For the third year in a row the club has assembled a great display of wood turnings at the Arts & Crafts exhibition at the Delaware state fair. The Delaware State Fair in Harrington, Delaware is running from July 19 to 28th. Take time to go look at the display […]
Three Officers from First State Woodturners met with representatives of the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children on Thursday to present them with nine turned lidded boxes for children that participate in Beads of Courage. The Beads of Courage Program is a resilience-based intervention designed to support and strengthen children and families […]
Registration for the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Woodturning Symposium – to be held from Friday, September 28 through Sunday, September 30th – is now open! The venue will once again be the Lancaster Marriott located at 25 S. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA. Demonstrators for this year’s event include John Jordan, Michael Kehs, Malcolm Tibbetts, Beth Ireland, Art Liestman, Mark […]
At the 6 June 2018 meeting Eric L. Krum presented information on Scrapers and how to sharpen them using a grinder or by honing or burnishing. A copy of the PDF file is available for download “Scrapers it is all about the bur”, dated 6 June 2018- Eric Krum A […]
The Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving Competition and Art Festival is an international event where carvers, collectors, and visitors convene at the end of each April in Ocean City, MD. From highly decorative works of art to functional hunting decoys, about 1200 different wildfowl carvings representing more than 150 species from around […]
The diagram for the Peg Puzzle presented by Eric Krum during Show & Tell is available here in Word and PDF formats. The diagram in the Word document can be resized. Word Version of Peg Puzzle and in PDF here: Peg Puzzle SaveSave
by Eric Krum Tung oil or China wood oil is obtained by pressing the seed from the nut of the tung tree (Vernicia fordii). Tung oil hardens upon exposure to air, and the resulting coating is transparent and has a deep, almost wet look. Used mostly for finishing/protecting wood, after […]
The Woodworking Shows trade show will be in Baltimore this weekend, January 5-7. Over 70 tool, machinery, and supplies vendors will be in attendance, and there will be a full schedule of demonstrations and seminars. Many local woodturning clubs and woodworking guilds will also be there. This is an excellent […]
For our October meeting, Joe Nestlerode will present Part II of his ‘Back-to-Basics’ Bowl Turning Demo. During Part I back in June, Joe showed how a bowl blank was cut from half of a log, and then demonstrated how that blank was turned to a rough bowl. Now that the […]
At last night’s Club meeting, member Eric Krum gave a demo on turning an end-grain box. Prior to the demo, Eric gave a short presentation on wood movement and how it relates to turning a box. You can download a PDF of that presentation here. Also, during the September meeting, […]
