Tennessee Valley Woodworkers

March 1995

This newsletter is from the notes of Susan Church, a much funnier writer than I.

SHOW AND TELL

Jim Van Cleave is endeavoring to make a walnut high post bed. He says it may take him all year to finish, but he hopes to bring the mattress next month. He’s got the finials - but he’s not finished. And that’s final. Manuel Brown brought a real woody station wagon that he made for his PHD baby, and showed some transition pieces for a dust collection system. I tried to talk him out of the flashing so that I could fix my gutters, but he made dust tracks for the door before I could really get into begging. Henry Davis is either building a carved shoe for an eight foot giant, or he is carving a walnut crescent for an eight foot wardrobe. Did anyone really understand this? It was a beautiful piece of carving. Ross showed his jig that he fashioned for a Leichtung box joint fixture. Crocia watched a watchmaker wind a wooden watch. Say that three times REAL fast. Tom Church had some “best sellers’ wooden boxes and a dual purpose tool-side grinder\biscuit joiner. The best news of the evening was that Bob Reese’s finger is going to be fine.

OLD BUSINESS

Final preparations are being made for the Atlanta trip to Highland Hardware.

. NEW BUSINESS

Tom Cowan, Tom Church, and Bob Eubanks will be working on our spring seminar program. Tom is collecting names of people who would be interested in having Paul Pitts do a seminar on building a Windsor chair over a period of time. If there is enough interest, the cost of the seminar and the materials would be reasonable, and we would have a great chair that we built ourselves.

PROGRAM

Barbara Church and her father from Church’s stained glass in Winchester demonstrated the

Tiffany method of stained glass work. She provided wonderful inspiration for cabinetry work and

something much more special than plain glass.

NEXT MONTH’S PROGRAM

John Sargent will be showing us how to make his beautiful segmented bowls.

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NEXT MEETING

The next meeting will be March 21st at 7pm at Nazanne Church on Cumberland St. in Decherd.

Please join us for the first day of spring!

TOOLS WANTED

Geoff is looking for an 18” or larger bandsaw for resawing and a 6” or larger jointer. If you know of a source for either of these, please call at 598-5759. Thanks.

Lucinda and Geoff.