Villages Woodworker’s Club Meeting
7 p.m. Laurel Manor
The
meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by Charlie Shark. The membership said
the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
Charlie
welcomed 1 new member, visitors, and all members who braved the
thunderstorms.
As
of yesterday afternoon, we had 670 paid members for 2008. We have had 19 new members during ‘08, and 29
members were trained. You can sign up at
the back for monitor duty. See Max
Bohnstedt or Anne Bell at the shop if you prefer to sign up as a Greeter.
We
need more office staff volunteers to assist with front desk duties. We need volunteers to act as Monitor
Trainers; we have 4 but would prefer 8 to cover overlap times. The program helps reduce accidents. We also need volunteers to work in the tool
crib area; this is a sit down job if you can’t take long periods of
standing. See Charlie at the present
time.
Certification/Training – Paul Greene – I want to mention we had
our 2nd accident investigation since we opened. Both incidents were on the 8” jointer, facing
a board without using a pressure safety gripper on the out table and using
fingers over the blade. We need to be
careful with using this machine, and use the safety holders provided.
We
also need additional assistance with running our certification program. If the shop is not up and running on Thursday
we will run a mock session, training with no actual cutting of wood.
Safety - Paul Greene for Jerry Dederich – Wayne Hendricks will work
with Jerry on developing our Safety Program.
Note: Our Rocking Horse is displayed at the
back. We are raffling off the Rocking
Horse to raise money for Toys, etc. Feel
free to buy tickets and assist in selling.
See Grumpy Landers for tickets.
Parking Area expansion: We have considered an entrance and exit to
facilitate traffic flow; however our existing entrance is already too close to
the intersection at present. We will
develop a plan using grass on both sides of the parking lot, and we’ll try to
mark flow, etc., to expand parking. We
have considered gravel over the grassed area we will use as parking; however,
there are conflicting thoughts on this at the present. We may also get a hard surface golf cart path
in the future. The Villages may have to
expand the RV area and would remove the waste site. If so, they will work a hard surface golf
cart access to us at that time.
Shop Administration – Dave Adamovich - Too bad it’s a small
crowd. Our vacuum system, hopefully,
will be up tomorrow. Mike Nedler &
John Mills will be at the shop and should figure out the problems and what we
need to improve the system. Table saws: We have 3 nice saws, but since we seem to
have lots of people who don’t know the difference between blades I have brought
examples. 1) Cross cut blade, lots of
little shallow teeth. It should not be
used to rip lumber - you will ruin the blade and it will not cut properly
after. It also leaves burn marks, etc.
on your wood. If your wood doesn’t cut
right, you are doing something wrong or the blade is dull. Ask for help.
2) Rip blade, designed to go through quickly and efficiently, and much
safer. It has fewer deep blades. 3) Combo does some of each; neither perfect
but a good alternative for the shop. A
Cross cut blade is generally left in the Powermatic. The Deltas have a combo blade so use them for
ripping. If you are doing heavy ripping,
change the blade or get help!
Suggestions: load combo on all; put signs on which blade
is in. Our current blade set-up
seems to work well. Chuck has an
instructor for a table saw course. Bob
Ledenican is redoing all our signs in a professional type manner.
Question: What is the life of our vacuum system? Hopefully a lifetime, forever with
maintenance! But filters only last two
years, and are costly to replace.
We
have a Safety concern in our lumber storage area – lumber piled in center and
against the wall must be secure, not hanging over the edges. We had an incident where a few boards fell
when someone tried to pull his off the pile; other boards were not stored
properly.
Suggestion: Padlock broken machine until repaired. We use the stop sign, placed in a conspicuous
spot, and notify monitors to complete the written notes.
Education - Chuck Heise – We have classes starting
up now. We have a list at the back
table. We’re running a little behind as
we are making changes that will improve the future implementation. We met with the Turners to help plan courses
and expand the instructor pool. We’re
looking to start full swing in September and get enough people together so that
we can have a system with classes running continuously. All courses will be listed so people can look
forward several months ahead to sign up.
Also, we’re looking to start some single specific classes on individual
stationary equipment. These classes will
help expand knowledge, safe operation, and hopefully reduce maintenance. If you are interested in assisting with a
particular tool, we will develop a lesson plan and train you so you can run
classes easily; and classes will be consistent.
We
are organizing a trip to the Seminole Fairgrounds Annual Woodworking Show in
6
pm. The cost would be $14 for the bus
trip plus admission. We need 46 people,
and we are accepting sign-up and payment by check at the office. If we do not have enough interest, the trip
will be cancelled and checks returned uncashed.
Toys – Don Young - 300 toys
were boxed in January, and we have a couple hundred in process. We are doing 20 different items at this
time. There is lots of work to do so we
always welcome volunteers. We are
usually there from 8:30 to noon if you want to get started.
Woodturners Group –
Herb Faust - The Lathe area is exciting and busy. Our small lathes are getting good use. Our large chucks (100 mm) have been expanded
too far again. There are charts on the
wall showing what is recommended. When over-extending,
it is very dangerous. Steel can fly, and
the strength of hold on your piece is reduced.
Break
at 7:30 pm until 7:40 pm.
Show & Tell (pictures posted on the Web site)
Herb
Faust – Toothpick dispenser, plan provided by Murry,
so he went and made one. Trick is
fitting the cup properly. Then I
remembered the old soda fountains, and decided to make the Straw dispenser with
blood wood highlights. Fun projects.
Ray
Roberts – One vessel with natural
voids; one vessel with natural edge and voids.
Both are made from the same piece of Juniper but the sapwood was
different colors. Both were turned green,
and finished with Behlen clear finish (a tung oil) which dries nice and shiny.
Jim
Wicker – Segmented bowl. His second attempt as the first one blew
up. Cherry finished with tung oil. Segmenting gets easier after the first time.
Jack
Hopkins - Cigar and slim line
pens. Has been turning for awhile, but
still learning. The slim line one was
made of scraps. He will be doing a demo
next Tuesday at the Turners’ Meeting.
Ron
Gammon - mirage and maple bowl. Mirage all done with mirrors—looks like it
has a lid but it is just a reflection.
The bowl was a blank picked up at the Symposium auction that turned out
to be birdseye maple. Looked like junk
wood and planned to play until he saw the birdseye so plan changed. Pretty wood, fluted.
Wayne
Hendricks – Carving of cow
“Buttercup”. Caricature—tries to work
outside the box. Horns are laminated or
would break off all the time. He’s going
to go through a design process for other members, starting with a clay mock up
and work from there.
Dick
Brady – pens. One of Jack’s students. Wanted to learn to turn pens and with Jack’s
help made two cigar pens. Now his wife
has ordered some for the entire family, so he is no longer retired! Finished with friction polish.
Ray
Jusick – Footstool. Brought a different design previously, this
one modified with hearts for a Valentine gift.
It is a basic beginner project.
Fun to make.
50/50: The 50/50
raffle brought in $ 30 for the club. There were 3 drawings of $10 each.
Members
& Guests in Attendance: 40 (down due to thunderstorms)
Meeting
adjourned at 8:03 p.m.
Next
meeting on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, 7 p.m., at Laurel Manor.
B.
Clake
For
Heather Sawyer, Secretary