Middle Georgia Woodturners

Meeting - Tuesday April 4th at 6pm This month we have Carl Jacobson of YouTube fame down from Grants Pass, Oregon. Carl will be demonstrating how to make his Stingray Box using many practical and useful turning techniques.

Southern States Woodturning Symposium starts Friday, March 10. Registration and Vendors open at noon, rotations start at 1:00 pm. The food truck will be there f...rom 11:00 am til 2:00 pm with really good Bar B Que! Hope to see you there. Clarence Brown Conference Center, GA Hwy 20, in Cartersville. See more

Meeting - Tuesday March 7th at 6pm This month we have Steve Pritchard from Winston, GA. Steve will be instructing us in making burial urns with threaded lids by using various digital and video techniques, along with input into making the hollow forms.

Meeting - Tuesday February 7th at 6pm This month we have Wes Jones down from Lawrenceville. Wes will be demonstrating the techniques and tools he uses to finish turn deep bowls. We get a lot of questions about keeping the bevel rubbing on the curve as you make the transition from the side of the bowl to the bottom. This will be a great and timely demo.

Meeting - Tuesday January 3rd at 6pm This month our own Bryan McPherson. Bryan has been turning about 4 years now and it has been great to see his work evolve. He demonstrated his beautiful bird houses for us last year. This month he will demonstrate turning a Splay Toothpick Holder. This is a great project as a gift.

Attention Woodturners Early registration has been extended to January 31 for the Southern States Woodturning Symposium in Cartersville, GA, March 10-12, 2017. ...Featured demonstrators will be Stuart Mortimer, Dixie Biggs, Dennis Paullus and Windsor chair maker, Greg Pennington. For more information: www.southernstatessymposium.org . See more

Meeting - Tuesday November 1st at 6pm This month our own Steve Mellott will demonstrate his take on single piece, solid body Christmas ornaments. This is perfect timing Many turners would like to turn a Christmas ornament but don't believe they have the skills to hollow a globe or turn a fancy finial and icicle . In this demo, Steve will show you how to turn several nice ornaments out of a single piece of wood without any hollowing or fancy tools. If you have children or grandchildren, they can participate in the process by coloring various parts of the ornament.

Meeting - Tuesday October 4th at 6pm This month we are having our own Jim Fontenot do a two part presentation. Jim will discuss the steps required to make the three legged stool featured on the cover of April’s American Woodturner. He will also talk about the mortice drilling layouts he used. For the second part of the presentation , he will turn a wine glass stem and show all the steps from drilling the glass stem hole and final shaping to the final glue-up of the base and stem.

Meeting - Tuesday September 6th at 6pm This month we are having Bradley McCalister (The Studios of Bradley R M) over from Metter, GA to demonstrate turning dry wood and how to work with dyes and accomplish color embellishments.

Meeting - Tuesday August 2nd at 6pm This month we are having Peggy Schmid (www.PeggySchmid.com) down to share some of her artist wisdom. The demonstration will explore the use of color and techniques to achieve balance in the colors we blend together. She will also show how she makes some of the texturing bits she makes and uses on her pieces. Peggy will turn a small platter to give an idea of how the different types of texture and pigments come together in a finished piece. We will also see the difference that acrylic, dyes, spray, and oil paints can make when applied to a texture.

Meeting - Tuesday July 5th at 6pm This month one of our own members, Larry Parks will be demonstrating bowl turning basics and bowl design; the little stuff makes a big difference. Larry describes himself as a wood turner not a wood artist, preferring the natural form and beauty of wood over painted pieces. He does not mind turning crappy wood. He says he has learned a lot from crappy wood like how to patch cracks and use them as design elements.