Guest: Eli Polite

 

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What are we working on?

BobLawn Mower Repairs

Bushing Storage

RebeccaMaking a new piece

Sanding in class while the students work

Showing them my work and explaining how it’s done

Two Interactive Remote Demonstrations

Mike 

EliSalt and pepper shakers

A set of animal urns 

Shop wiring- lots of trouble and waiting on people 

What are we watching / listening?

BobBig Gang Theory Clips

Lots of Car revival videos

RebeccaWatching the finale of Wanda Vision!

Parks and Recreation

Listening to a new audiobook, The Last Sword Maker

Mike

Main Topic: Eli Polite

 Woodworker for as long as he can remember

Skill saw since eight

Treehouse

Wood shop class in high schoolBest grades, as a result his name and face is still hanging on the wall in his school

House burnt down

Went to a vocational school and went to a carpentry school

Built two houses and donated them 

Worked as a carpenter, framer, cabinet maker

Got into countertops 

Now as a profession, works on making granite counter tops 

His wife bought him a harbor freight lathe

Sat on it for a year without doing much with it

Finally started getting into segmenting about four years ago

Got into AAW and other organizations related to woodturning 

What he likes about segmenting is that it takes woodturning to the next level

Wanted to draw with his woodworking, but without paint, instead he is using wood and segmenting 

People would tell him he cant do something because of [insert reason here], but he would go out to prove them wrong. 

Keeps an eye on the woodworking and woodturning world

Doesn’t want to expose himself to too many things

Got a Garfield poster that influenced him a lot from childhood. 

Can work with stone, metal, wood, glass

It is limiting when people tell you that there is only one way of doing things.

If you tell me I can’t do something, he’ll do what he needs to to safely accomplish what they’re telling him is impossible to do

Looking for the most basic way to do any task 

Goal is to simplify so anyone can do a complicated task with proper simple instruction

Break down the steps into the bare minimum jobs to complete each task

Every component becomes its own project

What happens to the pieces that Eli makesSome have sold as art

Some he has kept 

Some have been sent off as part of a collaboration….

Do you have jigs to create the compound angles to make the segmentsMakes throwaway jigs that are used for one piece and thrown into the trash when done

Some others are fixed jigs to get one specific angle 

Keeps notes on jigs for repeatability 

Preferred material is corian or 1” MDF

Is there a piece that you’ve sold that you regret selling?Nope, because he knows where 

Ideas come from the most ridiculous placesWalking through a dollar store and seeing a pattern on a hand towel 

Dodecahedron spheres inspired by lights he saw hanging in a house 

Will have a class teaching jigs, planning, segmented finials, and pinwheel inlay at Marc Adams School of Woodworking in Indian at the end of August!!!

He sees himself following where the designs will take him. 

New designs are coming, but with more advanced concepts and processes

 

Mentions

Nathaniel Galka 

Menton

David Stopakis 

Kat King and her husband

Nefer Kane ball jointed dolls 

 

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Social Media Information

Bob’s Social Media Outlets:

Instagram: @rjbwoodturner

YouTube: RJBWoodturner

YouTube Vlog: WhatchaDoinBob

Patreon: RJBWoodturner

 

Rebecca’s Social Media Outlets:

Facebook Rebecca DeGroot

YouTube Rebecca DeGroot & Rebecca’s Up to Something

Instagram @rebecca_degroot

Website www.rebeccadegroot.com

Etsy RebeccaDeGrootStudio

Redbubble Rebecca DeGroot

 

Mike’s Social Media Outlets

Facebook:  Lost River Pens

Instagram @lostriverpens

Youtube:  Lost River Pens

www.lostriverpens.com

 

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