Classic City Woodturners

Please be aware that we have received this invitation:

Greetings fellow woodturners,

I would like to extend an invitation to you and your respective AAW Chapters to the upcoming Robert Sorby Tour event at the Sandy Springs Rockler Woodworking & Hardware. We are pleased to have a representative from Sorby on hand Saturday February 8th. There will be two demo sessions. The first will be from 10:30 Am to 1:00 PM and the second will run from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM. Please inform your membership of this upcoming event. There will be door prizes at both sessions and sales promotions on many items throughout the store.

Thanks,
Jeff Slaton
Asst. Manager
Rockler Woodworking & Hardware
Sandy Springs, GA
404 460-1000

This is a reminder of the Christmas Party on Monday, December 16 beginning at 6 PM. Please make your reservation now. The party is catered at a cost of $10 per person and includes beer and wine. The menu includes BBQ pork and chicken and all the fixins. Reservation need to be made by Thursday, December 12 so a number can be given to the caterer. So far we have 16 attending. Email Justin (justin.reese@charter.net) to make reservations.

The party will be held at the Greystone Subdivision Clubhouse, 109 Rockford Drive, Athens. Directions:
From College Station Rd, turn right onto Barnett Shoals Rd. Go 1/2 mile and turn left at the light (this is still Barnett Shoals Rd). Go approximately 1/2 mile and turn left onto Rockford Dr (the Greystone Subdivision). There is a white fence at the entrance. Continue down Rockford drive. The clubhouse is to your left front at the traffic circle.

Our next meeting of the CCW is Monday, November 25, 2013 at the Construction Technology Lab at Clarke Central HS beginning at 6 PM. The demonstrator for the month is Steve Pritchard. He will focus on burial urns!!! and will demonstrate his process for creating one. He will begin with a discussion of preferred wood species and selection, followed by how orientation within the log affects the outcome. Steve will then demonstrate how he hollows the selected piece using a captured boring bar system with a laser guide. The blank will have a section cut away so you can see what is happening inside as the piece is hollowed. He will then demonstrate how to create a threaded lid for the completed urn. He will also discuss shape considerations and how to measure the volume of an urn. He will demonstrate his turning on the Jet lathe and will have one of our mini lathes set up with the Baxter threading jig used to add the threads for the finial on the urn.

You can meet Steve at 5 PM at Jason’s Deli for dinner before the meeting.