MAY 2017

What’s Inside

PREZ SEZ

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IN MEMORIUM

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MONTHLY DEMO Page 5

PEN WOOD

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SHOW AND TELL

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GALLERY Page 13

FINDING WOOD

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CHAIN PEN Page 20

John DeRyckere demonstrated how to turn a natural edge bowl

PREZ SEZ

AAW Good news! I received an email

from AAW saying that some of our members had accepted the

50% discount for new members to AAW. It is good to see the Na-

tional’s membership increase. If

you have not accepted the deal, it is available through the end of

June. A flyer is available at the clubhouse, so pick one up at Cof-

fee and Chips or at the next meeting. It explains the benefits

of membership very well. Check it out.

Beginner Woodturning Course

Bob Eberhardt’s training course is in its third week, fourth by the

time you read this. It is going well and we should have some

journeyman turners into our club

very soon. They have made tool handles and are starting on

bowls. Be safe and keep turning.

President’s Challenge The President’s challenge for the June meeting is a platter. When I make a

challenge, I try to keep things simple and make it so you don’t need special tools or chucks to get the job done. But I want there to be a challenge too.

Mounting a platter blank can be a challenge, so check out YouTube for turners who turn platters. You can decorate the platter as well. Carving, wood burn-

ing, chatter tools, painting, etc. are all acceptable. Get out in your shop and turn a platter.

Woodturning and Woodworking Tools

Last fall, many of you went to a sneak preview of Farrell’s new woodworking

department. They promised to open the department in the spring and I went to see what they had. They had tools and tools and tools. Organized by

maker, they had Jet, Rikon, DeWalt, Bosch, Makita, Milwaukee, Freund, and others. Farrell’s is located on Hastings Way, but is accessed from Western

Avenue, just behind the clubhouse and north about half a mile.

Rich Thelen

IN MEMORIUM

Roger W. Leonard age 81, of Princeton Valley, Eau Claire, WI, died peacefully after a year long battle

with lung and kidney cancer, Monday, May 15, 2017 at HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire.

He was born January 17, 1936, in the family home, in Brill, WI to Burritt & Olivia (Olson) Leonard.

Roger graduated from Rice Lake High School in 1954 and from WI State College in 1958 from Eau

Claire, with a Bachelor of Science in Business and Social Sciences.

He married his college sweetheart, Beverly Eide on

December 25, 1956 at Grace Lutheran Church in Eau Claire. He began his work with his dad at Brill

State Bank in 1958 and worked there until he re-tired in 1996. He raised his family in Brill and also

ran Leonard’s Resort on Long Lake from 1960 through 1978. After moving to Eau Claire in 1998 he worked for Lutheran Social Services as a caregiver.

Beside his number one love of his wife and family, Roger was a man of multi-

ple talents, interests and an adventurous nature. Most favorite was Family Time, Attending church, Fishing, Hunting, Bird Watching, Traveling -Hawaii,

Alaska, Sweden --Anywhere in US, Woodturning, Tuesday Morning Breakfast with Church Guys, Annual Leech Lake ice fishing weekend with his “boys”,

Music -singing, Church Choir, Listening to family members, Drawing, Paint-ing, Calligraphy, Photography.

ORGANIZATIONS: Lakeview Medical Center, Rice Lake, Board of Directors,

Barron CO American Red Cross Officer, Brill Area Sportsman’s Club Charter

Member, Haugen Kiwanis, Boy Scouts of America Scoutmaster, Barron Co Barbershoppers, Chippewa Valley Woodturners, Bethesda Lutheran

Church Choir.

He was a powerful presence in his family. They considered him a master-piece. His love of Jesus was evident in the way he lived out his life every day.

No matter what the circumstances, he led his family with integrity and dig-nity. He will be dearly missed by everyone who knew him.

He survived by his wife of 60 years, Beverly of Eau Claire. 4 Children: Steven

Leonard (Shelly), Palisade MN, Karin Lindau (Mark), Birchwood WI, Craig

Roger Leonard (Robin), Farmington MN, Erik Leonard (Mandy), Lake Elmo

MN, Bjorn Andreasson (Karin), Swedish exchange student 1972- 1973. 14

Grandchildren: Krista Hedlund (John), Naomy Carter (Joel),Tara Leonard

(Lisa),

Elisa Lindau, Amanda Heinz (Tyson), Dillon Leonard (Kristi, girlfriend), James

RogEr Leonard, Michael Lindau, Preston Roger Leonard, Addison Leonard. 5

Grt. Grandchildren: Janay Carter, Brooklyn Carter, Simon Hedlund, Macy

Carter, River Rae Leonard Antenucci. SIBLINGS: Kay Wehner, Berkeley CA,

Jean Lutterman, Washington DC, Craig Leonard (Jeanne), Long Beach CA.

Also Bev’s siblings and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents Burritt & Olivia Leonard, Brother-in-Law Kenneth Lutterman, Brother Courtney (Marce) Leonard, Nephew Kurt

Wehner and Father-in-law and Mother-in-law, Myron and Eleonore Eide.

Funeral service will take place at 10 am on Monday, May 22, 2017 at Be-thesda Lutheran Brethren Church, 123 W. Hamilton Avenue, Eau Claire, WI

54701 with Pastor Rod Larson and Pastor Kirk Militzer officiating.

Visitation will take place at the church on Sunday, May 21, 2017 from 3:00 to 6:00 pm and again Monday morning from 9 am until the time of service. A

graveside service will take place Monday afternoon at 2 pm in the Nora Cemetery in Rice Lake following a lunch at the church.

Friends and family may offer condolences online at

Www.fullerspeckienhulke.com.

Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Fuller Speckien Hulke Funeral Home.

OBITUARY OBTAINED FROM Fuller Speckien Hulke web site

May Demonstration Turning Natural Edge Bowl

John DeRyckere

John went over a few safety rules before starting - wearing protec-

tive faceshield and wearing short sleeves (his personal must).

John had a medium sized bowl

blank with one side having bark. It was green wood and not John's

favorite turning wood but it was what he had to turn.

The bowl blank was placed be-tween centers to balance both

sides and finding the center of the non bark side. Bark side is placed

to head stock on a screw chuck without any pre preparation. Normally he would use a forstner bit to create a spot on the bark side for the screw chuck.

Blank was centered visually equalizing high and low points.

When visually balanced and tool rest is properly placed and tested for spac-ing. Lathe is turned on at low speed. Rough turn to true up blank with carbide

tool. Turn bottom of bowl flat and create a tenon.

Remove blank and reverse position - chuck up non bark side tenon to jaws chuck on head stock and bark side to foot stock. Turn bark side flat for face

plate. After turning flat area, remove again and using the tail stock center

point as center guide to attach face plate.

Screw the bark side with the face plate on the head stock and turn

bottom of bowl to near finish state if green to dry or finish if blank is dry.

Turn downhill up to bark constantly moving tool rest closer to bowl as

blank size is reduced and to keep up with the bowl curve.

When bottom is finished, remove

faceplate and reattach bowl blank with tenon in jaws chuck. Use pointed carbide to clean out inside of bowl to

start then switch to bowl gauge checking depth as you go.

Once inside is complete use a jam chuck inside of bowl on head stock. Secure

bowl with a foot stock center to remove vestige tenon.

PEN WOOD OF THE MONTH

Common Name(s): Burma Padauk

Scientific Name: Pterocarpus macrocarpus

Distribution: Myanmar (formerly Burma), and Thailand

Tree Size: 60-80 ft (18-24 m) tall, 2-3 ft (.6-1 m) trunk diameter

Average Dried Weight: 54 lbs/ft3 (865 kg/m3)

Specific Gravity (Basic, 12% MC): .75, .87

Janka Hardness: 2,150 lbf (9,550 N)

Modulus of Rupture: 20,130 lbf/in2 (138.8 MPa)

Elastic Modulus: 2,050,000 lbf/in2 (14.14 GPa)

Crushing Strength: 9,030 lbf/in2 (62.3 MPa)

Shrinkage: Radial: 3.4%, Tangential: 5.8%, Volumetric: 8.4%, T/R Ratio:

1.7

Color/Appearance: Heartwood color can vary, ranging from a pale golden

yellow to a deeper reddish brown. Color tends to darken to a golden brown

over time. Yellow sapwood is well demarcated from heartwood. Overall,

Burma Padauk’s

color tends to be

less red and

more subdued

than African

Padauk.

Grain/Texture:

Grain is usually

interlocked, with

a coarse texture

and fairly large

and open pores.

Endgrain: Diffuse-porous; large pores in no specific arrangement; solitary

and radial multiples of 2-3; mineral deposits occasionally present; growth

rings indistinct; rays not visible without lens; parenchyma diffuse-in-

aggregates, aliform (winged), confluent, and banded.

Rot Resistance: Rated as very durable regrading decay resistance, with

good resistance to termites and other insects.

Workability: Because of its higher density (as compared to African Padauk),

and its interlocked grain, Burma Padauk can be difficult to work with. Burma

Padauk turns, glues, and finishes well.

Odor: Padauk has a faint aromatic scent while being worked.

Allergies/Toxicity: Although severe reactions are quite uncommon, Burma

Padauk has been reported as a sensitizer. Usually most common reactions

simply include eye, skin, and respiratory irritation. See the articles Wood Al-

lergies and Toxicity and Wood Dust Safety for more information.

Pricing/Availability: Available much less often than African Padauk, Burma

Padauk is likely to be in the mid to upper range for an imported hardwood.

Sustainability: This wood species is not listed in the CITES Appendices or on

the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Common Uses: Veneer, flooring, turned objects, musical instruments, furni-

ture, tool handles, and other small specialty wood objects.

Comments: Burma Padauk is the heaviest and hardest of all types of Padauk

(Pterocarpus genus) commercially available. The color tends to be a bit more

subdued than the more common African variety.

Related Species:

· Amboyna (Pterocarpus indicus)

· Andaman Padauk (Pterocarpus dalbergioides)

· Muninga (Pterocarpus angolensis)

· Narra (Pterocarpus indicus)

· Padauk (Pterocarpus soyauxii)

· Zitan (Pterocarpus santalinus)

From the Wood Database - www.wood-database.com

I had a bit of a problem identifying this wood. It was labeled Pradu Lai (but

not very clearly) which didn't appear to exist. After looking around I narrowed it down to Burma Padauk. Further snooping around on the net revealed that

another name for this wood is Mai Pradoo or Pradoo which is close to Prado

Lai. I assume the label on the wood I received must have been a misreading of the original labeling of the wood or perhaps a local name variation at the

origin of the wood. Pen type is called Presimo. Very nice looking pen.

Some views of the

Burma Padauk.

John Layde with

a segmented

spiral effect bowl

Paul Meske with

shrink fit bowl

bottoms

Jeff Fagan with a

spalted Maple

yarn bowl

Jerry Lilly with a

Box Elder lidded

box

Mark Palma with gar-

den tools (fork and dib-

bles), dyed bowl and

miniature stackable

bowls

(see in Gallery)

Richard Ryan with a

Cedar yarn bowl and a

Hickory square bowl

with natural edge

Joe Nycz with a

screw lid urn, 2 Pine

M&M bowls, Oak pop-

corn bowl, 2 part

candle holders and a

natural edge bowl

Missing from Show

and Tell pictures is

Richard Boettcher

who had a bowl with

tumblers

Rich Thelen with

a chip carved

Basswood egg

Tom Leonard

with a Bubinga

pen and a multi-

color pen with a

Corian center

ring

Barry Grill with a

small pet urns with

black finials and a

Cherry burl hollow

bowl

On Finding and Donating Wood by Bob Heltman

Some months ago, I wrote an article about how to find wood. This was to help folks new to woodturning. Often, they get a lathe, tools, etc. and then wonder “where do I get wood?” I’ll review that, but herein want to mostly address the more experienced woodturner who wakes up buried in more wood than he can turn in the future, even if he lives on into eternity. I’ve been both without and with too much wood, so I can comment in expert fashion. The newbie to woodturning can get wood by a number of methods. Go to a lo-cal store selling hardwoods, a craft store, lumber yard, etc. This, however, costs money. Better, look around your area for fallen trees, damaged trees about to fall, etc. Talk to the owner. Talk to a tree service company. Look for a “stump dump” where tree surgeons take parts of trees. Keep your eye on the weather --remember, a hurricane, tornado, or other high wind is the woodturner’s friend. However, be considerate and don’t visit a damaged area when the EMS squad or ambulance is there...I mean for goodness sake, curb yourself a bit. Have a chainsaw handy at all times though. Helping a neighbor remove a tree is a ser-vice rendered...and you get the wood! In some places, talk to your US Forest Service and get their advice. Look in the paper. As you drive around, look for fallen trees, an old apple orchard being uprooted, etc. Opportunity favors the prepared mind. And, of course, join your nearest woodturning club and let your need be known. As you get into the woodturning game you will hear of burls and strange soing-woods. Subscribe to More Woodturning Magazine, the AAW Journal, etc. and look in the ads section. If all else fails, wear torn and shoddy clothes, stand on a high traffic street corner, put a sad and downcast look on your face, and wear a cardboard sign around your neck that says, “Have Lathe, Need wood.” You’ll get all the attention you need. Now, let’s move forward in time 1 to 3 years. What happens is that word gets around that you turn wood and you’ll get calls from friends, neighbors, even strangers, asking if you are interested in taking down or cutting up a tree they have. From time to time you’ll connect and acquire a large supply of maple, cherry, ash, oak, dogwood, sourwood, hickory, pecan, boxelder, and so on. And you’ll have a very large pile of wood, or several such piles. At first this is high-status and you’ll feel elegant and proud. “Yes, yes” you’ll humbly say, “I’m kinda pretty much devoted to woodturning some.” If you turn a good bit, you’ll stay familiar with what type of wood is in what part of the pile or has its own pile. And, you’ll develop expertise in looking at a piece of a tree and correctly identi-fying it. Smugness will set in...as will bugs and rot if you leave the woodpile out-side, on the ground, uncovered.

As the untouched wood ages, it can lose bark, gather fungus, and you get a little uncertain as to what kind of wood it is. You’ll say things like, “I should have painted the cut ends to avoid cracking.” And, “Well, if I cut off two inches from the cracked ends I’ll still have enough left for a good bowl.” If this also hap-pened a few years earlier, you will subconsciously remember, on your next fallen tree wood gathering trip, to cut pieces a little longer just in case you don’t get to paint the ends right away. This leads to an even larger woodpile. Some woods decay faster than others…poplar and apple come to mind along with sapwood of oak, I have to confess. Several years ago, I just had to get rid of a lot of decayed apple I had laboriously gathered a couple years earlier. Guilt ridden, I had trouble sleeping for a night or two, although some guilt can be suppressed with a sufficient absorbing of adult beverages, I’m told. Actually, I had to get rid of a whole bottom row of cut wood that was stored on the ground. Being a part-time turner, I go for extended periods of time between my woodturning sessions. Recently I had gotten myself into another situation where I just had to admit I had far more wood than I was likely to turn, and noticed some of it was starting to get too split, decayed, or bug ridden. What to do...You could run an ad and sell the surplus to other woodturners. Or add to your firewood pile (just the bad pieces of course). Or donate it to your woodturning club’s annual fund rais-ing auction (but this may mean hauling a lot of wood to one or more club meet-ings). Being in the world’s finest and largest woodturning club (allow a bit of pride, OK?), the Carolina Mountain Woodturners, where we have email and a website, our Internet expert broadcast the following email from me: “I have ac-cumulated more wood blanks than I can turn. New Spalted Maple logs 12” di-ameter, sassafras ditto, butternut, odd pieces of walnut, chunks of various oth-ers. I’d like a CMW member, probably in the Hendersonville area, to come by and take some. A donation to CMW would be a nice gesture on the recipient’s part and save me hauling pieces to the September auction. Glad to get a few chunks of osage orange in trade. Call first (my phone #) and will provide de-tailed directions.” Within a day or two I received seven calls/emails, leading to visits and the removal of all the wood I wanted to have moved out. Each visit was very pleasant and allowed club members to see my shop and get their wood. We also greatly enjoyed each other’s company and had nice chats. One interesting couple lives six months in Florida and six here in Hendersonville, NC. They needed wood while HERE! Makes sense. Each grand person promised to give money to our club, and this approach saved my aging body from having to load, transport at high gas cost expense, and unload a LOT of wood for our annual club’s money raising auction.

There is still a bit of butternut to be retrieved by an out of town member, but the outside storage area is in great shape once again. I can either load in more wood or not. And, the decayed bark under one of the piles made great mulch for the flower garden. It is good to have a happy wife. What remains is my inside wood on the floor of my basement shop studio. Now, yes, I allowed some of it to escape too, but at this point I can get to my smaller and second table top lathe which got blocked off for months by the inside wood blanks. The current condition allows me to throw out some rugs on which some wood sat and left its fungus marks. The floor can be seen once again. There were a lot of wood chips to vacuum up, dust, and even a few dead bugs. Such is woodturning. I have to go now, the phone is ringing...oh, it was my neighbor Dan, with the portable sawmill. He is slabbing a maple tree trunk and wondered if I wanted a piece near the root area as it is somewhat spalted and has real curly grain. I’d better go take a look. Printed with permission of More Woodturning Magazine

Coffee and Chips Saturday

Coffee and Chips day has added a Tip of the Month. Every Coffee and Chips

Saturday will feature a turning tip. These tips will be items that will help turners speed up and improve the accuracy of their turning.

May Tip-Of -The - Month

Ron Bartz asked— what does a turner do if a tenon needs to be turned that is an odd size—like 7mm? One could use a caliper measured in mm or one

could use a 7mm open wrench. An open wrench!!

A good quality 7mm open wrench is accurate enough to be used to monitor

the progress of the tenon turning by frequently checking the fit of the wrench on it. When it fits, then the correct size is obtained.

COMING EVENTS

Meetings are first Wednesday of the month at 7 pm. Open house—

Coffee and Chips - is the second Saturday of the month from 8 am to 12 pm

Meeting Dates and Demonstrations

June 7—Mark Palma—A Fresh Look At Carbide tools July 5— Jeff Fagan — Chips and Tunes

August 2— Ron Bartz — Castable Acrylics September 6— Rick Bauer—To Be Announced

October-Mark Palma-Embellishment November-Fred Steffens-Musky Baits

December-Rich Waller-Baseball Bats

Open House-Coffee and Chips Dates June 10

July 8 August 12

September 9 October 14

November 11 December 9

Meetings and Coffee and Chips are held in the Eau Claire Insulation

building at 1125 Starr Ave on the northeast side of Eau Claire, Wi.

Boys and Girls Club Pen Turning

Tim Benjamin has announced that there will be no pen turn-

ing sessions with Boys and Girls Club kids this summer. Fur-

ther sessions will be announced in the fall.

MAKING A CHAIN PEN

Tom Leonard I was asked by a guild member if it was possi-

ble to make a turned pen with a chain so it

could be used for a sign in book and the pen not

be displaced. There was none that I knew of, but

there is a kit for a Light Pull. I wondered if it would be possible to integrate the parts of this kit into a

regular pen kit.

The first thing to look at would be the brass tube sizes of the Light Pull and

the pen. The light pull has a 7mm brass tube and Slimline/Funline pens also have 7mm brass tubes so that the caps from either would possibly fit, how-

ever I have found in the past that 7mm in one kit doesn't always equal 7mm in another kit.

The Light Pull kit contains only 4 parts: a brass tube; a chain; a top cap; and

a bottom cap. The brass tube which is longer than a Slimline tube would not be needed nor the bottom cap. In the Slimline kit, the clip and top cap could

be eliminated to be replaced by the Light Pull top cap and chain.

As can be seen by the picture, it worked out very well. The question

now is whether there are other pen

kit types that will also work. Most pens based on 7mm brass tubes

should work. Look at the design of the pen. The cap of the pen should be

similar to a slimline pen.

Board of Directors for 2017

President Rich Thelen 715.834.1459 rlthelen@charter.net Vice President Barry Grill 715.568.4586 bgrill@hotmail.com Treasurer Keith Jones 715.720.1368 kjones23@charter.net

Secretary John DeRyckere 715.838.9480 jderyk@gmail.com At Large Director Joe Nycz 715-937-2803 nyczjoseph@live.com At Large Director Duane Walker 715-577-2248 elk.stir@gmail.com Program Director Mark Palma

612.991.7733 marksworkshop@gmail.com

Non Board Positions Librarian Dennis Ciesielski 715.233.0236 daciesie@gmail.com Newsletter Editor Tom Leonard 715.831.9597 tl9597@charter.net

Web Master Jerry Engedal 712.834.1022 joanandjerrye@gmail.com