Creating Small Projects with Daniel Sauerstrom and Terry Suess
- Thursday October 10th
- Hybrid: Live at NCSU Crafts Center and by IRD Broadcast via Zoom
- Zoom call opens a 6:15 for socializing
- Meeting begins at 6:45 PM
- Demonstration begins at 7 PM
Please join us for our annual Small Projects Demonstration Meeting.
We are very excited to have two of our own members perform these demonstrations and share their talents, processes and techniques. These small projects are easy to make and are great for Holiday gifts!
Daniel Sauerstrom will be showing us his version of a Wine Charcuterie Plate.
The holidays are a wonderful time of year to gather and celebrate with family and friends. Often these celebrations involve wine and appetizers.
Having to hold both a wine glass and appetizer plate while socializing can make it difficult to eat. These wine charcuterie plates solve this problem by placing the appetizer plate on top of the wine glass freeing up a hand to graze on your selections.
Simple and easy to make, these wine charcuterie plates are turned like a shallow platter. Sizing the tenon appropriately allows for it to sit inside the rim of the glass preventing it from sliding off. Additionally, these plates are a blank canvas allowing for personalization through embellishments such as milk paint, pyrography, chip carving or laser engraving.
Terry Suess will be demonstrating how he creates his Garden Mushrooms.
As he notes, mushrooms come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, making them a popular project for many beginning woodturners. Anything that is vaguely recognizable as a mushroom shape is usually close enough to pass muster. Once you have turned a few mushrooms and scattered them around the house, your significant other might suggest, as mine did, that unless those mushrooms were edible, you really didn’t need to make more of them!
Well, that was the end of my ‘mushroom’ phase until this spring, when a visit to a very nice nursery in Seattle gave me a new perspective. Mushrooms in sizes from 6 in. to over 4’ ft. tall were on display, obviously designed for outdoor gardens and yards. My wife and daughter immediately said they would like some mushrooms for their gardens. My wife even suggested that a forest of mushrooms was not too many! Back in Raleigh, I looked around my woodpile and decided that Eastern Red Cedar was the perfect wood for my mushrooms, I have quite a bit of cedar and it is fairly rot resistant. My new ‘mushroom’ phase had begun.
Terry is a retired chemist with over 35 years of experience as a research scientist and manager in the electronic materials area. Several woodturning courses at John C. Campbell Folk School after he retired got him hooked on woodturning and he got his first lathe in 2018. Since then he has been an avid hobbyist woodturner when not fishing or visiting grandchildren in Seattle.
Daniel is a woodturner based out of NC. A professional chemist by day, Daniel welcomes the ability to express his creative side through his woodworking.
Daniel particularly enjoys that woodturning is a subtractive art. Instead of adding material and building to completion, wood is continuously removed to achieve the final form. While a final form is envisioned at the start of the process, Daniel lets the wood speak for itself as the process unfolds and will modify his designs to highlight the inherent warmth and natural beauty contained in each piece. This subtractive process can lead to some truly interesting pieces.
In his work, Daniel seeks to explore shape and form as he creates pieces that are both functional and artistic. To this end, he is always happy to design and create pieces upon request.