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That is beautiful. I think for a first project, what is he going to be doing after he has some experence at turning?
English class
Hmmmmmm, English eh?????
on another note, Flyrod, I was in Big Sky Montana last week for a professional meeting (vet ortho), and flyfished every day in 38-48 degrees-even caught fish!!!!! Beautiful country and loved the Galatin River.
Also retrieved some firewood (pine) at the conference , and turned a natural edged bowl yesterday, the day after I got home. It is for the current society president, friend ,and my dept chair. Should be a good momento for him!!! Gretch
Hmmmmmm, English eh?????
on another note, Flyrod, I was in Big Sky Montana last week for a professional meeting (vet ortho), and flyfished every day in 38-48 degrees-even caught fish!!!!! Beautiful country and loved the Galatin River.
Also retrieved some firewood (pine) at the conference , and turned a natural edged bowl yesterday, the day after I got home. It is for the current society president, friend ,and my dept chair. Should be a good momento for him!!! Gretch
Nicely done!
Jack:
Tell your student that this piece was very well-executed and well-finished. Beautiful figure in the wood (I assume it to be maple with some spalting?? Correct?). The chatoyance and ripple really "pop" the piece visually.
I had a student a year ago want to do her senior Honors project (at the University level) to learn woodturning with me, and to produce several pieces to show in an equivalent of an "Instant Gallery" of student-generated artwork we have here at Iowa State each spring. Unfortunately, she could not get the project approved by the Honors Board for lack of it's 'academic' content. This, despite students in the Art & Design program producing art pieces (using torn sheets of tissue paper on a 2-D substrate) being approved for their honor sprojects. Perhaps it was due to my being a biologist, and not being a faculty member in that [art and design] part of the University? I've never heard of the "English" connection with turning, except perhaps as "humanities", broadly defined... I assume this is the case...
On January 15th, I did a bowl turning demo (one hour and 15 minutes) at our local High School, which was videotaped, and has been running, daily, for the past 6 weeks on the cable access channel from the School System. I've subsequently received a number of inquiries about doing 'projects' on the lathe, from both high school students, parents, and from College students seeing the broadcast video, so this is certainly a good way of bringing others into the turning arena.
Congratulations on developing a new, successful woodturner!
Rob Wallace
(P.S. - Gretch - check your PM.....)
Jack:
Tell your student that this piece was very well-executed and well-finished. Beautiful figure in the wood (I assume it to be maple with some spalting?? Correct?). The chatoyance and ripple really "pop" the piece visually.
I had a student a year ago want to do her senior Honors project (at the University level) to learn woodturning with me, and to produce several pieces to show in an equivalent of an "Instant Gallery" of student-generated artwork we have here at Iowa State each spring. Unfortunately, she could not get the project approved by the Honors Board for lack of it's 'academic' content. This, despite students in the Art & Design program producing art pieces (using torn sheets of tissue paper on a 2-D substrate) being approved for their honor sprojects. Perhaps it was due to my being a biologist, and not being a faculty member in that [art and design] part of the University? I've never heard of the "English" connection with turning, except perhaps as "humanities", broadly defined... I assume this is the case...
On January 15th, I did a bowl turning demo (one hour and 15 minutes) at our local High School, which was videotaped, and has been running, daily, for the past 6 weeks on the cable access channel from the School System. I've subsequently received a number of inquiries about doing 'projects' on the lathe, from both high school students, parents, and from College students seeing the broadcast video, so this is certainly a good way of bringing others into the turning arena.
Congratulations on developing a new, successful woodturner!
Rob Wallace
(P.S. - Gretch - check your PM.....)
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Amazing what the kids can do with a bit of patience, isn't it? Wish we had had as many lathes as that school. Used to have to schedule kids for non-consecutive days, which really stunk for damp projects. They liked it when they could schedule in an open shop (after school) 2.5 hour chunk.
Thanks Everyone,
The bowl is from a large birch burl the student cut and brought in last year. I roughed it out with a chainsaw and sealed it, then put it under a wash tub over the summer which helped it spalt a little. He had turned a dozen bowls before taking on this project. Our high school shop is lucky to have the lathes that we do. There are only 90 students in the high school. We started with one old rockwell and I got another rockwell when a school shop in the county was moved. The local club lets us use their Jet Mini since they hold their monthy meetings in the shop. The 3520B was bought with donations from a local community group and the Western North Carolina Woodturners Club. The last lathe was donated by one of the elderly woodturners in our club who no longer needed it.
Thanks,
Jack
The bowl is from a large birch burl the student cut and brought in last year. I roughed it out with a chainsaw and sealed it, then put it under a wash tub over the summer which helped it spalt a little. He had turned a dozen bowls before taking on this project. Our high school shop is lucky to have the lathes that we do. There are only 90 students in the high school. We started with one old rockwell and I got another rockwell when a school shop in the county was moved. The local club lets us use their Jet Mini since they hold their monthy meetings in the shop. The 3520B was bought with donations from a local community group and the Western North Carolina Woodturners Club. The last lathe was donated by one of the elderly woodturners in our club who no longer needed it.
Thanks,
Jack