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Demo by Ted Pelfrey

John K Jordan

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@Ted Pelfrey did an outstanding demonstration yesterday at the Knoxville woodturning club (SMWTS). Energetic and informative. Lots of great tips on design, the tools, and clear instruction and demonstration of the practical aspects of turning hollow forms. I predict some attendees who have not yet turned a hollow form will give it a try.
We also liked his table of examples - half the table were things he made and liked and half of things he made didn't like as much, explaining why (things like proportions). Thanks, Ted!

JKJ
 
John K Jordan said:
@Ted Pelfrey did an outstanding demonstration yesterday at the Knoxville woodturning club (SMWTS). Energetic and informative. Lots of great tips on design, the tools, and clear instruction and demonstration of the practical aspects of turning hollow forms. I predict some attendees who have not yet turned a hollow form will give it a try.
We also liked his table of examples - half the table were things he made and liked and half of things he made didn't like as much, explaining why (things like proportions). Thanks, Ted!

JKJ
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Thanks for the kind words John ! Had a blast! If I could get over being so nervous! Lol
 
Ted Pelfrey said:
Thanks for the kind words John ! Had a blast! If I could get over being so nervous! Lol
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Jake and I agree - if you were nervous you hid it well. Your sense of humor made it even more fun. I didn't see anyone sleeping!
Sorry, I didn't take any photos of tool on wood, but there should be some in the newsletter.
Your handout is excellent.
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I think your carving/embellishing demo would be good for Knoxville - if your arm can be twisted.

David Wyke said:
How far will Ted travel 😁??
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I can't speak for Ted but it might depend on the extent of the bribe. Would be worth every penny - I've seen two of his demos so far. I think Ted is just a few steps away from the national circuit - far more interesting than some of the well known symposium demonstrators I've experienced.

JKJ
 
John K Jordan said:
Jake and I agree - if you were nervous you hid it well. Your sense of humor made it even more fun. I didn't see anyone sleeping!
Sorry, I didn't take any photos of tool on wood, but there should be some in the newsletter.
Your handout is excellent.
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I think your carving/embellishing demo would be good for Knoxville - if your arm can be twisted.


I can't speak for Ted but it might depend on the extent of the bribe. Would be worth every penny - I've seen two of his demos so far. I think Ted is just a few steps away from the national circuit - far more interesting than some of the well known symposium demonstrators I've experienced.

JKJ
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I’d love to come back !
 
Michael Anderson said:
Awesome! I have yet to see one of Ted’s demos, but I’ve heard good things.
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I looked through the list of demos at our Knoxville club over the last year or so. I think this list includes only demos with handouts or videos.

Ted Pelfrey's handout on hollowing should be posted soon on our club website. I hope they will post a video of his demo as well.

@Michael Anderson, speaking of demos, I see a video of your last Knoxville demo (covered calibash bowls) is up on our club website now.

I'm not sure why the SMWTS club posts videos of some demos and not others. Most in this list are PDFs of handouts, some are obviously videos, others are a PDF with a link to a video. Some demos, with videos or handouts, take a week or more to put up.

Looking back a year or so I see:
2025-10 Ted Pelfrey, Hollow forms (info coming soon)​
2025-10 Mark Gardner, Shrink boxes (info coming soon)​
2025-10 Michael Anderson, CoveredCalibashBowls, video.​
2025-09 John K Jordan, Handbell Ornaments, PDF doc.​
2025-05 Ron Comtois, Baby Rattle, PDF doc.​
2025-03 John Lucas, Inside Out Turning, PDF doc.​
2025-02 Jake Niedling, Hollowing made Easy, PDF doc.​
2025-01 Dick Hoffmann, Beads of Courage - Unusual designs, Three PDF docs: Penguin box, Turning BOC boxes​
2024-09 John K Jordan, Turning long thin spindles + texturing, PDF with video, Two PDF docs.​
2024-07 Ron Comtois, Quick release tool handle, PDF doc.​
2024-04 Michael Anderson, Eggception, PDF doc.​

That's as far as I went back. I see other videos on Salt/Pepper mills,Shop-built Threading jig, Turning miniatures, Boxes, Creative turning, Strange turnings, my pandemic era video Logs to BLanks, one video by Richard Raffan, and more.
We had a video demo by Graeme Priddle but it's availability was time-limited.

Michael, I suspect you've done a BUNCH of demos and symposiums!

I looked at my list and think I did my first club demo in 2013. Unless I forgot some I've apparenty done 29 demos and 8 classes since then, in 9 clubs or schools in 4 states, some classes in my shop.

You might imagine by now I'd have figured out how to be organized but I still always bring WAY too many tools and bumble around hunting for things. Even with a good printed outline I always forget a bunch of what I intended to say! I'll blame it on the ADHD - I need to hire a handler. Some places must be desperate since they keep asking me to come back. :( Good fun, though!

JKJ
 
Ted Pelfrey said:
lol, I just have lame dad humor ! I don’t have any videos. I think the Knoxville club does and I think they archive them. I’ll check. They are the Smokey Mtn Woodturners
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Meet in the Woodcraft store in Knoxville TN at 6pm the third Tuesday of every month. All welcome. Demos are also on zoom.

(December is a social time, silent auction, no demo. One month's meeting every year is our annual wood auction.)

Hey, maybe we could shoot some videos in your shop someday in your spare time! I have cameras, a multi-camera switcher, tripods, video lighting, lapel and shotgun microphones, teleprompter, pro video recorder, and a professional video editor that I'm not afraid to use. Mostly just need enough space to set things up. Could start with a drone video of you cutting down a tree!

JKJ
 
John K Jordan said:
I'm not sure why the SMWTS club posts videos of some demos and not others.
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I don't know about SMWTS or other clubs, but our club (Rocky Mountain) only posts videos if the demonstrator has given permission. Some we post publicly and others are only available to members (and some for a limited time) and some "you just had to be there".
We feel that the demo is the intellectual property of the demonstrator so they have the right to say what happens to it.
 
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