Wes Jones will demonstrate turning hollow forms. He will turn an open mouthed form so that we can see the hollowing action inside the form.
Biography:
Wes Jones lives in Lawrenceville, Georgia and has been a woodturner for over 30 years. Wes retired in 2001 after a31-year career as a fiber optic design engineer with Lucent Technologies and Bell Laboratories. 
He now works full-time as a woodturning artist specializing in large decorative pieces, such as bowls, hollow forms, and vases. He is most well known for his large hollow form creations made from native trees. His pieces can be found in private collections throughout the country and have been displayed at the Reinhardt College Museum of Art, the Georgia National Fair, the John C. Campbell Folk School Woodturning Studio, and at various art shows and woodturning symposiums. His work is available in a number of fine art galleries in the state.
Wes is very active in promoting the development of woodturning art and furthering woodturning education. Wes is a frequent woodturning demonstrator at various woodturning clubs and commercial venues. He periodically teaches woodturning courses at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina and at the Dogwood Institute in Alpharetta, Georgia as well as giving private woodturning instruction at his studio.
Wes is a member of the American Association of Woodturners and is very active in three of the AAW chapter woodturning clubs in Georgia. He is a past President of the Georgia Association of Woodturners in Atlanta and is a past Vice-President of the Peach State Woodturners in Oxford, Georgia. He is the current president of the Chattahoochee Woodturners in Gainesville, GA.