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"The WNT Tea Party was a great success until the members
discovered there were no door prizes -- and then things began to turn ugly." |
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(Yearly Event)
One of
the objectives of the Woodturners of North Texas is to
introduce people to the art and craft of woodturning.
By starting with children at the elementary
school level, we strive to inspire young people to the
joy of producing objects on the lathe.
In late January at the
There were four one hour sessions in which 10 students would each produce their project. It is amazing to us, as woodturners with years of experience, that each child could make a completely finished candle stick in less than thirty minutes without having previous training. Thanks to the encouragement and guidance of each of their woodturning “coaches” each student was able to experience the joy and pride of making a useful item on the lathe that they could take home and display for the whole family to admire.
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2007 Holiday Banquet Flyer
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Freedom Pen Turn-A-Thon Report in PicturesThe Freedom Pen Turn-A-Thon hosted by the Woodturners of North Texas at the North Richland Hills Public Library on Saturday morning, April 8 was a great success and "a good time was had by all". For a picture report (saves writing a thousand words) of the activity, click on the following link (PDF file): Freedom Pen Turn-A-Thon Report. |
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2005 Holiday Banquet |
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| The WNT annual Holiday Banquet was held on December 10, 2005. There was plenty of delicious food, great prizes, and wonderful auction items. A few pictures are shown here of the activities during the Banquet. Click on a thumbnail image to see a larger image. | |
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| Wonderfully delicious food and desserts were in great abundance and the wily photographer was able to sneak up close for some pictures while everyone was distracted by the goodies. Wyatt Compton served as official taste tester and pronounced the ham fit for a woodturner. Everyone is enjoying good conversation after the meal while waiting for the door prizes and raffle. | |
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The Prizes |
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| Some of the door prize and raffle winners are pictured below. The distraction of all of the prizes made them easy prey for the photographer who was able to shoot some unsuspecting prize winners. Other prize winners became nervous and managed to elude the wily photographer. Next year, the photographer plans to wear camo to avoid detection. Among the winners, Stormy Boudreaux won a chunk of stump wood (can you imagine someone who is not a woodturner getting so excited about a gnarly chunk of half rotted wood?). Humberto Hernandez won a Jet mini lathe (wonder why he's not holding it for the photograph). | |
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The Auction |
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| The crowd checks out the auction table and Larry Roberts sizes up the competition. A couple shots show some really nice work being auctioned. The auctioneer for the evening is Ken Phillips, who as usual did a superb job and also provided a lot of humor while doing his work. Thanks, Ken for a superb job. | |
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