Meeting

No blood was spilled at June’s meeting when we witnessed the great mortise and tenon shoot out at the OK coral.Mike Swart, using his trusty power tools, table saw and bench top hollow chisel mortiser, took on Larry Simmons armed only with a chisel, saw, and mallet proceeded to run a race to see who […]

Most of us are accustom to using wood made from trees, but this months speaker, Gil Samreny,  showed slides of his entry in the state fair. He made a tree from wood. It was quite a large tree weighting around 400#. He then carved leaves and a face in it. Because of the rules of

Great weather, Great food, Great time. That just about says it all. We gathered at Rothenbach Park for our annual spring picnic and 2×4 contest. The club supplied the meat, Sonny’s BBQ, and beverages and everyone brought a dish. I particularly liked the deserts, umm. After we had stuffed ourselves, we voted on the contest

For our April meeting, we were honored to have Art Worth bring is lath down from Safety Harbor to demonstrate some unusual box turning.Art puts on a great program and we all wished he had more than an hour. We used a video camera and projector to get close to what Art was doing  and

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

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

Once again, members outdid themselves by bringing in some of their latest projects. Paul designed the boat’s cabin to be removable to allow access to the batteries inside.  To allow for the cabin lighting, electrical contacts had to be designed that complete the circuit when the cabin was replaced on the boat.  He says this

Our general meeting featured speakers from Teak Decking Systems who are online at http://www.teakdeaking.com. Dan was the first presenter, who works in their mill shop.  He has a B.A. in Forestry and wood utilization.  His woodworking led him to design and build spec houses and his work led him to Japan, which  in turn led

Members brought in their favorite items for show and tell.  Floyd Yoder brought in his favorite Dewalt miter saw and detailed how he customized the fence to cut molding.  Here are some photos of Floyd’s crowning achievement! The angle cut on this custom made fence allows the saw to operate, which it could not if

Featured at our meeting were Victor Reiling accompanied by his wife Nancy.  Victor could say he has been playing around with toys all his life.  He turned his interest into a position at Fisher Price and even now works to develop new toys for all ages.  He turned his interest into a collection by acquiring