TVWW MONTHLY
MEETING MINUTES
for
Tom
Cowan called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m.
The
club recognized and welcomed the following individuals as guests:
1.
Joe
Simon – from the Stones River Club
2.
Jeff
Halley
3.
Wayne
Ison
The
club welcomed the following individuals as new members:
Tom
Cowan commented that the dues are payable.
Everyone should pay by the end of January. Bob Addington,
Treasurer is collecting dues this evening.
Tom
reported plans are being made for the year’s activities. The leadership needs input from the members
in order to have the best possible activities and programs.
The
Executive Committee will be meeting next week on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at
UTSI in room H111. The committee members
should be thinking of ways to improve the club during 2010.
Tom
reminded everyone that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the
TVWW Club. The club has been doing
something right to have survived for that period of time and the number of members
has grown tremendously. We need to
decide someway to celebrate and commemorate this milestone. If the members have any suggestions they need
to let the leadership know.
Vince Zaccardi, the Program Chairman for the year made a report
on the programs he has set up through April.
He asked the members for any suggestions they might have or programs
they would prefer.
Tom
commended the club on the large membership.
A large membership is a good thing but it brings with it a challenge
that everyone must work harder so that we all get to know each other. If anyone has suggestions on ways to improve
our comradeship and fellowship with each other let Tom know. It is difficult just to try and remember all
the names.
Carvers
Corner: Jim Van Cleave reported that the
carvers went to the Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church in Tullahoma in order to
see the new bronze of Saint Barnabas.
The bronze was completed by Russ Faxon of Bell
Buckle. Russ produces sculptures at his Bell Buckle studio using the lost wax casting method. Russ also produced the “dancing girl statue”
which is located front of the Tullahoma Fine Arts Center. The next meeting of the carvers will be at
Phil Bishop’s shop on February 6 at 8 a.m.
Tom reminded
the club that two members have passed away since the last meeting. He asked the membership to keep the families
of Ed White and Vic Vigdorth in our prayers and
thoughts.
The
members were reminded of the Tennessee Association of Wood Turners Convention
in Nashville January 29th through 30th. The information can be obtained on the web
site, a three day registration costs $165 and the two day registration costs
$135.
Ross Roepke read a note from Anne Cline of the Tullahoma
Literacy Council. Anne is the lady at
the Tullahoma Event Center who helped us last year with our Fine Wood Working
Exhibition. They have an auction of
donated items to raise money for their yearly activities including their
support of people pursuing a GED. This
year they have been especially hard hit since they have suffered budget cuts
from local governments. Anne is
soliciting the donation of a piece of art or and item
for their auction. April 10th
is the date of the auction. Anyone
interested is encouraged to participate in donating a piece for the auction and
buying items at the auction.
Vic Ziccardi reported that he had brought some patterns for
producing wood pictures along with some scroll saw patterns. These are free for the taking.
Old
Business:
Chuck
Taylor reported receiving an e-mail from Carla Wright. Carla has sold her place and will be moving
to Florida in February. She still has
some items for sale (old tools, newer used tools, and other misc. items). Chuck handed out a list of items and reported
that he would be posting pictures of the items on the TVWW web site on
Wednesday.
New
Business:
Show
and Tell:
Tom
Gillard showed a Z table that was made from walnut. Tom made this modernist style table using
only a picture from a Tom Moser Catalog for the design. He completed the table with a lacquer finish.
Anthony
Watts displayed a number of pictures of a cherry bed he built for his daughter.
Daniel
Maher projected before and after pictures of a closet organizer he built with
MDF. He showed the statistics of the
amount of rod space, drawer space and self space available before and after the
project was completed. He also made
mention of the MDF fasteners he used.
Ralph
Hand brought a jelly cupboard which he made out of white pine with walnut rim
and latches. He finished the cupboard
with 5 coats of wipe-on poly.
Bob Addington brought in a suite of bowls. Bob reported that he turned eight oak bowls
only one did not crack. He turned a bowl
out of persimmon (member of the ebony family) that was very attractive; however
Bob felt it warped excessively. Bob
displayed two large pine bowls, a maple bowl with a good ambrosia pattern, and
a Walnut bowl. Bob also built a bow
sander from a set of plans he found in an American Woodworking Magazine
Vince Zaccardi brought a cherry bowl finished with carnauba wax
and apple renaissance wax.
Ross Roepke showed a modern style chair he built from a picture
he found on the back of the Fine Woodworking Magazine. He also brought a walnut table that was
trimmed with cherry wood. He displayed a
box made of bradford pear
wood with a unique poplar top.
Jim
Van Cleave displayed a relief carving of a flower with brackets made from
basswood, which he had displayed at a previous meeting. He then unveiled the same flower completed in
stone (stone accents, with appropriate colors) which he made at the Tullahoma
rock and gem center.
Bill
May displayed a unique wrist watch cased in ebony wood with a rosewood wrist
band.
Jay
Hazel brought in an ula chopping board which he made
from end grain walnut squares glued together and trimmed in maple. The board was finished with walnut oil. Jay also displayed the Oneida Dust Deputy
(along with a plywood roll around stand he designed to hold the Dust Deputy and
his shop vac).
The stand was very impressive.
Jay swore the Deputy caught all the shavings and most of the dust before
it entered the shop vac, almost eliminating the need
to clean his shop vac’s filter. Further information on the Oneida Dust Deputy
may be found at the http://dustdeputy.com/
web site.
Tony
Harrison a small five sided table top from walnut, oak and pine and which
utilized a five-sided top, five-sided base and five floor legs. He also displayed a lazy susan
constructed from osage
orange, cherry, walnut and ebony.
Will Gaetjens brought a trivet he
constructed from cherry wood. He also
displayed a spinning top, which he made.
The handle was poplar with the top itself turned from bradford pear.
Stuart
Gaetjens made a Dala
horse. The Dala
horse is a small carved, painted horse.
This handicraft originated in the Dalarna
Province of Sweden thus the name Dala horse. He carved and painted the horse as a
Christmas gift for his wife.
Program:
Bob
Reese presented an excellent program on how to build a sharpening system for
$2.89 or less. Many people say that
sharpening systems are too expensive.
Bob says anyone can afford this one.
It is simple and it works. It is
similar to the Wolverine System but is made predominately from wood rather than
metal. Bob reminded members of his
standing offer to give one on one sharpening instructions sharpening. The video of Bob’s $2.89 sharpening system
was excellent with help from the cameraman and video producer Loyd
Ackerman). This DVD is now a permanent
part of the club’s library.