SPLINTERS                                  ISSUE 24                              DECEMBER 1987

 

 

 

ONLY FOUR MORE BUILDING DAYS

 

Time has flown and all of us little elfs have only four more days to finis up our Toys for Tots. We’ll be getting together. at the Churches. this coming Tuesday (December~ 15.. 7:00 PM) for our second annual gathering of the Toys. We’ll probably gather some “fruits and nuts” and other goodies as well. Joe Pawlick and Terry Penn (Pilot and Co—Pilot) of our Toys for Tots project will be on hand to gather up all our creations for distribution through Winchester and Tullahoma programs. If you cannot make it to our gathering or don’t have time for the paint to dry——you can send them with a neighbor or drop them off with Terry, Joe, or myself before the 22nd. Our appreciation to Terry and Joe for helping Santa. We all enjoyed last years gathering and “third childhood” demonstrations. Remember——bring the whole family. Paul Pyle.. world famous dulcimer maker and player, will be providing us with some lively entertainment. We’ll have a few snacks.

          PLEASE BRING SOMETHING NOT TOO SWEET

 

 

PAUL PITT’S SEMINAR

 

Thanks to the entire Bishop Clan for graciously hosting our seminar with Paul. All sixteen of us enjoyed both the seminar and the chili. We got started about 6:30 Saturday Nov. 14 and continued on until about 5:00. Paul, a professional woodworker with 16 years of experience, touched on many subjects——each backed with an entire story, or two, or three. The primary subject was carving with digressions into sharpening, scraping, turning, tools, tool collecting, design, cartoons, cabriole legs, and any other topic you might imagine. The general consensus was——”let’s do this again’. Paul expressed a willingness to get together sometime in the Spring——maybe joinery techniques would be a good topic. By the way, $20 for an all day session with this kind of knowledge and talent is the bargain of the century.

 

 

TALK ABOUT TALENT

 

Bill Moye blessed us with another great program at our November meeting. Bill’s presentation and relief carving proved to be educational,  inspirational, challenging, interesting, and amazing. Thank you Bill, and your family. It’s good to have you with us. Good to see more family and house participation.

 

 

NEW OFFICERS

 

Thanks to the nomination committee and cooperative volunteers, we’ve got a new crop of officers for 1988.

President     Phil Bishop
vice President        Tom Cowan
Treasurer     Mayford Clayton
Secretary     Susan Church
Publicity      Jack Townsend

 

Thanks to the “old” officers and all of the membership for the excellent operation and support during the past year. As President.. I’m not very good at worrying, thanks for all the help.

 

CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS

 

A few ideas for stocking stuffers for you favorite woodworker.

 

Sandpaper 3 M has selfstick paper for vibrating sanders—a real blessing

A sharpening stone

Magazine subscriptions

Wet/Dry sandpaper——400 or 600 for sanding in oil. Once you tried it you won’t go back.

Buffing Wheel——6 inch cloth

Buffing compound selection

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Townsend has been up at the Flea Market in the “old Henley Building” Tullahoma. I hear that it’s a pretty good place for both buyers and sellers.

 

Bi11 Shirley has been in the hospital in Nashville for some surgery——we hope you’re back in action soon.. Bill.

 

Chuck Williams is now recovering from a nasty fall several weeks ago. Our best wishes for a speedy and full recovery to both Bill and Chuck.

 

 

SEE YOU TUESDAY

DECEMBER 15 7:00

 

 

 

MAP IN ORIGINAL (SEE HENRY DAVIS)

 

 

CHRISTMAS LIST TIME

 

 

Last year~ we ran a questionnaire to get an idea of what our club members liked and didn’t like about there tools. It seemed like a good way to get some Christmas list ideas for Santa. This year we’re going to do something similar but with some different “body English”.  How about answering some questions and we’ll publish the results in the December issue of Splinters?.

 

 

1 The three power tools I use most in my woodworking are:

2 The three hand tools (other than hammer & screwdriver) I use most in my woodworking are:

3. The most useful two tools in my workshop that only a few people probably use are:

4. If a newcomer to woodworking asked me, I’d suggest that the first three hand held, portable tools he buys should be (include brand name if you have a preference):

5 If someone wanted to buy a good, general book on woodworking, I’d suggest they buy:

6 If a somewhat, advanced woodworker asked me what two non- portable power tools I suggest they look into (other than a saw), ,I’d suggest (include brand name if you have a preference):