Total number of attendees: 14
- Jim (President) opened the meeting at 7:41pm
- Dave Potts (Finance)
- $4,370.49 in treasury
- Jim Parise spoke about Center for Art in Wood (Philadelphia, PA)
- Jim was less than impressed with Center for Art in Wood, in terms of woodworking
- A lot of turned items or “mangle boards”
- The demo on coopering was not very impressive. He arranged items/sculpted items, but the barrel was really just decorative
- Lathe work was good
- Whiskey was very good
- Parking was ample
- Rita gave a presentation on wood tool for making lace (Pic 1 & 2)
- Art teacher in Russia before she came here
- Introduced to lace making guild – they had problem finding good tools
- She had woodworking knowledge from her grandfather
- Shell inlays, made of veneer
- Steam & glue together
- Bend them with clamps
- Take carving knife and carve inlay on it
- Struggling with finishing the tools
- General discussion on ways to do build process by group
- Suggestion was made to use TransTint aniline dye
- Art talked about Hearne Hardwood in Oxford PA (southwest of Philadelphia) (pic 3)
- Open house Sep 29th & 30th
- Big bandsaw will run (the one they bought from the US Navy yard)
- Lots of wood species to buy
- Contact Jim if you’d like to carpool
- Kevin showed pictures of his training class at the Woodwright’s School in Pittsboro NC (pic 4)
- School is in Pittsboro NC (near Raleigh)
- Class was 3 days, and you learned to take beech blank and make a fully functional molding plane (Kevin made a cove plane)
- First 2 days you are shaping the plane (cutting profile & scraping it to shape, cutting mortise, shaping the wedge, refining it)
- Day 3 you are tempering, shaping and hardening the iron, before sharpening it
- By end, you are cutting profiles in wood trim with your new plane
- Excellent experience. You could come away from the class and start making multiple molding planes as you move forward on it
- Mark talked about sharpening of draw knife (pic 5)
- Jig was created to sharpen one side, back & forth
- Second edge of jig cuts the exact angle you need on the one side
- Variety of diamond and sand paper sharpening edges
- Benchmade is making them, based on Galbreth’s design
- Jim was asking for folks to do demo on sharpening scrapers
- Tom Calistereo will bring boat and do presentation for class (25 ft canoe)
- Next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 6th at 7:15pm
- Meeting concluded at 8:43pm
