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2025/03/13 - Guild Meeting - Natural Edge Goblet with Alan Leland

Natural Edge Goblet with Alan Leland

• Thursday March 13^th
• 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 March 13th for returning demonstrator and WGNC member Alan Leland.

Alan will be demonstrating his Natural Edge Goblet, one of his signature pieces.

Alan will begin by discussing types of wood that can be used to turn goblets and then spend some time talking about design and form.

Alan notes that there are many ways to express the goblet form.  From a plain design to a long stemed artistic form.  Here Alan will
begin to demonstrate his process in actually turning a goblet. The presentation includes:
  - Material selection
  - Tools used
  - The actual turning process
  - Finishes

Alan has prepared a handout for this demonstration.  The document can be downloaded from the documents section of our website
by following this link Goblet Handout

Alan Leland Instructor Bio

Alan Leland is an internationally known woodturning instructor and demonstrator and has been an AAW member since 1994. He has demonstrated and taught workshops for many woodturning clubs across the United States and Canada, such as John C. Campbell Folk school, and often hosts workshops highlighting internationally known woodturners in his studio. 

Alan started working with wood at This End Up Furniture Company in 1976. After 19 years making crate style furniture, he started his own woodworking business in 1996. Initially Alan’s main focus was on making custom furniture and some woodturnings for craft shows. Eventually his interest and enjoyment of woodturning took over and he began to do more architectural turning and turning for craft shows. Alan’s work is primarily functional in nature due to his furniture background, but with an artistic flair due to his keen eye for shape and form.

Alan is known for his three legged 24” tall stools with their crisp turnings and his Hollow Globe ornaments with their elegant delicate icicles. A few of Alan’s ornaments are included in Dale Nish’s latest book titled “Woodturning Ornaments.”

To learn more about Alan visit his website here.