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Our April speaker
was Brian
Dumaine,
owner of Impressions
Architectural Millwork,
a commercial woodwork shop here in the Houston area. He spoke about the
commercial side of woodworking, and some of the realities associated
with building a business doing woodworking. He started out 31 years ago
doing home repairs, then remodeling and residential cabinets. About 20
years ago he began focusing solely on commercial and retail work, which
includes some high end residential on behalf of interior designers.
Brian stressed that expanding into commercial endeavors involve more
than just woodworking-they can work in many materials, including metal
and plastics. The shop is 54,000 sq ft (just a tad bigger than most of
our garage shops!) and has CNC machines and beam saws, as well as a
fleet of delivery trucks. They work in the metric system and are a
United Laboratories listed shop.
Please click on this link to his website to see examples of their work. |
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WWCH club members were mystified when Norm Nichols showed everyone his two wooden puzzles. |
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Showing how much time Norm Nichols had for puzzles is reflected in his clock made of mesquite. |
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door... This mousetrap fired cannon allows Jerry Harmsen to fire a marble out its barrel. Look out mice and rats! |
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A toy truck with crane made of maple and walnut is proudly held by Denis Muras....Tonka, step aside. |
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| Dennis April is all set to pepper his salad tonight with his pepper grinder of walnut. |
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Bob Wink holds his shoe box fire truck. The box holds shoe shine essentials. Shave and a haircut? |
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| This foyer table of cherry varnished with Minwax was beautifully crafted by Dave Kissinger. Dave also hand carved the decorative pieces sitting on the table. | 
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Steve Wavro holds a scroll sawed plaque he crafted for friends celebrating their wedding anniversary. |
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| Handmade mallets of pecan, oak and maple are held by Chuck Meeder. Chuck can now hammer his point for sure. | 
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Tim Livingston made this footstool from ammoniated oak and topped with leather. |
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| Lance Miles reconditioned this 40 year old cedar chest....ahhhh...smelllll that cedar! | 
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Mike Turner talks about his two tool totes of white pine he made for his grandkids with their assistance. Mike spoke of how projects like this help pull kid noses out of video games. |
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| Gary Rowen crafted this plaque of red oak to display a broadsword on the wall. Because red oak is an open grained wood it took about a dozen brushed coats of waterborne acrylic finish to achieve a smooth result. A primary layer of water borne filler didn't seem to help much. | 
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