Day 2:

Here is a selection of happenings from today.

Doors open at 7:30 and people begin checking their silent auction bids and getting front row seats for the "show".

Did someone outbid me?

From the Instructor's point of view.

  
Soon the morning rotations begin.

Bernie Bober talks about chainsaw safety and how to examine and cut up a burl for maximum use of the wood.

Bernie doing his chainsaw safety talk

How about that for a Birch Burl!!

Bernie brings some great Birch for others to use in demos.

Paul Omilon makes use of his many years as a production spindle turner to make some chips fly and explain his process for creating spindles.

Paul uses a skew to outline a transition point.

 Andrew Glazebrook demos multiaxis turning.

Cynthia Gibson captivates the crowd with her impeccable attention to detail and magical ability with a pyrography tool and colored pens.

Can you believe the detail in these examples of creative work flow.

Another example.

Cynthia at work.

Michael Gibson demonstrates the steps he uses to produce his meticulously detailed, impeccable designed and executed teapots.

Pay attention to a constant flat-free flow line.

Very cool jig to hold a tenon in a chuck.

Here is the lid in place waiting to be put in a chuck.

Make your own calipers to measure the Golden Mean.

Use plastic profile gauge to transfer a shape onto graph paper so you can draw various spouts and handle designs.

Sharpen a wrench to create a defined diameter tenon.

More checking of the silent auction sheets prior to heading to the dining room for lunch.

Douglas Fisher uses his "Vancouver Island humor" to keep the "post lunchtime" crowd awake.

Prepare a paper with your design and glue it to the work surface.

Micromotor tool with cutter for initial removal of wood.

Another cutter for more detailed work.

  

Andrew demos box making, chatter work and coloring.

Another of Andrew's demos where he shows the steps to make a winged vessel with a large Birch log.