The November meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 19th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
The November program will be presented by Reilly Earle, our youngest
club member. Reilly will be discussing one of his favorite topics,
the scroll saw. You have seen the work he does on the scroll saw and now
you have an opportunity to hear him talk about how he does it.
He is very enthusiastic about his woodworking activities.
Come see this program. You will be glad you did.
See you at our November meeting on the 19th .
(Joining at the October meeting)
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Dakota Slatton -------- Cowan |
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Be sure to meet all of our new members and welcome them to the club.
Don’t forget the Exhibition is the first week of March 2014. It’s
time to get your entries in to Bob Addington. The forms for entry are
available on the website and will be available at the meeting on
November 19th. Fill them in as soon as you can so that we can get an
idea of the number and scope of exhibits for planning purposes. Entries
will be accepted until mid-February but early entry helps us a
lot.
The 2014 Exhibition will be held at the South Jackson Civic Center in
Tullahoma during the first week of March.
We are still in need of volunteers to support the exhibit in these
categories: guides & monitors, installation and breakdown, making
fixtures, posters, publicity, and to supply finger foods for the
reception. We’ll circulate a volunteer list at the November meeting but
if you miss the meeting, send an email to ackerman1@charter.net to get
your name on the list.
The Fall Seminar was held on Saturday, October 19, with two outstanding presenters.
The seminar turned out to be just as expected --- GREAT!
Ron Young and Scott Tinker made their presentations very interesting and
shared lots of information with those in attendance. We really
appreciate the effort they put into the preparation and presentation of
the information.Both are professional woodworkers and members of the
TVW.
Thanks to Loyd Ackerman, event chairperson, and to all his “helpers” for
preparing the “learning environment.
There were about 40 people attending and they each went away with some
valuable information that can be used on their next project.
The nominating committee presented a slate of officers for 2014 at the
October meeting. The nominations were closed and the nominees
elected by acclamation. The current 2013 officers will fill the same
offices during the 2014 year.
The club appreciates the work done by the officers in executing the
plans, programs, workshops and seminars throughout the year.
Be making your plans to attend the annual TVW
Christmas party on December 13th.
The party will be held at the Nazarene Church in Decherd.
Don’t forget to bring your favorite dish for the “pot-luck” dinner. Plan
to come, enjoy the delicious food and have a good time with your fellow
Woodworkers.
Everyone is encouraged to bring a gift, preferably something you have
made, to share at the evening’s gift drawing.
There will be additional information given at this month’s meeting.
Everyone always has a great time. Put it on your calendar and come on
out to enjoy a good meal and great fellowship.
The carvers met on Saturday November 2 at Phil Bishop’s shop.
Attendance at the November Clinic was very lightly attended by five
carvers. The rest of the carvers were most likely involved with the
annual wood carving show in Huntsville. Those that were at Phil Bishop's
shop worked on their own projects and sorted through all the tools that
Phil still has for sale.
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 is now meeting on Saturday
mornings, still at the Artisan Shop in Cowan, to accommodate people that
come from out of the immediate area.
The next meeting will be November 23 at 10 AM.
Please bring something to sit on and if you have something that bangs or
you can keep a beat with, bring it, too.
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.
Contact Ron Reimers @ 931-308-5196 or ronreimers@hotmail.com for
additional information.
Come and join the fun and fellowship with the “Fluters”.
The forum is now running great.
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.
October
Meeting
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Tom Gillard – discussed the methods used to build tapered legs for a customer’s furniture, He brought the patterns and jigs that he used to cut and assemble the tapered pieces. |
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Ross Roepke – brought a large four-drawer lidded box that he made to showcase a sheet of exotic veneer that Jim Everett recently gave him. |
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Loyd Ackerman – brought a box that he made for his grand-daughter’s twenty first birthday. He carved side decorations using his CNC router and personalized the lid with her name. |
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Vince Zaccardi – brought five bowls that he recently completed from cherry and spalted maple. The wood came from Karen’s Hollyberry Inn and a tree that Ken Daniels cut. The bowls were finished with spray lacquer and buffed. |
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Chuck Taylor – brought a potpourri dish that he turned from apple wood and finished with lacquer. |
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Doyle McConnell – brought a potpourri dish and red maple bowl that he turned and finished with multiple coats of Deft brushing lacquer sanding sealer. He found that the Deft product flows on and seals well, but it does not sand like other sanding sealers. When he tried to apply a top coat of his usual lacquer, the surface bubbled up. He finally got a beautiful finish by applying multiple coats of the original sanding sealer. |
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Bob Reese
– brought the first of twelve 2013 family Christmas
presents, a
set
of four inlayed trivets arranged on a display frame and
held in place by magnets and steel washers. Bob found that
his choice of inlayed geometric designs is labor intensive, and he hopes to finish all forty-eight pieces by Christmas. |
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Bob Addington
– brought a
3-D
carved plaque and a
set
of large letters, all cut on his CNC router. The deer
scene was carved on a radius from 1.75-in stock and required
ten and one-half hours to complete, with over half the time
spent on the roughing cut. Bob cut six letters to go on the
wall above his
granddaughter’s crib and spelling her name, WILLOW. |
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Fred Heltsley – brought three goblets that he recently turned. The first goblet was a scale copy of the Christian Church logo, and templates were used to reproduce the contours. The second copy was turned from memory at the C. C. Fair. The third goblet was turned for fun from very green hickory firewood and ended up becoming a “candle holder”, after the bowl inside diameter got larger than the outside. |
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Jim Everett–
brought four intarsia plaques, featuring
an
Indian, a
fishing scene, a
miniature flintlock rifle and powder horn, and an
Indian head dress with an antique cast iron coat hook.
His designs were rendered in various contrasting woods and decorated with pyrographic elements. |
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John Duval – brought four bowls that he turned from pieces of waterlogged walnut. He described the problems he encountered with wild grain and loose bark when turning the natural-edge bowls and emphasized the value of wearing a face shield (he was hit three times during these projects). |
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Greg Myers – displayed a scroll saw bowl. The bowl is made up of several contrasting woods and was made almost entirely with a scroll saw. |
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Mickey Knowles – was inspired by all of the puzzles that he saw at the C.C. Fair and brought four puzzles that he made when he got home. |
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Karen Browning – brought an antique “ironing board” coffee table that she found at a junk store. She asked for recommendations for refinishing. |
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Tom Cowan – had several of his miniature furniture pieces on the show and tell table, but he waited to describe them and their construction during his program presentation. |
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 .
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