Welcome to our annual special edition Newsletter featuring photos and results for the Fine Art Woodworking Competition at the Orange County Fair. We hope you enjoy it.

Also, this month, we are having our veneer work contest at the general meeting of the OCWA

on September 6th. First place; $100.00, Second place; $75.00, Third place; $50.00, and Honorable Mention; $25.00. We hope to see a lot of pieces in the contest.

SOME PEOPLE HAVE SOME SPLAINING TO DO

At the fair there was a conspicuous absence at the booth of one or our long time members, and a fair booth mainstay, and after the last couple of months I was a little bit concerned, ok, maybe a lot concerned that maybe attrition was raising its ugly head again. As it turns out, to my relief, I guess, he had a run in

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Sawdust & ShavingsPRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

with a switched off table saw. Now, just because a table saw is switched off doesn’t mean that the blade has stopped turning, so in the process of cleaning up the dust on top of the saw he came into contact with the aforementioned still turning blade. Oops. Thus an excuse for not showing up to the fair.

I could understand it if this guy was new to woodworking, but he taught woodshop for thirty years, which just goes to prove my assertion that a machine doesn’t care if you have thirty years, or thirty seconds of experience, so please keep your focus when you’re in your shop, because one false move can ruin your whole day, or possibly change your life.

SHOW AND TELL

Aside from the veneer contest we will also be having a Show and Table, so be sure to bring something in, take a ticket, wait for the drawing, and walaa twenty-five bucks in your pocket. Can’t beat that.

James Santhon, President

ANNUAL FUND RAISINGOCTOBER 4TH, 2018Don’t forget that we are having our annual fund raising event in October in the big room at the Tustin Senior Center featuring donated tools and equipment, baked goods, and especially the hand crafted woodworking art of our members, and pro demonstrators. There will also be a silent auction where our members can sell stuff, and give a 25% donation to the club.

We will have our Auctioneer Extraordinaire, Mr. Craig Chambers, back making the calls, and it should be a fun event. This is not a members only function, so please, bring a friend, or two. The more the merrier.

AUCTION

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WOODWORKERS’ SAWDUST

ORANGE COUNTY WOODWORKERS 2018 Board of Directors

James Santhon, President

Jerry Knight, Vice-President

Frank Andrews, Secretary

Ralph Crowther, Treasurer

Isha Grinenko, Director Public Affairs

Gary Phipps, Support Our Troops Pen Program

Alfred Missbrenner, Director at Large

Don Tillotson, Director at Large

Steven Jackson, Woodturners President

Contributing photographer:Len MusgraveNafiseh Asadian (OC Fair)

Sawdust & Shavings is the monthly newsletter of The Orange County Woodworkers Association. It is published monthly before the Woodworkers Meeting.

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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

No club meeting was scheduled for August because the Tustin Senior Center was closed for its annual refurbishment and staff holidays. Our regular meetings will resume on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018.

SEPTEMBER TOY SPECTACULAR:

The September meeting will be presented by the club’s highly talented Toy Markers. If you have ever thought about becoming more active in the

toy program or learning how to make quality, heirloom wooden toys, this program is for you. Our own Richard Kalman will serve as Master of Ceremony, and many of our most prolific and gifted Toy Makers will be present to show you their toys and how they make them. The program will feature an extended show-and-tell by the toy makers and an extra long break so that you can meet and learn from these expert toy makers.

ANGEL CITY LUMBER TOUR:

At 10:00 AM on Saturday, September 15, 2018, Angel City Lumber will host a tour of their urban lumber processing facility. We can expect to see a demonstration of the portable saw mill, slab preparation and curing facilities and all the operations of the lumber mill. Brady Zaitoon has informed me that Angel City is setting aside some green-wood cutoffs especially for our visit.

A number of our members are planning to meet at the Tustin Community Center and car pool to the demonstration. Details will be announced at our Thursday, Sept. 6 meeting. Angel City Lumber is located 30 miles North of the Tustin Community Center just off the I-5.

Angel City Lumber 251 S Anderson St. Los Angeles, CA (213) 373-1651

Jerry Knight, Vice President

UPCOMING SPEAKER FOR WOODTURNERS' MEETING

Bill Haskel, former president of the Association of American Woodturners, and terrific member of OCWA, will be our demonstrator for September’s turner’s meeting. He’ll demonstrate turning without total support of the wood, a la Jimmy Clews and Don Winans.

Ross Gilroy

If you're like me, it's time to start planning your project for the Annual Woodturners Contest. This year it will be held on November 15, 6:30 p.m.; but arrive early so officials can register your entry. Get busy and show off your best work.

Ross Gilroy

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WOODTURNERS’ SHAVINGS

WOODTURNING CONTEST RULES

Five contests available for entry: • Solid Wood Turning • Embellished Wood Turning • Pen Turning • Segmented (polychromatic) Turning • Beginners Turning

The rules are as follows:

1. All entries must be from an OCWT member in good standing.

2. All entries must be a members own work.

3. All entries must be lathe-turned pieces.

4. All entries must have been created within the past two years.

5. All entries may have been entered in any contest other than the OCWT Annual Contest.

6. All contests have a single Masters class except the Beginners contest.

7. There are four contests open to the Masters Class: a. Solid Wood Turning – open or closed form

turnings without embellishments b. Embellished Wood Turning - open or closed forms

which includes embellishments such as carving, coloring, inlay, texturing, burning, etc.

c. Segmented (polychromatic) Turning - built up work pieces created by gluing many separate pieces of material together before or during turning. It may include closed segmented, open segmented, stave and any other turned pieces made up of many pieces. A glued up block of three or four pieces is NOT considered to be polychromatic turning.

d. Pen Turning – open to all types of turned pens.

8. A Beginners Class is available to encourage new turners to participate and be recognized.

a. A Beginner is new to turning (less than three years’ experience)

b. A Beginner may choose to enter as a Master but all their entries would be entered as such.

c. A Beginner who wins first place in the annual OCWT Beginners class will be moved to the Masters Class the following year.

d. A Beginner may enter a Solid Wood, Embellished Wood, Segmented Wood or Pen item

9. A member may submit up to three entries, in each of the Woodturning contests, but may only receive one prize in each contest.

10. Judging will be done by an independent panel(s) selected by the Turning Club president or an assignee of the club president who will evaluate:

a. Quality of work b. Design and originality c. Use of material d. Other factors the judges see fit to consider e. The judges may award only 1st, or 1st & 2nd places

for any contest with few participants f. The judges’ decisions will be final.

11. Prizes in each class are a combination of cash and gift certificates in the amount determined by the Turning Club president. The judges may award additional honorable mentions.

12. The winner of the Segmented (polychromatic) Turning contest shall have their name added to the perpetual plaque as the winner of the Fred Adam Polychromatic Award.

13. The winning pieces from each of the five contests will be judged for a single Best of Show award.

Prizes in each contest will be as follows: Master Class (in each of the four contest):

1st place – $75 2nd place – $50 3rd place – $25 Honorable Mention – $15

Beginner Class: 1st place – $50 2nd place – $30 3rd place – $20 Honorable Mention – $10

Best of Show: $100

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SAWDUSTTOY STORY

Once again we had a very hot day and we still had a great turnout. Ed had his crew assembling 40 plus Keepsake Boxes and putting the hinges on the ones we assembled last month. It takes three workshops to get a completed box. They get assembled,

then Ed takes them home and cuts the lid off and machines the hinge groove in them. The second workshop the hinges are installed and the box is sanded. The third workshop the finish is applied and then sent to the warehouse. Our usual spraying crew was down one member since Len pulled a muscle in his back and John had step up and fill in. When John returned the spray unit to Len he said it will take a few days for his right arm, hand and shoulder to get back to normal after three hours of spraying. This toy making is not all fun and games, for some of us it is work.

The OC Fair was a great showcase to tell the public about our toy program and the toys we had at the Fair allowed both the attendees and the members at the booth to interact and have a great time.

Be sure to attend the September 6th Woodworkers Meeting. The featured speakers will be selected toy makers with their special jigs and set ups to make their favorite toy. You will be amazed at the lengths some of them go to in making so many toys of a particular style.

Our next Toy Workshop will be September 8th, 2018 at Bill’s house from 9am to noon.

Bill Rogers, Toy Chairman

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SAWDUST2018 OC FAIR INDUSTRY AWARD WINNERS

GANAHL LUMBER

(1) Joy Toal – WW-581 Furniture – 01 Chests and Cabinets – Chiffonier

ED STRAUB IN MEMORIUN

(2) Jim Graham – WW-582 Wood Turning – 03 Segmented/Polychromatic – Covered Spline Vase

FINE WOODWORKING MAGAZINE DVD

(3) Christina McGlothlin – WW-586 Carving & Sculpture – 01 Figurative/Representational Abstract – Baby Groot

ROCKLER

(4) Ken Cowell -1st place – WW-581 Furniture – 01 Chests and Cabinets "In the Beginning" (not shown)

(5) David Simmons - 2nd place – WW-582 Wood Turning – 04 Mixed Media/Embellished Turnings "49 Pontiac Cheiftain desk"

(6) Robert Stevenson – 3rd place – WW-582 Wood Turning – 04 Mixed Media/Embellished Turnings "Ladies Tambour Desk"

OCWA

(7) Craig Sobel – WW-582 Wood Turning – 03 Segmented/Polychromatic "Hanging Swirl"

SAM MALOOF WOODWORKER, INC.

(8) David O. Wade – WW-581 Furniture – 01 Chests and Cabinets "Saddleback Chiffonier"

WOODWORKERS WEST

(9) Robert Slane - 1st place – WW-586 Carving & Sculpture – 03 Utilitarian "Rotating Cylinder Chessboard" (7) Craig Sobel - 2nd place – WW-582 Wood Turning – 03 Segmented/Polychromatic "Hanging Swirl" (10) Henry Lim - 3rd place – WW-584 Wall Art – 04 Intarsia "Mac Arthur’s Return to Phil"

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SAWDUST2018 OC FAIR AWARD WINNERS

WW-581 FURNITURE – 01 CHESTS AND CABINETS

(A) Wade, David O. – 1st Place – Best of Show/Division Winner Weber, Mark – 2nd Place Cowell, Ken – 3rd Place Toal, Joy – Honorable Mention

WW-581 FURNITURE – 03 CHILDREN’S FURNITURE

(B) Crowther, Ralph – 1st Place Hontz, David – 2nd Place Simpson, Michael L. – 3rd Place

WW-581 FURNITURE – 04 LARGE TABLES AND DESKS

(C) Lupul, Charles – 1st Place Stevenson, Robert – 2nd Place Hays, Dennis – 3rd Place Simmons, David – Juror’s Choice

WW-581 FURNITURE – 05 SMALL/OCCASIONAL TABLES

Hotra, Patrick – Honorable Mention

WW-581 FURNITURE – 06 SEATING FURNITURE

(D) Hays, Dennis – 1st Place Rizzardi, Ed – 2nd Place Rizzardi, Ed – 3rd Place(A)

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WW-581 FURNITURE – 07 OTHER

(E) Andrews, Frank – 1st Place – Juror’s Choice Kallassy, Peter – 2nd Place Mcglothlin, Brian – 3rd Place

WW-582 WOOD TURNING – 01 OPEN FORM TURNINGS

(F) Gilroy, Ross – 1st Place Haskell, Bill – 2nd Place Andrews, Mark – 3rd Place Musgrave, Leonard – Honorable Mention Nininger, Jerry – Honorable Mention

WW-582 WOOD TURNING – 02 CLOSED FORM TURNINGS

(G) Zbik, Ed – 1st Place Rosenau, Paul – 2nd Place Zbik, Ed – 3rd Place – Juror’s Choice Nininger, Jerry – Honorable Mention Zbik, Ed – Honorable Mention Zbik, Ed – Honorable Mention

WW-582 WOOD TURNING – 03 SEGMENTED/POLYCHROMATIC

(H) Graham, Jim – 1st Place – Division Winner Leasure, David – 2nd Place Wollam, Roger – 3rd Place Cowell, Ken – Honorable Mention Cowell, Ken – Honorable Mention

WW-582 WOOD TURNING – 04 MIXED MEDIA/EMBELLISHED TURNINGS

(I) Andrews, Frank – 1st Place Tippin, Paul – 2nd Place Haskell, Bill – 3rd Place Phillips, Chuck – Honorable Mention

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2018 OC FAIR AWARD WINNERS (continued)

WW-583 ACCESSORIES – 01 BOXES

(J) Schulze, James – 1st Place – Division Winner/Juror’s Choice Eblin, Fred– 2nd Place Franich, Jerry – 3rd Place Borusky, Tom – Honorable Mention

WW-583 ACCESSORIES – 02 CLOCKS

(K) Franich, Jerry – 1st Place Olson, Larry – 2nd Place Franich, Jerry – 3rd Place Franich, Jerry – Honorable Mention

WW-583 ACCESSORIES – 05 LAMPS & MIRRORS

(L) Olson, Larry – 1st Place Kallassy, Peter – 2nd Place Gamart, Olivia – 3rd Place

WW-584 WALL ART – 01 FRETWORK

(M) Mcguire, James – 1st Place Mcguire, James – 2nd Place

WW-584 WALL ART – 03 VENEER/MARQUETRY/PARQUETRY

(N) Eblin, Fred – 1st Place

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2018 OC FAIR AWARD WINNERS (continued)

WW-584 WALL ART – 04 INTARSIA

(O) Lim, Henry – 1st Place – Division Winner Lim, Henry – 2nd Place Frembling, Daniel – 3rd Place

WW-585 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS – 01 STRINGED INSTRUMENTS

(P) Mooney, Kevin – 1st Place – Division Winner Burke, Steve – 2nd Place Burke, Steve – 3rd Place

WW-586 CARVING & SCULPTURE – 01 FIGURATIVE/REPRESENTATIONAL ABSTRACT

(Q) Stoner, Randall – 1st Place – Division Winner Stoner, Randall – 2nd Place Rosenfield, Bob – 3rd Place Raymond, George – Honorable Mention

WW-586 CARVING & SCULPTURE – 02 ANIMALS

(R) Butler, John – 1st Place Johnson, Alan – 2nd Place Mcglothlin, Christina – 3rd Place

WW-586 CARVING & SCULPTURE – 03 UTILITARIAN

(S) Slane, Robert – 1st Place Madrigal, Greg – 2nd Place Ouellette, Kenneth – 3rd Place Ward, Michael – Honorable Mention

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OC FAIR MESSAGE

The OC Fair was a great showcase to tell the public about our Association, the toy and pen program and the toys and puzzles we had at the Fair allowed both the attendees and the members at the booth to interact and have a great time.

I am asking all of us to think about coming up with some new puzzles for next year’s fair. We have had the same games and puzzles for 6 years now and the fair public is on to us. Ross Gilroy gave us two new puzzles this year and they we great and we had a great time with them. So check out Google, YouTube and the old stand by a book. This sounds like a great contest theme for May of 2019.

Just for your information. John R. Butler (the turner) got to meet John R. Butler (the flute maker) at the fair on pick up day. Each had a good laugh and a story to tell for many years.

Contrary to popular belief of many fair goers the drawer in Frank Andrews dog tribute cabinet did not contain the cremated remains of the dog on the door. The drawer was so precisely made it did not appear to be a drawer and fooled may people. Some comments were, “what a lovely tribute”, “the dog must of been special” and one was” that’s gross”.

Len Musgrave

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PEN PROGRAM – SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

REMINDER: The Challenge for September will be, once again, turning pieces with open air like Don Winan’s cars - or turning any open air blank (turning while the tool is cutting mostly air or any project that involves turning while the tool is cutting 50% or so air) - or turning a pen or pens.

Hello Pen Turners

Hope you're catching up on your pen turning and ready to turn them in at our

September 6th meeting.

Anyone who made pens or gave away any to veterans at the fair, please report those numbers to me for a current tally.

Have a good rest of August and looking forward to getting into the swing again.

Keep turning and remember “Never Write With an Ugly Pen!” Gary Phipps, Chairman, Support Our Troops Pen Program

OC Woodworkers, I would like to thank you for your donation of handmade pens. I received handmade pens from the South Orange County Veteran Center that were then distributed in a Military Re-integration Retreat that took place this weekend. The marine couples were very grateful for the pens and were able to use them to take notes on information that will help them to reconnect after several months deployment. Attached is a picture of the pens that were distributed during the retreat.

In addition, I would like to see if it would be possible to collaborate and getting your amazing pens out to more marine service members during these retreats. We are planning on running these marriage retreats for every unit that returns from deployment. If it is possible, I would love to distribute your pens during these retreats. Again, I am very grateful for the efforts that you are putting into saying thank you to our service members. If this is something you would like to be involved with, here is my contact information. Either way, thank you for what you are doing.Dylan Bender, Dylanbender@yahoo.com August 27, 2018

P.O. Box 1038 Fullerton CA 92836-8038

OCWoodWorkers.org

MEETING LOCATION AND DATES:

Tustin Senior Center 200 S. “C” Street Tustin, CA 92680

Woodworkers’ Meeting Thursday, Sept. 6, 7:00 p.m.

Woodturners’ Meeting Thursday, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m.

Board Meeting Thursday, Sept. 6, 6:00 p.m.

Please support our sponsors!

Anderson International Trading – (800) 454-6270 • www.AITWood.com

Deft, Inc. • www.DeftFinishes.com

Exotic Woods USA – (631) 651-8651 • www.ExoticWoodsUSA.com

Industrial Blade & Products Co. • www.IndustrialBlade.net

Laguna Tools – (800) 234-1976 • www.LagunaTools.com

Reel Lumber Service – (714) 632-1988 • www.ReelLumber.com

Rockler Woodworking & Hardware – (714) 282-1157 https://www.rockler.com/retail/stores/ca/orange-store

Woodcraft Supply – (714) 963-9663 [(714) 963-WOOD] www.Woodcraft.com

FRIENDS OF OCWA

OCWA is now registered with AmazonSmiles which allows OCWA eligible to receive a .5% donation from all eligible purchases through the AmazonSmiles.com. If you'd like to participate, simply go onto Amazon.com, search and click on AmazonSmile, and once on

the AmazonSmiles site select Orange County Woodworkers from the list of charities. There is no need to change settings – all your account info/settings remain the same. You'll have access to the same products as found on Amazon.com. Thank you for participating.

For more information please contact Ralph Crowther.