TVWW MONTHLY
MEETING MINUTES
for
Tom
Cowan called the meeting to order at
The
club recognized and welcomed the following individuals as guests:
·
Walt
& Corrine Conden (guests of Bob Reese)
Tom
announced that UT will hold a Field Day at the UT Tree Farm (located between
Old
Business:
Tom
Cowan reported on Sharpening Seminar held by the
Loyd
Ackerman reported on the Vacuum Press workshop held on May 15th. This was a great workshop with hands on use
of a vacuum press.
Paul
Fulks reported that a jig and template short session was planned for June 26. Anyone who has jigs or templates should
contact Paul. Paul also found a young man who carves bears with a
chainsaw in Gatlinburg who would be willing to do a session for the club at a
reasonable price. If enough members are interested then a session will be set
up for this fall.
Tom
Reported on the carver’s exhibit held at the Dogwood Festival in
Felix
Reese gave club members the final details for the Annual Picnic which will
occur at Falls Mill at
Johnny
Brown reported that the annual turning bee will be held at Tom Cowan’s on June
19th with a spindle turning session on June 18th. June 12th was set as a day to
chain-saw bowl blanks. Tom’s son will
utilize his saw mill in order to help prepare bowl blanks for bowl
turning. A sign-up sheet was sent around
requesting volunteers for chain-sawing bowl blanks along with others who could
bring their lathe and/or bowl gouges.
Carvers
Corner:
The
carvers meeting is held every 1st Saturday of the month at Phil
Bishops Shop at
New
Business:
Paul
Fulks announced that a Saturday Short Session is being planned for displaying
jigs and templates. This session is
tentatively scheduled for June 26.
Anyone who has jigs or templates that would be interesting should
contact Paul.
Show
and Tell:
Milner
Carden brought pictures of three sugar chests that Ronnie Young built from wood
grown on the Hermitage property. Ronnie
Young went to the Hermitage to get first hand knowledge of the Jackson Sugar
Chest. He then used Walnut lumber that
Milner gave him to produce three sugar chests.
The chests were all signed and dated.
The chests were a work of art.
Milner encouraged all woodworkers to sign and date their work. This would bring more joy to their owners in
the future and also serve to document the pieces history.
Ken
Miller showed a Hope Chest he built for a member of his family with a lift out
tray. He also had pictures of an
entertainment center and an outdoor buffet constructed from mahogany. He also built a table and chair.
Doyle
McConnel brought in a segmented bowl he turned from 360 pieces of wood he cut
and glued up. He finished the piece with
lacquer. Dowell made the piece as a
wedding gift for his granddaughter.
Ross
Roepke built a frame in which he had mounted two wooden planes his grandfather
left him. His grandfather was born on
the plains and lived on an homestead. He
built houses and barns from 1899 to 1930.
Ross is passing on the display case with the two planes to his son has
the same name as his grandfather. One
was a round-over plane and the other was a rabbet plane.
Bob
Addington brought in four bowls which he recently turned from Bradford Pear. The finish Bob used was 2 coats of Danish oil
followed by 3 coats of wipe-on polyurethane.
Bob reported the Bradford Pear was the easiest to turn of any wood he
has used. In the green state the wood had
an orange cast but it turned nearly white as it dryed. After the finish was applied the wood turned
more orange again.
Bob
Reese built a cedar chest for a granddaughter in
Kevin Deuermeyer
built a bench for his hallway in his house.
The bench was built from Sassafras wood.
Bob Addington provided Kevin with a set of plans. The joints were all mortise and tendon and
finished with polyurethane.
Richard
Gulley brought in his new Triton router which works with a crank to lift it
above the router table. Additionally the
router has the ability to raise the collet above the router base so that the
bits can be changed without reaching beneath the router base.
Dick
Wollam brought in a carving he started at the Dogwood Festival. So far he has spent 5 hours drawing out the
carving and used 3 pieces of basswood. He spent 2 hours on the band saw
roughing out different parts. So far he
has spent 4 hours carving. Dick is
tracking his time and will give a full report when he completes the project and
brings in the finished piece.
Phil
Bishop brought in a crown he carved for a bed.
Phil took the design from a matching dresser. Phil blew up the carving design 148% in size
so it would fit the bed. Phil spent
about 30 hours carving the crown. Phil figures
he spent right at 30 hours to complete the project. He completed part of the project while
working at the Dogwood Festival. The
wood for the carving was mahogany.
Program:
Bob
Molloy presented an outstanding program on building a wood strip canoe. Bob’s canoe was built in the style of Phil
Greene of