The June meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 17th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
The June program will be presented by Scott Tinker. Scott is no stranger to the club, having made various presentations and seminars over the past few years. His topic will be “Hand Tool Usage”. Come out and hear what Scott has to share about the use and care of various hand tools. You will learn some valuable tips that you can apply in your own shop activities.
See you at our June meeting on the 17th.
NEXT MAJOR TVW ACTIVITIES:
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Be sure to meet all of our recent new members and welcome them to the club.
Photos from 2014 Annual Picnic ----
The annual TVW picnic and auction was held on May 31 at Falls Mill. The event was well attended, with great food and fellowship and a little rain.
The auction, a major fundraiser for the club, raised a
total of $523.
A special thanks goes to John and Janie Lovett for allowing the club to
hold the function at the Mill, a beautiful setting for the gathering.
Karen, along with her “helpers”, did a great job of coordinating the activity. Richard, conducting the auction, did his usual good job of “extracting” bids from the unusually quiet crowd of woodworkers.
Everyone had a good time enjoying the good food and wonderful fellowship.
Want to learn how to create those beautiful “Segmented Turnings”?
Here is a great opportunity, read on!
There has been interest expressed for another workshop on Segmented
Turning. The 4-hour hands-on workshop involves design and planning,
laying out, and the basic calculations for creating a segmented vessel
of your design. The workshop uses an audio visual presentation of the
process and video showing the actual operations. This is a basic class
which assumes that you have basic skills in wood turning but know little
if anything about segmented turnings. You’ll leave the workshop able to
go to your own shop and make your own vessel.
If you are interested in participating in this 4-hour hands-on workshop
please send an email to [email protected] or contact Loyd Ackerman. If
there is enough interest, we’ll schedule the event for sometime this
summer or early fall.
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The wood carvers met for the June monthly meeting on
Saturday morning, June 7 at Jim Joliffe's shop. Four carvers were in
attendance. Some continued to work on the eagle carving in buck-eye wood
(a group project), refining the feather layout to be more realistic.
Plans are being formulated for the carvers to support the Heritage Days
event with a carving demonstration and an exhibit of completed projects.
The next monthly meeting of the wood carvers will be announced at the
regular June TVW meeting.
The carvers normally meet on the first Saturday of each month at 8:30
AM. Anyone interested in carving is welcome to attend these monthly
meetings.
The flute circle will meet again on Saturday June
21st at the Cowan Artist Guild on Main Street in Cowan. The morning
meeting time is 10 – 12.
Everyone is welcome. A flute is not required, one will be provided for
new comers. Come and enjoy the relaxing music of the native flute.
There will be additional information at the regular monthly club meeting on June 17th.
Contact Ron Reimers @ 931-308-5196 or
[email protected] for additional information.
Come and join the fun and fellowship with the “Fluters”.
The first Fall Heritage Festival will be held September 19-21 in Cowan. Along with the festival activities will be a “juried” arts and crafts show. There will also be demonstrations and displays, supported by the club carvers.
Application form deadline is July 5th. The applications may be printed from the TVW web site or contact Art Brickse (931- 962-9665).
Additional information can be found by contacting any
of the following:
www.fallheritagefestival.info
email: [email protected]
phone: 931-563-3868
Be “in the know” in 2014! Live “on the edge” of great information and timely discussions of tricks and techniques from you fellow woodworkers. Participate in the TVW forum.
If you have not checked out the “forum happenings” lately, you are missing some great informational exchanges between club members. This is a service offered to all members of TVW.
The forum is booming with “expert” solutions to your woodworking
problems and great advice. And, guess what? It is all “free” to club
members.
The Club's Digital Library is closed due to member inactivity in the use of the valuable information in the library. The disposition of the library content is unknown at this time.
If you would like to volunteer to be the club librarian and administer this important program, please contact your club president.
If you have checked out items in your possession, please return the items to Henry Davis at the May meeting.
Remember that selected DVD's can still be viewed on the Club website.
If you are a recent new member or had requested a new name tag, a box of name tags will be available at the next meeting. Please check to see if your name tag is there.
In the future, name tags will be made for new members and available for pickup at the next regular monthly meeting. Name tags for other members will be made upon request only and will also be available for pickup at the next meeting.
Please contact Chuck Taylor (931-728-7086 or email [email protected]) for information or name tags.
May
Show & Tell
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Ross Roepke – brought and discussed three of his favorite shop items for assisting in his projects. One was for setting the blade height on his jointer, a table saw jig and a set of digital calipers. |
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Jim Van Cleave – brought three flower pedestals he made for his wife. One of them was square, one was round (both fluted) and one was a short turned project. |
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Paul Jalbert – showed a “University of Alabama at Huntsville” Mustang carving.
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Bob Stancil – discussed two bowls he recently completed. One was black gum and the other was cherry, with decorative rings around the lip. |
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John Duval – showed a “trophy” made from black walnut and a 23 inch cottonwood bowl with decorative walnut inlay. |
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Mickey Knowles – discussed four bowls. Two were cherry, one walnut and one maple. |
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Sharron Wright – brought a rough-turned cherry bowl that she had turned at the recent turning bee. |
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] .
Many of the jigs used on table saws and band saws have a
runner that slides in the miter gauge slot. Typically, these runners
are made of hardwood. But, have you thought about another type of
material — plastic.
The nice thing about a plastic runner (like the one shown in the
photo) is it won't swell or shrink with changes in humidity, so it
will always slide smoothly without binding or slop. Plus, plastic is
readily available.
Every season the humidity in your shop changes -- and the
wood in the shop changes with it. One of the first places to notice
this is when pushing a shop-built jig across the table saw. Many
shop jigs -- like your sliding cut-off table -- have wooden runners on
the bottom that slide in the miter gauge slot.
The problem is that for accuracy,
the runners were made to fit
fairly tight. But when the wood swells or shrinks with changes in
humidity, the fit becomes too tight or too loose in the slot.
Why not replace the wood runners with strips of 1/4" Plexiglas.
You'll find Plexiglas at a local plastic distributor or hobby shop.
(Look under "Plastics" in the Yellow Pages.) Plexiglas can be cut on
a table saw and sanded like wood (use 400-grit wet-dry sandpaper for
final sanding). Then simply countersink and screw the strip to the
bottom of the jig.
Another good plastic for runners is UHMW (ultra high molecular
weight) plastic. It's a lightweight, dense white plastic that's very
slick.
And finally there's phenolic (the stuff that some router table
inserts are made of). Both of these last two can be worked with
regular woodworking tools, and are available under "Plastics" in the
Yellow Pages in most cities.
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