The Woodworker's Challenge (the club contest) was held on Saturaday, November 12th. Below are half of the photos and descriptions of projects entered by members in this event.  The first half can be found HERE.  

Turned Bowls - 6 Entries

First Place - Jim Kent
Jim created a new style of segmented bowl.  The outside is a separate set of segments - in this case open segmented - while the inside is a standard segmentation.  For this bowl, Jim used a combination of cherry and maple for the outside, maple for the inside, and cherry for the bottom.  He used Tried & True finish to complete the bowl.

Second Place - Charlie LaPrease
Charlie created this large sugar maple platter from what turned out to be a piece of wood with gorgeous grain.  His finish is Osmo and then buffed.

Third Place - Doug North
When Doug has time to turn, he creates some mighty fine pieces.  This one is made from ambrosia maple to which he applied Mahoney's finish.

Mark Anastas
Mark turned this bowl with inclusions from a piece of box elder.  He used Osmo for a finish then buffed.

Dave Grant
Dave presented a small ash bowl with Osmo for a finish.

Ed Siegel
Ed acquired a maple burl a few years ago and continues to produce a variety of projects from that burl, including this bowl to which he applied a mineral oil and beeswax finish.

Turned Spindles - 7 Entries

First Place - Robert Love
Robert spent a bunch of time creating this ornament. The ball is made of ribs of red heart. The ribs were made using the waste wood process, so they are all the same size. The top and bottom are made from hard maple.  He assembled it with Titebond Thick & Quick. 

Second Place - Jim & Shelly Kent
Jim turned and shaped all the spindles for this beautiful nutcracker then handed it off to his wife, Shelly who applied the pain and other decorations.

Third Place - Rod Castle
Rod presented a back scratcher he created from scrap wood he assembled from corners cut off other pieces.  The kit was from Penn State but appears to be unavailable now.

Chad Dawson
Chad presented this three piece cherry walking stick that is made for kids.  He used a poly finish and the stick fits inside a bag made by his wife.

Charlie LaPrease
Charlie made turned a one-handed ash baseball bat and then burned it to showcase the grain.

Larry Prunotto
Each year, Larry makes ornaments for his family and friends on a yearly basis, each year a different ornament.  These multi-piece maple elves are the 2022 ornaments.

Ray Smith
Ray had a couple folks whose family members were having babies.  As a result he turned these two maple, cherry, and walnut rattles.  He used Walnut oil as the finish and ball bearings for the rattle.

Turned Box - 4 Entries

First Place - Jim Kent
Jim presented a small segmented box of box elder and mahogany with a cherry bottom and hackberry lid that has a walnut knob.  He used oil for the finish.

Second Place - Charles LaPrease
Charlie presented a Richard Raffan-style locust box.  The finish is Osmo and buffed.

Third Place - Robert Love
Robert turned a three sided box based on a demo from Cindy Drozda using the off-set turning technique.  The box has a wax finish.

Ray Smith
Ray showed two of his wizard wands that have small secret compartments, one of ash and one of tiger maple.  Both are finished with Walnut Oil.

Turned Other - 7 Entries

First Place - Jim Kent
Jim made a large segmented vase of walnut, box elder, and mahogany with a cherry bottom.  He used Woodturner Pro to help setup the segmenting design.  The finish is oil.

Second Place Tie - Robert Love
Robert turned this hollow form in two ways, turning the long way first to create its roundness and then end over end on the end grain to  create the unique shape. He used red gum eucalyptus to create the ball cover.  He finished it all with spray lacquer.

Second Place Tie - Dave Grant
Dave presented a family of gonks/gnomes, all creatively decorated. 

Rod Castle
Rod makes peppermills but he was looking for a new and unique idea to sell more.  One late evening he thought of this idea, got out of bed and wrote it down.   He used his indexing wheel to layout the intersections of the barrel stays after leaving the rings on the barrel while turning.  He used an antiquing paint to highlight the burned barrel stays and then finished the entire peppermill with Tung oil.

Tom Cooney
Tom created a unique angel with a body of mahogany with excentric turned head and wings of maple.  The finish is spray lacquer.

Charlie LaPrease
Charlie was asked in early 2022 to make a 12" diameter ball.  This maple, slightly spalted ball is his "concept" piece.  It has a Danish oil finish.

Ray Smith
Ray showed his combo candy dish/candle stick dishes.  The center of the dishes are sized to hold decorative inserts such as the snowman and tree or even a candle.

Carved 1 (Birds, Animals, Charicatures, etc.) - 4 Entries

First Place - Arlene Schlueter
Arlene created a pig tail duck of basswood and spent many hours deciding how to carve and wood burned to create a realistic affect.  She felt the head was the hardest.  When the carving and painting was complete, she used acrylic paints

Second Place - Elaine Negrotto
​Santa dancing with his dog was presented by Elaine.  She spent several hours to create Santa and of course one the carving was done, she painted it onto a base.

Third Place - Suzanne Keller
​The sandpiper is Suzanne's first attempt to carve a bird.  Made from basswood painted with acrylic paint and then mounted on a piece of firewood.

Gary Morison
Gary was killing time in a carving class, waiting for the instructor, and carved this cut troll.

Carved 2 (Other Carvings)  - 4 Entries

First Place - Gary Morison
Gary is adding a large diorama to his house.  This part of the 3 part diorama he started at the New York State Fair in 2018 and worked on also at the 2019 Fair.  Finally he decided to finish this low-relief style carving.  He then added paint.

Second Place - Elaine Negrotto
Elaine presented  her interpretation of "Blustery Fall".  She first scrolled the image then carved and shaped the leaves to show depth and imply the movement of the leaves.  A 1/4" piece of plywood forms the backer which he first stained that added the walking couple.  To further enhance the image, Elaine painted the leaves with acrylics.  The picture sits inside a black frame she created.  

Third Place - Charlie LaPrease
Several years ago, former member Charles Trabold gave Barb & Charlie a beautiful letter opener he made from scrap wood.  Using that as his inspiration, Charlie formed this new apple letter opener.

Suzanne Keller
Suzanne carved what she called a silly, simple basswood snowman emblazoned with acrylic paint. She's carved several, adding sticks for the arms, a carved nose, and a hand knit scarf.

Sculpted - 1 Entry

First Place - Robert Love
Robert attended the demonstration and workshop with Rebecca DeGroot in July.  This cherry mushroom was made in her workshop but he finished it up this morning.  The underside of the mushroom cap is woodburned to emulate what a real mushroom would look like.  He applied a final finish of spray lacquer with wax over the top..

Youth - No Entries

Go to Page 1 of the 2022 Woodworkers Challenge Photo Gallery HERE.