We are scheduling INW Community Zoom Sessions till we can meet in person again:  Third Saturday's at 10 AM to about Noon.  "Bring" your projects, completed or in progress, have discussions, get opinions and advice.  Whatever you need as relates to woodturning !  A Zoom address will be sent to INW members in advance of the session. Some moderators will be on line to help with their experience and expertise.  Except for July 18th session with Alan and Lauren (see below) we intend to do these sessions monthly on the Third Saturday.  

INW Website now has a "FORUM" section.  See the top heading bar and feel free to click on "Forum" and see what members have to post.  Topics can be added as needed and if you post a comment or topic that is more appropriate in an existing category or topic location, your post may be moved to that location in the forum.  

EMAILS:  You should be receiving emails from us regularly. IF YOU ARE NOT getting emails, there are about 5 paid up members that we do not have working email addresses for.  IF YOU ARE ONE OF THEM, please send an email to treasurer@inwwoodturners.com and we will update your email address.  This is important as we are holding Zoom meetings for members only and notifications will be send ONLY via email .

Zoom:  There is now a page for an Introduction to Zoom in the top menu bar of this web site.  If you are completely new to Zoom, you may find it helpful.

UPCOMING ZOOM MEETINGS:  

Third Saturday of every month:  We are scheduling INW Community Zoom Sessions till we can meet in person again:  10 AM to about Noon.  "Bring" your projects, completed or in progress, have discussions, get opinions and advice.  Whatever you need as relates to woodturning !  A Zoom address will be sent to INW members in advance of the session. Some moderators will be on line to help with their experience and expertise.  Except for July 18th session with Alan and Lauren (see immediately below) we intend to do these sessions monthly on the Third Saturday. 

July 18th is a third Saturday and we will be hosting another great Zoom demonstrator.  Actually two !  Alan Zenreich and his wife, Lauren will be presenting an unusual (for the average turner!) session on turning pendants and jewelry and their artistic embellishment.  Alan is a true master Zoomer and teaches remote demonstration hardware, software and AV technique via Lucid Woodturners, a techy woodturners group.  This will be another not to miss session.  Time for the session has not yet been finalized so stay tuned to announcements here and, for members, in your emails.  The Board has not met to decide on a possible fee for attending the session for our members, but if elected for, it will be minimal (like $10).  Again, this is not determined but we want to mention that the session might have a small charge to to help offset the demonstration fee.  

COMPLETED ZOOM MEETINGS AND DEMONSTRATION SESSIONS:

June 4th, Trent Bosch, nationally renowned turner and tool maker,  presented bowl turning and bowl  embellishment techniques.  Trent is a great demonstrator and there were 48-50 attendees of the session via Zoom.   INW payed in full for Trent's demo as a benefit to our members.  Definitely value added for our members !  A video link to the demo session IS NOW available to our members, even if they did not attend the event via Zoom.  It is posted in the Members Resources page.  Enjoy !

WoodCraft had a "soft opening" on May 15th.   INW has not had any discussions with the new management regarding INW involvements in the store.  We will keep you informed as more information becomes available.  In all events this is good news for our woodturning and woodworking community.

5/8/20: INW had a GREAT Zoom meeting 5/7/20.  Damon's demo of buffing technique was great and included the use of the Beale Buffing System including how to prep new pads, when and how to use each of the compounds, how to present the works surface to the buffing pad, safety considerations as well as how to clean the pads.  We had a total of 43 members on line for the demo and it went really well as a first adventure with a live interactive demo.  Thanks to Damon for being the guinea pig !  Members can check out Damon's hand out NOW on buffing in the Members Resources Page.

If you have a picture of one of your pieces that you would like to submit for consideration as Turning of the Month, please send it to us.  We will try to change these out at least monthly.    Email:   inwwoodturners@gmail.com

MultiAxis turning by Damon: Lots of neat embellishment !

Black Locust Hollow Form by Jon Gay.  First submission from Jon and a good one !

One of our members had been moving way too many turning blanks and decided to thin out his collection a bit. Originally primarily harvested on the West Side, prepared and air dried for a long, long time, most of these blanks are solid and very highly figured.  We will be introducing them at our wood raffles when we resume in person meetings.  Thanks to Pete for picking them up for us !  And the owner for making them available.

We also scored some big trunk rounds of very nice silver maple at the very end of April.  The rounds are Anchorsealed and will be kept moist and tarped till we can get to them in another cutting.  Be patient, we will get there !

We had a great day of cutting and  gathering several species of wood in early March.  Species were Black Walnut, English Walnut, Sycamore and Cherry.  The Sycamore and the English Walnut were a great surprise of beautiful wood.  A good time was had by all and no one got hurt !  We are so glad to have been able to distribute some wood before the CoVid19 lock down and for members to have wood in their own shops for use during these trying times.