DESERT WOODCRAFTERS NEWSLETTER
April 4, 2009 Meeting Minutes –
Desert Woodcrafters Association
Financial
report (Terry Glover, Treas.):Ending Balance :
$1,339.93 available cash
Pres.
Clem McLay, called the meeting to order at 9:10 a.m.
at the
Raytheon
Woodchippers Clubhouse.
25
members and 3 guests were in attendance. (Guests Michael Lindley, Bill
McDonald
and L. Winkler)
Minutes for March meeting were approved as published: Motion made to accept by Alan Crosby, Seconded by Stan Ries. Passed
The 50/50 ($29.00) was won by Chuck Margeson.
The Bring Back:
was won by Stan Ries. (Wib McGibbin
made a cart of walnut wood,
and included a candy bar just in case the winner didn't like the
cart.)
OLD BUSINESS:
The US Consumer
Product Safety Improvement Act
Frank
Pickett reported that nothing has changed.
Jim Keown stated that the law is retroactive and that
individuals may sue if they
choose to do so.
Ivan
Hanna has a petition to send to Congress and will bring it to the meeting in
May.
Denise
Omdahl will contact the schools and encourage them to
petition the
Congressional
Representatives to revise or amend the law.
Discussion was held, and
the club will continue with the Christmas toy project.
Members
are encouraged to write to your U. S. Congressional Representative
to request amendments to the US Consumer Product Safety
Improvement Act.
Alan Crosby
brought photos of the two-by-four contest projects held in March.
The club camera
battery needs to be charged, but we can’t locate the charger.
DOES
ANYONE HAVE THE BATTERY CHARGER?
SHOW AND TELL:
Thirteen members
participated. Drawing was won
by Ken Tower.
1. Ken Tower – Turned
tall urn with lid (made from an old cutting board.)
2. Alan Crosby – Scrap
wood blanks for napkin rings. Wooden boxes with lids, for
napkin rings.
Alan also showed a bottle
stopper with AZ state quarter set in the top, made from
mesquite by a woodworker in Virginia. He had contacted Alan, asking
for native
Arizona wood, so Alan
sent him pieces of mesquite.
3. Merle Watts -Bethlehem
olive wood pen made for his daughter's graduation. (Says
the wood smells sweet compared to our local olive wood.)
4. Stan Ries – Star-shaped bottle stopper made of chino red, turned
on Rose engine
lathe.
5. Gene Rittenhouse –
Brazilian rosewood pendant with wire wrap. Also showed an old
bowl he bought, thinking it was teakwood. When he refinished it,
he found out it
wasn't teak.
6. Frank Pickett –
Airplane with water skids (old project)
7. Paul Swan – Toy
spinning top and a pecan bowl. (used chatter tool)
8. Cathy Addison – Oval
mirror frame made of black walnut. (Old project) Wood dried
out and split. (Suggestion to repair by removing mirror, routing
the inside a wee bit,
put glue in the split, wrap twine in groove around outer edge of
frame to hold tight
until the glue dries.)
9. Wib
McKibbin – Walnut cart (with chocolate candy bar) –
See “Bring-Back”
10. George Samples –
Large red oak chiming wall clock. Intricate scroll saw work (Used
#2 blades, Watco natural Danish oil finish & spray varnish.)
11. Ron Southard –
Elaborate bird house made by 6th, 7th,
& 8th grade
students who
participate in the after school program where he is an instructor. They
learn how to
use all of the tools in the shop. Ron also showed the pin nailer and brad nailer.
12. Bob Erickson –Photo
of “Gerard's memorial tree”, planted at Ryan Field. Shows the
P-38 airplane made by Ken
Tower
13. Bill Powers – Photo
of red oak wall shelf. (He decided to bring the photo instead of
the shelf, since it's hanging on their wall.) They applied wax
over the gel stain and it
changed the finish, so he'll have to refinish it.
FOR
SALE:
Terry
Glover --- Grizzly lathe (full size)
has pictures $550.00 (Will deliver)
Lee Augst --- Sharpening
stone, attachments, honing wheel, handbook &
instruction tape $250.00
Lee Augst --- Grizzly
dust collector - $50.00
---- Box joint jigs -
$15.00
---- Panel saws - $20.00
---- Air Stream with
battery pad - $35.00
(includes
magazine with instructions for making box joint frames)
Jim McKeown --- Popular
Mechanics magazines – Free
WOODWORKING
CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS:
Clem McLay told about a kit available for converting jigsaw from
pin blades to
straight blades.
MEETING
ADJOURNED AT 10:04 a.m.
DEMONSTRATION
BY Bill Powers -
18 TH CENTURY
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA.
Photo
presentation/slide show covering the workshop he attended there. The
city has been restored to exactly as it was in colonial
times, and is staffed by
people who are actually practicing the trades, with the same
tools as in that time
period. Showed many pieces of antique furniture that have been
saved, restored,
and/or in the process of being restored. Also showed craftsmen
making “new”
antique furniture, copying old pieces as patterns and using the
antique tools.
They stressed
the importance of woodworking.
The life and
economy of our country was created by our craftsmen.
Next month’s
demo will be presented by Ken Tower. Since he
received no suggestions
for a topic, it will be a surprise.
Cathy Addison, Secretary
NEXT MEETING SAT. May 1, 2009 at RAYTHEON WOODCHIPPERS CLUBHOUSE