BRING BACKS The purpose of the “Bring Back” is to foster turning, it’s as simple as that. The money raised from the raffle associated with Bring Backs, although useful, is really incidental to getting you, the members of WNT, into your workshop and turning a little something. Practice, practice, and more practice makes perfect! Part of the challenge is figuring out what to turn, but this is also a useful exercise. When you turn a “Bring Back”, you have taken an opportunity to increase your skills and present your work for constructive critique by your peers. The more members who take home a “Bring Back”, the better it is for all the members of the club. If you buy multiple tickets you are entitled to continue to step up to the table as many times as your number is called, but if you pick up more than one “Bring Back” you are then expected to return an equal number of “Bring Backs” at the very next meeting. I would like to see that more people have the opportunity to practice their skills and will encourage you (after you have picked up one Bring Back) to pass if your number is called a second time to allow the maximum WNT members to turn and return (or Bring Back) their turnings. EMPTY BOWLS Don’t forget about the “Empty Bowls Challenge” – perhaps some of you will produce a gallery-quality donation using one of the surface enhancements and techniques that Andi Wolfe demonstrated to us. Whether gallery-quality or utilitarian please start turning bowls for this effort, Dewayne Hines will be collecting these at the monthly meetings. Now, lets get out to the workshop (wear your protective gear) … And make good shavings! Stormy Updated June 26, 2008