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| Sam Davis of Batteries Plus talked to club members about, what else? Batteries. Sam explained how NiCads develop their "memory" -- and that is by not letting them discharge all the way before charging. As an analogy, the "bottom" of the cell doesn't get used and chemically turns into "rock", as Sam described it. Not using your NiCads causes them to go bad also. |
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| Irwin Parry and Gary Rowen won door prize gift certificates donated by Sam Davis of Batteries Plus. THANKS SAM! |
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| John Gay demonstrates how he applied thin layers of joint compound to the table top to create a faux stone finish. The legs are the non-rotted portion of two porch posts. Caesar would be proud of John's work. |
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| Dennis Serig receive from Ken Kooser a certificate from the State of Texas identifying the Woodworkers Club of Houston as a Corporation. |
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| Ken Kooser explains how he made these boxes of walnut and mesquite. |
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| A collection of bowls of various woodstock was shown by John Debender. The white bowl is turned from magnolia. Other bowls are from pine, oak, spalted post oak, Bradford pear, maple and walnut |
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| The photo on the left was the driver...I mean the inspiration for the scrollsaw rendition of Steve Wavro's daughter as she teed off on the greens. |
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| Brian Honey holds up the bottom end of a Shaker style table to show how he reinforced the bottom end with a piece of metal. Brian used a mortise and tenon joint versus the more common sliding dove tail to secure the legs to the post. It is finished with water based cherry dye and spray on lacquer. Brian made this during a week long class that he took at the Mark Adams hotel. |
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| The
photographer thought this was a tie rack until Mark Sweigart explained
that it was for earrings. Mark stands beside the silver screen as
photos of his shop work bench are projected for all club members to see .
Click here to see Mark's workbench |
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