February 2, 2017 — Woodworkers' Guild of South Jersey

Total # of Attendees: 18

Notes:

Jim (President) opened the meeting at 7:23pm
Planned speaker never called back (from Philly furniture show) so no speaker tonight
New folks:
1. Chris: Chris has been coming since November, so we welcomed him again
Dave Potts (Finance)
1. Paid up
2. $4,120.46 in treasury, with checks tonight gets us around $4,700
Upcoming events
1. Feb 10-11, Lee Nielsen in Philadelphia, Independence Seaport https://www.lie-nielsen.com/hand-tool-events/USA/103. Dave talked about potential parking at the Seaport
2. Woodworking Show Feb 17-19th in Somerset, NJ http://www.thewoodworkingshows.com/somerset.html
John brought up his Jefferson lap desks (two of them) (pic 1)
1. From article in fine woodworking. Plans aren’t much good
2. Top folds out for large desk (covered with felt)
3. Drawer pulls out from side to hold writing materials (pen, ink, paper, etc.)
4. Use slotted holes for dowels on breadboard ends
5. Slots for the stand to fold into
6. Polyurethane finish
7. John said he would offer the plans & info for free if you’d like
Tony talked about his true-divided light chest of drawers (pic 3)
1. Create half-laps for the mullions, using the tablesaw and dado blade
2. Blade was angled with regular blade
3. Then rabbeted it
Greg made Box for his niece for graduation (pic 2)
1. Wife liked it, so he scaled it down for a Christmas present
2. Woodcraft was base plan, but
3. Epee and figured maple
4. Took base plan and reduced by 1/3
5. Finish was quick (up Christmas eve) so laquer finish
Chris created a shadow box (a lot of time using for people retiring) (pic 4)
1. Put stuff folks used for their career (flags, medals, etc.) for them to remember
2. We had guy retiring from shop
3. Maple with base and splines of walnut
4. 45 degree corners with splines
5. Chopsaw for the 45 degree edges, then tablesaw for splines
6. Plan to finish with 3 coats of tung oil
Jim talked about some videos online for sharpening with Norm, GuitarWorks, and safety video. He will send out links
Mike talked about Triton
1. Australian company getting into US. They have a good reputation
2. Got track saw, sharpener, and dowelmax (similar to Festool Domino)
3. Brian will have these items in our tool library. Items up for grabs
Ken Lehr is an original member of the guild, and back in the hospital again. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers
Jim demonstrated the Triton sharpener (similar to the Tormek)
1. Doesn’t spray much water
2. Water level fill up, but then you’ll have to refill, because the stone sucks up the water to start
3. Use jig to hold tool, then use marker to set angle/height of jig
4. Once you get adjusted right, turn on and run blade over stone evenly
Meeting broke up into smaller discussions of woodworking topics and projects
Next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Mar 2nd at 7:15pm
Meeting concluded at 8:44pm