Finger Lakes Woodturners

Why hide your turnings on a shelf? Turned jewelry is displayed proudly to many, many people. Pendants are a pleasure to wear, and to create.

Alan and Lauren Zenreich will be our remote presenters for the July 16 FLWT meeting, and they will show the tools, techniques and procedures used to make their wood turned jewelry. They will be demonstrating from their shop and studio in New Jersey, via a live, interactive video connections, so you can see and hear them and they can see and hear the club members.

• The topics they cover include:
• Layout and preparing of blanks for turning
• Affixing work to an indexable offset backing plate using turner’s tape
• Multi axis positioning to facilitate boring holes and scribing lines
• Turning the pendants, cutting arcs and beads, smoothing adjoining eccentric surfaces, cutting beads and preparing the work for finishing
• Using the turnings as a canvas by incorporating semi-precious stones and beads, pyrography, archival inks and other embellishments in the pendants and necklaces
• Assembly techniques for inserting pins and jewelry findings.

Here are some examples of their work which they will be describing:

Information about getting connected to the IRD session will be sent to current members of FLWT a few days in advance of the meeting.

If you did not connect to previous online meetings, or you had problems connecting, please email us and we will set up a time ahead of the meeting to help you get set up with Zoom conferencing on your computer or other device at home.

The link for the meeting on May 21 will open at 7:00 PM, and the demonstration will start at 7:30 PM.