Symposium Club Projects

[Don Wattenhofer]

Please post photos and bios of your club projects
I was looking through a flash drive with digitized slide pictures and came upon the Minnesota Woodturners Association entry for the 1999 (had to go look at the shirt to confirm the year) symposium in Tacoma WA. The 1999 project was a chandelier and almost every part of it was turned wood except for the wiring and light sockets. The basic concept was drawn with AutoCad, and Linda Ferber was working for a copy company so she ran off large scale copies to pass out to the members who wanted to work on it.

 

[Bill Blasic]

Here is one made by Jim Duxbury. This is fantastic to see in person.

 

[Tim Tucker]

Bill-
Jim and Rita are such a an incredible couple. They are members of the club I am a member of ( Carolina Mountain Woodturners ) and Jim is the nicest, most pleasant and un-assuming person. Rita is hilarious - and with a strong New Jersey accent - provides the perfect contrast for Jim's soft spoken southern manner. I teased him recently that he is Rita's translator.

 

[Don Wattenhofer]

Here is one made by Jim Duxbury. This is fantastic to see in person.

When was his made?

 

[Bill Blasic]

Jim made it in 2013 and it is in Woodturning Magazine issue Aug 2014.

 

[Tom Gall]

Bill-
Jim and Rita are such a an incredible couple. They are members of the club I am a member of ( Carolina Mountain Woodturners ) and Jim is the nicest, most pleasant and un-assuming person. Rita is hilarious - and with a strong New Jersey accent - provides the perfect contrast for Jim's soft spoken southern manner. I teased him recently that he is Rita's translator.

Hey.....I resemble that remark!

 

[Tim Tucker]

Hey.....I resemble that remark!

Are you from 'Jersey? What exit?

 

[Tom Gall]

Are you from 'Jersey? What exit?

I can't remember the last time I was on the Turnpike or the Parkway. Where I live we still have farms and lots of trees....but it is getting a lot more crowed the last few decades.

 

[Tim Tucker]

The exodus from the City....Can't blame them - but we all wish that our neighborhood would remain the way want it...but the price of "progress" I suppose....

 

[Doug Freeman]

Thankfully I have lived almost all of my life in rural communities. My old hometown is only now starting to be consumed by suburban sprawl, but I havent lived there for 40 years. A couple of short 2-3 year stints living in the big city confirmed it was not and would never be my choice.