Minutes for September 17, 2013 meeting
of the Tennessee Valley Woodworkers

President Karen Browning called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.

• Tonight’s program: “String and Band Inlay” presented by Greg Myers
• Members in attendance: (49)
• Guests: (6) Lawrence Ariel and daughter Hannah, Huntland, Tim Sullivan and Mark Sevening, Huntsville, Jesse Potter, Manchester, and Mike Oviatt, Tullahoma
• New Members: (0)

Reminders:

• President Browning reminded all guest to see Bob Addington, sign the guest sheet and pick up a copy of our “Splinters” newsletter..

Club events for 2013:

• The TVW Exposition will be at South Jackson Civic Center March 2-9 (Sunday through Sunday). Volunteers are needed for setup on Feb 28 and Mar 1, guides during the show, and teardown Mar 10. Contact Dan Maher to help or sign-up your display items.
• Coffee County Fair is in progress and will continue through Saturday, September 21. Doyle McConnell encouraged members to participate.
• Annual Christmas Party will be December 13 in Decherd.
• Fall Seminar is scheduled for Saturday Oct 19, at Tom Cowan’s Artisan Studio, in Cowan, featuring the expertise of Ronnie Young on furniture construction and Scott Tinker on finishing techniques. The $45 registration fee includes pastries, coffee, cold drinks and lunch. Have questions? - - contact Loyd Ackerman.
• Master Woodworkers Show will be held in downtown Knoxville Friday through Sunday, Nov 1-3, 3013. This is billed as the premiere show in the Southeast.
• Annual Christmas Party will be December 13 in Decherd.
• The Flute Circle meets at 1:00 pm on the last Tuesday of the month at the Cowan Artisan Studio. Contact Ron Reimers to confirm meeting.

Carvers Events:

• Meetings are held at Phil Bishops shop the 1^st Saturday of each month.
• Polly Crockett Festival will be September 21-23 in Cowan.
• Huntsville Show will be 1^st week in November.
• Tims Ford Demonstration is Oct 12 from 11am to 4pm. Contact Ranger Josh.

Announcements:

• Everyone is encouraged to use the TVW Forum. The more participation, the better the database becomes. Contact Loyd Ackerman if you have trouble with log-on.
• Membership was encouraged to visit Henry Davis and the Club DVD Library.

Old Business

• Dues for the 2013 year are due and payable. Hand your $10 to Bob Addington. What a deal!
• Tools for Sale on the club web page, or contact Loyd Ackerman.

• See Chuck Taylor if your picture has not been taken for the website.

New Business

• No new business

Show and Tell:

• Darren Earle – brought photos of a arts and crafts-style panel bed that he built. He used figured panels instead of the staves used in the original headboard and footboard. The corner posts were decorated with his first walnut inlays. Tom Cowan helped with the finish.
• Reilly Earle – brought three lidded boxes he made. The lids of the two “frog” boxes had attached frogs that were sawn from a lighter-colored wood. He used the same pieces of light-colored wood with contrasting dark-colored frog inlays to construct the box bottoms. The third box was a modified octagon shape sawn from a block. He used the box cutout scrap to make a three-compartment divider. The lid knob was “ebonized” using a felt-tip pen.
• Larry Wendland – brought a lidded box he made from gunstock manufacturing cutoffs. He took advantage of the band sawn factory shape for the lid decoration and box handles.
• Henry Davis – brought a toy wooden bulldozer that he built for his grandson. He decided to order a kit after looking at the extensive parts list in the magazine.
• Karen Browning – brought a maple and walnut segmented bowl she made after attending Loyd Ackerman’s 2005 seminar. Doyle McConnell helped with the finish.
• Visitor  Lawrence Ariel  – brought a “wood spirit” that he carved from a downed tree.
• Doyle McConnell – brought a spalted red maple cremation urn that he turned for a friend. He cut threads so the lid could be securely attached and “ebonized” the lid finial using black shoe polish. Doyle also brought a Digital Multi Gauge Tool (height/depth) that he recently bought. It is available from MLCS as item #9304 for $19.95.
• Ricard Gulley – brought a walking stick carved by Russ Riddle who recently passed away. Richard also brought a large group of carving tools and books that belonged to Mr. Riddle and offered them for sale as a lot for $450.
• Bob Stancil – brought a bowl turned green from a cherry burl. He
• Mickey Knowles – brought four items that he made, including a spalted maple bowl, a natural-edge bowl, a lidded box turned from Bradford pear, and another with an inlaid Celtic design.
• Matt Brothers – brought a nest of four hackberry bowls that he turned with assistance from Doyle McConnell. Matt also showed pictures of a large built-in mahogany bookcase that he built for a client’s home office. He used Honduran mahogany with maple as the secondary wood, all finished with Danish oil.
• Ross Roepke – showed pictures of ten bookshelf units that he and a crew of other volunteers built for the Literacy Council.

Program:      “String and Band Inlay” presented by Greg Myers

• President Karen Browning introduced the speaker and member, Greg Myers
• Brought several examples of inlay bands that he made from contrasting woods.
• He showed how to create a variety of different patterns from the same material, depending on how the stock is glued-up and sawn.
• The process begins by re-sawing sheets of selected contrasting wood and gluing the pieces together into a stack.
• The stack is then re-sawn into strips or sheets, re-glued, and re-sawn as many times as necessary to create the desired inlay band pattern.
• Pattern design begins with the wood color selection, the glue-up order for the stack, and the sawing angle when the stack is re-sawn. A huge range of patterns can be created by multiple re-gluing and re-sawing operations with variations in the order and orientation of glue-up and re-sawing angle.
• Progressive partial rotation of the stack sheets, inserting contrasting dowels through the stack, book-matching at assembly, etc. can produce unusual and complicated-looking results.
• The quality and uniformity of the final product depends on the degree of precision achieved during the previous operations.
• Complexity is not necessarily pleasing, no matter how precise the work.
• For more information look for the “Fundamentals of Inlay” DVDs by Steve Latta on http://www.Amazon.com and search for “Making Inlay Bands” on http://www.YouTube.com .

The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 PM.