January 2, 2020

Total # of Attendees: 31

Notes:

  1. Jim opened the meeting at 7:45 PM.

  2. Justin (new attendee)

    1. Worked for electrical utility, loves working with his hands

    2. Welding, engraving, woodworking

    3. Searching for folks with knowledge we can share

    4. Working out of Coop in Philly

  3. Mark (new attendee)

    1. Recently retired

    2. Haven’t touched woodwork in 10 years, so wanted to reach out and learn from folks

    3. Found us online (not sure where)

  4. William made a nice sitting slider he made that he wanted to auction off with the proceeds for the chapter

    1. Recycled leather top from couch

    2. Used a jig to make the pieces

    3. Mortise and tenon construction

    4. Cloud lift curve on Greene and Greene furniture

    5. William spent a lot of time demonstrating how to layout the cloud lift

  5. Upcoming Shows in area

    1. Baltimore Woodworking show this weekend (Jan 3-5)

    2. Lie Nielsen event at Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia (Feb 28-29)

    3. New Jersey Woodworking show in Secaucus, NJ (Mar 6-8)

    4. Fine Woodworking Live event –Southbridge, MA (Apr 17-19)

  6. Tool auction

    1. Mark Showers ran the auction again this year (thank you!)

    2. Saw blades were selling well

    3. A whole table full of braces – started out

    4. Mark pushed the braces – not many takers

    5. Salman “bought” a lot of items by accidentally raising his hands and sometimes by not doing anything

    6. Club asks for 10% of the proceeds from each sale

    7. People put in price ticket

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

    9. A lot of money raised for the Guild, and hopefully folks got tools they needed

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

  8. The meeting concluded at 9:03 PM.