The May meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 19th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
Our May program will be presented by Mike Bell,
curator at the Tennessee State Museum. Mike will be discussing the
“early Tennessee furniture development”. He will also have a great slide
show, depicting stages of the furniture development.
Looking forward seeing you at the May 17th meeting.
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Pete & Diane Miller ...... Hillsboro
Mike Zinser ...................Nashville
Bryan Gordon ...............Tullahoma
(becoming members at the April meeting)
Be sure to meet our new members and welcome them to the club.
One of the TVW favorite annual activities is scheduled for June 18. This is the Turning Bee that will be held at Tom Cowan's shop. This is a really great activity to learn turning skills from some of the club’s “experienced turners”. All attendees in the past have been really inspired by this event and many have become accomplished “turners”, as a result of attending one of these “learning experiences”. The details will be given at the next regular meeting.
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The Spring Seminar was held on April 16 at Paul Fulk’s shop. The seminar was well attended and everyone came away with some great ideas to apply in their own shop. The list of presenters was outstanding and they all did a great job. Thanks to all the presenters, which included Phil Bishop, Doyle McConnell, Henry Davis, Anthony Watts, Matt Brothers and Mike Brumfield. A big thank you to Paul for organizing and hosting the seminar at his shop and to Karen Browning for coordinating the lunch.
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The latest “Shop Tour” was held on April 23rd and was well attended. The tour was in the Manchester area and included the shops of John Mayberry, Johnnie Brown & Bob Addington. Thanks to Doyle for coordinating these tours and to those opening their shops for the tours.
The carvers were invited to participate in the Cornbread Festival in South Pittsburg on April 29 & May 1. The demonstrations and displays of the carvers drew large crowds of admiring onlookers. They were working on the “Totem Pole” during the Festival. Everyone had a great time at this new venue and it gave the club new exposure to the public. There are some great photos of the activity in the gallery section of the club web site. Look under carver events/2011 cornbread festival.
The carver’s monthly meeting on May 7 was a tour of the “Cowan
Artisan Gallery”, operated by Tom Cowan and Geoff Roehm.
The carvers normally meet on the first Saturday of each month and work
on individual or group projects
Please remember that you can now view some of the club
DVDs on line. Go to the library listing on our club website and click on
the underlined titles.
For a complete list of all items in the Digital Library, see Henry Davis
at club meetings, email him at hdavis37@charter.net or call him at
393-3191 and leave a message.
Just a reminder, if you have a library selection out, it is due to be
returned at the next meeting.
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Tom Gillard – hammer hanger – for all those times when you need to take the hammer out of the back pocket when having dinner with the spouse |
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Jay Hazel – lathe refurbishing slide show and turned bowl (beetle kill pine). You can view all of the refurbishing photos in the gallery/show and tell/2001_04/jay hazel lathe change folder |
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Tom Cowan – Christmas ornaments and gilding |
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Vince Zaccardi – turned bowls (2 spalted maple, 1 pine) |
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Loyd Ackerman – tool box with box joint corners and vacuum press discussion |
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Wayne Ison – ship wheel |
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Ron Reimer – gilding in a frame |
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Richard Gully – tap and die for 1 ½” wooden threads |
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Jim Everett – intarsia |
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Bob Addington – CNC example – sign “Mike’s Shop” |
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Ross Roepke – bombe' box (maple) |
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Kevin Deuermeyer– table with inlay |
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Jim Van Cleave – carving |
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David Whyte – wooden toys (a bobcat & dirt mover) |
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Karen Browning – gilding |
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Doyle McConnell – gilding in frame; segmented bowl with detailed center section (for granddaughter’s wedding gift); spalted maple peppermill and ring box (turned at Spring Seminar) |
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Felix Rees – lamp |
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Matt Brothers – trophy case commissioned for Coffee County Central H.S. (red oak). The case has glass on all sides for viewing. |
To view the "Link of Interest" on our web site, please click here.
FOR SALE: Cast- iron grinder stand made by Clarke Manufacturing with attached pan. Like new. Price $50.00. Contact Bob Leonard (931-728-1077 or nbleonard@charter.net ).
If you have 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 .
Having trouble ripping that first edge straight on boards for your next
project? Try this method on your table saw.
To get that first straight edge on a board, try clamping an edge guide
(see photo below) to the work piece so it overhangs the edge of the
board slightly. With the edge guide lined up firmly against the table
saw fence, you will get straight-edged rips every time.
Coming Soon!!
