Uel Clanton showed us a couple of his “Tire Knockers” that RV and Truckers can use to check the general condition of the inner tires of a big rig. This, of course, is just a thin euphemism for a threatening device for prospective boyfriends of daughters. The two euphemisms were in attractive maple and mesquite. James Johnson showed an interesting “not cereal” bowl (for obvious reasons” that a friend challenged him to make out of a piece of Blackjack oak. He also showed a dandy walnut burl hollow form hollowed out from a thimble sized hole. Finally, Tom Canfield showed us an interesting steady rest that he devised to attach to the lathe bed and present a small ball bearing race to support drilling a deep enough hole in a pen sized piece of wood to allow installing the inner ball-point mechanism from cheap, mass-purchased pens to a nicer holder of hardwood. He pointed out that the wood needs to be very straight and fine-grained. His choice of show-and-tell was well chosen and might stimulate some interesting activity in the light of the excellent demo that followed.