Greetings
This is another month with an early 3rd Tuesday. I’ll try to have this in your email inbox earlier than last month.
Let’s get started with SPLINTERS.
March Program
Jim Jolliffe will present the program -Carving a Native American Warrior
The Tom Cowan Annual Turning Bee
Jim Jolliffe took several pictures at the Turning Bee. I added them to the online events photo gallery.
Also, thanks to Larry Wendland for the great job taking the lead on the event and special thanks to Sherry Wendland for the delicious meal!
February Show & Tell
I had a hard time matching up a few of the Show & Tell items with their maker. I hope to get them sorted out by meeting date.
Mickey Knowles: Showed a turned hickory bowl. He used a faceplate for the start, retained a natural mushroom feature in the bottom, and kept the natural bark on the exterior. Finished with sanding sealer and lacquer.
Karen Browning: Shared a wooden moose and a crab with movable legs to provide project ideas. She also displayed a wooden burnisher made by Doyle McConnell.
Vince Zaccardi: Presented a maple bowl with an oil finish. He shared a second piece that began wobbling mid-turn due to a separating tenon; he corrected this by gluing a new piece of wood and veneer to the bottom. Vince also shared results of a finish experiment on cherry using linseed oil, Danish oil, and walnut oil. While surface appearances were similar, the linseed and walnut oils soaked through the wood while the Danish oil did not.
Michael and Brenda Zuccaro: Showed a walnut box with an ambrosia maple top, featuring a tray with a maple hinge and a French polish finish. Michael also presented a bread-proofing box featuring a removable splined bottom, splayed tapers, and dovetails.
Brenda Zuccaro: Showed two small intarsia butterflies made from walnut, cherry, and maple, finished with linseed oil and lacquer.
Michael Zuccaro: Displayed a cherry tray with splayed sides and a cherry table featuring bent sides, mortise and tenon joinery, and tapered legs.
Geoff Rhoem: Shared several highly detailed CNC and inlay projects: (Pic1, Pic2, Pic3, Pic4, Pic5, Pic6. Pic7, Pic8, Pic9, Pic10, Pic11, Pic12)
A butterfly undergoing post-inlay CNC work to be filled with epoxy (using a 0.01″ bit).
Guitar components including Brazilian rosewood bridges, necks (machined on their sides to allow for undercuts), and a 12-string guitar fingerboard.
Intricate inlays featuring Art Nouveau designs, “Beardsley Borders,” and a Chinese Iris. Materials used included mother of pearl, abalone, chittum, dyed walnut, and reconstituted stone.
A custom vacuum clamp with a ball joint and rubber gasket used to securely hold guitar bodies during construction.
Jesse Luke Potter: Showed his first carved spoon, made from cedar. He roughed it out on a bandsaw before hand-carving and sanding; the piece remains unfinished.
Carver’s Corner
Lion Bust Carving Seminar with David Sharp: Scheduled for Saturday, April 11, and Saturday, April 18, from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM at Jim Joliffe’s shop. The $95 cost covers two days of instruction, the blank, and lunch.
The Splinter Carvers continue to meet first and third Saturdays of the month from 8:30 am to 10:30 am (whether Jim’s there or not). The shop is located at 201 Jolliffe Acres Ln, Tullahoma. Tools and wood are available at the meetings, just bring yourself and try your hand at carving!
Internet Links of Interest
Some birdhouse plans –
A plethora of birdhouse plans
Sweeping Up
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Newsletter Information
Splinters is a publication of the Tennessee Valley Woodworkers. For submissions, email editor, Richard Gulley (rgulley@retiree.utk.edu .)
Submissions to the newsletter are more than welcomed. Send funnies, tips, or other content that may be of interest to our membership, and you may see it in a future edition of SPLINTERS.