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Ornamental Turners International (OTI) Website
Greetings OTI Members (Present and past),
The dates of the 2012 Symposium are September 27, 2012 (Set up Day), 9/28/2012, 9/29/2012, and 9/30/2012 is a half day.
The 2012 Symposium will be at the Hilton Scranton Convention Center.
The address is 100 Adams Avenue Scranton, PA 18503-1826
Our Event Name is Ornamental Turners International
Room Rate: $119 per day including taxes will be approximately $130.
There will be breakfast snack foods during the AM hours: bagels, juices, coffee, etc. Lunch Friday and Saturday, and dinner on Saturday night. This is all included in your $230 attendance fee for the Symposium. Cost of additional spouse for Saturday night dinner has not been determined at this time.
We would like to see as many spouses come as possible, as there is a lot of sight seeing to be done in this area. If anyone would like to volunteer to take the spouses around as a group, this would be appreciated. For those of you who are coming in a few days early to make a vacation out of this trip, there are many things to see within walking distance or a short drive.
Attractions:
Steamtown National Historic Site
Electric City Trolley Station and Museum
Steamtown Mall- over 100 stores
Eight Screen Cinema
Scranton Cultural Center
Day Spas
Houdini Tour and Show
Everhart Museum
At the last symposium we had many fine items that were auctioned after dinner. We need a few volunteers to obtain the auction items, set up a display for the items, and obtain a volunteer from our membership to conduct the auction. All the proceeds raised will go to OTI.
Following is a list of suggestions I have been emailed as possibilities for the symposium:
1. Do It Yourself Rose Engine or OT Lathe
2. Computer Assisted OT Work
3. Making and designing a new Rose Engine
4. Old World OT
5. How and Where to locate antique machinery
6. The MDF five years down the road
7. Straight line work
8. Straight line work on a pen (Demo)
9. Searching Museums for antique lathes and work
10. New and old fixed tool work
11. Panel discussions
12. Break-out groups that will allow for more interactive, social activities
Daivd Lindow and Eric Spatt have been hard at it to put forth many ideas of how we are going to make this symposium fresh and more informative. We will need several volunteers to make this symposium the best it can be. The planning of the 2012 Symposium is under way. Please send any ideas you have to me. I will pass them on to Dave and Eric. The registration form will be forthcoming in December.
Steve White
President
Ornamental Turners International
The OTI is an AAW Chapter and maintains this public web site. We provide free access to the forum and gallery on this site for people interested in Ornamental Turning. Anyone can view the forum and gallery but if you want to enter or response to any threads, you must register first. Anyone interested in OT can register for free!
The OTI also maintains a private web site for Members Only. This website provides fully paid members with online access to the club's newsletters, member's list and other private, club information. You must join the club and maintain your membership standing in order to receive a username and password to enter this web site.
So, if you are passionate about OT and would like to join the club and access the members-only area of the web site, here are more details.
New OT Articles
Build a Safety Switch for your Cutting Frame by John Hermann
It's often hard to know what your current setup with produce when you cut it on the rose engine. The best way to find it out before cutting expensive wood is to make paper samples. To do that, you need a pen(cil) chuck, John shows how to make one for yourself.
Isn't it time that you shared something that you've learned about OT? You, too, can write an article for the website. Just send it to Dennis.
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GET A FREE OT DVD
Join the OTI today and get this free Ornamental Turning DVD.
The DVD has two topics on it:
Eccentric Cutting Frames by John Edwards
Some Materials for Ornamental Turning by Jon Sauer
Both of these presenters are expert Ornamental Turners.
John Edwards, from the UK is one of the past SOT Presidents. You can learn more about him at his website:
http://www.ornamentalturning.co.uk/
Jon Sauer from California frequently speaks about Ornamental Turning and was a presenter at this year's AAW Symposium. You can learn more about him at his website:
These two topics were speeches made by these OTI members at the bi-annual symposium held in Portsmouth, NH in 2006. The video taping and editing was done by Michael and Susan Brooks.
Sign up to join HERE and get your free DVD!
This offer is limited so don't wait!
At the 2009 AAW Symposium, the Mandala Rose Engine was released. Wade Wendorf has 6 untis available for sale at this time. You can learn more at his website:
Mandala Rose Engine
Fred Connell & Roland Hege have built a machine called the "Rambling Rose Engine". They provide plans if you want to build one yourself.
If you own a Lindow-White Rose Engine, you can now get a pumping attachment.
Here is a shot of the rose engine set up with pumping.
Close-up of pumping rosettes and double-bearing rubber.
Close-up of pumping spring.
Click here to get more info or to purchase
If you have an MDF Rose Engine, Jon has released a set of new rosettes.
Click here to see more Rosette options
Make Your Own Rose Engine
OTI's own Jon Magill recently released a full set of plans on making your own Rose Engine. The initial release of these plans were made public in the AAW publication, American Woodturner.
Original Spring 2007 American Woodturner article on the MDF rose engine
- Click here for a comprehensive set of instructions for building your own Rose Engine Lathe
- Introduction and Overview (pdf) ...3 pages
- Rose Engine Construction Instructions (pdf) ...11 pages
- Rose Engine Detailed Drawings (pdf) ...13 pages
- You can also right-click on any of these links and "Save Target As..." to your hard drive
- Online videos (3 versions of same video) showing Rose Engine Lathe in operation
- Click here for WMV (Windows Media Player) file format (31MB)
- Click here for MOV (Apple Quick Time) file format (50MB)
- Click here for the MOV file without music (6MB)
- You can also right click on any of these links and "Save Target As..." to your hard drive, to play later
The Lindow-White Rose Engine
You can get more details at their website: Lindow White Machine Works
