Next Meeting May19
The meeting will be at 6:30 pm at the University
of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
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May 19 - Greg Giesing will
discuss Atlantis Wood and discuss wood drying techniques. |
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Want to know who your
TVW officers are? Click
here
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Be sure to check out all the "up coming events" the executive
committee has scheduled for the current year. Click
here to view the
"Event Schedule".
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REMINDER
- Please remember to wear your
name tag at our meetings so that our new members will know who you
are.
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Volunteer Mentors for Club Members.
Click
here (bottom of page)
NEXT MAJOR TVW ACTIVITY:
CLUB PICNIC
Saturady June 6,
2015@Falls Mills, Belvidere, TN
New Members
(Becoming a member at the April meeting)
Be sure to meet and welcome new members to our Club
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Jeremy Crowe,
Tullahoma |
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Jeremy Sellers, Manchester |
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION UPDATE
If you change phone number, email address, etc; please notify Chuck
Taylor, membership chairman (931-728-7086 or taylor_cw@charter.net. This
will allow the membership listing on the web site to reflect the current
and up-to-date information of all our club members.
TVW NEWS AND NOTES
The American Chestnut is being reintroduced
into the area. (Sewanee University)
American chestnut trees, once the mighty giants of the eastern forests,
numbered in the billions. Before the accidental importation of the Asian
fungus that caused the chestnut blight, the tree may have comprised 30%
of the canopy on the Domain. The American chestnut was fast-growing and
massive, reaching heights of 100 feet and diameters of five to six feet.
A prolific producer of large nuts, the chestnut was a nutritional
mainstay for humans as well as for forest animals.
By 1950 the fungus had killed an estimated four billion mature trees
from Maine to Georgia. Cleck
here for additional information. (You may have to modify your
security setting)
CLUB LIBRARY NEWS
If you have media you would like to
donate, or would like to reserve a certain video, contact August Dobert.
His contact information is listed on the membership roster in the "Club
Info" section.
CARVER'S CORNER
The carvers met May 2. There were 4 present, they had fun. One
individual carved on a bark house. Another carved on some decorative
things that goes on some furniture that is being restored. Ken Burgess
worked on a butternut figure that a lady requested and Col. Jim worked
on our club Eagle project. Hope to have more in attendance next meeting.
We meet in Jim Jollifee’s shop at 201
Jollifee LN, Tullahoma.
We regulary meet on the first Saturady of each month
CHEROKEE WINDS FLUTE CIRCLE NEWS
Everyone is invited to come and participate or just
come to listen.
Contact Ron Reimers @ 931-308-5196 or
ronreimers@hotmail.com for additional information.
SAW SHARPENING SERVICE IS BACK!
Kenneth (Dale) Daniel is back in business and will
again sharpen TVW member blades. His location is 2007 Ovoca Road,
Tullahoma.
Phone –
931-455-5024, cell – 931-247-4753.
NAME TAG INFORMATION
If you are a recent new member or had requested
a new name tag, a box of name tags will be available at the next
meeting. In the
future, name tags will be made for new members and available for pickup
at the next regular monthly meeting. Name tags for other
members will be made upon request only and will also be available for
pickup at the next meeting.
Please contact Chuck Taylor (931-728-7086 or email
taylor_cw@charter.net) for information or name tags.
April
Show & Tell
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Matt Brothers - He made a 4 piece bedroom suite out of
mahogany. A
platform bed with 4 drawer handles, a
dresser, and 2
end tables, using mortise and tendon joints with dovetail
joints on the drawers. This was all finished with lacquer. |
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Jim Everette - He used scrap woods
to make an
Intarsia eagle, mountain and trees, a
panel with a saw, hammer and tape measure, and 2
dog pictures. He used polyethylene and Krylon finishes. |
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Paul Jalbert - He made a large
pine
sign board for the Tims Ford State Park, with many fish on
it. The 40 fish were carved by 55 carvers of all ages. It
measured 42" x48" x 3/4" thick and was finished with a spray
Spar Varnish. |
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Ross Roepke
- He made a
cedar box and a clock stand out of scrap wood. He finished
them with Danish Oil. |
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Doyle
McConnell - he made a
pepper mill out of "Ambrosia" maple with a lacquer finish
and offered to help anyone to turn a similar one. |
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Vince
Zacardi - He turned
2 cedar bowls, and then showed a glass electrical insulator
and asked how to turn threads to fit inside it. |
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John
Duval - he made a
cone shaped tower using many segments of cedar scraps and a
bowl out of maple and cherry segments. He used Waterlox to
finish both of them |
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Chuck Taylor
- He made
2 cherry bowls and an apple bowl and finished them with
gloss lacquer. |
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Eric Strotheide - He made a
“Panel
Truck" bank out of several pieces of walnut and poplar wood.
He used polyethylene and Danish Oil finishes. |
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Bob Addington - He made
3 cutting boards with his CNC machine along with some paint
stir sticks. He also talked about his son's saw mill |
LINKS OF INTEREST
To view the "Links of Interest" on our web site, please click
here.
Click
here to see the Exchange Opportunities
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 taylor_cw@charter.net .
Shop Tip
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Get a totally gnarly grip on your boards
Through my many years of reading WOOD® magazine, I’m still
amazed at the uncommon ideas used to solve common problems in
the shop. I recently had one when I helped my son overhaul his
skateboard.
Skateboard grip—the stuff ‘boarders put on top to make a non-slip
surface—has an extremely strong self-adhesive backing with a
grit-textured surface.
I started using the grip on my push blocks, mitersaw fences, and
other jigs and tools where I don’t want wood to creep during
machining. It’s totally awesome!
The grip comes in sheets or rolls and a variety of styles. You can
even use bright colors to make your shop a little more “rad.”
You’ll find it at any decent skateboard shop and some
sporting-goods stores.
—Robert Galbraith, Oshawa, Ont. |
Work safely and don’t take unnecessary chances
with your woodworking tools
Want a good tip concerning your current project?
TVW SUPPORTERS
The following companies are supporters of the TVW club. Click on
their "logo" to go to their web site.
