Introducing myself

[Jason Clark2]

Mike Vickery kept raving about SMC so I've been lurking for about a month and finally decided it's time to introduce myself.

My name is Jason Clark and I live in Mesa AZ. I'm 29, have been married for 11 years and have 2 kids, Christopher age 5 and Rebecca age 2. I've been turning for about 2 1/2 years and upgraded to a Powermatic 3520B in early May. Below are 4 of my most recent turnings:

http://www.fourcornerswoodturning.com/sumacplatter.jpg
Curly African Sumac platter, 18" diameter, 1" deep. Wood locally harvested with Mike Vickery and Kevin McPeek from trees demolished for future development.

http://www.fourcornerswoodturning.com/mesquite31.jpg
Mesquite Bowl with clightly curly figure, 17 3/4" diameter, 5 1/2" deep. Wood locally harvested with Mike Vickery and Kevin McPeek from trees cut down by locally by road crews.

http://www.fourcornerswoodturning.com/paloverde4.jpg
Spalted and bug eaten Palo Verde winged crotch bowl, 16" across the points, 3 1/2" deep. Wood locally harvested from trees demolished for local freeway expansion. Sat in log form in my garage for 1 1/2 years while spalting and infested with bugs.

http://www.fourcornerswoodturning.com/bebbox3.jpg
Box Elder Burl lattice top lidded box. 3 1/2" diameter, 1 3/4" tall. Inspired by the work of Hans Weissflog and Hans Finsterwalder. After watching Hans Finsterwalder turn one of these a couple of weeks ago I developed my own process for turning these without the need for special jigs or tools.

I look forward to your responses and hope to become a much more active participant on this and other forums.

Jason

[Kim Ford]

Jason;

Welcome to the Creek. Nice - Nice -Nice work. Keep posting.

[Nancy Laird]

BEAUTIFUL work, Jason. I especially like the platter and the mesquite bowl. The lattice-top box is very interesting--care to share???

Nancy (126 days)

[Patrick Taylor]

Great stuff! Welcome, and I look forward to seeing more.

[Jason Clark2]

Nancy, I posted these photos on another message board a couple of days ago and received a request for a tutorial. I put one together last night.

Anyone who wants a copy of the 199kb PDF file email me at jclark58@gmail.com for a copy.

Jason

[Brett Baldwin]

Welcome Jason. Good to see another Valley resident here. Great pieces.

[Mike Vickery]

Glad you finally showed up.

[Jason Clark2]

I've been here for a while, just lurking and trying to get my profile activated (stupid spam filter kept intercepting the activation emails).

Jason

[TYLER WOOD]

Welcome Jason! Great work. I have an affinity for the winged bowl and the lattice top, although all the pieces are extremely nice work. Please share more, and welcome!!!

[Jeff Bower]

Jason, beautiful!! Welcome aboard!

[Dennis Peacock]

Beautiful turnings Jason and WELCOME to SMC!!!! :D

[Steve Schlumpf]

Jason - Welcome to the Creek! Beautiful work - looking forward to seeing more of your turnings!

[Jim Becker]

Jason, welcome to the 'Creek and I have to say, that's outstanding work!

[Kevin McPeek]

Welcome Jason! Good to see you around.
I see the PV held together for you, it looks great. I might have to give the box a try, you know I've got a lot of wood right now for practice. Now if someone would just turn the heat off around here.

[Paul Heely]

Nice looking pieces Jason. Welcome aboard and keep the pictures coming.

[George Conklin]

Welcome Jason,

That Palo Verde is very interesting! I like it a lot!

Thanks for sharing.

[Jason Slutsky]

Outstanding work Jason! Welcome to the Creek!!

Jason

[Ed Scolforo]

Beautiful work, Jason. Welcome to the Creek!!

[Gary Herrmann]

Very nice work. Welcome aboard.

[GLENN THOMAS]

Very nice work and welcome so SMC. You have picked a good place to hang out. Everyone here will treat you like an old friend. Every now and then I get feeling like my work is pretty good and then Ill see pictures posted by folks like you and Ill know I need to try harder.

GT

[Pete Jordan]

Welcome Jason!

You are well on your way!

[Ron Journeau]

welcome to the creek...maybe I should just go back to playing checkers...:rolleyes:

[Bill Wyko]

Welcome to the Vortex. That's some beautiful work you have done. Always nice to have new styles and ideas join in.

[Nancy Laird]

Jason posted this on a penturners forum a day or so ago (IAP) and it's now one of the home page features. Way to go, Jason!!

Nancy (126 days)

[Sean Troy]

Glad to see you on board Jason. How's the Az. Woodturners doing? I hear Prescott went very well. Sean

[George Guadiane]

I am sure that you will like it here, your work will certainly be appreciated (it IS really good).

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Welcome to the Creek Jason!
Seldom do newcomers make a splash like you did! I'd invite you to wade right in the water's fine...but you just did a double cannonball with a triple twist and perfect entry into the water!


I'm sure we can learn from you!

Welcome!

[Christopher K. Hartley]

Welcome Jason, very nice looking work! Keep'em coming, I look forward to seeing more.:)

[Jason Clark2]

A big thank you to the whole group for the warm welcome. It's almost surprising to be welcomed with such open arms, even though it shouldn't be.

Sean, The AZ Woodturners group is doing very well. We're almost ready for the influx of winter members. I recently redesigned the website and added google ads, a classifieds page, and more. We just announced that we have Stuart Batty scheduled for an all day demo on November 3rd.

The Prescott event went very well. We had a great turnout and were treated to demos by Paul Porter, Greg Campbell, Bob Shields, Hans Finsterwalder, Robert Marvel, and more. Elbo tools was on hand as was a wood vendor out of Fresno. We raffled a Jet Mini and had 15 or so silent auction items with the proceeds from both going directly to the Yavapai College woodturning program. A good time was had by all.

Jason

[Pat Doble]

Welcome Jason - and great work. Looking forward to seeing more.