The January meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 18th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
The January program will be presented by Tim Hintz of Smithville, TN. Tim will be discussing and demonstrating the making of white oak chairs and the weaving of the seats. You can view Tim's creations at his web site by clicking here.
See you at our January meeting on the 15th.
(No new members at the December meeting)
Be sure to meet all of our new members and welcome them to the club.
We are all looking forward to another great year of activities. Please
give the new officers your support when they ask you to help.
We have a new slate of officers for the calendar year. Please express
your appreciation to the 2012 officers for the outstanding year of
activities, workshops and seminars.
The teamwork demonstrated by members throughout our club is what sets
this club apart.
We enter 2013 with a total membership of 197. The club had a total of 20
new members added to the roster during last year.
We are looking forward to another great year for our TVW Woodworkers
Club. Please support your 2013 officers, as they prepare plans for the
year.
Don't forget to thank the outgoing officers for an exciting year of programs and events during the year 2012.
The carvers group met at the shop of Phil Bishop on Saturday January 5th. The group gathering was larger than normal. Everyone trying to get the new year started great. The group worked on individual projects and made plans for future events.
The carvers normally meet on the first Saturday of each month and work on individual or group projects. Everyone is welcome to “join in”.
The next flute circle meeting is scheduled for January 29th at 1 PM. The meeting location is Tom Cowan’s Artisan Studio in Cowan.
Come and join the fun and fellowship with the “Fluters”.
As you know, the forum was recently lost, due to a “drive crash”. The team is working to create a new and improved forum. Additional status information will be announced at the January meeting.
Why don't you make a point to try our digital library this year. You will be amazed at all the wealth of knowledge that can be found here. If you do not try it, you are missing a great opportunity to learn new techniques and brush up on old ones. Henry has the library “open” at each regular meeting. You can click here to view the library listings.
Please remember that you can now view some of the club DVDs on line. Go
to the library listing on our club website and click on the
underlined titles.
For a complete list of all items in the Digital Library, see Henry Davis
at club meetings, email him at [email protected] or call him at
393-3191 and leave a message.
The 2013 TVW club membership dues are now due. If you are one of the
131 members who have not already paid
your dues for 2013, please pay the treasurer, Bob Addington at the
meeting or you can mail your check to Bob at his home address (249 Big
Oak Drive, Manchester, TN 37355).
Our dues are $10.00 for a single membership, and $15.00 for a family
membership (what a bargain).
December
Meeting
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Bob Leonard - carving collection from 20 years ago by using only a pocket knife |
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Vince Zaccardi - turned a vase. |
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Henry Davis - Made a stool from a workshop that Tom Cowan presented in 1999. Henry wove the seat into it at a later date. |
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Jim Acord - created 2 pepper mills from the Pepper Mill Workshop hosted by Doyle McConnell. Jim also showed a pair of pants that he was wearing while using a chain saw. These pants had been cut with the saw but had not cut him. He stressed that chaps should always be worn when using a chain saw for safety. |
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Ken Burgess - showed 3 Whimsical houses that he had carved from cotton wood. |
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Ross Roepke - had made a lidded box and showed a jig that he uses for making table legs. |
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Chuck Taylor - made a bread board from Maple and used mineral oil & beeswax as a finish. |
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Allen Odell - created a baby cradle from Cherry and was asking for suggestions what to finish it with. |
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Bob Reese - displayed the first fiddle that he had created in 1991 made from curly Maple. His wife played it for us |
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Jim Everett - displayed several pieces of intarsia. One of the pieces was of a horse made from band sawed popular. |
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Tom Cowan - displayed 2 doors that he had inlayed for a corner cabinet. One door is inlayed with an eagle made from curly maple and the smaller door is inlayed with a tulip that is sand shaded to give a contrasting image. Tom also showed two pieces of inlayed that his son had made. |
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Matt Brothers - had made a chest from Mahogany that was finished with Danish oil and lacquer. The inside included a poplar sliding tray. |
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Bob Addington - created several items with his new CNC machine along with lidded boxes. |
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Loyd Ackerman - displayed several segmented bowls that he had created. One was a segmented bowl with staves, which will be part of a program that he will do in February. |
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Milner Carden - showed a replica of the Space Shuttle that had been made from wood. |
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Jay Hazel - showed several turned items that he made, including a variety of turned lidded boxes. He also made several turned Christmas ornaments. |
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Doug Dunlap - made several Christmas ornaments. |
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John Hartin - had created a library lamp that has over 100 pieces of quarter sawn oak. He also had turned a bowl from a cube of wood by using off-center turning points. |
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Riley Earle - had made several Christmas ornaments by using a scroll saw. |
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Mickey Knowles - had turned 3 bowls, 1 was a blank left over from the turning bee, along with 2 from spaulted Maple. |
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Sharron Wright - carved a “Cigar Store Indian”. This Indian had taken her over a 1 ½ years to complete. |
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Tom McGill – displayed a box from some old pine from a house that was over 150 years old. He actually made nine of the boxes as gifts. |
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Newt Wright - had created a piece from a scroll saw pattern by using jewelers saw. |
The link will be here.
To view the "Link of Interest" on our web site, please click here.
Click here to see the compiled list of items that are for sale by club members.
If you have additional woodworking items for sale or are looking for woodworking items, please send information to Chuck Taylor at 931-728-7086 or email to [email protected] .
Backing up your cuts makes as much sense when routing as when
using a table saw. In both cases, you transfer the tear-out to a
piece of scrap
instead of your project parts.
When routing, combine tear-out prevention with safety by using
push-blocks to keep fingers a safe distance from spinning bits. With
router
push-blocks, because of the many different bit profiles, you need
either lots of blocks or ways to reuse the same block.
One solution: Make this sacrificial push-block, shown in drawing,
from a 4″-square piece of scrap that’s been drilled to accept a
dowel
handle. Use it once, turn it 90°, and you have a fresh backing to
use with your next bit, plus up to two more sides standing by.
Make these blocks large enough and you can remove the chewed-up
edges on your table saw and reuse them another four times. Larger
blocks
double as braces for keeping long workpieces perpendicular to your
router table fence. The profile in back shows this block has backed
up one
router bit already, but still has three more grain-supporting edges
left.
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