Meeting 9/21/21
Meeting called to order by President Carl Blumenthal at 6:30 PM.
Carl welcomed all those online and to those present in UTSI’s H-111 Conference Room to our September combined in-person and online Zoom Meeting. We appreciate UTSI’s generosity allowing the club to use H-111 and their broadcasting capability. This meeting was the first to have video and audio features of H-111 working perfectly for the meeting and the Club’s Annual Auction.
Visiting Guests
None
Business
Officers and Committee Reports: Vice President & Program Chair Gary Runyon noted our October Program will be by our own Geoff Roehm who will present “Building a Box Dulcimer”. Gary requested members email him any future program ideas to [email protected]. He noted that programs don’t necessarily need to be from local folks due to the ability of Zoom to connect us with anyone around the world!
The 2021 Calendar is correct with monthly general meeting dates and first and third Saturday Carving meetings as well as the UTSI & Zoom annotation for the monthly meetings. The special events column included “placeholders” for the special events. The special event leads will need to discuss the timing (if at all) of holding special events and update the calendar accordingly.
ANNUAL PICNIC. Picnic Chair Karen Browning has set Saturday, September 25th at 1200 (noon) at Falls Mill for our Annual Picnic. The club will provide BBQ, Drinks and plates/utensils and ask the members to brings sides/desserts to share.
Richard Gully announced the annual Tool Sale is scheduled for October 23rd at the Church of the Nazarene in Decherd, if we have enough interest. More detail will be provided by email if we have the sale.
Paul Jalbert noted that Tim’s Ford Heritage Days will be Saturday and Sunday October 9th and 10th from 9 AM – 5 PM with set up beginning at 7 AM. He noted that turners and carvers will be set up in the Pool Entrance and just outside it, as in years’ past. TVW members can sell (with no vendor fee due to our turning/carving demos) during Heritage Days. Please let Paul ([email protected]) or Vince ([email protected]) know if you plan to attend.
Once the general meeting announcements concluded we moved to the Show & Tell portion of the evening.
Show & Tell
Bob Truesdale showed two beautiful bowls he turned. One was made of walnut and the other was made of black gum wood. He enjoyed turning both bowls due to their distinctive grain patterns. Both were finished with lacquer.
Eric Strotheide showed a circus wagon he made from oak. He finished the wagon in Danish Oil.
Clay Cooper and Carl Blumenthal showed a sandblasted sign out of walnut that had a map of Tim’s Ford and associated highways on it. Carl said it was difficult to apply the templates for each layer of the design. The sign was finished with spray on lacquer.
Judy Bennett showed an intarsia scene of a bride and groom for their oldest grandson who is getting married soon. She used Aspen and Walnut for the intarsia. The grandson’s sister is also getting a bride and groom intarsia piece for her wedding in 6 months. She finished it with spray-on lacquer.
Judy also showed four intarsia welcome signs that had season themes for Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. She used a variety of scrap wood from their shop including cedar, purple heart, mahogany, ash and yellow heart. They were also finished with spray on lacquer.
Gary Bennett showed turned Christmas ornaments turned from mahogany, walnut, box elder and poplar. He finished all with poly.
Gary also showed more than 20 porch balusters and a pair stair posts he turned for a porch. He had sought support at a previous meeting and decided to turn them himself. They look great!
Gary Runyon showed a slotted sliding lid box. The lid was made from eucalyptus and the sides from cherry. It was finished with walnut antique oil. It was the first time Gary had worked with eucalyptus and he noted it is very hard wood.
Darrell Albert showed an antique bowl and passed it around to the members to see if they could identify the wood. Not sure anyone could successfully identify the wood. Darrell showed three chittum burl spoons that he finished with walnut oil.
Richard Gulley showed a SawStop safety cartridge that fired into his blade recently. He said it nicked his finger but didn’t draw blood. He noted he’s had the saw for more than five years and had two finger-saving incidents!
Program
Segmented Turning by Tom Farr.
After a short break, we held a very interesting program on segmented turning by Tom Farr from Huntsville. Tom recommends the book “Segmented Turning” by Ray Allen as the absolute best reference for this type of turning. He showed many beautiful designs and had lots of hand-out sample pieces of jigs for template glue-ups, examples of good (and bad) angled segments. The samples showed the precision required to get the best layout for segmented turning. You can see more of Tom’s work on farrwoodworking.com.
Meeting adjourned at 8:20 PM. Our next meeting is on Tuesday, October 19th at UTSI’s H-111 Conference Room (our standard meeting location). We hope to see you all there or on Zoom! The October Program will be “Building a Box Dulcimer” by Geoff Roehm.