The following people have agreed to serve as contacts for their particular skills.  If you have questions, suggestions for activities, or other comments relating to these skills, please call these folks.  Their interest is to help the club better serve their area of expertise.  Your participation with them will help them achieve that goal.

Design:        Tom Cowan    967-4835                            Finishing:       Phil Bishop          967-4626
Turning:        Tom Church   967-4460                            Carving:        Harry May           962-0215
Sharpening:    Bob Reese   728-7974                              Joinery:        Ross Roepke       455-9140
Maurice Ryan  962-1555   Health and Safety

List of Club Officers

President:       Loyd Ackerman
V. President:       Tom Cowan
Secretary:          Chuck Taylor
Treasurer:          Henry Davis
Publicity:          Larry Bowers
Newsletter Editor: Tom Gillard Jr.
Web-Master:  Richard Gulley

If you won't be at the November meeting please send your check and selection of entree to Henry Davis at: 247 Delight Ln, Tullahoma TN 37388 as soon as you can.

When gluing up panels, I like to remove the glue squeeze-out before it sets. But pipe clamps laid flat on my assembly bench left me no room to clean the underside of the joints. So I found a way to take my panel-making to a higher level.

I made a pair of clamp-holding supports, as shown above, that raise the panels nearly a foot above the bench. Each upright can be positioned individually along the horizontal rails to accommodate different-size panels by simply removing the wing nut and carriage bolt.

Besides giving me more space for cleanup, the supports let me inspect both the top and bottom of each joint without flipping the assembly. And, if I find the need to add panel-flattening cauls across the joints, it's easy to attach them with C-clamps or handscrew clamps.

--From the WOOD® magazine shop

Maurice Ryan brought pictures of a pumpkin, carved from cedar and a cedar chair. Also, he showed pictures of very detailed carvings from a church in Texas, where he had recently visited.

Tom Gillard brought an inlet wing sample, made during the final manufacturing phase of his recent project. Everything else was too large to bring.

Tom Cowan displayed a “collection plate” that he had carved raised shapes around the upper edge of the turning. The finish was oil, walnut stain and lacquer.

Henry Davis brought a doll bed he made for a granddaughter. He showed a video slide of the doll bed, from which he got the design.

David Whyte brought a small wagon that he had repaired and replaced all the wood. He also brought four “Band saw” boxes that he had just finished. 12 34

Jim Acord displayed an Apothecary chest he had made for tools. The chest was made from sugar pine and finished with water-based polyurethane. The chest turned out so well his wife wanted it in the house and Jim had to get some plastic bins for his tools.

Jim Roy brought two bowls that he had turned. One was maple and the other was ash. He recommended a woodturning book for beginners, which had been of great help to him