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Steve Bonny Demonstrator


Bio
I have always enjoyed working with wood. As a kid I designed and built model airplanes with balsa and tiny glow plug engines. I made a croquet set for my parents which they still use to this day. Later I moved on to building small wooden boats, guitars and fishing rods among other things. I bought my first lathe in 2011, and discovered segmented woodturning in 2013 by stumbling across Malcolm Tibbett's book. At the time, it looked like an easy way to make larger vases. It turned out not to be so easy but I was hooked. I have an engineering background and at the moment I mostly experiment trying new ideas and methods. I find a lot of the fun for me is in figuring out the process to make something new or different and find I don't often make the same thing twice.

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Presentations
  • Thin-walled staved projects - This demonstration will focus on staved vase design and construction, including discussion on table saw sleds, various assembly methods as well as turning to a thin wall to create a delicate looking vase. The math for compound miters will be covered as well as how to avoid it. What to do when things do not go to plan as well as a couple of more unusual finishing processes.
  • Two layer and sacrificial layer segmented turnings - With regular segmenting you can sometimes get limited in the patterns you can create. I was inspired during a visit to Italy to come up with a method to create mosaic patterns or any other pattern on a segmented project. I will cover an exploration in this method showing how either tight fitting pieces or loose fitting pieces with a border filler can be built over a simple segmented substrate allowing a different pattern on the inside and outside of the vessel. As a further development, the pattern can be made solid through the wall to show on both inside and outside.

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