[crw-talk] Club Activities

[Egan, Richard]

John:

Well said. We have an excellent way to stay in touch here.
I have been to busy for much turning lately. My weekends are pretty occupied, but it is coming together now. Maybe a tour later will be in order.

Rich

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Members,

Well, here we are seven months into the pandemic and the numbers just are not getting better.  So what do we as a club do to keep it going?
Now it is becoming a bit cold to meet under Adrian's or Clyde's tree, and I personally do not feel as safe doing that now as I did in June when the numbers were actually improving.

One activity has been for us to post photos and descriptions of the things we have made, and I think it is about time for another round of that.  I have a couple of pieces I have created that I intend to photograph and post.  And I am sure there are others out there who have things too.  The instant gallery has always been an important part of our meetings and sending photos and commenting is a worthwhile activity during these times.  We do not have to be professional photographers with $3,000.00 cameras or fancy layouts to place the piece in for shooting.  Just shoot with a simple digital camera or smartphone and
send the photos to CRW.   I just use an elderly iPhone that Apple no
doubt wishes I would give up for the latest bells and whistles and it works well enough.  (Just decent lighting and sharp focus is adequate.) And your projects do not have to be David Ellsworth or Cindy Drozda quality to send around CRW Land.  A bit of tearout or not the best possible design is not a deal breaker.

Bottom line, please send some instant gallery photos out to the club.
Simple ones.  Small ones.  Large ones.  Complex ones. Christmas ornaments, pens, vases and bowls.  Weed pots, you name it.

Another activity that is less then perfect but perhaps enjoyable is a Zoom meeting.  Zoom is an interesting and somewhat idiot proof technology. (Even I can do it but I have not tried to figure out to just how to set up a meeting yet.)  In case you are wondering, here is how it
works:  someone sets up a meeting ahead of time and send out an email message to attendees with a code. You go to Zoom.com on your device that has a camera and type in the  code, click a thing or two to give it permission to access your camera and microphone and bingo, you are on camera and watching/listening to what is going on.  We could have a discussion or perhaps a demo.  The board members could talk about club business.  We could have an instant gallery.  The Badger Woodturners have shop tours.

What do we Zoom on?  We can do it with a smart phone, but the picture is small.  They use the front camera on the phone.  I also used my tablet, with the front camera but mine was not very satisfactory, it is kinda of a cheap one.  Laptops often have a camera built into the screen at the top.  I ended up buying a cheap web camera (webcam) online from Target which perches on top of the monitor and it has good picture quality and a microphone. I attended a Shop tour from Badger Woodturners this past Saturday and it worked very well.  AAW will have a David Ellsworth demo this Saturday, $10.00 for members, and I think I will sign up for it.

So to repeat, the first Bottom Line is to send pictures of you work around on CRWTalk and others to look and comment.

Second Bottom Line is for the Board and members to think about doing a Zoom meeting.  Board members, what do we address? Members, what do you want to watch and participate in?  I will continue as acting Program Director and put something together if there is direction from the members and board and I can find volunteers to help with a Demo if that is part of the deal.

We as a club need to keep ourclub going.  Let's get 'er done.

John




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