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 The Maple Medly Exhibition was a special exhibition at the 2010 AAW Symposium in Hartford, Connecticut. Any AAW member could submit a piece for consideration, as long as it was made out of one of the over 20 different species of Maple. 104 people submitted 180 pices for consideration. After jurying the exhibit premiered  Teapots are so cool, and there were some amazing Teapots on display at a special exhibition at the 2010 AAW Symposium in Hartford, Connecticut. It was really striking how each artist put their own voice to the piece, even when a teapot was something they did not normally make.
 It’s been a long time since I’ve posted to my blog. Too long, I’ve missed it. Work in the construction field here in Florida picked up in February, and robbed me of a lot of time and energy to write in my blog. Of course when I did have the time I seemed to  I spent some time this weekend organizing my workshop. It often feels like I spend more time organizing my workshop than I do working on stuff. A big part of the problem is I keep on buying stuff and then I have to find a home for it in an already crowded space. A  As I mentioned in the previous post, my trip to the 2010 Florida Woodturning Symposium started with a workshop with Dixie Biggs. I have admired Dixie’s work for a long time, so I was really excited about meeting her and the opportunity to take the workshop with her. I was not disappointed! Dixie  This last weekend I attended the Florida Woodturning Symposium in Lake Yale, FL. To say that I had a great weekend is an understatement! It was such a pleasure to be able to immerse myself in wood turning for three days. My trip started out early Friday morning. I had to leave the Every now and then I buy a tool/gadget that takes a time consuming process and just simplifies it. Yesterday I picked up a chuck reversing adapter from my local Woodcraft, and is it going to make life easy! A chuck reversing adapter is used to take a turning that is mounted in a chuck I was getting tired of reaching for my calipers and setting them to my chuck diameter every time I needed to turn a tenon. The alternative was trying to “guesstimate” the diameter needed and very often I would turn the tenon to small. So I made a spindle and tenon gauge. I have A couple of months ago a demonstration at my woodturning club prompted me to start experimenting with dyes. Dyeing and coloring is one of those subjects that can be pretty intimidating. There are so many colors out there where do you start? Well, my first step was to buy myself a color wheel. |
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