We had three gatherings in January - January 4th, January 10th, and January 19th.  Below are photos and descriptions of  the projects discussed during the Show & Tell portion of the meetings.  Also, below are photos of projects sent via email for inclusion into our monthly newsletter.

Tom Lawlor displayed this cherry folding stool.  He used a combination of Waterlox and Shellac for the finish.

Chad Dawson showed his Post & Rung ash stool.  He applied a poly finish to the wooden areas and woven the seat using Danish paper cord.

John Anderson showed this Davenport desk he found a a local sale.  The wood is undetermined but it is an ecellent example of fine woodworking.

Terry Dote discussed the multi-wood jewelry box he created last year.  It is finished with shellac. The box was displayed in our club exhibit at the Baldwinsville Library in January 2023.  

Rod Castle showed a variety of projects completed recently, most of which are available for purchase on his ETSY store, WOODCASTLE. 
   He showed another of his famous laminated Crush Grind Peppermills, a spalted maple awl,  laminated wood coffee scoop, an acrylic letter opener, and an ebony, cedar, and burl teacher's pen.  All wooden objects are finished with wipe-on polyurethane.

Don Vanderveer makes a variety of gifts for family to celebrate the holidays and other special days.  This capello and hard maple charcuterie board made for his wife Sue is an example.  It is finished with walnut oil.

Robert Love presented the group with a homemade Quarto game he completed of cherry, oak, cocobolo, maple, and padauk.  The turned pieces and board are finished with Arm-A-Seal.

Quarto is a board game for 2 players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Muller.  It is considered an impartial game because there is only one set of common pieces.

Simeon Warner showed 3 projects - a walnut bowl with linseed oil and beeswax finish; a tiny maple green bowl with the same finish, and an unfinished spalted maple cup.

Mark Anastas showed the ambrosia maple bowl he  loaned for the Baldwinsville Library display. 

Ed Siegel showed two projects.  The fist is a large ash salad bowl finished with mineral oil and beeswax.  The second is a maple "not a salad bowl" (more a platter).  The finish is wipe-on-poly then buffed. 

Charlie LaPrease turns a bunch of bowls and these are two of them, both of ash.  These bowls are unfinished and un-sanded.  Their finish is the tooling.

Dave Grant showed a collection of items.  The snowman is made from FOG wood and finished with friction polish and acrylics. If you turn the hat, lights come on as he used cork wine bottle lights.  He used a variety of wood and finishes to create a small forest of trees.  The light bowl is a piece of pallet wood he turned and finished with tung oil.  The second bowl is made from FOG wood, dyed with red dye, and finished with spray lacquer.

Jim Yonkers makes very unique items.  The bowl/box is made from cedar and donated to the Beads of Courage effort.  The kids toy is made with craft sticks and is just a fun piece to show to kids.  The carvings are just a few recently completed by Jim.
   The replica Venus of Willendorf carving was created by Jim from basswood.  Venus is thought to be a fertility figure, a good-luck totem, a mother goddess symbol, or an aphrodisiac made by men for the appreciation of men.

Paul Depew showed two different shaped bowls.  The black locust bowl has uneven edges and is finished with Danish oil.  The walnut bowl is a traditional shape and finished with Tried & True.

Ted Kleege showed five snowmen of either pine & cherry or maple & walnut.  After decorating, each is finished with wipe-on-poly.

Scott Harrison (via email) presented the band-saw reindeer he created for several family members for Christmas.

Jim & Shelli Kent (via email) showed a flaming red box elder stool woven with Danish cord.  Also, a cherry with walnut inlay, finial box.

Bill Shea (via email) showed the walnut Secretary desk he recently completed.  The finish is shellac and Behlens wipe-on varnish.

Tom Cooney (via email) showed a curly maple birdhouse ornament, a pine & walnut "open" ornament with bell, and a walnut and pine ornament using the technique called "kumiko".

Westbrook Shortall (via email) presented two bowls, one of walnut and one of Norfolk Island pine.

Gary Kieffer (via email) submitted this finger joint box in cherry with a walnut top frame finished with water-based poly.  It is built to hold a bourbon decanter and four glasses.

Gary also submitted two lidded bowls/boxes.  One is a spalted maple one and the other is a pine bowl with walnut lid.  Both are finished with water-based poly.

Martin Meiss presented just a few of the projects he completed.   There is an ash log bench; a sugar maple notched in bench; a honey locust milking stool; a spalted maple egg; a walnut crotch side table; and a "toofer" a gas pipe & rebar book rack sitting on top of a coffee table of old barn timber, angle iron, and threaded rod.

Larry McConnelee (via email) submitted a variety of projects that he made for the grandkids as Christmas gifts.

Arlie Howell presented two recently completed bird carvings - American Kestrel and Red Tailed Hawk.

Arlene Schlueter presented "Deer in Woods", a piece of slab wood that she woodburned at the July 2022 Cherry Ridge Northeast Woodcarvers Roundup.  After burning, Alene applied various paints.

Greg Shinneman presented his Monarch butterflies on a branch and a carved boot.

Dave Weir loves to carve small pieces that can be repurposed as ornaments.  These are a few he showed at the Carving SIG meeting in January. 

Harold Kaltenbach at the same meeting showed this collection of whimsical cottonwood bark houses. 

Mike Bloomquist at the Carving SIG meeting showed this collection - 3 simple Santas, cross-country Santa, Harvey Reasal Tomte, a skull & candle; dragon, and "Shroom Spirit".

Gary Morison showed a variety of holiday-based carvings.

Barbara Raymond-LaPrease showed photos of these projects that were gifts to family & friends.