The March meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 19th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
The March program will be presented by one of our members, Doyle McConnell. The program title is "Fixtures and Jigs to make woodworking easier". Doyle has collected ideas from years of practical use and attendance at seminars to share with us.
See you at our March meeting on the 19th.
(Becoming members at the February meeting)
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Ken & Peggy Delaney ........ Hillsbor |
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Jake Turner .......................... Estill Springs |
Be sure to meet all of our new members and welcome them to the club.
We are sad to announce the death of R.V. (Bob) Brown
of Tullahoma, a TVW member since 2008. He passed away Monday, February
25. Memorial services will be held March 18 at 11:00 am (visitation
begins at 10:00) at the Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home in Tullahoma.
The new date for the 2013 TVW Exhibition has been set.
The event will be held September 8 – 15. The location will be at the
University of the South, Sewanee, TN. Dan Maher is the Chairperson for
the event. He will be asking for help as the event date draws closer.
Please give him your support when he asks.
There will be additional information presented at the monthly meetings
concerning the upcoming event.
The North Alabama Woodcrafters are holding their
spring seminar on March 23, 8:30 – 15:30. The cost is $25. The location
is 237 Shady Trail, New Market, AL.
If you are interested in attending, contact Greg Myers, who is a TVW
member. Additional information will be presented at the next TVW
meeting.
The carvers met on March 2 at Phil Bishop's shop,
with about 8 eager carvers in attendance. They worked on individual
projects and made plans for the upcoming Cornbread Festival. The carvers normally meet on the first Saturday of
each month the Phil Bishop’s shop. They work on individual or group
projects. Anyone interested in carving is welcome to attend these
monthly meetings.
The flute circle meeting is scheduled for March
26th at 1 PM. The meeting location is Tom Cowan’s Artisan
Studio in Cowan.
The group meets on the last Tuesday of each month. Come and join the fun
and fellowship with the “Fluters”.
Come and join the fun and fellowship with the “Fluters”.
The forum is now back up and active. Take advantage of all the vast amount of knowledge you can get from the forum members. Ask your question and you will always get an answer.
Have you tried our digital library in 2013? 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.
If you 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).
February
Meeting
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Jay Hazel brought a slide show that featured a Mission style headboard that he built for his daughter. He also showed several items that he has built over the years, including, sets of shelves for his home, lots of turned Christmas ornaments, a pair of night stands, a computer center, a walnut mirror frame, Colorado cedar stair rails, and a set of FIFO (first in first out) pantry boxes for storing can goods. |
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Vince Zaccardi brought a cherry free-standing shelf unit that he built from Wood magazine plans. He also showed pictures he took at the Appalachian Craft Show. |
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Tom Gillard brought an end-grain Southern yellow pine cutting board that he built after seeing one like it at William Sonoma in Nashville. He also described how he modified 6-in sticky-back 60-grit sanding disks for use on a perforated-disk hook-and-loop sander. |
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Bob Leonard brought “Jim Bob”, a wood figurine that he carved based on a ceramic original owned by a friend as his pattern. The piece took Bob a month to carve, and he considers it to be his best ever head carving. |
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Henry Davis brought a cherry bowl that he recently turned. The bowl was sanded to 400 grit and finished with Briwax. |
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Bob Reese discussed and showed photos of how he did a 32-piece cherry and rosewood compass star inlay into the back of a violin that he is building. The violin back was left solid (not hollowed out) during the process to prevent the estimated 10 lb/sq in force from crushing the piece. Bob estimates two months to finish the violin. The steps used to create the inlay can be viewed in the Gallery under show and tell 2013_02. |
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Loyd Ackerman brought the
first carving he made using his new CNC router. The rose
outline was traced from a picture and vectorized using
VCarvePro software to produce the router cut instruction
file. |
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Ross Roepke showed an unfinished oak table he is building for a local benefit auction. The design came from a photo in Fine Woodworking magazine. |
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Stan McKinnon brought an unfinished box elder demo bowl and the special mandrel attachments required to turn on a spring pole lathe. Stan described the construction and operation of pole lathes, and explained how he makes traditional hook tools in a home-built two-brick forge. He also brought a copy of a Viking ale cup that he turned. |
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Bob Cantrell brought a large bowl he turned from a burl cut from a large white poplar tree on his neighbor’s place. The wood is kind of “funny” with lots of knots and wet and dry places throughout. Bob asked for advice for dealing with wood having the wide variation of moisture content that he is finding in the bowl blanks. |
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Doug Dunlap brought a peppermill that he turned from cherry and oak segmented rings. |
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Mark Ledbetter
thanked the club for sponsoring the turning bee. He got
frustrated trying to turn a walnut blank left from the
turning bee and didn’t touch a gouge for several months. He
didn’t have the tools that were called for in Loyd’s
segmented bowl workshop, so he started back to bowl turning
with a vengeance. In the few months since then he has turned
118 bowls to various stages of completion. |
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Mick Knowles brought in bowls he turned from a maple tree cut in his yard and from a chunk of cherry that a friend gave him. He also brought two segmented turnings that he bought in Honduras for $11 and $15. |
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Geoff Roehm brought in ten wood samples to challenge our identification skills. He asked folks to examine closely and post their answers on the TVW Forum. He promised to post the answers on the forum within a few days. The answers are posted on the forum under the topic "what wood is that". See if you guessed right! |
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Bryan Gordon brought a drop leaf maple table that he is restoring. He used air conditioner condenser coil cleaner to remove the seven or more coats of various paints. He replaced rails and slides underneath with well-seasoned poplar and replaced rusted out bolts and nuts that attached the legs. |
Click here to see the event calendar for the current year.
To view the "Links 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] .
Jig-sawing and sanding duplicate parts to size gets the job
done—eventually. Using a pattern bit (see photo insert), in a handheld
router, however, you’ll get perfectly matched parts in less time.
First cut and sand one part to shape to serve as your template.
Rough-cut duplicate parts within 1∕16″ of the pattern lines. Center the
sanded part on a rough-cut part, and clamp or double-face-tape the two
together on pieces of scrap that lift both above your workbench.
Install a 1∕2″ pattern bit in your router and adjust its depth so the
bearing rides against the sanded part and the cutter extends just beyond
the full thickness of the rough-cut part below.
Rout in a clockwise motion around the pattern. To avoid tear-out on the
end grain, grip the router firmly and “climb-cut” by moving the router
the opposite direction. To decide where to climb-cut, practice routing
curves on scraps.
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