Meeting February 18th, 2025
Meeting called to order by Jim Jolliffe at 6:30 pm.
Visiting Guests:
Willy Childers
New Business:
The first meeting for the 40th Anniversary Committee was held on January 9th. The second was held February 6th. The banquet is scheduled for Friday, September 19th at the Manchester Coffee County Conference Center. The menu is being planned. Larry Wendland is accepting wood project donations to give out as door prizes. The next committee meeting will be held March 6th from 11-Noon at the UTSI Library.
The first Trail Life USA Carving tutorial was held in January. Paul Jalbert is leading the tutorial for 11-17 year old boy scouts and their fathers. The second meeting as February 15th. They are carving a red cedar troop sign and an 8′ cross with the wide variety names for Jesus. The intention is to put the cross in the Christian tent at Bonnaroo. The next meeting is scheduled for March 15th.
The John Hartin tool sale is scheduled for Saturday, March 8th from 8 AM until Noon. An excel sheet with the items and prices will be sent out prior to the sale. There is a vacant lot behind the house for parking. There will be lots of items for sale including a homemade kiln for bowls, a turbine spray system, a bandsaw, and a small air compressor. There will be a total of approximately 60 lots of items for sale. Please bring your own boxes for purchases.
The Rich Wetherbee Carving Tool Sharpening seminar will be held Sunday, March 23rd from 1 PM – 5 PM. The cost is $50 per student. The carving seminar will be Monday, March 24th from 9 AM – 4 PM. The cost is $75 plus roughouts.
Additional Announcements:
Gary Runyon has a Trend Respirator with extra filter for sale for $325.
Club members have been working at the museum at the South Jackson Performing Arts Center. The museum needs help with their display cases. The wood club will build and deliver platforms in a month or two. Vince Zaccardi will provide more details.
John Lovett owner of Falls Mill has an all-in-one planer, molding maker, and table saw machine. It is belt drive and was patented in 1910. He may demonstrate the machine at the picnic.
If someone makes jewelry boxes or small hinged boxes, Allen is interested.
We presented the monthly meeting calendar for the next 3 months.
Review of 2025 Calendar of Events
MONTHLY PRESENTER PROGRAM
February 18 A-Frame Clamp Rack Gary Runyon
March 18 Social Hour
April TBD
Complete list of events at club website.
Show and Tell
Brenda Zuccaro made a napkin holder with legs turned on a lathe and side decorations cut on a scroll saw. It was made of walnut with a spray finish.
Michael Zuccaro made a cherry end table. The top had a crack so he butterflied it. The table had a linseed oil finish. He also showed an oak pizza peel he made with an olive oil finish.
Vince Zaccardi used scrap from cherry, ambrosia maple, oak, and walnut and applied 3 coats of walnut oil to each. The oil did almost nothing the ambrosia maple, it darkened the oak, and looked best on the walnut.
Gary Runyon showed 4 threaded acorn boxes he made. They had redbud and cherry tops and dogwood bottoms. They had a Dr. Woodshop finish. The bowl they were in was made by Vince Zaccardi.
Ron Bundy made a cigar holder and shot glass rack from barrel staves. He used metal from the barrel ring to make rivets for the cigar holder and used J-B Weld to hold the rivets in. The finish was walnut oil with carnauba wax in the oil.He also showed an adjustable stand he made to sit by the couch. He made it out of oak with walnut runners. Ron finished the stand with lacquer.
Break at 7:05 PM
Program – Making an A-Frame Clamp Rack by Gary Runyon
Gary started with an old rack from a school that was used for holding computers and added plywood to it.
First he laid out the bar clamps and stacked them 4 high to determine what size rack he needed. He used 3/4″ Baltic Birch plywood 30″ across. Gary screwed down each side and put casters underneath. He put 2x4s on each side and used 8″ scrap plywood to hold the A Frame to the bottom platform. He screwed it in with deck screws. He also bought 16 carriage bolts and cut off 1/4″ using a Stanley bolt cutter. After assembly, he painted everything.
Gary made hangers and used different widths for different clamps. He started with a piece of 3/4″ plywood sized ~5′ x 9″ in which he plowed grooves across the short side; one groove on opposite sides of the piece. After the grooves were cut, the piece is cut from corner to corner using a bandsaw. He used splines to strengthen the hangers. For the spline he used ~1/4″ scrap wood planed to fit the dadoed grooves. To connect these two pieces together, he used lengths of 1.25 & 1.5″ wide plywood in which a groove was cut on each side of the endgrain of the plywood. These were glued to the two triangular pieces using the splines. He made around 14 of them to handle all of the bar clamps that he had.
For smaller clamps he took flat steel, predrilled it, and cut the different pieces to the same length. He used a torch, vise, and crescent wrench to bend into hangers.
Gary has over 140 clamps on his rack. He said the most important thing is to lay out your clamps and to measure how big of a rack you need.
The next meeting will be March 18th at 6:30 pm.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:35 pm.