The August meeting will be at 7:00 pm on the 20th at the University of Tennessee Space institute, room H111.
The August program will be presented by Ray Cole. The program
theme will be "Thinking outside the box!" Ray is going to discuss some
of his “secrets”. He will show us some quick and simple ways to create
curved cabinet doors, arches, columns, wooden floor and wall registers.
Ray will also discuss some of his other “tricks” to make your projects
stand out.
You see he has a pencil behind his ear in the photo. He always has a
"trick" process up his sleeve. Be sure to come out and hear about some
of Ray’s innovative woodworking techniques.
See you at our August meeting on the 20th .
(becoming members at the July meeting)
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Pat Murphy....................... Tullahoma |
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Charles Miller................Fayetteville |
Be sure to meet all of our new members and welcome them to the club.
As some of you know, Dan Maher, who was chairing the
TVW Exhibition, had surgery and needed help with the scheduled September
exhibition.
Therefore, the TVW Executive Committee met with the folks at Sewanee to
access the Exhibition area, which had be relocated to the lobby of
the library.
Long story short, it was decided to move the venue for the exhibition to
one of the cities central to our immediate area. We are looking
into that and will let you know once we have a location. The date would
be early 2014. The move would allow us to have more control over the
club members' very special show items, and allow us to have exhibition
monitors who could chat and answer questions in a less constraining
atmosphere.
Take a deep breath! Relax! Go fishing! You now have even longer to
create more masterpieces!!
Additional information will be available at the August meeting.
Karen Kerce Browning – TVW President
The annual UTSI Employee Picnic is scheduled for September 27. In the
past, club members have donated items to be used as door prizes. It is
a great help to UTSI and provides the club extra exposure. If you are
interested in helping with this activity, start getting your items
ready. Items can be brought to the August or September meeting or get
them to Richard Gulley before the 27th. Additional information will be
given at the August meeting. This is a great way to thank UTSI for
allowing us to use the facilities during our monthly meetings.
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The latest shop tour was held on July 27. The group was treated
to a tour of Walter Clement’s interesting antique shop in Belvidere. The
group also got a very informative tour of Falls Mill.
Thanks to Walter and the Lovetts for allowing us to visit their places.
Also, we thank Doyle for coordinating this enjoyable activity. If you
want to be on the tour list, contact Doyle
Precision Blade & Tool, which is a great place to purchase bandsaw blades, has moved from Morrison. The company is now located in Altamont, TN. The new business location information is shown below:
67 Pine Lane
Altamont, TN 37301
Phone: 931-815-8150 Email: dwalston@blomand.net
web site: www.precisionblade.net
Mailing address: P.O. Box 199, Altamont, TN 37301
Doug Walston invites all his TVW customers and friends to come and see his new business location.
The carvers normally meet on the first Saturday of each month the Phil Bishop’s shop. They work on individual or group projects. Anyone interested in carving is welcome to attend these monthly meetings.
The flute circle group has moved the meetings to
Saturday mornings to accommodate people that come from out of the
immediate area.
The next meeting will be Saturday August 17th, at 10 AM in the Artisan's
shop in Cowan.
Contact Ron Reimers @ 931-308-5196 or ronreimers@hotmail.com for
additional information.
Come and join the fun and fellowship with the “Fluters”.
A fall seminar is being planned for Oct. 19 with two outstanding presenters. The presenters will be Ron Young and Scott Tinker. They will each do a half day program. Both are professional woodworkers and members of the TVW. The location is Tom Cowan's Cowan Artisan store in Cowan. A lunch will be included; and -- as usual -- the cost will be very affordable. Loyd Ackerman is chairman. Details will be given as the seminar content is developed.
Need a question answered?
Have a woodworking comment?
Just want to see what is happening in the club?
The forum is the place to “check it 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!
Don’t forget about the tremendous resources we have in the
library. If you have not tried our digital library in 2013, you are
missing a great opportunity to learn new techniques and brush up on old
ones.
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.
July
Meeting
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Tom Gillard – showed photos of two matched raised-panel tapered podiums that he built from black walnut for a church client. He discussed fixtures used and the problems associated with cutting and fitting the non-square stile and rail joints. |
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Jim Acord – showed photos of a blanket chest that he built from white pine and finished with two coats of clear polyurethane. |
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Ken Delaney – brought pictures of a sleigh bed that he built from curly cherry, using “imperfect” plans that he downloaded from the internet. His finish was wipe-on polyurethane. |
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Loyd Ackerman – brought a carved tray he made using a CNC router. He also brought two small CNC boxes, one maple and one walnut. After working with the walnut, an examination of the exhaust fan filter shows just how much dust the operation generated and why one should wear a face mask. |
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Vince Zaccardi – brought several bottle stoppers that he turned from a variety of woods. His recycled display stand was fashioned from a failed bowl that had come apart in the lathe.
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Jim Everett
– brought intarsia panels he made featuring an Arabian horse
and a woodpecker. He used mahogany and black walnut for the
horse’s body and mane, and he enhanced the background with
lighter cedar and wood burning. |
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Bob Addington
– brought a CNC carved panel with a jaybird and a rope
border that he made from yellow pine. As a result of the
finishing process, the grain was raised and the surface that
had been smooth following the carving operation became
rippled all over. |
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Larry Wendland – Larry Wendland – brought a black walnut bowl that he started at the turning bee three years ago. The bowl was finished with multiple coats of lacquer stain. |
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Chuck Taylor
– displayed a small apple hollow vase and two 10” bowls. One
bowl was ornamental cherry and the other was Bradford pear.
All items were finished with high-gloss lacquer. |
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Doyle McConnell – brought a wooden sculpture nicknamd “Fibonacci” because of its similarity to the “Fibonacci spiral” from a book published by Leonardo Fibonacci in 1202. Doyle created the piece by carefully re-sawing and reassembling the curved pieces of a hollow vessel that was turned from a glued-up stack of plywood rings. Based on discussion and recommendations from members of the TVW Club Forum, satin lacquer was applied as the final finish. The piece represents the entire original hollow vessel (except for the shavings and sawdust). |
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Reilly Earle – brought a lawn gnome that he carved from basswood. He also showed his first ever inlays, done using basswood, cherry, and quartersawn sycamore. Not bad for his first time to pick up a router. |
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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 .
Some band clamps come with four metal corner
brackets that can dent your project if you apply too much clamping
pressure. For a kinder, gentler corner bracket, try building your
own as shown in the drawings at top. You can use a standard band
clamp.
Cut the center portion of the brackets out of softwood 2X material
with a 2 1/4" hole-saw. Make the top and bottom pieces from 1/8"
hardboard or 1/4" plywood. You can customize these blocks by cutting
the notches at different angles for projects with more than four
sides.
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