The September meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 17th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
The September program will be presented by Greg Myers. Greg will be
presenting a top of interest to all: String and Band Inlay.
Be sure to come out and hear Greg’s tips and techniques concerning
inlay.
See you at our September meeting on the 17th .
(No new members at the August meeting)
Be sure to meet all of our new members and welcome them to the club.
The fall seminar is scheduled for October 19. We will have two outstanding presenters, Ron Young and Scott Tinker. They will each do a half day program. Both are professional woodworkers and members of the TVW. The event will be at the Cowan Artisan in Cowan.
A lunch will be included. As usual -- the cost will be very affordable
and is set at $45.
Bob Addington will be accepting registrations at the next monthly
meeting. Thanks to Loyd Ackerman for chairing this event.
The annual UTSI Employee Picnic is scheduled for September 27. In the past, club members have donated items to be used as door prizes. It is a great help to UTSI and provides the club extra exposure. If you are interested in helping with this activity, start getting your items ready. Items can be brought to the September meeting or get them to Richard Gulley before the 27th. Additional information will be given at the September meeting.
This is a great way to thank UTSI for allowing us to use the facilities during our monthly meetings.
The Coffee County Fair demonstrations will be ongoing during September
16 – 21. Efforts are being made to increase the attendance at this
activity. The demonstration schedule will be discussed at the next TVW
meeting.
Help make this a fun week and a learning experience for all.
If you would like to help and have not signed up already, contact Doyle
McConnell.
The Annual Polly Crockett Festival is scheduled for Sept. 20 – 22. The location is Cowan, TN. The event contact is Harry May. Additional information will be given at the next club meeting.
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 group has moved the meetings to
Saturday mornings to accommodate people that come from out of the
immediate area.
The next meeting will be Saturday October 5th, at 10 AM in the Artisan's
shop in Cowan.
Anyone interested in learning how to play the native flute, even if you
don't have one, please come and we will take care of you.
Please bring a folding chair of some kind, as we don't have enough to go
around for everyone.
Also, any guitar players or other string instrument players are welcome
to join in the fun.
Contact Ron Reimers @ 931-308-5196 or [email protected] for
additional information.
Come and join the fun and fellowship with the “Fluters”.
The 2014 Exhibition will be held at the South Jackson
Civic Center in Tullahoma during the first week of March. Applications
are being accepted for entries into the exhibit between now and
Mid-February. The entry form is posted on the TVW web site and will be
available at the next monthly meeting.
Additional information will be available at the September club meeting.
Got a question?
Need an answer?
Just have a woodworking comment?
Just want to see what is happening in the club?
Look no farther than the TVW web site forum. You can get the answer to
your question really fast.
The forum has it all.
The forum is the place to “check it out” and is booming with “expert”
solutions to your woodworking problems and great advice.
You would absolutely be amazed at the wealth of knowledge that your
fellow members have to offer at a great price!
Want to learn a new woodworking technique?
Want to see how the “Pros” do it?
Don’t forget about the tremendous resources we have in the
library. If you have not tried our digital library in 2013, you are
missing a great opportunity to learn new techniques and brush up on old
ones.
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.
Precision Blade & Tool, which is a great place to purchase bandsaw blades, has moved from Morrison. The company is now located in Altamont, TN. The new business location information is shown below:
67 Pine Lane
Altamont, TN 37301
Phone: 931-815-8150 Email: [email protected]
web site: www.precisionblade.net
Mailing address: P.O. Box 199, Altamont, TN 37301
Doug Walston invites all his TVW customers and friends to come and see his new business location.
August
Meeting
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John Duval – found a large stump floating on Tim’s Ford Lake, towed it to his dock, and discovered that it was walnut. He showed pictures of the salvage operation and items made from the wood. |
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Phil Myers – showed photos of a two-compartment compost bin that he recently constructed using rough-cut locust. |
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Ross Roepke – brought a box he made from highly-figured maple. The ornamented lid was salvaged from a pump organ. He also brought a small red cedar table with tapered redwood legs. |
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Bob Leonard – brought a wood carving knife he made from an aluminum-handled kitchen paring knife. |
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Rheta Reese – brought a walking stick shaped like a “ladies leg.” She and Bob made and sold them by the gross to the Indiana State Park Service in the 1950s. |
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Bob Reese
– brought his
latest violin, that’s #39, the one with the
compass star inlay on the back. He described the
difficulty of applying stain to the violin back without
bleed into the lighter-colored wood inlay. Rheta played a
tune from her repertoire and showed off the instrument’s
tonal qualities. |
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Doyle McConnell
– brought a pair of
ambrosia maple peppermills that he has been working on
and plans to give as gifts. |
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Vince Zaccardi – brought a large box elder bowl and discussed his technique for final turning the “out-of-round” bowl. Vince also brought a variety of cheese boards, wine bottle stoppers, and a cherry bowl for the UTSI auction. |
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Doug Dunlap – was
inspired by Harry May’s
shop-built tool sharpener/polisher and brought one that
he built for himself using available materials. He also
brought a chisel he had recently re-handled and demonstrated
how his machine could put on a final edge. |
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Greg Myers – brought an end-grain cutting board he made using several contrasting woods, a dragon jigsaw puzzle, and a turned candle holder. |
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Jim Everett – brought two large intarsia panels he made featuring Native American dancer, photo 1 & photo 2) s and a smaller one showing a winter water pump scene. A variety of contrasting woods and pyrographic designs were used to create the pieces. |
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Bob Addington – brought a CNC carved panel with a jaybird and a rope border that he made from yellow pine. During the finishing process, the grain was raised and the final appearance was quite interesting. |
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Mickey Knowles – brought four turned bowls, including a butternut one that Kevin Deuermeyer had started. He also brought an interesting trivet and lidded box that he bought during a visit to Estonia. |
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Reilly Earle – brought a small lidded box he made from scrap and a larger band-sawn box with an “Escher style” lid design in two contrasting woods. He also brought a clever 1800s type puzzle box he made and demonstrated how to use a crank and key to turn the gears and open the secret swing-out compartment. You can view all his projects is this photo. |
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Bob Addington – brought six large bowls turned from walnut and Bradford pear. They were all finished with six coats of wipe-on polyurethane. |
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Sharon Wright – brought in several pieces that her late husband Newton had made, including a segmented vase with a carved rose, a segmented African Djembe drum, a small weed pot with wood flowers she made, and a unique twisted Möbius strip made from pear wood. |
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Dean Lutes – brought a new Tennessee Valley Woodworkers sign that he designed and fabricated using his CNC router and sign foam board. |
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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] .
Joint boards on a router table
No jointer? No problem. Plastic laminate clamped to the outfeed side
of your router-table fence works the same as the outfeed table on a
jointer. Cut laminate to fit the left side of the fence; then sand a
chamfer on the edge nearest the bit to avoid snagging your
workpiece.
Use a straightedge to adjust the fence until the laminate is flush
with the cutting edge of your installed flush-trim bit raised to cut
the full width of the workpiece edge. Start the pass by pressing the
workpiece against the right half of the fence; then slide it from
right to left. As it clears the bit, shift pressure to your left
hand to press the trimmed portion against the laminate to finish the
cut, which trims about 1⁄16″ with each pass.
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