The December meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 20th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
Our December program is the annual “Giant Show &
Tell”. This is your chance to bring those “special” items that you are
so proud of and those not so special” learning experiences that may not
have turned out exactly as you planned. This is the time for you to
share your woodworking “adventures” with the rest of the club. If you’re
new to the Club or a visitor, here is how it works. Instead of a regular
show and tell in which several members bring an item, we encourage
EVERYONE to bring something to show. If you don’t have a current
favorite project to share, bring an item from the past; maybe the first
thing you ever built or something you built years ago but that you
really enjoyed doing.
Or you could bring an interesting tool or something someone gave you.
You get the idea! If, on the other hand, you’d just rather not bring
something, that’s OK, too. You can just come, enjoy the meeting, and
join in the applause from the membership.
Looking forward to seeing you at the December 20th meeting.
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The
“President’s Award” was presented to Loyd Ackerman for his
tireless work in the club’s “video productions” and being a leader
in maintaining the web site and the forum. Thanks to Loyd.(becoming a member at the November meeting)
Be sure to meet all of our new members and welcome them to the club.
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The annual Christmas Party was held at the Church of
the Nazarene in Decherd on Friday December 9th. If you did not attend,
you missed a really great party.
Thanks to Karen Browning, chairperson, and her team for doing a
wonderful job coordinating the dinner and decorating for the event. The
food was great, the decorations were beautiful, all the gifts were
wonderful and the fellowship was special.
The “2011 Review” slide show was very interesting. Thanks to Loyd for
putting it together.
The singing, led by Richard Gulley and Scott Tinker, was really great. A
good time was had by all attendees.
The “Grand Door Prize” was won by Jim Everett. Congratulations to Jim.
The “President’s Award” was presented to Loyd Ackerman for his tireless work in the club’s “video productions” and being a leader in maintaining the web site and the forum. Thanks to Loyd.
The carvers group met at the shop of Phil Bishop on
Saturday December 3rd. the group worked on individual projects.
The carvers normally meet on the first Saturday of each month and work
on individual or group projects. Anyone interested in carving is welcome
to attend these monthly meetings.
The officers for the coming year were elected at the
monthly meeting in November. The 2012 officers will assume their duties
at the January meeting.
The 2012 officers are as follows:
President .................. Vince Zaccardi
Vice-President .................. Paul Fulks
Secretary ............. Kevin Deuermeyer
Treasurer .................. Bob Addington
Publicity Chairman ............ Phil Myers
Newsletter Editor ......... Chuck Taylor
The Forum is now functioning smoothly with lots of
activity and really great information being passed between members. To
minimize our exposure to spam and hackers on the forum, we’re limiting
registration to TVW members and a few invited guests. Here is new
information concerning Club members wishing to register for the Club’s
forum.
Due to the heavy incidence of outside interests who are not TVW members attempting to log on to the forum, we’ve disabled the registration function of the forum. Here is how you can now register.
If you are a member of the Tennessee Valley Woodworkers, or feel that
you should be considered a friend of benefit to the Club, send an email
(or contact by phone) to Loyd Ackerman or Chuck Taylor, with your choice
of username and a temporary password. You will be registered and sent an
email confirmation. You then will be able to share your ideas and
experiences with other members through the forum.
A note from your Librarian:
There are a lot of new faces in the club. We have had about 25 join our
club this year. Since the club meetings are a somewhat busy time for us
some of you newer members may not know or understand that we have a club
library. Maybe you have seen some activity on one side of the room
before the meeting and during our break, but didn’t understand what it
was all about.
Just a word about how our library came about. When the club began
entering the “computer age”, we started taping some of our members in
their shops demonstrating their various skills. These were shown at
meetings as club programs. As we accumulated several of these programs,
some of our members wondered if they could get a copy for viewing at
home.
We soon realized that making copies of DVDs and passing them out on
request wasn’t a good way to do it. Someone suggested a library where
these DVD’s could be checked out and returned. Thus, our library was
born. Remembering that traditional libraries with books and printed
material become bulky and without a storage area become a burden for the
Librarian, we decided that our newly formed library would only consist
of digital material. That’s why we are careful to call it our “Digital
Library”.
Over the years the library has grown to over one hundred selections,
consisting of our in-house DVDs, commercial DVDs purchased by the club,
as well as DVDs, CDs and VHS tapes donated by club members and friends
of the club.
To learn more about our club library and to see a complete listing of
all our titles go to our club website and select “Library“.
All members are welcome and encouraged to use the club library.
Henry Davis, TVW Librarian
A big thanks to Henry for being the caretaker of the digital library.
Please remember that you can now view some of the club DVDs on line. Go
to the library listing on our club website and click on the underlined
titles.
For a complete list of all items in the Digital Library, see Henry Davis
at club meetings, email him at hdavis37@charter.net or call him at
393-3191 and leave a message.
If you have not already paid you dues, please pay the treasurer, Bob Addington at the meeting or you can mail your check to Bob at his home address (249 Big Oak Drive, Manchester, TN 37355). Our dues are $10.00 for a single membership, and $15.00 for a family membership (what a bargain).
November
Meeting
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Loyd Ackerman – showed a PowerPoint show on delivery of the 25 square foot table and the carrier made for the purpose of carrying the table top which weighed in excess of 150 pounds. |
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Jim Everett – Three plaques made of cedar, a cabinet door with carved vegetation, a cedar woodpecker |
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Ross Roepke – box of spanish cedar and curly maple, a wood sample box from Constantine’s, and an alignment tool using a dial caliper |
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Kevin Deuermeyer – Box featuring inlay learned from Tom Cowan |
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Bob Addington – Three bowls (walnut, pine, bradford pear) finished with wipe on Poly; cutting board and no-smoking sign (as part of the program); cherry magazine rack |
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Doug Dunlap – Bowl from cherry, walnut, and oak segments |
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Sharron Wright – Turned box she got from Joe Getty’s seminar presentation and the sample of a holding jig and finial she got from Larry Parham’s seminar presentation. |
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Pete Blankenship – Asked for help with a laser engraver for wooden handles – he showed a hammer handle. |
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Bob Reese and Rheta – Bob showed and discussed his #34 violin and Rheta played it. Bob showed and discussed lidded boxes he made after the seminar. |
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Kym Mason – showed a walking cane with a realistic snake head handle made from chittum wood and discussed the story of that tree. |
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Chris Pfender – showed a bat and some captive ring turnings. |
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Mickey Knowles – two bowls he began at the last turning bee, some ornaments, and tops he’s turned |
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Dick Wollam – showed a carved and painted plaque. |
To view the "Link of Interest" on our web site, please click here.
If you have woodworking items for sale or are looking for woodworking items, please send information to Chuck Taylor at 931-728-7086 or email to taylorcw@bellsouth.net .
Do you ever need to use medium-density fiberboard
(MDF) for your shop jigs and fixtures. There are many things I like
about MDF. It's stable, heavy and costs about half as much as
cabinet-grade plywood.
One thing that causes difficulty is the tendency for MDF to split
along the edge of a workpiece. But, luckily, there are a couple of
things you can do to avoid this problem.
MDF tends to split most often when drilling and screwing in its
edge, especially when using a tapered woodscrew, left above. It acts
like a wedge to drive the workpiece apart. So get into the habit of
using a straight-shanked screw. See the photo, left above.
However, a straight-shanked screw isn't a cure-all. Even when using
a pilot hole and the right screw, MDF can still split out. So one
final precaution is to support the sides by clamping an ordinary
handscrew across the workpiece, see the photo at top right. It makes
it almost impossible to split the MDF.
Try these two tips the next time you're working with MDF and you
shouldn't have any problems with splitting.
Visit this web site for “tips for every situation”: http://www.woodworkingtips.com/etips/
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