This months meeting was at Craig and Mary Lou’s house in Nokomis. They have a beautiful house right on the water. Since the house is raised up to meet code, the whole ground floor is garage and shops, yes shops plural. There is the garden tool and irrigation repair shop, the woodworking shop, the paint […]
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There were 23 members in attendance at the meeting and three guests (Mike Dummett, James Bassett, Steve Christoffells) for a total of 26 people in attendance. This evening’s presentation was by Sid Mann. He showed a movie from the 1930s, about logging in Maine, called “From Stump to Ship.” The film was originally a silent
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There were 25 members in attendance at the meeting and seven guests ( Dane Slezcek, Alex Hoplers, Pat Kerr, Cooper Ross, Hatcer Ross, Craig Spottswood and Mary Lou Spottswood ). Total attendance – 32. This evening’s presentation was by Richard Platt who leads the International Baccalaureate Program in engineering at Southeast High School in Manatee
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Florida Westcoast Woodworkers Club May 11, 2016 There were 27 members in attendance at the meeting and four guests ,Total attendance – 31. Several Club members gave short talks about “If I Ever Do It Again…”. Presenters were: Dennis Daudelin – A whistling top that didn’t whistle. Terry Bair – A table made
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What an interesting meeting! Advantage Lumber has add urban forestry milling to there products line. Jason Peters is in charge of there urban forestry division. He showed samples of all the verities of lumber they are sawing with there two saw mills. He They get the logs from local arborest and cut them up into
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There were 34 members in attendance at the meeting and six guests (Bus Maslin, Anita Gary, Harold Berg, Lloyd Shaffer, Brent Meyer, and Andrei Ioroachesay). Total attendance – 40. Our guest speaker was again Ed Goldberg, who completed his presentation on how to make an inlaid Compass Rose. In this session he demonstrated how to
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About 26 members and spouses were present at today’s picnic and 2×4 contest. As always the club supplied the barbecue and drinks while all the rest of the delicious food was brought by members. This is a great social event and I wish more members participated, they don’t know what they are missing. I forgot
