The October meeting began a little differently with Announcements and other items since our main speaker was caught up in traffic. Craig started out with Announcements. There were no Show and Tell items however there were many Silent Auction items. Many books donated by Glenn Krueg and a Wet Stone sharpening wheel. Further, Jeremy Ashley has volunteered to be the Assistant Librarian for the next year. Robbie Fanning has also volunteered to lead the search for a new and larger permanent meeting place with storage space for our library and refreshment items. The preferred area is somewhere in the San Mateo area. If you have any ideas please contact Robbie by phone at 650/323-1183 or at rfanning@mac.com

Craig also announced that Yeung Chan has graciously donated Furniture by James Krenov & Students book for our library. He urged everyone to wear their name tag so that we don't have to call out "HEY YOU" but can address you by name. Jay Perrine also has hats and shirts with the BAWA logo for sale.

**Harold Patterson announced that a Toy Workshop will be held at Peter Wronsky's shop on 11/15/03 to make a simple articulated toy. If you would like to participate, contact him at Pattersonsys@earthlink.net or 650/349-7753. Wearing his membership hat he announced that we have two new members.

**Our Program Director Jay Perrine told us that next month's meeting will feature our membership's Jigs & Fixtures. This is always a great meeting because of the ingenuity of our members in making jigs and fixtures. Make sure to bring yours or talk about it if you can't bring it. He also mentioned a trip to the Los Angeles area to meet Sam Maloof and see his workshop. Details can be found under EVENTS in this newsletter. Jay also mentioned that Michael Cooper will do a lecture on 12/18 at the CCAC in San Francisco.

**Stu Hoffer talked about the upcoming Woodworking Show in San Mateo and the need for items to display.

**Robbie Fanning has volunteered to facilitate Hospitality for 2004. She said that we will be working in teams of three or four each quarter and passed around a clipboard for signups. She also thanked Stan Booker for all these years of service to the club, especially doing refreshments and raffles for years. We have enough people for the first quarter, but if people don't voluntarily sign up for the remaining three quarters, she will call them. We hope to have a permanent meeting place in 2004, which will make the refreshments part easier.

**Tony Fanning who is spearheading getting together a slate of officers for the new year said that most positions have a volunteer however the positions are not closed so if anybody is interested in running please let him know. We also need a new SECRETARY which has not been filled. We really need someone to take notes at the meetings and at the Board meetings as well. So please contact him at 650/323-1183 or tonyfanning@mac.com

**Craig then called on new members or guests to introduce themselves. Eric ?? who is just starting out took classes at the Sequoia Adult School. Tom ?? likes to just putter around with wood. Keith ?? is a production wood turner from Santa Cruz who said he was "auditing" our meeting.

**Stan Booker, our Raffle and Door Prizemeister, had the drawing for the Black Walnut and the lucky winner got away without leaving his name.. There were also veneers on the block and a Perfume pen donated by John Schmidt.

**Arnie Champagne mentioned his Fall class schedule which can be found in the CLASSIFIED section of this newsletter.

We then took a break.

Jay introduced our speaker for the evening, David Marks, by saying that he reviewed David's website and was unable to print it so he summarized David's credentials in woodworking as follows: David has his work on display in 15 galleries, his work is part of 22 collections, he has participated in 33 exhibitions, given 13 classes, is published in 35 publications, is a member of 7 organizations including having been both President and Program Chair of Sonoma County Woodworkers, has 1 website and finally 1 TV show on 2 Networks (cable).

David talked at length about his "How To" TV woodworking show. It is geared to an advanced woodworker so many steps are not shown. It's a 30-minute program with 10 minutes of commercials plus the introduction gives him about 17 minutes to make his presentation. They tape about 3-hours worth and then boil it down to 17 minutes. So labor intensive items are quite a challenge to show. He doesn't get residuals nor does he get anything from tape sales. He said working with the producer and editor is quite challenging since they know very little about wood working so communicating with them is tough. He cited one case where he was hollowing out a vessel on the lathe. The producer was very frustrated because he couldn't film inside the opening to show what was going on in the turning process. The formula is 2 days of filming per show and he does 3 shows a month. The pressure is on him to come up with projects that fit the 17 minutes. He has done about 80 shows in 2 ½ years.

David had a varied career prior to woodworking. He was a Dental Technician with a yen to do woodworking. His wife didn't think that he could make a living at it. In 1981, he bought some Burmese Padauk cheap but it came in 3' pieces so he designed an item around this dimension. Slowly he began to be known and with his beautiful items has been able to make a living although most pieces are labor intensive and there is a limit as to how much a customer will pay. He enjoys working with customers and their needs and perceptions of what they want. Some have no idea and he has to gently guide them.

David has done many types of things including painting and gilding and some of our members have taken classes from him in gilding and have become masters themselves.

He showed many slides of his work which is too much to describe here but shows the length and breath of his artistry and woodworking skills. His work includes wood turning, gilding, painting, wall sculptures, carving and very large floor inlays sometimes in very unusually configured rooms and of course furniture making.

It was a very enjoyable presentation and he was still fielding questions as we were being thrown out of the room.

Before going home to dream about our own TV show, the results of the Silent Auction were announced. The Wet Stone went to Arnie, some of the books to Jay and Craig and Keith got the perfume bottle.