The Woodturners of North Texas meets at the R. D. Evans Community Center, 3242 Lackland Road, Fort Worth, TX, 76116, (Mapsco Page 74, Grid J). Click on the link for a map showing the location.

Next Regular Meeting - June 25th

(We meet the Last Thursday of the month.)

Demonstrator - Glynn Cox - Piercing Demo

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The Woodturners of North Texas meets at the R. D. Evans Community Center, 3242 Lackland Road, Fort Worth, TX, 76116, (Mapsco Page 74, Grid J). Click on the link for a map showing the location.


Note from the WNT President!!!!

2 Challenges inside!!!!

Summer doldrums already?  It’s only July!  I admit, I had the doldrums last week…it was just too hot to even think straight but we had a few days of reprieve from the high temps and I got my second wind.  Summer is a great time to vacation, go boating and camping, spending time with friends and family, reading, etc.   And when you’re tired of all that crap, it’s a great time to turn (like when is not a great time to turn?)!  So if you have the doldrums, the best medicine for you is woodturning or anything related to turning.  May I suggest heading to your local Rockler or Woodcraft store instead of watering your grass out in the heat?  They have lots of neat stuff for you to browse through in the comfort of air conditioning.  A couple of hours there can lift your spirits.  Have you tried perusing your local library or Half-Price bookstore to find that rare edition woodturning book? Do it. Thought about woodturning training?  There are lots of great classes up at Canyon Studios or if you have a deeper pocketbook….think about Arrowmont! 

If you’d rather just do some old-fashioned turning to brush away those doldrums I have a couple of ideas for you as well.  Our club philanthropy, the Empty Bowls project needs to get geared-up in full swing. We are now collecting bowl turnings for the Tarrant County Food Bank.  The Food Bank always cherishes our donations and this year will be no different.  They need your help and it’s for a great cause; especially in this economy.  If you can turn just one bowl….good!  Two bowls…great!  If everyone does just a little bit, our Club, as a whole, does great. So, get turning on some bowls and let’s start seeing them trickle in. 

The second turning idea to help you keep your cool this summer is a President’s Turning Challenge! Woo-hoo! 

This challenge is a little oblique in the fact that I challenge all WNTx members to turn something “cool” for our next meeting on July 30th. That’s right…something cool to take our minds off the summer heat.  Your definition of “cool” is up to you but the lame declaration of “I think it’s cool” is not acceptable….you have to convince the rest of us that it’s cool too.   

A lot of you picked up some of those rounds that Ken Phillips brought to the May meeting… impress us with something cool made from those. Or those that picked up some of the walnut last month…wow us with that wood.  OK, the challenge is on!  Gift Certificates for the overall, grand prize winner is at stake.  Be ready to razz and be razzed!  If you can’t take the heat…take a seat. 

Just reading this newsletter should now have you re-energized.  Doldrums be gone! Get out there and do some turning!  We’ll see you at the next club meeting on the 30th

Good shavings to all, 

Dave Marshall

WNT President

 


 

June Meeting Bring-Back Raffle Winners

 

Mike Roberts (2 Wins):  Burl Bowl & Burl material/turning block 

Glynn Cox (2 Wins):  book & toothpick holder 

Max Taylor (2wins): pecan bowl & winged candy jar 

Fred Denke:  yo-yo kit 

Bob Stroud:  detail brush

John Horn:  hand fan

John Lauderbaugh:  ring box

Bill Boehme:  bloodwood bowl

Bill Collins:  bracelet

Tom Beatty:  perfume atomizer

Sharon Ayres:  pen

Devore Burch:  brass ferrels

 

Newest Members!

 

Blake Oglesby

Robert Richards

Cecil Wester

Here is the link for our renewal form. 2009 WNT Membership Renewal Form

 

Click here if you would like to learn more about us.

 


 

 


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Last Updated 07/01/2009