Atlanta Woodturners Guild » Notes From Meetings

Guild Talent At October Meeting

OliverBuettner — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:56:34 +0000

We wish to thank our featured demonstrator Chris Pouncy from Sorby Tools for his display of technique and the various tools his company makes. He has a distinctive british sense of humor providing a change of pace. Observing him and reflecting on the wide array of excellent talent we have had at our meetings, what [...]

October 2011 Board Minutes

ChrisBurfield — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:50:23 +0000

pThe scheduled board meeting for the Atlanta Woodturning Guild met with quorum in place and was called to order by President Kurt Whitley at 5. 30pm 19 October 2011. A motion to accept the September minutes as written was presented by Bob Greenberg, seconded by John Rudert, and accepted unanimously./p pBoard Members present were Jesse [...]

Rudolph Lopez Presents at AWG, May 2010

Dave Roselius — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:09:43 +0000

Rudy Lopez provided a great demonstration on turning an end grain vase from a log at the May 19th Guild meeting at Woodcraft. He kept everyone on the edge of their seats overtime! Here is the handout Rudy provided us and a couple links he referenced during the demonstration. Thanks Rudy!

Rudy’s Handout - End Grain Vase [...]

Mark Sfirri Teaches at March Guild Meeting

Dave Roselius — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:24:19 +0000

Mark Sfirri taught guild members a thing or two about multi-axis turning during the March 2010 meeting at Woodcraft. Here are just a few examples of is work.

(Harvey… is that you on the camera?)

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November ’08 Meeting Notes – Frank Bower

Kurt — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:29:28 +0000

For November, we were treated to a second demonstration by Frank Bowers.

Frank turned two bowls for us. The first was a typical natural edge bowl and he was very informative about how he balanced the bowl for aesthetics. The blank was mounted between centers to allow repositioning.

Once the blank had [...]