The December meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 17th 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 for those who did bring something to talk about.
See you at our Decembner meeting on the 17th .
(No new members Joining at the November meeting)
Be sure to meet all of our 2013 new members and welcome them to the club.
Don’t forget the Exhibition is the first week of March
2014. The committee is already working hard to make this event a huge
success.
The exhibition committee met and decided on a name for the spring 2014
Exhibition, which is:
“In the Spirit of Fine Woodworking”.
The exhibition committee met with Fran Gray at SJCC on December 3rd and
agreed on the schedule for the exhibition.
The dates are:
Thursday February 27 through Saturday March 1 will be set up days.
Sunday March 2 will be Opening Day and Reception – open 2 PM until 5 PM.
Monday March 3 through Saturday March 8 will be open from 11 AM until 7
PM.
Sunday March 9 will be closing day – open 2 PM until 5 PM
Monday March 10 will be for breaking down displays, putting the
exhibition area back in order and returning the display boards to office
and shelves to storage.
Stay tuned to Splinters and the TVW website for latest developments.
Please get your entries turned in to Bob Addington early. The forms for
entry are available on the website and will be available at the next
monthly meeting. 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 annual TVW Christmas party was held on
December 13th with about 50 in attendance. the food and fellowship was
great. Joe Ferraro was the winner of the grad door prize ($250 Woodcraft
gift certificate). Thanks to all who helped with the preparations for
the activity. A special thanks to Karen Browning for chairing the
festive occassion.
If you did not attend, you missed a great time.
The club will be begin another exciting new year next month. This year has been
filled with great activities and learning experiences.
The current officers will have their “tour of duty” extended for one
more year.
The Carvers Clinic convened on December 7 at Phil
Bishop's shop with eight carvers in attendance (Phil, Ken, Harry, Dick,
Zeke, Steve, Ron and Paul). The group discussed the cold weather and
carving problems while some worked on individual projects. Dick reported
that he won three awards at the North Alabama Carving Show in Huntsville
in November: a First Place for the Stylized Duck, a Second Place for his
basswood Fox and a Third Place in the Miscellaneous Category for another
carved stump. Paul brought the carving that was started at Tims Ford
State Park on Heritage Days for some expert 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 will not meet during the month
of December.
The next meeting will be in January and the date has not been set. The
group members will be notified of the meeting date.
This group is for 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”.
What a year for the forum. There have been lots of questions ask and
many, many answers provided.
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. You don’t have much time left to try our digital library in
2013. If you have not tried it yet, 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.
November
Meeting
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Tom Gillard – brought pictures of a maple chest that he recently built for a customer based on a photograph. The customer provided open grates that she found on the internet to simulate the panels shown on the original piece. Tom also brought a model airplane that he built from a kit like one that he purchased in the 1970s. |
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Matt Brothers – brought photos of a 7’ by 40” office work table that he recently built from white oak and finished with Minwax stain and lacquer. |
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Geoff Roehm – brought and played a guitar that he recently built for a friend/customer. The top was cut from a red spruce board that had been used as a workbench for several years. Geoff personalized the fret board with several symbolic mother-of-pearl inlays and finished the instrument with UV-cured polyester. |
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Larry Wendland – brought a jewelry box that he made utilizing an inlaid from a serving tray that he bought many years ago. He also brought a pen made from pheasant wood and a small vessel turned from crape myrtle. |
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Jim Everett – brought three plaques that he made. Two had Celtic cross designs and the other was decorated with a lion and shield. |
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Bob Leonard – brought a novel carved wooden figure that he bought. From one angle, the piece looks like a large hummingbird in flight. Viewed another way it resembles a donkey or mule. Bob said it was called a “hummerjack”. |
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Bob Stancil – brought three bowls that he recently completed. Two were turned from burls, one from white poplar and the other from
an unknown wood. The third one was turned from glued-up
pieces of maple, walnut, cherry, and ash. |
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Bob Addington – brought an anniversary heart and ribbon plaque that he made using his CNC router. Bob cut the recessed letters
first and applied sealer and paint before cutting the banner
and heart. The sealer prevented the paint from penetrating
into the surrounding wood so that the final letter edges
were sharp and well defined. |
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Ross Roepke – brought two tables that he built. One was a natural-edged cedar slab with legs attached. The other was made from red and white oak with a top covered with book-matched oak veneer. |
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Dan Maher –
brought an
oak-framed ceramic tile trivet that he made for a
friend. |
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Reilly Earl – brought a small bowl that he turned and finished with Danish Oil. |
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Doug Dunlap – brought an intarsia Teddy Bear that he made. He used small pieces of ball-point pen barrel tubing to create realistic eyes. |
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John Duval – brought four black walnut bowls that he turned. He used Starbucks coffee grounds mixed with epoxy to fill defects and voids. |
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Loyd Ackerman– brought wood-turned ink pens that he recently bought in a TN State Park store for $7.95. He said that in the past he and other TVW members were able to sell similar items for $30 at the Foot Hills Craft Store in Manchester, until they were finally undersold by suspected foreign items priced at $9.99. |
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Greg Myers – brought a lidded hollow vessel that he made using a band saw and glued-up pieces left over from a large bandsawn bowl project. He also brought a large bowl that he turned from yellow poplar. |
Be sure to be on the lookout for the 2014 calendar of events. it will be posted on the web site as soon as the year's activities are set.
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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