This month was the final meeting for the 2009-2010 season of the Nova Woodturners Guild and as tradition has it, the Annual General Meeting.

The meeting began with the reading of past meeting minutes and then went directly to business issues that included an update on our meeting location for next season. We will continue to meet here at the local Home Depot as the new Nova Scotia Community College is still under construction. A big round of thanks and appreciation was voiced for Home Depot for allowing us the opportunity to hold our meetings here.

The Financial Report was given and it was unanimously accepted to move it to the auditors for review. The member auditors reviewed it and approved it.

Candidates for the new Executive were presented by a member of the Nomination Committee and each Officer was unanimously voted in. Congrats to all!

The meeting also included a Show and Tell session. Here are some photos:

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Here’s an enclosed bowl that I recently turned, burned and textured. It features a wide textured band that is between two thin bands that were burned with a series of small dots and then stained.

Like the Textured Maple Bowl With Burnings the natural textured band gives the bowl a different feel and also gives a contrast to the finished and stained areas.

The bowl is made of Maple and it is 5″ (12cm) in diameter and 3″ (8cm) tall and the main part of the bowl is finished with EEE Cream and Shellawax, the stained area is finished with wipe-on poly and the textured area was left natural.

Here are some more photos:

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Here’s a different take on a bowl that I did recently. Its straight side, flat bottom and accents reminds me of a drum, hence, a drum bowl.

It is made of Maple and it’s 8″ (20cm) in diameter and 2″ tall (5cm). The rim and base are accented with a series of small burned dots and then stained, giving great contrast to natural Maple side.

The natural Maple has been finished with U-Beaut combo and the stained area has been given a coat of wipe-on poly.

Here’s a few more photos:

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Here’s another bowl in the Peyoke series that I turned out of Maple. It has a stained band that was carved and burned in a block pattern with a large ‘dot’ in their centers .

It is 6 1/2″ in diameter and 2 1/2″ tall and finished like the others with EEE Cream and Shellawax. There’s a coat of wipe-on poly on the stained area.

Here’s some more photos of this bowl:

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