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| Steve
LeGrue spoke to Club members about how to care for and tune up a table
saw. A few tips:
1. use a non-silicone wax for the top 2. cast iron tends to shift, twist and bend so it can lose its flatness when it is moved from one location to another 3. use lithium grease to avoid build up of gunk 4. align fence and blade to the miter slot 5. a combination square works very well to measure space between slot and a selected tooth, measured both in the front and rear position. |
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Tom
Matkin shows off his boxes of poplar and pine. Shellac and varnish
finished the box.
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John Gay explains to members how he scrollsawed each individual hole to
create a wicker effect. Doc Cotton (and others) react
accordingly. Made of red oak and wicker, the shelf is adjustable
to suit the height and position of the display items. |
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Norm
Nichols explained that the frogs were bookmarks. He stacked
several 1/8 inch pieces together then scrollsawed once to create several
pieces. Would you believe that the vase was not turned on a lathe?
Norm, scrollsawed several rings at a twenty degree bevel, stacked and
glued them together and then sanded to smooth the edges.  |
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Steve Wavro crafted this intarsia wine ensemble of oak, purple heart, bloodwood, yellowheart, poplar, lacewood, basswood, walnut, and aromatic cedar. Steve prefers to use different woods to achieve the various colors but experimented with dye to create the effects seen on the wine bottle -- hmmmm could it be blackberry wine?. | ||
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Dan
Smith shows off his scrollsawed basket of walnut and his scrollsawed
hummingbird shelf of mahagony. 
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Monte
Richards and his grandson, Greg, show club members the napkins holders
that Greg crafted. The L-shaped piece, looking like half of a picture
frame, is really a corner shelf that Greg made. 
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| Greg holds up a hat rack for Munchkins. Actually, Greg will use it to hang up his karate medals, you know, the sport where you hiiii-yaaaa...break-a-brick. Knowing how costly a broken wrist is, his wise grandfather uses a miter saw to "chop" his wood. |   |
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Monte Richards holds up crosses that he crafter for his church bazaar. Monte showed club members a drawing that details which direction to carve each piece to create the interleaved herringbone effect. | ||
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 Hugh
Parker talks about his box made of antique pine topped off with two
coats of Deft. |
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In
this photo Julian Barr holds high his hand at carving.  |
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 In
this photo Joseph Stassi gets assistance from Doc Cotton with
disassembling the child's chair of white pine into several
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 Joseph
also shows how his cypress chair folds up for carrying. |
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Lon
Kelley leans against his cherry chest of drawers. The chest is in
the Early English style. To view Lon's progress, click here.
Hidden slides make smooth drawer action.  |
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| Gary Rowen points to a slide show featuring his chest of drawers for parts, supplies and tools. A lesson Gary learned is to to make the cabinet into two or three stacks - easier to handle during construction. Another is to add a dust panel or two to keep the sides from bowing inward because of the weight and sticking the drawers. The drawers are simply 1/2 inch plywood bottoms glued to 1/2 plywood sides to which drawer slides are attached. Drawer fronts of Red maple are glued to the trays and provide trim for the edges. | 
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Jeremy Grubb holds up his table topped with a rosewood slab. Jeremy observed many customers walk past this slab at the store and barely give it a glance. The slab in its unfinished state looked like reject wood. Like they say, "one's reject is another one's treasure", and here is the proof, although it isn't pudding. Jeremy talked about his technique of building the chair and table. | ||
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