Please remember that our Christmas project fundraiser is in progress. If you haven't gotten your raffle tickets yet, don't put it off any longer. "We have raised $911.51 thanks to all our members and visitors alike! Great job folks! I'd like to make a plea to you all. Since our raffle goes all the way up to January 3rd, 2025, we'd like to get the bulk of the proceeds to our adopted Christmas family before Christmas, and then all the proceeds collected after the first distribution to the family, then proceeds collected up to the 3rd will be distributed to them at raffles end. So they'll have a wonderful Christmas, and a Happy New Year. Our target date of gift card delivery is December 20th. So we'd love to have most of the funds in place by then."

 

 

 

Our Patriot Turners-

@Fred W. Hargis Jr posted an ornament he finished. This cute little fellow will surely look good hanging on the tree!

Fred was kind enough to provide a link to the Craft Supplies USA video he used as his inspiration. I've also added the YouTube link here-

 

 

 

We have had more additions to our continuing "What's ON/OFF the lathe"

From ON-

The beginnings of a Calabash bowl-

 

More images and description can be found at-

 

 

And from OFF

@Gerald posted a beautifully shaped hollow form

 

In this post, he tells us more about the piece of wood and the purpose of the turning-

 

 

 

What’s Coming Up-

Click on the images for links to registration and more information-

 

 

 

 

If you missed Cindy Drozda's tool talk last Friday, here's a replay from YouTube-

 

 

 

For The Newbies-

More on sharpening from Sam Angelo. This time he demonstrates spindle gouge grinds

 

 

 

 

Expand Your Horizons-

Fred Hargis showed us a gnome he turned from a video by Craft Supplies USA. Gnomes and snowmen currently seem to be very popular. How about combining a snowman and a candle?

 

 

 

New Turning Items-

Something new from Tim Yoder-

 

A short video from Tim on these-

 

And a link to Tim's Tools-

https://wtwtim.com/tims-tools-1/

 

 

Everything Else-

Safe turning

 

 

Thanks for the post and mention Lew

Thanks for the weekly.  The snowman oil candles piqued my interest.

Thanks for the time you put into the weekly post Lew, there is always something interesting.

12 hours ago, DuckSoup said:

Thanks for the time you put into the weekly post Lew, there is always something interesting.

^^^^^what Bob said^^^^^

@Gerald  Thank you!

 

@HandyDan  Thanks!

 

@DuckSoup  Thank you!

 

@Grandpadave52  Thanks!