Greetings
By the time we meet on the 16th, I’ll be in my 6th post-op week. Still more therapy, but no more sling!
I was worried I’d have a hard time staying out of the shop, but good friends came over to help me through the rough times. Vince came over and helped me complete an order for my main customer. Matt Brothers came over with a small laser project that we completed successfully. And this past Saturday, Jim came and gave me round trip transportation to Henry Davis’s shop. Along with Jim, Vince Zaccardi & wife, we finished pricing all the contents. More info on the sale to come.
Now let’s get started with SPLINTERS.
May Program
Larry Wendland did a great job on his Pen Turning presentation.
June Program
Jun 16 — Social hour
May Show & Tell
Gary Runyon presented a support spindle used for spinning wool, which he crafted out of cherry wood for his wife using artisan tool stock and securing the end with CA glue. Mr. Runyon also showcased a Greene & Greene style table made from curly cherry. The piece featured veneered plywood sides, ebony plugs, and breadboard ends, following a design by Darryl Pert of California that Mr. Runyon learned to build by watching a video. He finished the table with a Georgian Cherry gel stain and fourteen coats of Armor All satin finish.
Michael and Brenda Zuccaro displayed a wedding tray made for their great-nephew. Crafted from walnut, the tray featured handles made from a ham bone, a padauk heart inlay with a holly diamond, and a French polish finish. Michael also showed a matching chest featuring an ambrosia maple top and shelf, a padauk heart inlay, and an inlaid handle.
Larry Wendland shared a bowl turned from Australian brown mallee wood, explaining that he used a face plate to turn it and a wedge block to balance the piece before finishing it with rattle-can lacquer.
Allen Odell exhibited several basswood carvings, including figures of a captain, a tree person, a gnome traveler, and a rebel soldier, all colored using colored pencils. Allen also showed an Alaskan diamond willow halibut hook crafted with an alder branch and a deer bone hook, alongside a smaller replica. Furthermore, he presented a gaff made for his son, utilizing a real gaff hook found on the beach mounted to diamond willow with whale baleen black dot inlays, a second gaff featuring a moose horn handle, and a spoon lure made from wood scraps. (Pic1, Pic2)
Jeremiah Chamberlin showed a practice box made from scrap cherry wood, featuring hand-cut dovetails, a lathe-turned handle, and an orange shellac finish.
Ralph Elmore demonstrated a cell phone speaker turned from ambrosia maple, which amplifies sound as a megaphone when a phone is placed in the designated slot.
Karen Browning presented a live-edge cherry bowl and base turned entirely from a single piece of wood in 2003, finished with lacquer and wax.
Chuck Taylor concluded the segment by showing a figured maple box with a cherry top and a sliding internal drawer made for high school graduate girls, finished in satin lacquer. He also presented ambrosia maple pens turned for the male graduates, jokingly calling them “left-handed” pens because the names are engraved on the right side, finished with CA glue.
Club Members in Community Service
Vince Zaccardi and Richard Gulley were presented certificates of appreciation from American Legion Post #44 for assisting their flag project honoring deceased veterans of Franklin County. Vince and Richard helped to build some of the crosses that are displayed with the flags during patriotic holidays.
Carver’s Corner
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 woodworking tips-
Matthew Peech – 15 Of My Most Viral Woodworking Tips and Tricks
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This link has several good tips but they’re almost hidden by the many ads. Keep scrolling down and you may find a keeper,
32 Clever Woodworking Handy Hints
Sweeping Up
I saw this one and thought of good friends Tom Gillard and Paul Jalbert. They’re experienced hikers, but I’m afraid I would “meet new people.”
This is pretty close to how my brain function-
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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.