Meeting August 19th, 2025
Meeting called to order by president Jim Joliffe at 6:30 pm
Visiting Guests: Bruce Currie from Riceville, Tennessee
New Business:
The September program will be social hour.
40th anniversary T-shirts are $25/person. The club ordered some extra shirts in addition to those that people signed up for, and the shirts are available for purchase as of the August 19th meeting.
The Coffee County Fair will be August 29- September 6. TVW will supporting the fair September 4- September 6. Set up will be on Thursday from 4 to 7, and Friday will be kid’s night. The theme of Morton’s village this year is medieval village. A sign-up sheet was passed around at the August meeting to help at the fair. There are 3 overlapping shifts for the fair.
The TVWW 40th Anniversary Banquet dinner is scheduled on September 19th at the Manchester Coffee County Conference Center. Social time will begin at 5:30 PM. Supper and program/door prizes will be 6:00-8:30 PM. Attire is to be business casual. Tickets are $20/person, and Saturday August 23rd is the final deadline to purchase tickets for the banquet. To purchase, email jim jolliffe at jim.jolliffe@icloud.com.
The annual club picnic is scheduled for 11 AM-2 PM on Saturday, October 11th. The club will provide barbecue and drinks. Members bring sides or desserts.
The Rich Wetherbee Carving Seminar is scheduled 9:00 AM- 4:00 PM October 18 – October 19. The seminar currently has one slot open. Member cost is $85 and you can carve basswood, cotttonwood bark or sculpt clay.
The TVW Annual Tool & Craft Sale will be held at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church located at 110 E. Lincoln St., Tullahoma on October 25th from 8 AM – 2 PM.
Other announcements:
Gary Runyon provided pawpaws and polishing wax to give away at the August meeting.
Show and Tell:
Gary Runyon showed threaded acorn boxes made from maple and walnut. He also showed bowls along with a piece of quarter-sawn petrified wood.
Alan McFarland showed a hexagonal box with lid that he made out of purple heart for his wife’s anniversary.
Sam Clark showed a wooden Kleenex box cover that he made out of hard maple with walnut splines and finished with lacquer.
Larry Wendland showed a ballpoint pen he turned out of bloodwood. He also showed an olive wood pepper mill that he finished with shellac and a polyurethane coat. The ballpoint pen and pepper mill were auctioned at August’s meeting.
Adam Dinsmore showed a hand hewn cedar log section that came from an 18th century log cabin.
Richard Gulley showed items that will be available as door prizes at the banquet. He showed a an osage orange bowl that was turned by Tom Cowan as well as a wooded canteen with brass screws that Tom made. He also showed a spoon that Richard carved from dogwood, He also showed a “Train of Thought” CNC carving and a CNC-carved maple Christmas ornament with a mahogany border that he made. He also showed a cherry bowl turned by Tom Cowan in 1991.
Chuck Taylor showed a mushroom display that he made. He mushrooms were turned out of ambrosia maple. The mushrooms were displayed on a Bradford Pear base and were finished with satin lacquer. He also showed a an ambrosia maple with cherry insert clock including hand turned dowels. Chuck purchased the clock mechanism but did all the woodwork on the clock. The clock was also finished with satin lacquer.
Pete Whitford showed an end table he made using a piece of walnut that he got from behind his chicken coop. The top and sides were made of cypress from a column of a Louisania house. The knob was made from a scrap piece of walnut. He put a stain on the table and then polyurethane. It was still tacky a week later so he wiped it down with mineral spirits. After removing the old polyurethane, Pete put on a coat of a different kind of polyurethane, and the table was dry the next morning.
Program – Club Auction
After a short break, show and tell was followed by our annual club auction where woodworking tools and some woodwork made by club members were auctioned off. Several items were sold, and a good time was had by all. Cookies and tea were provided as refreshments.
Meeting adjourned at 8:00.
The next meeting is scheduled for September16th at 6:30 PM.