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Basic Bowl Challenge

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President:

Carl Schneider

(561)395-9590

Vice President:

Brian Rosencrantz

(561)818-5379 

Secretary:

Bud Escher

(561)744-6570

Membership Chairman:

Bob Brulotte

(954)428-6060

Treasurer:

Richard Chesler

(561)283-1411

Newsletter Editor /

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Brian Rosencrantz

(561)818-5379

Last year the PBCW sponsored its first collaborative challenge event. Members were invited to bring in an unfinished woodturning to be finished by another member. The event was a great success with many members displaying a great deal of innovation, imagination and creativity. Some before and after photos from that event can be seen on this page.

This year's collaborative challenge event is an updated version of last year's combined with the internationally famous "Little Bowl Show" created by Michael Hosaluk.

The rules for this year's event are as follows:

1. The event will begin at the June meeting.
   

2. Members should bring a turned bowl 6 to 10 inches in diameter to the June meeting. Anyone who wishes may bring more than one bowl but each turner will receive only one bowl to finish.
   

3. Bowls should be finish turned but left with a tenon or other means to mount for turning again.
   

4. No sanding need be done and there should be no applied finish. (That is no lacquer, oil, etc.)
   

5. Members who bring a bowl to the May meeting will draw lots for the bowl they will receive to finish. No member may receive his own bowl to finish. If there are more bowls brought in then members bringing them interested members who did not bring a bowl may draw lots for them.
   

6. Members who receive a bowl may finish it any way they wish. You are encouraged to be creative. You may add or remove material. You may cut, burn carve, paint or otherwise change the bowl in any way you wish. It need not remain a bowl. You may turn it into a box, a platter, a wall hanging, a sculpture or anything else you want.
   

7. Participants will have two months to complete their work. Finished pieces will be presented at the August meeting.
   

8. Finished pieces will be the property of the person who completed the work.
   

9. Judging will be done by the members present at the August meeting.
   

10. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: Best Overall, Best Practical Bowl, Best Carving, Best Painted, Most Original, Most Creative.
    

Prizes will be awarded for all categories. The prize for best overall will be free admission the club's next major demonstration by Mike Mahoney in January 2004.