We've had a little over 3" of rain in the past 3 days, a little late for the corn but good for the ground water.

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Ron Altier, our resident ornament master, posted another one of his awesome creations-

 

He tells us a little history of the wood in his post-

 

 

@RustyFN showed us a gorgeous salad bowl he turned from ambrosia maple-

 

He received lots of positive comments on this one. Check out his post at-

 

 

@Gerald is working on different methods of adding embellishments to some platters. I especially like this one-

 

Gerald added more images and some of his techniques in his post-

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

The Mid Atlantic Woodturning Symposium is in a couple of weeks. Not too late to get tickets. 

 

https://www.mawts.com/

 

 

From Cindy Drozda-

 

http://www.cindydrozda.com/html/Demo.html

 

 

For The Newbies-

It's always nice to get a new lathe. It's even nicer to have someone review that product after using it for a while. What's good, what's not so good. Here Mike Peace reviews his new Powermatic 3520C-

 

 

A nice video for a useful shop project-

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Gerald showed us a couple of embellishment techniques. Here's a video from the AAW with Mike Peace demonstrating a few more methods-

 

 

Alan Stratton posted a neat turning project. It combines some special jigs and sphere turning

 

 

Came across these from Andrew Hall- the guy who turns wooden cowboy hats- looks like he is creating a how-to series. He has parts 1 & 2 up so far-

 

 

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

Last week we mentioned that Cindy Drozda had interviewed/toured several vendors at SWAT. Here are links to those videos-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything Else-

Rick Turns list of YouTube woodturning videos from last week-

 

 

Next weekend we will be at our VA-65 Navy reunion. I haven't seen the guys in several years and am glad to be able enjoy the comradery. There's only a few of us original A-6 guys left who come to these get togethers. We try to raise some money to to cover expenses for the host of the reunion. Mimi said I should make something to auction off. I had a platter I turned from white oak and decided to laser our insignia in it. Maybe someone will like it-

 

 

Safe turning

Thanks for taking the time to put this together Lew.  I always find something interesting to view and enjoy the recap from the week.  This week the texturing catches my eye.

Thanks for the post Lew. Platter looks great . Now tell us what is a A-6 guy?

1 hour ago, Gerald said:

Now tell us what is a A-6 guy

 

The A-6 "Intruder" was the first true all-weather Navy attack aircraft. VA-65 was one of the first 3 navy squadrons to get the A-6. VA-75 and VA-85 were the other 2. This was in the 1963-64 time frame. I worked on the A-6A version. Our squadron commander was instrumental in convincing "Washington" of the importance of the program despite the bugs in the highly complex system. The A-6E were flown up into 1997. The airframe was used to build the the EA-6B Prowler which still flies today

Intruder-

 

 

Prowler-

Your platter is super Lew, enjoy the reunion

Thanks Lew.

@HandyDan Thank You!

 

@Gerald Thanks! And thank you for the inquiry about the Intruder.

 

@Cal  Thank You! Looking forward to seeing everyone!!

 

@RustyFN  Thanks!