Gulf Coast Woodturners Association

January 2011 Meeting Gallery

Pictures of Larry Zarra's demonstration on Turning Small Hollow Forms
 and  "Faces in the Crowd" are at the bottom of this page.
 

Advanced Category (Items made from one piece of wood by advanced turners)

1st Place Chris Roth Mesquite Bowl 11"W x 2-1/2"H

2nd Place Marty Kaminski Box Elder Bowl 10"W x 4-1/2"H

3rd Place Dennis April Spalted Sycamore   Hollow Form 13"W x 7-1/2"H

Segmented Category (Items made from more than one piece of wood by advanced turners)

1st Place Andy Chen Corian Box 2"W x 2-1/2"H

2nd Place John Gay Multi-Wood Box 4"W x 7-1/2" H

Enhanced Category (Items that incorporate embellishment of the item by advanced turners)

1st Place Gene Volentine Maple Hollow Form  Collection approx. 3"W x 3-1/2"H ea.

2nd Place Janice Levi Sycamore Purse 6"W x 8"H

3rd Place Kendall Westbrook Hackberry Tree-topper 5-1/5"W x 7"H

Intermediate Category (Items made by intermediate turners)

1st Place Darrell Corcorran Black Mesquite  Open Form 7-1/2"W x 5-1/2"H

2nd Place Darrell Corcorran Spalted Silver Maple  Vase 15-1/2"W x 6"H

3rd Place George Kabacinski Pen Collection & Box

Beginner Category (Items made by beginning turners)

1st Place Aaron Gilbert Persimmon/Osage  Orange Cup with captive   ring 2-1/2"W x 4"H

2nd Place Cliff Ober Found Wood Bowl 4"W x 2-1/2"H

3rd Place Dan Fleetwood Bracelet of various  Woods 3"W x 1-1/2"H

Other Worthy Entries

gallery photography by Paul Millo

Judges

Derek Powers and Edward Bartimmo judged January's Show & Tell.

Larry Zarra's Demonstration on Turning Small Hollow Forms

GCWA member, Larry Zarra, demonstrated how to turn small hollow forms with commercially available tools that don't require secondary tool support--i.e., the "old fashioned way." Larry 's notes on Turning Small Hollow Forms can be viewed here.  (PDF) The January meeting was held at the University of Houston's Keeland Design Center. Larry discussed wood selection, grain orientation, tools and techniques, design considerations, fundamentals of measuring and reverse chucking. The demonstration was enhanced by GCWA's A/V set up that uses several cameras and displays the pictures via an LCD projector onto a large screen.

Club member, Paula Haymond, works the camera and Tom Irven is in charge of the A/V equipment. First...you start with a piece of wood! New member, Aaron Gilbert, and his son, Noah, enjoyed Larry's demo from a front row floor seat! Larry with an almost-finished piece (he ran out of time), but he covered all aspects of turning small hollow forms.. One of several pieces Larry turned previously and brought for members to see and inspect.

Faces in the Crowd

The Show & Tell tables always draw a crowd and January's meeting proved no exception (and there was lots of good stuff to view!)

Ed Peine and By Reed examine a piece by Andy Chen...which went on to win first place in its category.

Nancy and Dave Barziza enjoy a face mask that had horns! Unfortunately, we didn't get a front view of it.

At January's meeting, members submitted items for an exhibit that AAW is currently curating.  Judging of GCWA items will be done by local artists an art gallery later in the month.

Kendall Westbrook places one of his elegant vases on the table for consideration.

A look at most of the items submitted for the contest.

That unusual face mask drew a lot of attention!

Young turners are always welcome at GCWA meetings.  Here, Bill Berry, MC of Show & Tell, asks  Noah Gilbert about the  item he turned.

Noah's father, Aaron Gilbert, an up-and-coming turner, discussed his first place award-winning Beginning Category piece.

.Bill Berry holds up one of Gene Volentine's elegant hollow forms.  Gene took first place in the Enhanced Category with a collection of three items (see above)

George Kabacinski discussed the pen collection he turned which won an award in the Intermediate Category.

Bill Berry holds up a piece that earned Darrell Corcorran an award in the Intermediate Category.

Kendall Westbrook holds his angel tree topper that won an award in the Enhanced Category.

Janice Levi discussed her beautiful purse turned from Sycamore and decorated with pyrography.  It won an award in the Enhanced Category.

It was a good meeting--good demonstration; good participation; good stuff to look at, and great camaraderie! It doesn't get much better than this.

 candid photography by Ric Taylor,  Dale Barrack and Ronald Brewer