Welcome to the new
Ornamental Turners International (OTI) Website
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.
2010 OTI Symposium
Online Registration now Available
8/27 Update - There are still rooms available and the registration late fee
has been removed. We're hoping to get a couple more people, please sign up
as soon as possible.
Symposium Schedule (8/27)
Thursday
2:00 - 6:00 Move in
Friday
8:00 - 9:00 Business Meeting
9:30 John Edwards
10:50 - 11:50 Dave Lindow
12:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Al Collins
2:00 - 3:00 Shop time
3:00 - 4:00 D.Mayeron
4:15 - 5:15 Fred Armbruster
6:00 - 8:00 Reception Hot D' Oeuvres and drinks, no charge.
Saturday
8:00 - 9:00 Ken Newton
9:20 - 10:20 Show and Tell
10:45 David Wood-Heath
12:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Focus Group
1:00 - 3:00 open house
3:00 - 4:00 Joshua Salesin
4:20 - 5:20 Panel Question and Answer
6:30 Annual OTI Dinner with cup awards, Auction and Social time
Sunday
8:00 - 9:00 Jon Sauer
9:20-10:20 Nick Edwards
10:30 Close of Symposium and move out
Note: All members must let Hotel know they are OTI member when they check in. Don't assume they know. We have to get credit for every room reservation from every OTI member. Please bring a pc, for the auction and the show and tell.
New News (7/19/2010)
There are 28 hotel rooms left at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose for our symposium.
If anyone wants to arive a day or two early, the 800 reservations operator may say they don't have any rooms left. This is not true.
The best way to get the room is to make the reservations with the Hotel directly, in order to get the big Discount.
The phone # is (408) 451-3025. Members need to ask for in-house reservations or Catering.
AGENDA UPDATE (7/22/2010)
Here is the final list of presenters and their topics:
Fred Armbruster " Cutting Frames"
Al Collins "Fixed tool cutting"
John Edwards "Materials, cutting tools and sharpening, how various techniques work and some of the pitfalls"
Nick Edwards "Cataloguing The Ornamental Turning Collection At The London Science Museum"
David Lindow "Maintenance of cutting frames and cross slides"
DH Mayeron: Karl Rockenhauser, Henry Fischer and Their Amazing Oval Chuck.
Abstract: The problem with oval chucks has always been the unbalanced weight inherent in the motion necessary to produce the ellipse. Thus oval chucks has always been limited in the speed they could rotate. This produces ancillary problems that must be dealt with such as quality of finish and low production efficiency. Rockenhauser and Fischer devised an improvement that virtually eliminated this problem and in addition added an even more amazing feature, to be revealed in the talk. Description will be given of work in progress in to build a working R-F chuck. In addition a short history of oval chuck designs will be given.
Ken Newton "One of New Zealand's finest wood turners and OT craftsman will present: My journey into ornamental turning"
Josh Salesin "How to make a box"
Jon Sauer " A review of how his boxes are made"
David Wood-Heath "A Review of the work of George Baumgartl, Master Engine Turner and Metal Decorator of New Jersey"
Panel Discussion "Topics and questions from the membership" Gorst Duplessis and others to be announced.
Shop Time " There are two rooms. One for instant gallery display and hands-on work and the other one for our Presentations..
Show and Tell "Bring your work and anything you might want to share"
Please make your travel plans soon.
Lodging
Mark your calendars, the 2010 OTI Symposium is coming!
Yes, the OTI Symposium (for OTI Club members only) will be held at the Wydham San Jose, CA from Friday, September 17, 2010 to Sunday September 19, 2010.
Click here for more info on the hotel
We will be providing more information including how to
register in an upcoming newsletter.
You may want to book your room now!
Stay Tuned!
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.
JOIN THE OTI TODAY
and
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
