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Club Challenge for March, 2002
At each meeting, a challenge is put to the members. Each challenge is intended to cause the members to think about and turn something they don't normally do. Pieces are brought to the next meeting, where they are judged. Everyone gets to place a vote in each category, and there is a prize for first place in each of three categories: Master, Advanced and and Intermediate. A Master turner is anyone who has won two or more challenges. Advance turners are those who won or placed in at least one challenge and Intermediate turners have not won to date. Winning an intermediate challenge automatically moves the turner into the Advanced class. Each category has a first place award (about $30 value). Hopefully this method encourages new turners to participate because only those who have not won compete in the intermediate category. Often, the challenge pieces are donated to the club, and they are sold through galleries to raise money for shows, demonstrations, and expanding the library of tapes and books.The challenge for this meeting was to do a spindle turning. No restrictions were placed on type of wood or object size, but there had to be some component that was spindle turned.
For most turners, this implies turning between centers, but chucks could also be used.
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The field of objects included an executive kaliedoscope, a dish of balls, two canes, a display stand, two different types of inside out turnings, a ball on a stand, a vase, a flute, and several other objects.
Master Class winner, by Alan Sharp.
Advanced Class winner, by J. Kelly Dunn.
Intermediate Class winner, by Michael Mitchener.
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