President’s Message – Christmas 2010 – January 2011

Christmas greetings to all members of our Fraser Valley Woodturners Guild.

I  would like to wish you and your family a merry Christmas this time of year. Many of you are using your woodturning talents to make gifts for family. That’s great!

January 13th Guild Meeting

I have a small request for you regarding our next meeting. Members have given me the following mini topics to cover at our next meeting January 13. Next to the topic is a small request to make this meeting useful for the group. Please forward info by Jan 1. The format of the meeting will be a  showing of your ideas followed by a brief discussion. 20 min per topic roughly. We will try to document some of this for the web.

  1. “How to sign you work?”. Bring to the meeting an example of your signing pen or tool.
  2. “How do you store your chisels?” Send me by email with a digital picture of your “tool rack”
  3. “Suppliers” Where do you buy your woodturning tools, finishing products, lathes, wood? send me some of your suppliers if its different that the list below.
  4. “Wood storage ideas” Send me an email with a picture of your wood storage system. How do you keep your wood from cracking. Its Okay if most of your pics are for entertainment purposes only. We need a good laugh now and then.

Some of you may be interested in viewing the 6 min video Mike and I put together on making Wood Christmas Ornaments. Enjoy Mike and the funky music! I see we are up to 209 views in a few days.  Its on our website as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfkSG40rDVo

The website also has a 3 pager on the Jewelry Box Demo from November.

Any constructive criticism is appreciated. We are not perfect but we have a great planning team willing to listen and change things for the better.

President’s Challenge is a lidded box or bottle stopper.

Murray Sluys, President

Fraser Valley Woodturners Guild