[blindwoodworker] Fw: boiling wood and an idea I have that I would like your opinion on...

From: " Charlie Breese" <cbreese63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindwoodworker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:23:40 -0500
Re: boiling wood and an idea I have that I would like your opinion on...Hay 
guys I took up turning at Birmingham and find stuff all over the internet sent 
this sight a question witch he answered quickly.  Then I got this back the next 
day I think it's good anybody got anything for me to ask or send him with my 
comets?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Woodturning Videos Plus 
To: Charlie Breese 
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: boiling wood and an idea I have that I would like your opinion 
on...


Hello Charlie,

Thanks for your email, I hope my protocol will help you with your solid wood 
blanks. As a side note, I have established an AAW (American Association of 
Woodturners) chapter in the area where I live in the Woodlands, Texas. It's 
called the Lone Star Woodturners Association.

We have a member who suffered a stroke several years ago and is unable to 
use one of his arms and he is trying to learn how to turn wood with one 
hand. I have another friend who was born with only one hand, (the other arm 
stops in the mid-forearm area) and he has been turning for several years. 
His work is superb... This got me to thinking that there is little to no 
information specifically for individuals who have impairments to help them 
learn how to become a woodturner, or to increase their existing skills.

To my knowledge, no one has tried to address the needs of 
physically/visually impaired persons (on a national level) who want to learn 
how to turn wood. Although I do not know of him personally, I'm told there 
is a woodturner in the northwest who is totally blind and he turns quite 
often. Do you think that there would be a need for a conference/symposium 
especially for any physically/visually impaired persons who want to learn 
how to (if they have never turned wood), or learn how to improve their 
existing skills (if they turn currently)?

Our woodturning club wants to sponsor a national woodturning symposium that 
will be specifically geared for individuals that have some type of 
limitation, or impairment and help them learn about woodturning. This idea 
is in its infancy at the moment, but since you indicated that you are 
visually impaired, I wanted to get your opinion... I just think that there 
is a real need for this, based on some emails I've received from various 
turners across the country.

I'm hoping that we can get some corporate sponsors that will help to offset 
the costs of such a symposium and perhaps, provide scholarships for persons 
to attend without cost. I've been a professional woodturner for fourteen 
years and I think that there is a real need for instruction in this area and 
since no one else is addressing this, I'm going to spearhead this effort. 

This symposium would feature established woodturning demonstrators who turn 
with some type of impairment, as well as other professionals who are willing 
to help train the attendees. This will be a hands-on type of symposium, 
where the attendees could come away with real world examples of woodturners 
who have overcome their impairments and become successful woodturners.

My email is getting long in the tooth, please accept my apologies! Anyway, 
from your perspective do you think that there is a need for such a 
symposium? Please feel free to hammer me if you wish, but I've always looked 
for ways to give back to the woodturning community and I think that there 
are lots of persons who might want to learn how to turn, or learn new 
techniques that may have some type of physical or visual limitations. 

Woodturning can be for everyone and I want to do whatever I can to assist 
new/existing folks to experience all that woodturning can offer. So, what do 
you think?

Steve Russell 
President 
Treasurer 
Webmaster 
Lone Star Woodturners Association, Inc. 
The Woodlands, Texas



On 11/15/09 8:50 PM, "Charlie Breese" <cbreese63@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


  Thank you I am a visually impaired vet. I learned to turn at the blind rehab 
  in Birmingham Alb. I don't realy care for turning oval but I am teaching my 
  self to do some natural edge. Thanks Charlie


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