These figurines were hand carved by John Gay to pass the time away when he was off the clock at a temporary job in Kentucky. He used basswood and limewood. |
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Paul Koury demonstrated his scrollwork skills by crafting this fine clock of mahogany, ash, and birch. A small clock hides inside the big clock. 60 hours over 3 months. |  |
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| This display table was beautifully crafted by Jack Hutchison of African Padouk. It is the natural color of the wood. The top piece is actually 3/4 inches but because it is a raised panel the eye is fooled into thinking that the top is 1/2 inch thick. He finished it with clear shellac and polyurethane. | |||||||||||||||
This intarsia dolphin was hand crafted by Glen Edwards at a seminar sponsored by Rob Thompson. The wood is poplar and the eye is a mushroom button. The finish is paint. |
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| This is a real smoker and is not an Aggie for-one-time-use-only barbeque pit that was crafted by Louis Rychlek. | |||||||||||||||
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A Double Nine domino holder is displayed by Markus Brun. All we need now is a courthouse yard, right? |
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These pipes are for smokin' in the observation car along with your favorite brandy. Briarwood was turned and carved into the final shape. Lip pieces were purchased. They were stained with an alcohol based stain, buffed then waxed. About 5-6 hours per pipe. | |||||||||||||
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Vic Vucinovich displays bowls of corian, acrylic and birch plywood. The snake was made of bowling alley maple. Oops! I mean, the backscratcher |  |
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This bench of walnut dowled cypress and finished with tung oil was finely crafted by Walter Mason. |  |
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Ken Kooser showed off his tenon jig that he built using plans from a table saw book. |  |
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This man's best friend is featured in mahogany, walnut and Brazilian cherry. Jim Turner used a stained glass for two of the pieces. |  |
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John Murray crafted this glass lined quilt chest from Northern Minnesota paper white birch. Brushed on polyurethane finished it beautifully. |  |
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A cozy fire in an upstate New York fireplace became the inspiration for this fine piece of art that was affectionately called "firewood". Gary Hall rescued the piece when he saw what was being shaped by the flames. After a dousing in snow he knocked off the burnt parts and sanded to the shape seen. Tung oil provided the finish. | ||||||||||||||
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This rocker of ash was crafted by Bob Brayton. He used a 2x4 jig to bend and glue with Titebond 2, quarter inch slats of wood to form the rockers. Bentley honey gel stain under a coat of Watco Danish Oil finished the rocker. |  |
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Randy Kuhn and Bill Harrison of Circle Saw gave an informative talk to club members about the technical aspects of saw blades. | ||||||||||||||
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