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Monthly Show & Tell Session

March 20th, 2025
Zoom session opens about 6:30 PM
Meeting begins at 7:00 PM

Another fantastic Show and Tell Session

Our February Show & Tell session was every bit as good as as our January session. We hope you were able to join us, but if not, please take something to view the new video that has been posted. Once again, there was something for everyone, from problem solving, to developing ideas for discussion and a continuatiion of some of the most creative and fun projects we've seen. Thanks to everyone who sat in on the session, it was a great evening!

As always, we are looking forward to seeing what all our members are making and there is really no better way to do so than by joining in a Show & Tell session.

Please be reminded that the Show & Tell sessions are intended for all levels of woodturners and designed to be a safe and respectful place to solicit supportive input and advice, regardless of a woodturners experience level. It’s an opportunity for turners to engage in an informal and beneficial exchange of ideas and to foster growth in woodturning.

All WGNC members and their guests are welcome to spend an evening with fellow woodturners as we explore and share members' projects, ideas, issues and yes, even those shop disasters.

Keep in mind, you do not have to have a completed project to participate. These sessions are designed for the exploration of ideas, techniques, problems, designs and any other subjects pertaining to your woodturning experience. So, whether you have a completed piece, a practice piece or simply "story boards", all are welcome for sharing and discussing with other members. If you don't have anything mentioned above, join us anyway. We always have a lot of fun, you can meet folks and like most of us, you just might learn something or be inspired to try something new.

To read the entire article and submission guidelines click here.

Techniques In Hollowing and Hollow Forms for Everybody
withTrent Bosch

Thursday April 10^th
IRD Broadcast via Zoom
Zoom call opens a 6:15 for socializing
Meeting begins at 6:45 PM
Demonstration begins at 7 PM

If you have an interest in hollowing or if you want a masters perspective on hollow form design and the techniques and equipment used for hollowing, please join us for the April Demonstration with Trent Bosch.

As many of you know, Trent hast been a leading edge in hollow forms for over 25 years now. He has developed a solid methodology for turning hollow forms and a complete line of custom tools and systems for making turning a hollow form more fun by making it easier to use the turning tools, by presenting an easy to follow process of hollowing and by making it so form designs are repeatable.

Whether you are just getting started or have been hollowing for many years, Trent will share valuable techniques that he has learned over the years that will also help you enjoy hollow form turning more than ever. Included in this demo, Trent will share things like:
- Basic hollowing tools
- Creating form
- Steps to make hollowing an easier process
- How to check for wall thickness with simple tools
- Hollow form design
- And much, much more.

As part of this demonstration, Trent has also supplied several reference handouts which can be found in our demonstration documents area. Links to these documents can be found just below:

Notes on Turning and Sculpting Wood Visualization of Steps for Hollowing Endgrain and Facegrain Turning Direction Reference

Following this demonstration, there will be two full day independent workshops which you can learn more about here.

Read more here.

💥Wood Sale - Saturday March 22nd, 2025💥

Come and get it! WGNC has more Wood!

Spring will be here soon and WGNC is happy to announce the accumulation of more quality
turning blanks at significant savings. As a WGNC member, this inventory will be available to
you for purchase on Saturday March 22nd.

The inventory consists of spindle stock, small roughed out bowls and bowl and platter blanks
in a variety of wood species. All turning stock is currently stored at our storage unit in Raleigh.

The Specifics of the sale are as follows:

When:

Saturday, March 22nd, 9:00 AM to 1 PM

Location:

WGNC Storage Unit at Ample Storage, 5212 Old Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC

And in other news:

New Videos:
The March Demonstration video is now available.
To view current and past videos click here

New Galleries:
The February Show and Tell Gallery photos are now available for viewing 02 Feb 2025 - Show & Tell

Breakout: Let it burn!

The Saturday February 22nd breakout session was a sell out. This breakout, led by Lars Nyland, featured multiple ways a turner might add embellishments using "fire". Some of the hands on tools used were blow torches and burning units that use attached hand held pens to burn surface designs. While everyone had fun and were able to try their hand at burning, the best news of the day was our host, Ted Ross, still has an unscorched shop to work in!

Above is a slide show of some of the fun.

For additional reference material for this session see Burned Turnings

Breakout: Women in Turning

The WIT breakout sessions continued on Saturday, February 8th. This breakout, led by Ron Patterson and featuring his birdhouse ornaments, found Ellen Deters, Eddie Ferris, Tiffani Goss and Maria Lai having fun creating their own versions of Ron's ornament. Nicely done!

Breakout: Comments

Below are a few comments regarding the "Let it Burn!" breakout:

Lars Nyland:

Great day yesterday watching all of you burn your pieces! The transformations were amazing!

I was shocked at the end of the day how much carbon had accumulated in the rinse water; I've never seen anything like it.

Here is a link to the slides I made. If you care to, you can take some time to look into each artist and the techniques they use.

Stephan Moll:

Thank you very much for having hosted such a wonderful breakout session. Not only was Lars” presentation great and relevant, but opening your workshop for us, the setup outside, the cookies and donuts - it all made for an educational, worthwhile, well organized, fun and peaceful day. The great weather, of course, helped, too.

David Chapin:

Today was a great day. Lars, it was wonderful to get the benefit of your experience, combined with a chance to experiment for ourselves.

Thanks so much!!

Karl Koch:

Thank you for sharing with us today Lars! I have been thinking about all the new ideas that I was exposed to today. And thank you Ted for hosting us in your shop and yard!

It was a good day! Which is never something to be taken for granted.

Much appreciated,