Board Briefs
Jeff Nebel
Secretary:
Jeff Nebel reported that Lie-Nielsen planes will be offered again at the
August Guild Meeting. The board discussed payment terms and it was agreed
all purchasers must make checks payable to the Wisconsin Woodworkers Guild
and get them to Jeff by the next board meeting on August 15th. Jeff will write
an article for the next newsletter.
Treasurer:
Liz Rohde reported the treasury stands at $7,252.41 as of 7/18/02. The board
agreed the price per attendee at the Annual Holiday Season Dinner Party will
remain at $20.00. Two entrees were selected, beef and boneless chicken breast.
Programs:
Ken Bahr reported two additional programs have been scheduled and a third
committed but not yet scheduled. Scott Landis is a possible speaker. Kevin
Seigworth has been helping out with both programs and workshops.
Workshops:
This committee was not represented at the meeting. The board discussed the
desire to get someone from the Workshop Committee to attend future board meetings.
Exhibits:
Don Berger reported the new Arts Center in Brookfield is still too busy
to consider a Guild exhibit. He received a call from Wisconsin Lutheran College
about the next event there, but the caller had her years mixed up; we are
not scheduled again until 2003. We will be in the new building at State Fair
Park for the next commercial Woodworking Show.
Publications:
Si Farmer reported that Brian Halligan has agreed to act as Webmaster for
now. Brian will be asked to find out from Jerry Davis who the Guildís Internet
Service Provider is; no one on the board knows for sure. The library listings
on the web will be compared to our inventory by our Librarian and Brian will
make any necessary corrections on our web listings.
Toys:
Ron Hinderman asked when promotion of the toy program should begin and the
board suggested now is about right. The objective should be to get more members
involved, rather than record numbers of toys. Ron said he had wood and accessory
parts, but no people responding. It was suggested he set specific workshop
dates for toy building.
New Business:
The next board meeting will be held Thursday, August 15th, at 7:00p.m. at
the same location.
Program
Wisconsin Woodworkers Guild
General Membership Meeting
Technical Aspects of Wood Veneering
Margaret Fisher comes to us from the August H Wulf Company in Menomonee
Falls, WI. This company has been in cabinet making and architectural woodworking
since 1035. Margaret has actively been involved in the Architectural Wood
Institute (AWI) for over 17 years and has served on the Institutes National
Board of Directors, and has been president of the Wisconsin chapter of AWI.
Her presentation will cover the history of veneer use, to production
of wood veneer from harvesting to slicing. She will discuss A.H. Wulfs use
of veneers, too.
This will be primarily a slide show, with 100+ slides to illustrate the
processes as well as the aesthetics of wood veneer design. She will explain
the different methods of slicing, different species characteristics, as well
as leaf, panel and room matching layouts. A variety of wood species will be
on hand for inspection.
August 7, Wednesday, 6:45 - 9:30 pm
Event: Regular Monthly Guild Meeting
Topic: Technical Aspects of Wood Veneering
Presenter: Margaret Fisher of August H Wulf Company
Location: Washington Park Senior Center
4420 West Vliet Street, Milwaukee
September 4, Wednesday
Event: Regular Monthly Guild Meeting
Topic: Clock Making and Restoration
Presenter: Howard Young, Wauwatosa, WI
Location: Washington Park Senior Center
4420 West Vliet Street, Milwaukee
September 14, Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm
Event: Workshop
Topic: Hand Plane Restoration and Tuning
Presenter: Walt Hadcock & John Petrovic
Location: WoodCraft, 1725 S. 108 th Street, West Allis
Time: 9 am - 4 pm
Fee: $20
Raffle
Alan Clapp
Liz Rohde was the winner of the Ryobi cordless drill and circular saw
in July.
The rest of us will have another chance to win a circular saw at the
August meeting. The August raffle prize is a Bosch model 1658B-01 7-1/4"
circular saw. An 18-tooth carbide blade and tool bag will be awarded as
part of the prize. One lucky winner will be inspired to finish their deck
with this saw!
Reflections
Show & Tell
Si Farmer
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President John Petrovic was the Master of Ceremonies for this year's
Membership-Given Show n Tell Program.
Jim Pozorski led off the program with a demonstration and talk on one of
the products he built as a scroller, his favorite woodworking form. He demoπd
a chess set, complete with board, solid walnut drawers and chess pieces ã
all made with the scroll saw. Although Jim is a relatively new Guild member,
he has been scrolling for about 15 years. He has two saws, a Delta and a
hand made (expensive) Eclipse.
The chess set had three unique features. The first was that the insert
for drawers was cut from a solid block of walnut wood. Each area was proportioned
to meet the space needs of each individual chess piece. Secondly, inasmuch
as he is somewhat of a neophyte chess player, and an occasional one at that,
he cut the board to insert silhouettes of pieces where they would be placed
at the outset of the game. They were cut at about 25% size and cut at a 5°
angle so they could be pushed into the cutout and sanded flush.
The third feature was that Jim cut the chess pieces themselves on the scroll
saw. He illustrated on a large block of wood how he affixed the patterns (2)
on two adjacent sides of the block. He makes the patterns larger and reduces
them by ,photocopying. Any slight irregularity in the larger design will
be minimized in the pattern downsizing.
After he cuts one silhouette, leaving a small point of attachment, he
stabilizes the wood/figure with hot glue so he can cut the second silhouette.
The chess pieces ≥falls out≤ of the cut out as a 3-D chess piece.
Dave Brittain followed with his demo of the beadLOCK system. This system
utilizes as artificial tenon (commercially obtained). Although this system
can be used for 90° joinery, it can also be used for 45° as well, as in picture
framing.
The unit consists of a dowel hole jig, which comes in 5/16 and 3/8 in.
size, and an appropriate sized brad-point drill. One drills 3 holes in one
piece, then offsets the jig to straddle the wood between two of the holes,
and then drill 2 more holes. The opposing members is drilled similarly and
then the appropriate sized tenon is cut to fit the drilled holes.
Dave says that his beadLOCK system does not permit the workpiece to
twist as with doweled joinery and that the joint is stronger than biscuit
joinery.He utilized this system to fabricate the head board of a queen size
bed.
Bill Dremel illustrated how he solved a dilemma he confronted when he
was designing and building kitchen cabinetry for his wife. The face frame
he had built had an opening for a door ã a rather wide door. His wife suggested
that perhaps two smaller doors in that space would please her more. Short
of building a new face frame, he solved the problem of adding an additional
stile by making a router jig to cut into the upper and lower rails to make
room for the new stile. Problem solved! (One could have also solved the problem
by using pocket hole joinery to set in the stile. Ed)
Jerry Anson brought the whole world with him or at least, a globe of
the whole earth. This was one of his earlier projects, some 15 years ago.
He modified an existing glove mount that had a full circle of moulding surrounding
it to one with an opening, about one-fourth the circumference of the globe.
This permitted the viewing of previously blocked areas. The picture speaks
louder than words o his ornamentation and support stand of the globe unit.
Mark Bronkala bought one of the four chairs that he recently made from
ipe, a very hard, strong and dense wood. He got the idea for the chair from
Bill Hyltonπs book, Yard and Garden Furniture. However, he curved both the
seat and the back to increase the comfort level.
If the chair had been made from the plans in the book, using ipe rather
than spruce, each chair would have weighed about 220 pounds. However, inasmuch
as ipe is 3 times stronger than spruce, he reduced the stock thickness three-fold.
Mark likes ipe because the squirrels do not chew on it, nor scratch it. Although
ipe is hard, Mark said that he had no trouble bandsawing it with a 3 TPI blade,
doing stacked cuts, at a slower speed.
The chair used standard joinery of half-lap joints for the legs, and
the back slats were let into a dado in the top rail and a rabbet below. The
legs were attached with 3/8 inch brass pins for easy disassembly. He used
epoxy stained to match the wood color for assembly.
Mark cautioned us to scrape, not plane, and to use full face protection
(respirator) when working with ipe.
Alan Clapp shared two of his recent projects with us. The first was
a Zero Clearance Table Saw Insert. It was fabricated from multiple-ply Baltic
Birch plywood and hardwood. The middle section (which is the replaceable section)
was cut at 45°, which allows it to be slid into the mating slot on the main
insert. The neat aspect of this unit is that one can have multiple middle
pieces ã one for each saw blade thickness or dado cutter.
The second item that Alan demoπd was a Dovetail Marker that he made
from cocobolo. It was constructed with a sliding dovetail and a copper tube
cutter screw into the end to score the wood. He has made several boxes. The
first took him only six hours to build!
Walt Hadcock also had a double presentation. His first item was a Picture
Frame Making Jig. He reminded us that not only must each of the cuts be exactly
45°, but the opposite pieces must be equal length. The jig he illustrated
has an opening that does not damage the point of the picture frame piece and
thereby shortening its dimension.
The second problem he solved was in making a round table top with a
router in a situation in which the table top material was 2X thick and his
router bit was only 1X long! He solved his problem by putting a rod through
the center of the table stock and routing one side (with repeated passes).
He then flipped the table stock over and attached the router jig to the protruding
rod and routed the second side.
Bruce Bogust continued the evening with a two-fold presentation. The
first was a neat bowl turned from a Box Elder stump! It has some "eyes" and
some spalting. Bruce has extra stumps on his property if you wish to try your
hand at making a stump bowl!
The second presentation was a example of Japanese joinery, the hammer
tenon joint. Bruce made this joint by first making a slightly over sized
regular tenon. He then crushed (compressed) the fibers of the tenon by hitting
it with a convex-faced 2-1/2 lb. hammer that he has stumbled across at a recent
rummage sale. He said that a flat-faced hammer does not work because it
cuts the fibers. He fit the joint by hand, gently tapping it in the last 1/4
inch, It was tight! The compressed fibers spring back making it a tight joint
without glue, and an extremely tight one with glue.
Kevin Clarkowski capped off the evening with a couple of items. His
first was a rather unique display case in which three transparent (lucite?)
panels were inset into the case and decorative pins of varying description
were affixed. He said that up to 150 individual pins could be viewed at a
time in 3-D with this unique case.
The last item was a desk set for the office. He developed router cut
stencils to enable one to scroll saw "negative" characters. He said that it
was a good idea, but it was before its time. It never became very popular.
He still has some of these stencils, if you're interested.
Special Features
LIE-NIELSEN TOOL PURCHASE
Jeffrey M. Nebel
At the Garrett Hack Workshop in May, many Guild members expressed an
interest in purchasing a Lie-Nielsen plane like one of several Garrett was
using. In response to this, the Guild is administering a bulk purchase from
Lie-Nielsen. Tools in the current catalog are being offered at a 15% discount
plus there are no shipping or handling charges. The sign-up sheet will be
made available again at the next Guild meeting along with the current catalog
if you do not already have one. If you cannot make the meeting, you can mail
your request and payment to Jeff Nebel, 16740 W. Melvina St., Brookfield,
WI, 53005.
The Board of Directors has established a deadline of August 15, 2002
for all orders and payments. Make checks payable to Wisconsin Woodworkers
Guild. All requests for tools and payments must be in Jeffπs hands by August
15th or your tools will not be included in the order. No exceptions.
Tools will be ordered immediately after the August 15th board meeting.
Tools will be made available at the September 4th Guild meeting. Lie-Nielsen
carries stock on their tools and their delivery has been quite good in recent
years. However, there is the possibility of them being out of stock on a particular
item with delivery on that item after September 4th. We need a minimum of
20 tools to make this program a go. Should we not reach the minimum, all
money will be promptly refunded.
Toy Makinπ Fun Fest
Ron Hinderman
Are you interested in making sawdust along with producing some wonderful
toys? I know there are a lot of you out there. Would you like to join me
at a Toy Makin' Fun Fest? How about during the day----or how about on week-ends?
My shop is waiting for some good people to help me out with your skill,
talent and ideas.
When a bunch of people get together, everything goes smoother - and
look at the results when we are done! Look at all the of the wonderful toys
we give the kids at Christmas time, and think of all the smiles on these
kid's faces.
We have a large variety of woods available for toy makin'. The woods
that we have on-hand at the present time are red and white oak, red elm, hickory,
ash and butternut. We have cut-off shorts of ash, red and white oak, walnut,
cherry, poplar, pine and mahogany.
We have lots of wheels too, i.e. 3/4, 1, 1-1/4, 1-1/2, 1-3/4, 2, 2-1/4
and 2-1/2.
We need doll beds, cradles and chairs. Numerous plans are available
at reproduction cost.
I am willing to help or advise anyone on any toy project.
Starting in September, I will be available every Saturday and during the
week!
Please call me.
Thanks
Ron Hinderman
Classified
For Sale
Metal Cyclone, small 5 ft, with 2 hp Dayton Model 4C108 B bower with controls
for wood chips pickup. $450.00
Wood: two lots of approximately 600 bd ft per lot. Maple, Ash, Oak. 5 yrs
dry inside. $1.00 bd ft.
Dale Lagerman