TVWW MONTHLY
MEETING MINUTES
for
Tom
Cowan called the meeting to order at
There
were no visitors present, probably due to the cold snowy weather.
The
club welcomed the following individuals as new members:
1. Wayne Ison
Tom
Cowan commented that dues are payable. Bob Addington reported 99 of 170 prior
year members have paid their dues. If
you have not yet paid see Bob Addington.
Henry
Davis gave a report on the library. Henry
has made 16 additions to the library since the last meeting. These are now available for check out.
Bob
Addington reported on the new name tags.
Bob designed and printed the larger improved name tags which were
provided to all members. The font size
is now readable even with bifocals. All members will be responsible for keeping
up with their own tags from one meeting to the next. This is another way to
improve getting to know each other.
Tom informed the club of the activities that
have been scheduled for 2010.
|
2010 Calendar of Events |
|
|
March
19-21 |
NEACA
Spring Craft Show, |
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April 10 |
Seminar-
finish, designs, turning, demonstrations |
|
May 7-10 |
Dogwood
Festival |
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May 22 |
|
|
June
18-19 |
Turning
Bee |
|
18th |
Classroom instruction, seminars &
possibly advanced turning |
|
19th |
Turning Bee (participants to rotate
between instructors at |
|
Sept.
17-19 |
Polly
Crockett Days In |
|
Sept.
19-25 |
Coffee
County Fair {TVW
Club Shed with display, turning, & carving} |
|
October |
|
|
Oct-
Sept |
25th
Anniversary TVW Dinner
|
|
Dec. 12 |
Christmas
Party |
Carvers
Corner:
The
carvers meeting is held every 1st Saturday of the month at Phil
Bishops Shop at
Old
Business:
Jim
Van Cleave reported that Anne Cline of the Tullahoma Literacy Council who
helped the club last year with the facilities for the fine woodworking
exhibition is looking for donated items for an auction. The Tullahoma Literacy Council uses the sale
of contributed items to raise money to support people who are pursuing a GED. Jim encouraged everyone to contribute an item.
New
Business:
Paul
Fulks announced that plans were being made for a Seminar to be held on April
10. Suggestion sheets were passed out to
the members so that members could plan their own seminar. The initial plans are to have at least two
presentations in the morning and two in the afternoon. By rotating between sessions members would be
able to attend four presentations. We
might also have an outside presenter.
In
order to allow members to get to know one another even better Loyd announced
that all members would be photographed at one of four photography stations. All
members present were photographed. Plans
are for the pictures to be posted on the TVWW web site and tied to the
membership name list.
Show
and Tell:
Vic
Zaccardi showed three cherry bowls he turned.
One was finished with linseed oil and then buffed and waxed. He also built a cutting board of maple and
walnut which was finished with mineral oil.
Loyd
Ackerman displayed two carvings completed in mahogany. One carving was of a dogwood flower and the
other was a shell.
Wayne
Ison brought a wood propeller which he carved over 40 years ago along with a
board of pictures of contraptions he built that utilized his wooden propellers.
The propeller was glued up from mahogany using an early epoxy. He cut grooves to varying depths and used
chisels to quickly remove stock between the grooves.
Jim
Van Cleave displayed a jewelry box made of cherry and walnut with L
corners.
Bob
Addington built a table out of maple.
The maple was so light he decided to darken it with stain. The stain seemed to enhance every defect and
gave the piece a blotchy appearance.
Sanding the wood with 80 grit sandpaper and re-staining seemed to even
out the appearance and give more even stain penetration. Bob finished the table with three coats of
wipe on polyurethane. The drawers were
made using box joints cut on the table saw.
Mortise and tendon joints were used to join the sides of the table to
the legs. Bob also constructed a wooden
clamp from plans he found in Woodsmith.
He altered the plans by beefing up the end block by using two dowel pins
instead of one.
Ron
Reimers brought a table he made using walnut and maple. He finished the piece with three coats of wipe-on
poly except for the top which has four coats.
Program:
Paul
Jalbert presented an excellent program on “Wooden Signs and Plaques.” One of the lessons that Paul learned was
that with signs “The Threshold Quality of Usefulness Exceeds the Threshold
Quality of Art.”
The
height of letters used in a sign is directly related to viewing distance. A
general rule of thumb is as follows:
Viewing
Distance Vs Height of Sign Letters (General
Guidelines)
|
Viewing
Distance |
Height
of Sign Letters |
|
100
ft |
1
¾ to 2” |
|
200
ft |
3
½ “ |
|
600
ft |
6
½” |
All
of
The
parks specify that for signs made with 2” X 6”
material use letters 1 ½ - 2 inch tall
with a maximum of two lines per board.
Some
lessons Paul learned in developing the program:
1.
The road to art passes through usefulness.
2.
Hand carved does not necessarily mean carved by hand.