Month: July 2021

If you were unable to attend the July 2021 meeting, either in person or as part of the Zoom stream, it is now posted on the web site for your viewing pleasure. Click here.

July President’s Letter Hi fellow MAWT members, We were finally able to host our first in-person meeting at Woodcraft for the July presentation. Tony Rozendaal demonstrated an ingenious lathe attachment that allows you to cut threads and also turn spheres. Working in the intellectual property field, I am always interested in great examples of mechanical…

Here are some on-line resources for turning spheres: The jig I was using is a Chef Ware Kits EZ-Jig. Click here for the link. For the “octagon” method of roughing out a sphere, this blog post by Keith Larrett, gives the method with slightly higher precision than I did And, with pictures. Jerry Takes came…

This is a reminder that the AAW Virtual Symposium is this Weekend. See details here: https://www.woodturner.org/Woodturner/2021-Virtual-Symposium/2021-Virtual-Symposium-Home.aspx If you can’t attend this weekend, the demonstrations will be available through August 8th. The cost for the symposium is $45 for AAW members and $60 for non-members.

Kevin Seigworth and myself have been having an email conversation the last few days and he suggested we put it out on the website for further comments from the MAWt membership. You can reply to this post online, or if that is too much of a challenge, reply to the email and I will add…