Welcome to the Woodturners of Polk County Web site. Meeting Schedules: We meet monthly on the Second Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. at the Bartow Civic Center January through November. For the 2012 meeting schedule, see link at the right. Next Meeting: The next meeting will be on Thursday January 12, 2012 at 7 pm at Bartow Civic Center – Teen Lounge (NE Corners.) Ted Smith will be doing the demo on homemade special live centers and such. Past Demos – Resources: May: Al Hockenbery – full size bird houses: - See the following sites for similar instructions. http://www.ghwg.ca/techniques/Turned%20Bird%20House.pdf http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/Building_Bird_Houses.html July Demo - Don Geiger’s web site is : http://www.geigerssolutions.com Dan Hoffman’s web site is : http://Shapeshiftertools.com Steve Marlow August Demonstration of making bowls form boards was great: See more at the following web site. http://www.fwcwt.org/images/bowl_from_board/Bowl_from_board_tutorial.htm For hook tools, see the meeting minutes of August 2009. Also do a google search for “hook tools”. Links to Ron Browning’s web site is http://browningwoodturning.com/Welcome.html He has the instruction for the pepper mill and the sanding disk stick. Also see “cool links” at the right. Some other links are: www.stockroomsupply.com www.econabrasives.com www.gilmerrockshop.com http://www.woodturningonline.com/Turning/Turning_articles.html http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rwallace/WTlinks.html http://www.hiltonhandcraft.com/woodturningarticles.asp Last updated on April 6, 2011

Show and Tell Table from February 2011 meeting. Show and tell Table July 2011

Club work at Arts in the Park, Lakeland - March 2010.

Last update: Dec. 19, 2011