The October meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 15th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
The October program will be presented by Tom Cowan. Tom will present a
program called "Small is Good". Tom's programs are always very
interesting and informative. This program will prove to be no different.
Want to know what Tom will be discussing?
Be sure to come out and hear Tom’s presentation to learn something you
would never have thought about.
See you at our October meeting on the 15th .
(No new members at the September meeting)
Be sure to meet all of our new members and welcome them to the club.
The Fall Seminar is scheduled for Saturday, October 19. Two outstanding presenters, Ron Young and Scott Tinker, have been secured for the seminar. They will each do a half day program. Both are professional woodworkers and members of the TVW. The event will be at the Cowan Artisan in Cowan.
A lunch will be included. As usual – the cost will be
very affordable and is set at $45.
There has been a change in the caterer; Sandy Proctor will do the
catering. The lunch will still be held at the conference center next to
the Cowan Artisan and will still be great.
Remember that the deadline for signing up for the Fall Seminar is
October 15. Either bring your check ($45 for each attendee) to Bob at
the October meeting or mail it to him before October 15 at: Bob
Addington; 249 Big Oak Drive; Manchester TN 37355
Thanks to Loyd
Ackerman for chairing this event.
The nominating committee will present a slate of officers for 2014 at
the October meeting. You will have the opportunity to nominate from the
floor, but, you must have permission of the person you are nominating.
The officer election will be conducted at the November meeting.
The annual UTSI Employee Picnic was held on September 27. They
express their appreciation to all the TVW club members who made and
donated items for the UTSI auction.
Patricia Burks-Jelks, UTSI HR director states; "The items donated by the
Woodworkers were very special and unique. They displayed such great
talent and craftsmanship. The donation of these items, as has been done
for the last several years by the Woodworkers, is greatly appreciated.
What a great addition to the UTSI annual picnic door prizes. Hopefully
this tradition will continue. Again, thanks for the support of the
Woodworkers!"
This is a great way for the club to thank UTSI for allowing us to use the facilities during our monthly meetings.
The Coffee County Fair demonstrations were held
September 16 – 21. The activity was a success, with many interested
“fair goers” stopping by and watching all the action. Thanks to Doyle
and his crew for supporting the demonstrations.
It turned out to be a fun week and a learning experience for all.
The carvers chose not to participate in the Annual Polly Crockett Festival this year.
The carvers met on Saturday October 5 at Phil Bishop’s shop. More than a dozen members stopped by to check on the schedule of near term activities, to work on their own projects, or to just exchange advice.
The carvers normally meet on the first Saturday of each month at Phil Bishop’s shop. Anyone interested in carving is welcome to attend these monthly meetings.
The flute circle group has moved their meetings to
Saturday mornings, still at the Artisan Shop in Cowan, to accommodate
people that come from out of the immediate area.
The group met on Saturday October 5 and two new people attended, in
addition to the regular members.
The next meeting will be November 16 at 10 AM.
Anyone interested in learning how to play the native flute, even if you
don’t have one, please come and we will take care of you.
Please bring a folding chair of some kind, as we don’t have enough to go
around for everyone.
Contact Ron Reimers @ 931-308-5196 or ronreimers@hotmail.com for
additional information.
Come and join the fun and fellowship with the “Fluters”.
Keep on working on those special items and be ready for the 2014 Exhibition.
Applications are already being accepted for entries
into the exhibit between now and Mid-February. The entry form is posted
on the TVW web site and will be available at the next monthly meeting.
The 2014 Exhibition will be held at the South Jackson Civic Center in
Tullahoma during the first week of March.
Additional information will be available at the October club meeting.
The forum is currently experiencing a minor technical difficulty. Work is being done to try to get the forum back up and running.
When properly functioning, the forum is the place to “check out” and
is booming with “expert” solutions to your woodworking problems and
great advice.
You would absolutely be amazed at the wealth of knowledge that your
fellow members have to offer at a great price!
Don’t forget about the tremendous resources we have in the library. If you have not tried our digital library in 2013, you are missing a great
opportunity to learn new techniques and brush up on old ones.
For a complete list, see Henry Davis at club meetings, email him at hdavis37@charter.net or call him at 393-3191 and leave a message.
September
Meeting
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Darren Earle – brought photos of an arts and crafts-style panel bed that he built. He used figured panels instead of the staves used in the original headboard and footboard. The corner posts were decorated with his first walnut inlays. Tom Cowan helped with the finish. |
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Reilly Earle – brought three lidded boxes he made. The lids of the two “frog” boxes had attached frogs that were sawn from a lighter-colored wood. He used the same pieces of light-colored wood with contrasting dark-colored frog inlays to construct the box bottoms. The third box was a modified octagon shape sawn from a block. He used the box cutout scrap to make a three-compartment divider. The lid knob was “ebonized” using a felt-tip pen. |
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Larry Wendland – brought a lidded box he made from gunstock manufacturing cutoffs. |
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Henry Davis – brought a toy wooden bulldozer that he built for his grandson. |
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Karen Browning – brought a maple and walnut segmented bowl she made after attending Loyd Ackerman’s 2005 seminar. Doyle McConnell helped with the finish. |
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Lawrence Ariel (visitor) – brought a “wood spirit” that he carved from a downed tree. |
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Doyle McConnell – brought a spalted red maple cremation urn that he turned for a friend. He cut threads so the lid could be securely
attached and “ebonized” the lid finial using black shoe
polish. Doyle also brought a
Digital Multi Gauge Tool
(height/depth) that he recently bought. It is available from
MLCS as item #9304 for $19.95. |
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Richard Gulley – brought a walking stick carved by Russ Riddle who recently passed away. Richard also brought a large group of carving
tools and books that belonged to Mr. Riddle and offered them
for sale as a lot for $450. |
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Bob Stancil – brought a bowl turned green from a cherry burl. The grain structure was very interesting. |
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Mickey Knowles – brought four items that he made, including a spalted maple bowl, a natural-edge bowl, a lidded box turned from Bradford
pear, and another with an inlaid Celtic design. |
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Matt Brothers – brought a nest of four hackberry bowls that he turned with assistance from Doyle McConnell. Matt also showed pictures of a large built-in mahogany bookcase with multiple storage areas that he built for a client’s home office. He used Honduran mahogany with maple as the secondary wood, all finished with Danish oil. |
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Ross Roepke – showed pictures of ten bookshelf units that he and a crew of other volunteers built for the Literacy Council. |
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Chuck Taylor – brought a hollow vessel made from apple wood. The vase was donated to the UTSI picnic auction. |
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Greg Myers - discussed a small box he made using inlay. He used the box in his program presentation on "Inlays". |
Click here to see the event calendar for the current year.
To view the "Links of Interest" on our web site, please click here.
Click here to see the compiled list of items that are for sale by club members
If you have additional 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 .
STAINING END GRAIN
When applying liquid stains, the stain soaks more deeply into the
pores of the end grain than the face grain, darkening the ends much
more than the faces when sanded with the same grit, see photo 1.
One way to even out the stain color is to sand the end grain with a
higher-grit sandpaper than the face grain.
In photo 2, the face is sanded with 220-grit and the end grain with
600-grit, resulting is a much better color match.
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PHOTO 1 |
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PHOTO 2 |
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