George Hatfield resides in Sydney, Australia. He began woodturning at the age of 16 in a furniture factory, manufacturing reproduction period furniture. He spent 11 years doing this, and 37 years teaching wood-machining and woodturning apprentices at a technical college. He has demonstrated in Australia, New Zealand, England, and the U.S. George has been an associate editor for Australian Woodworker magazine for about 15 years. Over the last 20 years or so he has had over 100 articles published by various sources, including AAW Journal.

Tool Design and Sharpening

This demonstration will cover tool design for detail turning with an explanation of how and why they work.  Tool sharpening will also be discussed.

Designing Between Center Work

Discussion of designing between center work (spindle turning) with illustration of examples.  Explanation of these examples and how they apply to the hat stand (already designed).  Drawings will be made of the hat stand to make pencil gouges to reproduce turnings.

Hat Stand

Demonstration will include reverse end boring of sections of the center post.  Then lathe turning of the seven components of the center post off the bored holes.  Continuation of the hat stand, using previously made pencil gouges to turn (duplicate) the legs and pegs.

Cabriole Leg

Demonstration of how to design cabriole legs, find the off-center center for a face and corner leg and then turn several legs.  Demonstration will also include how the foot can be easily modified to a different design.

Hands-On

This demonstration will invite attendees the opportunity to use my tools on detail spindle and faceplate work under my supervision.

Mike Mahoney is from Utah and has been a professional woodturner since 1994. His bowls are featured in galleries across the United States. Mike’s work is sought after by collectors all over the world. Mike is often requested to demonstrate and teach for wood turner clubs, craft schools, and symposia. He has traveled around the world to discuss and demonstrate his craft. He is considered an authority in woodturning.

Making Family Heirlooms

This demonstration will start by turning a finished platter.  There will be an extensive discussion on timber selection, roughing and drying, design, sanding and finishing, to make your pieces last through generations.

Turning Hollow Forms

This demonstration will show you my approach on making classic hollow forms.  I will use scaping tools to remove the interiors of the form (Stewart and Kelton hollowers).  There will be a discussion on design, drying, sanding and finishing and hopefully I will complete a gallery quality form in this demonstration.

Coring with the McNaughton Center Saver

This first part of this demonstration will be explaining how the McNaughton tool works by coring a 14" x 5" green blank.  The second part of this demonstration will be coring a natural edge burl and trying to get as many bowl blanks out of it as I can.

Cutting Very Thin Bowls

This demonstration will show my method of cutting a micro thin bowl to create organic shapes that are pleasing to the eye.

Michael Mocho lives in New Mexico. He is a professional woodworker and instructor with over 30 years of experience in contract turning, furniture making, carving, millwork, sculpture, prototype development, and stringed musical instruments. He is known for his intricate containers that often combine bent wood with turned components. He is a highly sought after teacher and demonstrator. He is the winner of many national awards and has participated in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions. His work is displayed in galleries across the USA and can also be found in many of the finest private and corporate collections.

On-Lathe Textural Techniques #1: Chatter, Embossing, Fluting

Come learn how to use both commercial and shop-made tools to easily add a variety of interesting patterns, textures, and "low tech" ornamental detail to your work.  Demonstration will include the application of chatter work, indexed embossing, reeding, and a few other techniques.  Detailed descriptions of the variables affecting use of each tool will be demonstrated.

Making Connections

Come learn quick, simple, and effective techniques for making perfectly accurate connections between parts such as lids, finials, inlaid plugs and rings for boxes and other forms comprised of turned components.  Simple strategies for integrating moving parts into your work will also be demonstrated.

Sculptural Techniques for Small Turnings

Discover the creative possibilities of innovative free-hand abrasive shaping techniques - both on and off the lathe - by using particular cross section turnings as a starting point.  Expand the capabilities of your lathe with simple shop made accessories that can be used for abrasive carving.  Strategies for modifying turned forms will change the way you look at your work and will inspire new explorations.

Hand-chased threads w/o Expensive Woods

Many turners believe that the only way to cut clean threads on wood boxes is to use expensive materials like boxwood, blackwood, rosewood or ebony; or to buy an expensive threading attachment for your lathe.  IT ISN'T TRUE!  This demonstration will show the simple techniques and provide a detailed description of all the contributing factors for quickly cutting crisp threads in common woods like maple and walnut with a properly sharpened chaser.

Small Boxes - Big Details

See the application of strategies for turning a variety of box forms using many of the detail and textural techniques from Michael's other demonstrations including chatterwork, spiraling, embossing, threaded lids, drilled and polished interiors, abrasive shaping strategies, and design considerations.

On-Lathe Textural Techniques #2: Spiral Work

This demonstration will show the application of the versatile - and often tricky - Sorby spiral and texturing tool.  Detailed descriptions of the variables affecting use of each tool will be demonstrated.  Come learn how to use this tool to easily add a variety of interesting patterns, textures, and "low tech" ornamental detail to your work.