Minutes of May Meeting
Submitted by Tim Elliott, Secretary

Notes from CNEW meeting May 4 2006

New Members - David Briggs, Jim Metcalf

Please remember to pay your dues if you have not done so already. We now have 65 members renewed for 2006.

Thanks to Norma Hogan, who will fill in as secretary at our June meeting. (Tim and Charlie both expect to be absent.)
We need a volunteer to edit the June newsletter in place of Graeme - nobody has stepped forward yet.

CNEW sent a check last month to CERF for emergency support of professional craftspeople.
CNEW also sent a check and certificate of appreciation to the Worcester Center for Crafts - thanking them for providing us with a meeting space every month.

In the future, if we have certificates to present outside of the membership we will frame them.

Charlie Croteau gave an update on Project Goodwill. We have over 20 items donated by members that will be sold to raise money for wheelchairs to be donated worldwide. Some of these items may be sold at the local fundraiser on June 8 at Doyle's Cafe in Jamaica Plain (6 - 10 PM). Please see the CNEW website if you would like more information on this event.

Kudos to Graeme Young for raising $200 for Project Goodwill by making and selling lace bobbins. Graeme points out that this sum was raised with "less than 1 board-foot of wood". Charlie thanked Graeme by presenting him with an oak board that looked to be extravagantly larger than 1 board-foot.

Dave and Charlie have been pursuing more publicity for Project Goodwill. Please contact them if you would like to help.

There was some discussion about the woodswap, and what to do if we have items left over at the end of the meeting.
Sometimes, wood swap donations seem to have checks or other problems, and nobody wants to take them. The solution to this is self-policing. Please bring only wood that is likely to be taken home by someone.

Sometimes, there is just more wood in the pile than we have demand for. Charlie suggests that we can donate it to the Craft Center by adding it to their communal woodpile which students draw from.

Gene Spadi volunteered to coordinate donations. If you are bringing a small number of pieces to the woodswap, please just bring them. If you have a substantial number of pieces, please contact Gene in advance so that he can help us "level" the supply from month to month. Gene can be reached at (508) 655-6053 or via e-mail: gene.spadi@hp.com

Norm Mancuso and Frank White attended an organizational meeting for the "Yankee Woodturning Symposium" proposed for June 2007. Norm reports that a steering committee has been formed and is currently trying to book a site. The organizers are hoping that 5 chapters, including CNEW, will contribute resources to this regional event. Each club will be asked to front $1000 seed money from their treasuries. The expectation is that this will be paid back to the chapters, but of course there is no guarantee. Each club will also be asked to apply to the AAW for an Educational Opportunity Grant in the amount of $1000. The EOGs will also be pooled to provide seed money, but there is no plan to repay the EOG money to the chapters. It is not known what will happen to the overage if the event makes a profit.

A motion was made to earmark $1000 in the CNEW treasury as seed money to support this event - passed on voice vote.
Reid Gilmore volunteered to lead the process of applying for an EOG from the AAW.

Dave Eaton has added a history section to our website documenting the CNEW officers back to the dawn of time. As founding member Bill Frost happened to be present, Dave recognized him.

The demonstrator for our June meeting will be Rick Angus on bowls.

Dave Eaton asked if there was sufficient interest to organize "open turning" at the Worcester Center for Crafts immediately prior to our regular meeting time. A few hands were raised. Dave will find out if we can get the room early to support this.

Treasurer's report
Money in: $585
Money out: $549
Balance: $2407
The Alan Lacer demo will clearly cause an unusual volume of activity this month, which has not all been reconciled. Mickey estimates that our balance after this event will be "about $2000".

External VP Reid Gilmore mentioned some upcoming local events - please see the CNEW website for a current list. One new item is that the Cape Cod chapter will host Beth Ireland on July 22. The next big CNEW event is the Craft Center's annual November fair.

Internal VP Frank White discussed the Alan Lacer demo to be held on May 11. 62 tickets have been sold (75 is our capacity). Frank is renting some chairs. If you volunteered to help set up prior to the event, please plan to arrive around 5 PM.

Librarian Charlie Croteau showed off our new book on segmented turnings - particularly apt given the night's demonstration topic.

Newsletter editor Graeme Young is always looking for articles. Charlie Croteau agreed to do a book report. Mickey Goodman volunteered to write an article on vacuum chucking. Please contact Graeme if you would like to be published in the presigious CNEW newsletter.

If we do not have your photo on the CNEW website, please see Henry at the next meeting. The club is large enough now that having some photos to refer to really helps us all.

Norma Hogan's website (www.thecollectivearts.com) is an outlet for local artists (or a place to shop for unique gifts). Please contact her if you would like to list your work on this site.

In October, we will have a combined challenge project/pen swap - similar to what we did a couple of years ago. Make and bring a pen to participate in the swap.

Dave Eaton is putting together a "mentor" list of members willing to share their expertise with others. Please contact him if you'd like to be put on the list.


Show-and-tell items for Project Goodwill
Mickey Goodman - walnut bowl
Gene Spadi - several pens
John Berke - ash bowl


Other show and tell items

Dave Eaton
gavel of pink ivory and cocobolo, made for his wife

Mickey Goodman
mimosa bowl
spalted bowl
ambrosia maple bowl

Rick Angus
bowl from ash wood with crotch figure

Bobbi Tornheim
earrings and earring stand

Bill Frost
bowl made from curupay wood from Paraguay

Reid Gilmore
Segmented vase
Walnut bowl - originally roughed out by Walter Goodrich, passed on via Dennis Daudelin

Joe Harbey
Salad bowl set
Salt & Pepper set - joint effort with his grandchildren

Frank White
black birch burl vessel with bloodwood rim
cherry burl bowls

Mike Peters
Spalted maple bowl
Natural-edge bowl-in-a-bowl

Charlie Croteau
bowl with acrylic finish




Program:
Steve Reznek on segmented and splined turning