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woodezine - Volume
III - Issue I - January 2005
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Turner of the Month
Sponsored
by the World's Best Saw Blades
Jim Rodgers
| Jim Rodgers, a self-taught artist, spends his days turning, demonstrating and teachng courses in Pen Turning, Finished and Natural Edged Bowls, Multi-axis Turning, Introduction to the Wood Lathe and Turning Segmented Vessels. He's a member of the Bay Area Woodturners Association, the American Association of Woodturners, and the Martinez Art Association. We discovered Jim in the Diablo Woodworkers newsletter, where he was demonstrating Christmas ornaments (right). Diablo Woodturners was founded in 1997 to serve the Diablo Valley of San Francisco's East Bay Area. |  |
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Jim's work is currently on display in the Ashland Hardwood Gallery in Ashland, Oregon, and in four California galleries - the Fine Eye Gallery in Sutter Creek; Gallery M in Half Moon Bay; One Of A Kind in San Francisco; and 7 Fine Arts in Pleasanton. All of the work shown below was available for sale to collectors at the time we visited Jim. While he turns bowls, lamps, pens, ornaments and all kinds of other forms, Jim specializes in segmented turning. He loves to teach, and combines these two attibutes in a downloadable PDF file on his site which teaches other woodworkers how to tackle this challenging art form. As long as you're not going to reprint or publish the file, he invites you to access this document and join the ranks of segmented turners. (That didn't come out right: it sounds like the turners are segmented, doesn't it? -Ed.) |
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In addition to the segmented turning document, Jim has published a numbers of articles, papers and training handouts for the use and aid of all woodturners. Among the topics in these PDF files are Sharpening Lathe Tools, Turning Greenwood Finished Edge Bowls, and Woodturning Safety Rules. All of these can be found on the Techniques page of his Web site. Following is a small gallery of Jim's work. Much more can be seen on his Web site. |
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When he's not turning bowls and vessels, Jim's hollow Christmas tree ornaments (like the ones shown at left and right) are executed in redwood, maple and buckeye burls, with ebony and bloodwood finials. |
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His teaching scedule runs to two or three classes a month, mostly at stores like Rockler and Woodcraft.For example, this month (January) he teaches the following scheduled classes at the Woodcraft store in Dublin, California: January 9: January 15: January 30: |
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Above, #090405 At right, some of Jim's pens and potpourri turnings. |
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All text and images on this page are copyrighted and used with the artist's permission. |
