Demo
Zach and Iris Hauser did a presentation on collaboration. Both Zach and Iris are accomplished artists, each in their own medium. Zach designs and builds furniture from wood. Iris paints detailed, vivid pictures on canvas. Both have web sites that present more of their work.
The following images show some of the collaboration work that they had done.
Show & Tell
Trent Watts: Trent show us a loom and harness!
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Trent borrowed a loom from the spinners and weavers.and duplicated it.
It is made from teak and finished with Watco oil.
Jonh LeClaire: John showed us a knife.:
It is made from bubinga and clearly lots of other materials. The construction techniques are listed as "lots".
Vic Schapanssky: Vic displayed two segmented bowls and two burls bowls.
The segmented bowls are of purpleheart and butternut.
The other two bowls are turned from maple burls.
These are finished with tung oil and poly.
Mel Genge: Mel showed a salt and pepper mill set.
They are turned from walnut and maple and finished with Watco oil.
Cam Harder: Cam showed us a woodburned cougar in a frame.
The pyrography is on basswood, the frame is red oak and spruce.
Gordan Munn: Gord brought two bowls to show.
One bowl is of big leaf maple, the other is of yew.
They are finished with walnut oil and carnauba wax.
Ben Browning: Ben showed us a carved bear.
He used a bandsaw to rough out the piece, then hand carved it. It is made of butternut and finished with Danish oil.
Zach Hauser: Zach showed us three turned bowls.
He has used spruce, curly maple and a Manitoba maple burl. He has finished them with oil and varnish.
Mini Demo
Tom Edwards demonstrated the use of a Kreg MortiseMate. It makes mortises for floating tenons.
Here the machine is clamped to the table..
This router bit in a sleeve is chucked into an electric drill.
Here is the machine with the work piece visible behind it.
Tom is actively routing the tenon, his left hand is pushing the lever that moves the bit toward us. When he releases the lever,the machine is suppose to move the bit slightly closer to the work piece. So the machine makes multiple passes each one deeper than the last.
Here is a side view of the machine.