Marches shop meet, was it Bob Esslinger shop. As you remember Bob won first place and best of show at the state fair for his pi table. Even though we were 10 days late for pi Day, March 14, 3.14, give it, Bob and his wife served two delicious homemade pies. Nobody dared to eat […]
The woodworking show this year hed much better attendance than last year. Thanks to the efforts of Terry Bair, we not only had a good-looking booth, but a large good-looking booth, three full tables, filled with members projects. Booth workers, on all three days, reported a lot of interest and a lot of people taking
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This month Denny and a chunk of wood with Hibiscus written on it. No one ever seen a Hibiscus bush that big before, but that’s what was written on. It had a very white sapwood with a two-tone brown heartwood. It appeared to have come from the crotch of the tree. We discussed it and
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At our March meeting we were pleased to have Johnny Newcomb of the Gulf Coast Carvers spoke to us and demonstrate carving techniques. Johnny describes himself as a wheedler. He uses mainly straight knives with an occasional gouge. You showed us the numbering system for gouges and vees. then he picked up a piece of wood
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.Possum stew and cobbler Around 20 people attended the shot meet at Mike Swart’s workshop last Monday. Mike came through as promised with the big pot of stew cooked on an open fire in a Dutch oven. When asked what was in it, he claimed it was Possum. He followed this up with another pot
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About a half dozen members turned out to watch Denny turn a chalice as a demonstration. One of our club members had asked him to turn one as a gift for a new priest at his church. Before the demo, Denny had used his CAD program to design the chalice, and he had cut pieces
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The February meeting was our annual tool auction. Auctioneer Denny did his usual outstanding job. We then had time for Paul Anderson to present a slide show of his miniature rooms and the model tug boat he made. The detail was incredible! He even showed a video of the boat running with a camera inside
Photo above shows the vase form after being cut first on the bandsaw. Closest to the head stock is a round plywood disc that will be used in later steps. As usual Denny had a very informative meeting. He demonstrated a square to round vase. A block of mahogany was cut with angled sides on
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Hi everyone, Iif you didn’t make Wednesday’s meeting, you missed an interesting and fun time. The subject was sharpening, and four of our members demonstrate four different methods of sharpening.Ed Goldburg, showed us how to sharpen using sandpaper(a.k.a. the scary sharp method). I followed up, demonstrating grinding on a slow speed grinder, 1750 RPM, to
Awfully hot and awfully humid—not the best weather conditions for woodworkers, unless they have an air-conditioned space. So it’s time not only to look back, but also to look forward to our cooler times. At our general meeting on the 14th, we featured club members’ information about their favorite finishes. Each person explained how to
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