The first newsletter was received well and since there has been a good response I'm going to try to do it on a monthly basis, rather than quarterly. I'd encourage you to subscribe to it because you will be notified about a week before it is mentioned on the Woodburner Forum. I will continue to mention it on the forum for a few more issues and then probably discontinue mention there. Some folks have been nice enough to include links either directly to the newsletter or to the Southwestwoodcrafts
.com site, which is a gateway to it.

I did receive some excellent suggestions and the mention of some problems. Seems as though Mac users and Netscape users have a problem using the subscribe feature from the button. It is a standard mailto: approach, but there is a problem with it. So if you are having a problem, just send me your email

address to: newsletter@
southwestwoodcrafts.com and I'll sign you up that way.

Eventually I should be going to the use of forms when I have time to do it.

I've added a few things to the newsletter that folks have suggested. Suggestions and comments will benefit all and I hope we will get more. I can't emphasize enough that I hope this newsletter to be a product of many people and ideas. So if there is anything you have to contribute, please let me know. If you don't want to write the piece, just give me what you have and I'll try to make it as compatible as possible. I will give you credit for it, or it can be done anonymously.

Ralph has written a very nice article on Woodburning Pens with an emphasis on the Optima design. His informative article is listed under " Pyrography Burners" on the menu.

NOTE: This issue has a lot of large images and will be a slow page load for dial up users !!!

Also if you missed the project from the previous newsletter you can click here to see it.

UPCOMING ARTICLES
Rollie Kohl has created a great tutorial on burning a Ram and has offered to share it with us. There are some very helpful pictures documenting his progress, as well as some very helpful text and guidance on how to do the burn. There were several techniques used along the way that he will share, starting in the this issue.
The Ram tutorial begins on the project page.

Click to enlarge the image

This a picture of the completed Ram burn that Rollie did. It is shown here with the finish applied to it.
© 2003 by Rollie Kohl