Meeting called to order by President Karen Browning at 6:30 PM.
Visitors: Mike Rayfield
New members: Troy Eason and son, Travis.
Karen gave information on the upcoming club Christmas party.
• Date:
December 7, social: 4:30 pm, dinner: 5:00 PM.
• Location: Nazarene Church
in Decherd
• Cost: $10/person (catered dinner)
• Gift exchange:
optional
Karen led a club discussion concerning the need for members
to “step up” and support the club by filling the officer positions. Comment
made by Loyd that the club would soon “disappear” if members did not
participate. It appears that the current officers will carry over into the
next year.
The carvers announced that a “power carving” class has
been scheduled.
• The two weekend class will be taught by David Sharp
from Smithville.
• The group will be carving an elk.
• The planned
dates are January 12, 13 and 26, 27 of 2019.
• The price is $275 per
person. This is a power carving class
• Since this is a power carving
class, everyone will need a Dremel, Foredom or other power carving tools.
• The class will be held at Jim Joliffe’s shop.
• The class size
needs to be 8 to 12 people.
• The class is structured for beginners to
advanced skills.
The program for December will be “SUPER SHOW & TELL”
SHOW & TELL:
• Toney Murphy discussed a coat rack, made from walnut
and finished with shellac.
• Carl Blumenthal showed a carved walking
stick with a “snake” handle. He also displayed a carved “hiking” stick with
a natural finish.
• Karen Browning talked about her “accidental” natural
edged bowl made from maple and with a lacquer finish.
• Vince Zaccardi
discussed a decorated maple bowl, finished with wax. He showed a cherry
peppermill (oil and buffed) and an “opportunity” bowl (a work in progress).
• John Duval showed a large cherry crotch platter, finished with Watco oil
and a couple of box elder salad bowls, finished with walnut oil.
• Jack
Tate displayed a uniquely figured spalted maple lidded bowl, finished with
spray lacquer.
• John Harton displayed a decorated rimmed closed vessel
from 100 year old Magnolia, two other small bowls from the same wood. He
discussed various techniques for decorating the bowls to make them move from
“good” to “great” category all were finished with lacquer
• Rowland
Bussler discussed a “glued up” bowl and a matching cutting board. They were
made from maple, cherry and walnut and finished with Watco Butcher Block oil
(multiple coats to produce the shine).
• Richard Gulley brought and
discussed a group of Christmas tree ornaments that he made on his CNC. He
also talked about his $5 sandblaster, made with an air blower (Harbor
Freight) and a plastic bottle. He is in the process of carving a series of
religious scenes on the CNC router.
• Loyd Ackerman brought a “Genie”
lidded segmented vessel. Wood used included maple, cherry, bloodwood and
walnut. The vessel was finished with gloss lacquer and buffed.
• Jim
Jolliffe discussed cottonwood bark carvings of Santa and an elf.
• Chuck
Taylor brought 7 dozen small spinning tops that he annually makes for his
son, Derrick’s 4th grade class at Christmas time.
Program:
The
program was presented by Clay Bearden, who is a Tullahoma woodworker. Clay
displayed a “floating top” table that he had made, using quarter-sawn oak.
The design came from an issue of Fine Woodworking.
His table was
featured in the September issue of Wood magazine.
The unique thing about
the table was that no glue was used in the assembly. It was assembled with
mortice and tenon joints and pegs.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30
PM.
Minutes recorded by: Chuck Taylor