the Lathe keeps me in the basement. I’ll keep you posted. I hope to see you and your spouses at the Christmas party on the 11th. Tom Boley

Special Gallery Opportunity

Last month, I mentioned that the Artisans Center of Virginia has invited Artisans United, of which CAW is a member guild, to provide craft pieces for a month-long display at the Center next fall. Please start working on your projects for that display. This should be our best work. In the spring, I will appoint a committee to jury our own work down to the five pieces which we will submit to Artisans United for further jurying down to the 40 pieces which will be taken to Waynesboro (I said Harrisonburg last month but was mistaken) representing the eighteen member guilds of AU. The Center is the official craft gallery for the Commonwealth of Virginia so it is a high honor to be selected to show there. The pieces which are submitted to AU but not selected for the Center show will become a part of a special display at the AU gallery in Annandale Park on Hummer Road, the same place where several of us displayed our work this past summer. (tboley)

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About Our Members by Phil Brown

Richard Allen and Paul Burke made a Christmas ornament for our Woodtuners Ball. Richard has plans for more collaboration in the next two months including work with four others on pieces which will result in a piece for each of them, including surface carving, a textile “dress”, a snare drum, and surface design by a stamping artist.

Richard Allen will again teach Introduction To The Lathe at WOODCRAFT in Springfield on Sunday December 5th from 10 am to 5 PM, Saturday January 8th, Sunday February 6th, and again Sunday March 6th. Richard will conduct a survey-refresher course on Wednesday January 26th for evolving turners who need a little push. Aaron Grebeldinger will teach Bowl Turning on Thursday, December 9, from 6pm - 9:30pm. Call the WOODCRAFT store at 703-912-6727 for details on any of these classes and to register.

Congratulations to Martin Angebranndt for winning the 2004 Capital Holiday Tree Ornament Competition for the City of Alexandria with his turned birch ovoid. See picture on page 2.

Phil Brown has a spalted maple piece in the juried exhibit, Craft Forms 2004, at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA, December 3, 2004 - January 20, 2005.

Charles Burton arranged a visit to Walter Reed to see a few Soldiers/Sailors/Airman on 9 Nov 2004, and to give them each a Freedom Pen. If some CAW member express interest, he plans to arrange future visits and can take in 5 CAW members with him. He needs your name ahead of time to clear Security. Contact him at <Charles.Burton@otsg.amedd.army.mil> or at charburton@comcast.net.

Bill Hardy will be selling at the Laura Nichols' home show with 10 other craft artists December 3, 4, and 5 at 438 Riverbend Road, Great Falls, VA (703) 759-2440. This house, the show and artists are a treat to see.

A black cherry burl platter by Jim Marstall recently received the 2nd place ribbon in the Arts and Crafts category at the State Fair of Virginia in Richmond.

John Noffsinger prepared a “cool” 20" tall Christmas ornament in wood and forged metal for the Art League December show at the Torpedo Factory. An article with lots of pictures on making a “Ring Holder” by Patrick O’Brien appears on pages 20-23 of Woodturning Design, Winter 2005, which came out in November. See Patrick’s web site at http://ohbewood.home.comcast.net.

Don’t be shy! Tell others about your woodturning activities in the CAW Newsletter. Send your information by the third week of the month to Phil Brown, 7807 Hamilton Spring Road, Bethesda, MD 20817-4547. Phone and fax: 301-767-9863. E-mail: philfbrown@comcast.net

Exhibit Opportunity

The Creative Crafts Council has applications out for its 25th Anniversary Show, to be held at Strathmore Hall Arts Center from May 27th until July 9th, 2005. This volunteer organization of 10 (media specialized) craft guilds in the metropolitan area, has been organizing these biannual juried shows for 50 years. For several years the Washington Woodworkers Guild was a member, and Scott Wallis and Phil Brown represented WWG on the CCC board. But currently, no wood club or guild is a CCC member. The problem for the WWG members was that judges only selected contemporary work, not antique reproductions, etc. Turned work has been well accepted.

You may submit images of up to three pieces produced since January 1, 2002 for a $30 fee. Strathmore Hall charges a 30% commission on all accepted work sold. March 15, 2005 is the submission deadline.

Request applications from Anthony Glander, 14726 Myer Terrace, Rockville, MD 20853, or Tony@fitzpatrickglass.com. This is another opportunity to sell work and add a juried exhibit to your resume.

Other Items.

1. Chesapeake Woodturners will feature Bob Rosand (former AAW director and CAW demonstrator) in an extended demonstration from 10 AM to 3 PM on December 18th at Maryland Hall, in Annapolis, MD (at the end of Greenfield Street, off Spa Road). There will be a small fee for non members.

2. On November 17, 2004 Chesapeake Woodturners opened a Member Show at Quiet Waters Park in Annapolis, MD. An Artists’ Reception was held November 21st. The exhibit closes Jan 2, 2005.

3. During the Orlando AAW Symposium, Delta International Machinery donated two new Delta X5 full size Model 46-756 lathes valued at $2250 each. 6They were used as demo lathes during the Symposium. Our chapter can win one of these lathes. The AAW Board of Directors decided that as an added bonus for members, that one lathe will be awarded to an individual who either renews his/her AAW membership or joins the AAW between September 1, 2004 and January 15, 2005. The winner will be selected by a random drawing from a pool of members joining or renewing during this period. The winner will be called and asked the name of his/her chapter. That chapter will win the other lathe. That could be our chapter!!! All chapter members, who are presently not AAW members, are encouraged to join. You will not only receive the wonderful benefits of membership in the AAW, but will be able to be in the drawing for a great lathe for yourself and increase our chapter's chance of winning the other one.

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CAW SKILL ENHANCEMENT WORKSHOP

BRYANT SCHOOL

WED. 12-8-04 9:00AM - 3:00PM TUES. 12-28-04 9:00AM - 3:00PM

Any special requests contact: CA Savoy cadjsavoy@cox.net Or: Don Riggs driggs11@cox.net Or: Don Johnson drjpapaw@aol.com Or: Aaron Grebeldinger

erph@erols.com PLEASE NOTE::: There is a shop charge of $5.00. If you use any tool, i.e., band saw, lathe, drill press etc. the charge will apply. If you come to visit and just watch, then - no charge. YOU MUST ALSO BE A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS IF YOU WANT TO USE ANY OF THE TOOLS.

CAW- ONEWAY ORDER

CA will be placing a ONEWAY order on Monday, Sep 13th. Order must be to him NLT Sunday 12-12-04. Check your catalog or call up ONEWAY website at www.oneway.on.ca to see what 's available and e-mail your order to C.A. at cadjsavoy@cox.net

CA places orders throughout the month, so if you need a ONEWAY product email him by the Sat. preceding the monthly meeting and he will have your order for you at the meeting.

Items can be picked up at Bryant School on the 2nd Wed. or last Tues. monthly workshops or at the monthly meetings or by special arrangements. You pay when you receive your merchandise.

CA Savoy:::: HAPPY AND SAFE TURNING!!!!!!!!!!!

Please Take Note !!!

As a professional courtesy to your fellow members, only one person at a

time should be talking during a demonstration – and that is the

demonstrator

The Northern Virginia Woodworking Show, which we participate in, at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly , Va. will be on Feb. 18,19 and 20,2005. Normally this show is in March. CA will be providing additional info. in the Jan.2005 newsletter

Future CAW Plans 2004 Dec 11 – Annual Woodturners Ball

Holiday Party 2005 Jan 08 – Fluting & Texturing: CAW

Members Feb 12 – Roland Cadle – Hornsmith Feb 18-20 NOVA Woodworking

Show, Dulles EXPO Center Mar 12 Chapter Symposium Apr 09 Bob Rosand – Small Item

Production Turning May 14 Art Leisman – Surface

design/decoration Jun 11 Irene Gafert – Coloring and

Gold Leaf Jul 09 Dick Sing – Off-Center

Turning Aug 13 CAW Annual Picnic Sep 10 TBA Oct 08 Marilyn Campbell – Epoxy Nov 12 TBA Dec Annual Woodturners Ball

Don't miss the extraordinarily imaginative wood sculptures created by patients and their families who came to Georgetown Hospital's Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Department for treatment. Lynda Smith-Bugge was the Visiting Artist from October to December for the Art Therapy Program. She brought tools, vices, saws, her carba tech lathe, branches and other lumber for the children to let loose with their imaginations. With the help of the hospital art therapists, the WORKS IN WOOD are quite amazing...full of color and design! CAW members Don Johnson and Deborah Rafal helped some of the children turn pieces for their sculptures. Once a year the Pediatric Art Therapy program creates an exhibition based on specific materials and themes. This year Tracy Council, the Director of Art Therapy, asked Lynda Smith-Bugge to introduce woodworking and sculpture in wood to the pediatric patients and their families. It was a remarkable experience for Lynda, the hospital staff and patients. If you would like more information on this program, please call Lynda Smith-Bugge at 703-534-6316.

Exhibit dates: December 3-31, 2004

Where: Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Atrium Georgetown Univ. Hospital 3800 Reservoir Road Washington, DC 20007

Reception:Sunday, Dec 5, 2004 2:00 - 5:00 pm

CAW 2004 Officer Roster Name Position

Contact Information

Tom Boley President

8316 Botsford Ct. Springfield, VA 22152 703-569-2548 tboley@erols.com

Manny Fernandez Vice-President

7913 Hollington Place Fairfax Station, VA, 22039 703-690-9550 mannyandsusan@cox.net

Mike McInerney Treasurer

14526 Creek Branch Court Centerville, VA 20120 703-378-8117 mikemc1421@aol.com

Bob Reynolds Secretary

7627 Mineral spring Court Springfield, VA 22153 703-455-2931 reynoldsrf@aol.com

Frank Stepanski Program Director Committee Chair

1203 Washington Dr. Stafford, VA 22554-1902 540-720-4202 woodturner@purespeed.com

C. A. Savoy Director of Operations

1309 Gatewood Drive Alexandria, VA 22307 703-765-7268 cadjsavoy@cox.net

Jim Marstall Newsletter Editor

6213 Capella Ave. Burke, VA 220215 703-644-6797 jim.b.marstall@boeing.com

Club Support Volunteers

Bill Bearden – Video Library Aaron Grebeldinger – Education Outreach Mark Robinson – Group Buy Jonathan Hess – Raffles/Auctions Bob Pezold – CAW Clothes Paul Burke - Mentor Program All committee volunteers - Set-up, clean-up, coffee bar, etc.

Each member If your personal information changes: address, phone, or email, notify Patrick O’Brien .

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AAW Professional Outreach Program (POP) Registration

CAW members, if you consider yourselves as “professionals”, please register for this new AAW program. All woodturners that consider themselves to be “Professional”, or aspire to become “Professional”, should become AAW members and enter their information in the new AAW Professional Outreach Program (POP), a new web based information system that has been created. In order for you to be included in this program or to be included on the AAW web site as a demonstrator, you need to fill out a short questionnaire that can be opened by going to the following web site and registering yourself -- http://www.woodturner.org/community/members/signup.pl The information that you will give will help to establish a database to promote the interests of the professional members of the woodturning community and, thus, promote turned wood art as a collectable art form. All data will be used to support professional turners, craft store and gallery owners/managers, teachers, scholars, writers involved with woodturning, and collectors of turned wood art. In order to be included in the AAW Professional Outreach Program, one has to be a member of the American Association of Woodturners http://www.woodturner.org/org/mbrship/. When you open the questionnaire, be sure to fill it out completely. Check any boxes that apply to you. If you are a demonstrator, be sure to click on the "Demonstrator" box and fully describe your demonstration specialty. At the end of the form, click "Submit". A screen will appear showing what you have entered. If it is correct, click "Save" and it will automatically be sent to the AAW for inclusion in the list of professional turners, craft store and gallery owners/managers, teachers, scholars, writers involved with woodturning, and collectors of turned wood art. Only those completing this form will be shown as professionals on the AAW web site and in the AAW Directory

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Scenes from the November Virginia Woodturning Symposium –

Waynesboro, VA

Terrific facilities: well suited for a turning symposium

Plenty of vendors

Challenging demos

A huge Instant Gallery

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Left: Nelson Brown – 10”H X 10”W segmented candy stand made of Bird’s eye Maple and Purple Heart with flowers carved into the rim. Center: C. A. Savoy – 5”H X 5”W spalted maple burl hollow form that required 4 bottles of CA glue to stabilize the wood. Right: John Kerr - 3 ½”H X 10”W Red Gum bowl.

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Left: John Kerr – a 8”H X 10”W Ambosia maple hollow form finished with red chalk mixed in Watco Oil to give it a dyed affect. Center: Gene Crosby – a 4”H X 11”W# segmented bowl with a fir tree in the rim surrounded by “flying geese”. Right: Dean Swagert – 6”H X 5”W Ambroya Burl lidded box with ebonized rims & finial

Left: David Jacobowitz – 10”H X 8”W segmented Pine. Left Center: Bob Grudberg – a 12”H X 6”W Maple and Walnut hollow form. Right Center: Master Fred Lear – two spindle turned pieces of Maple from his 1st class sponsored by CAW. Right: Dad, Steve Lear – a 5”W X 2”H Redwood Burl lidded-box and a 9”H X 4”W set of stacking bowls.

Left: Pat Mullen – a collection of ornaments and a Paduak box with a jeweled lid insert. Center: Bob Grudberg – 12”W Oak cheese tray with a granite bottom. Right: Doug Pearson - a 12”W X 12”H Ambrosia maple hollow form.

Sept 2004 Meeting Show & Tell Items

Nov 2004 Meeting Show & Tell Items

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Photos by Jim Marstall

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Left: Vince DeWitte – a holiday ornament made of Ambrosia Maple and Teak. Center: Allen Becker – a 4”H X 3 ½”W Koa/Rosewood hollow form. Right: Amy Rothberg – a 10”W X 5”H natural edged Cherry bowl

Left: Charles Burton - a Cocobola kaleidoscope. Center: Laquetta Karch – a three-legged stool made from Poplar wood.

Left: Patrick O’Brien – 9”W x 2 ½”H Cherry, Redwood Burl, and African Blackwood lidded box. Center: Jayne Hart – a collection of small turnings. Right: Don Riggs – a 13”W X 1 ½”H Mahogany platter and a Maple shallow bowl of 10”W X 1”H

Sept 2004 Meeting Show & Tell Items Nov 2004 Meeting Show & Tell Items

Jim Marstall, Newsletter Editor Capital Area Woodturners (CAW) 6213 Capella Ave. Burke, VA 22015

CAW Newsletter — December 2004

New CAW Members

Welcome! We are glad you have chosen to contribute your talents to our club. We look forward to the contributions you will make and the pieces you will bring in to Show-&-Tell. Your participation will add to our mutual love of woodturning and to our collective knowledge and skill.

First Name Last Name City ST

Ben Adams Solomons MD Ivan Andrews Burke VA Nelson Brown Vineland NJ Harry Curley Vineland NJ Paul Dean Washington DC Wilhelm Hendorfer Sprinfield VA Brad Homman Braddock

Heights VA

Rick Houck Alexandria VA Scott Hurley Annandale VA Nicholas Jaffa Arlington VA Doug Thiel Braddock

Heights VA