SPLINTERS ISSUE 24 DECEMBER 1987
Time
has flown and all of us little elfs have only four more days to finis up our
Toys for Tots. We’ll be getting together. at the Churches. this coming Tuesday
(December~ 15.. 7:00 PM) for our second annual gathering of the Toys. We’ll
probably gather some “fruits and nuts” and other goodies as well. Joe Pawlick
and Terry Penn (Pilot and Co—Pilot) of our Toys for Tots project will be on
hand to gather up all our creations for distribution through Winchester and
Tullahoma programs. If you cannot make it to our gathering or don’t have time
for the paint to dry——you can send them with a neighbor or drop them off with
Terry, Joe, or myself before the 22nd. Our appreciation to Terry and Joe for
helping Santa. We all enjoyed last years gathering and “third childhood”
demonstrations. Remember——bring the whole family. Paul Pyle.. world famous
dulcimer maker and player, will be providing us with some lively entertainment.
We’ll have a few snacks.
PLEASE BRING SOMETHING NOT TOO SWEET
PAUL
PITT’S SEMINAR
Thanks
to the entire Bishop Clan for graciously hosting our seminar with Paul. All
sixteen of us enjoyed both the seminar and the chili. We got started about 6:30
Saturday Nov. 14 and continued on until about 5:00. Paul, a professional
woodworker with 16 years of experience, touched on many subjects——each backed
with an entire story, or two, or three. The primary subject was carving with
digressions into sharpening, scraping, turning, tools, tool collecting, design,
cartoons, cabriole legs, and any other topic you might imagine. The general
consensus was——”let’s do this again’. Paul expressed a willingness to get
together sometime in the Spring——maybe joinery techniques would be a good
topic. By the way, $20 for an all day session with this kind of knowledge and
talent is the bargain of the century.
TALK
ABOUT TALENT
Bill
Moye blessed us with another great program at our November meeting. Bill’s
presentation and relief carving proved to be educational, inspirational, challenging, interesting, and
amazing. Thank you Bill, and your family. It’s good to have you with us. Good
to see more family and house participation.
NEW
OFFICERS
Thanks
to the nomination committee and cooperative volunteers, we’ve got a new crop of
officers for 1988.
President Phil Bishop
vice President Tom Cowan
Treasurer Mayford Clayton
Secretary Susan Church
Publicity Jack Townsend
Thanks
to the “old” officers and all of the membership for the excellent operation and
support during the past year. As President.. I’m not very good at worrying, thanks
for all the help.
CHRISTMAS
GIFT SUGGESTIONS
A few
ideas for stocking stuffers for you favorite woodworker.
Sandpaper
3 M has selfstick paper for vibrating sanders—a real blessing
A
sharpening stone
Magazine
subscriptions
Wet/Dry
sandpaper——400 or 600 for sanding in oil. Once you tried it you won’t go back.
Buffing
Wheel——6 inch cloth
Buffing
compound selection
Jack
Townsend has been up at the Flea Market in the “old Henley Building” Tullahoma.
I hear that it’s a pretty good place for both buyers and sellers.
Bi11
Shirley has been in the hospital in Nashville for some surgery——we hope you’re
back in action soon.. Bill.
Chuck
Williams is now recovering from a nasty fall several weeks ago. Our best wishes
for a speedy and full recovery to both Bill and Chuck.
SEE
YOU TUESDAY
DECEMBER
15 7:00
MAP
IN ORIGINAL (SEE HENRY DAVIS)
CHRISTMAS
LIST TIME
Last
year~ we ran a questionnaire to get an idea of what our club members liked and
didn’t like about there tools. It seemed like a good way to get some Christmas
list ideas for Santa. This year we’re going to do something similar but with some
different “body English”. How about
answering some questions and we’ll publish the results in the December issue of
Splinters?.
1
The three power tools I use most in my woodworking are:
2 The three hand tools (other than hammer & screwdriver)
I use most in my woodworking are:
3. The
most useful two tools in my workshop that only a few people probably use are:
4. If
a newcomer to woodworking asked me, I’d suggest that the first three hand held,
portable tools he buys should be (include brand name if you have a preference):
5 If
someone wanted to buy a good, general book on woodworking, I’d suggest they
buy:
6
If a somewhat, advanced woodworker asked me what two non- portable power tools I
suggest they look into (other than a saw), ,I’d suggest (include brand name if
you have a preference):