November 7, 2019

Total # of Attendees: 26

Notes:

  1. Jim opened the meeting at 7:25 PM.

  2. First order of business is the annual Holiday party (early December)

    1. Jim’s Nephew opened a brewery in Westville.

    2. Don’t have food, but you can order in food from the local area

    3. Jim will see if we can get it for the whole site

    4. Group voted and decided to go with normal restaurant

  3. Tool auction (January 2nd meeting)

    1. Club asks for 10%

    2. People put in price ticket

    3. Great opportunity to pick up some tools that folks have sitting in their shop that aren’t being used

  4. New folks: Chet

    1. Been working with wood since he was 18. Good overview of swinging a hammer

    2. Getting more serious about making “Morris street maker” on Instagram

  5. New folks: Greg

    1. Carpenter, 30 years; done woodworking on side (stuff for family and friends)

    2. Curved desk, cabinets. Building a vanity right now

    3. Just built a Roubo workbench

  6. New Folks: Gianna

    1. Student at college of NJ

    2. Working on building a water screen with a wooden frame

    3. Wants to meet more people with skills

  7. Lauren presented

    1. Business “HonorableOak” in Philadelphia

    2. Master’s in Fine Art

    3. Originally came from Pittsburgh, moved to Ohio, Pittsburgh, and finally at Temple University

    4. Met Mike in Haddonfield crafts fair

    5. Passed out timeline/pictures of work that she has done

    6. Made lamppost, wooden cutouts, three-story items

    7. Refurbished table with granite top, cleaned up legs, frames and moldings

    8. Worked with Urban Outfitters, eventually got to their home office (Navy yard in Philly)

    9. Urban Outfitters have shops in all their stores – so the fixtures in the store are made there, and used for sales (if successful, they’d reuse them)

    10. A lot of good info on building store fixtures, how to retrofit/add to them, or re-use them

    11. One of the key points is to build them as modular pieces, so they can be re-used, mixed and matched, and re-purposed

    12. Leaves items glued up and in clamps for 24 hours to help the glue cure and to reduce warping

    13. Use Walnut oil and wax for finishing, rather than just mineral oil

    14. Also makes earrings out of scrap wood. Uses jig to cut tiny parts.

    15. Does craft fairs and Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/HonorableOak

    16. Uses a lunchbox DeWalt planer to flatten, then sand down to at least 400 grit

    17. 88% of her customers who took her business card at craft fair, or through recommendations. Smaller percentage are from folks straight from Etsy

  8. William showed his magazine rack – mortise and tenon,

    1. Angled pieces, kind of arts and crafts

    2. Red Oak 1x6’s

  9. Gianna talked more about her projects

    1. Showed small scale version of what she is trying to build on her phone

    2. Trying to make it modular so she can commute to school

    3. Doesn’t need it to last more than 5 hours, but would like to keep it beyond – due to the show

  10. Dave Potts gave treasurer’s report: $1,788.87 remaining in account.

  11. Looking for a good speaker in Jan or Feb

  12. Next Meeting will be the dinner meeting with members and family/friends. Date TBD

  13. The meeting concluded at 9:03 PM.