• This month’s Open Shop is truly "open" to anything anyone desires to bring and work on. Bring your tools and project material and make something happen. See more information below.
• The program for this month’s meeting will be a demonstration on making whistles by David Bartlett and he may even add a novelty enhancement to it. 
• Believe it or not Christmas is coming, and that means our annual pot luck dinner will be next month.  The club will provide the drinks and main course and members bring a side dish or desert. We will also have our Christmas ornament contest at that event. So, it's not to early to plan and begin making your Christmas ornaments to bring and enter into the contest. Christmas is a time of sharing, so bring your ornament and show us your creativity and skills and maybe take home a prize. Also, at that event, we traditionally have a "give one get one" gift exchange. So, this heads-up can help you prepare and select a gift not over $20 to exchange with another member which is determined by drawing. Plus, we will have "Show & Tell" as usual. So, plan to join us for a fun evening of fellowship and sharing.
• Dues for 2018 are now being accepted. They are still $15 for emailed newsletter (or no newsletter) and $25 for hardcopy USPS delivered newsletter. Please see Mel Bryan at the meeting to pay.
• As a reminder, you have a chance to win an airbursh by purchasing a ticket for $2 each for the "special raffle". The funds raised will go into the equipment fund. We will do the drawing after we collect $100 dollars in ticket sales.
• There are many ways you can contribute to the life of our club. A couple simple ways are to submit your answers to the "5 Woodturning Question" article. (See the article below for more details). Another similar way is to submit your woodturning tips also for the newsletter. (Refer to the article later.) Of course there are many other ways to put your enthusiasm into action. You can ask any officer for direction. There are many practical ways to be involved. A simple way to help is to come early to the meeting and help set up the room for the meeting and/or stay afterwards and help clean up. Either or both are appreciated. 

Our Last Meeting

      Our program last month consisted of our annual Creativity Contest where members joined in by drawing a piece of wood and turning something from it. The contest guidelines stipulated that only the wood drawn could be used and without any kits, or other hardware but could be cut, glued, dyed, stained or painted. The winner was chosen by the voting of all members present and the winner won a "Carter & Son" 1/4 inch detail spindle gouge. Mel Bryan was the lucky winner of the gouge. There were many nice entries that represented many hours of thought, work and fun. The pictures of the entries and their creators are shown in the "Show and Tell" photos below.
      Thank you to all that took part in the contest and if you were not able to attend the October meeting, be sure to bring your piece to this meeting and share it with us. 

 
   Due to the nature of the program, a video was not produced and is therefore not available.