February 5, 2026

Number of Attendees: 37

 

Notes:

  • Salman opened meeting at 6:07 PM

  • Treasurer’s report: 28 paid members, $3246 in account

  • Speaker: Ricky Tamburo, Victorian Screen Doors

    • Victoriana East, Merchantville

    • Friend needed help, asked him to come. Before he knew it, they had a crew and he had a good business

    • Started off making simple brackets and screen door, neighbor liked it, then down the street. Business just grew as he built doors                                                                                                                

    • Firehouse in Pennsauken, lots of Victorian trim, then windows, doors, shutters,

    • Did a lot of work in Haddonfield. Five blocks, he has almost everything house has one thing on it

    • Running a two-man shop. One person doing the measure, design & install, one person in shop doing the build

    • Doors are 3-1/2” stiles, rails are 3-1/2” or 7” on bottom. Locksets need 3-1/2.” Mortise & tenon joinery (he uses mortise machine instead of domino – already set up)

    • Yellow pine mostly, but white pine for the brackets

    • A lot of replication. Get existing work and try to build up and scrollsaw similar item

    • Niches out there

    • Glass is South Jersey Glass, tempered glass is Jersey Tempered

    • When scroll sawing, get correct blade to have clean cut. He also uses the 3M pads to clean up if that doesn’t work completely

  • Break

  • Salman introduce the board members

  • New Folks

    1. Carl C. Mueller

                                                    i.     Showed his stool. First piece he made

                                                   ii.     Trained at Philly college of arts

                                                  iii.     Resident Woodworker, professional, sold his stool design

                                                  iv.     Stool fed family for 5 years

                                                   v.     Guest Speaker for March

    1. Alex

                                                    i.     Into woodburning,

                                                   ii.     Showed what he did. Wondering if there is any place that could split the wood

                                                  iii.     Combat veteran; PTSD messing with life, took wood pieces (both sides) to work through it

    • Rob Kurwen

                                                    i.     Small home improvement business

                                                   ii.     Started woodworking in grammar school

  • Stool challenge (Rich)

    1. January showed the various stools; Folks discuss their schools and challenges

    2. Frank

                                                    i.     Used smaller lengths to turn, and put tenon in it, so he could turn easier

                                                   ii.     Woodsmith magazine plane

    • Raymond’s scrap wood stool

                                                    i.     Wanted to do three stretchers, but ran out of time

                                                   ii.     Got 3/8 x 3/8, clamped across, then with a 5/8 forstner bit as a guide and hand drilled the three legs

    • John Owen’s garden stool

                                                    i.     Wood is from vegetable stand

                                                   ii.     Glued two pieces of pine together, then dished out like a Windsor chair

                                                  iii.     Spokeshave on front to contour it

    • Dave Potts 2 did a stool sample (ha ha) a bunch of small 3D-printed stools

    • Rob

                                                    i.     Used 2x4s for the whole project

                                                   ii.     Did angle according to rule, but he thinks it needs to be bigger angle to be stable

    • Harry

                                                    i.     Tallest stool.

                                                   ii.     Lets from logs that had been in shop for a while

                                                  iii.     Not confident of cutting tenons, so he turned them, drilled holes in base

    • Carl

                                                    i.     Inspired by Esherick, designed in 1968

                                                   ii.     Made in large batches. Originally for $35/each back in the 1960s. Now selling for $4K!

                                                  iii.     Not sure how many hundreds he made

    • Rich

                                                    i.     Esherick inspired

                                                   ii.     All wood came from pallet, walnut and cherry

                                                  iii.     All hand tools (spokeshave, including spindles)

                                                  iv.     Tenon’s wedged inside

    • Next challenge will be functional piece of art -used daily life, but artistic - April 

  • Brad stated we still need a volunteer to purchase food for next meeting. Please contact Mike.

  • Voting on adding “at large” to board. Proposal is to change guild guidelines from “2 at large board members” to “at least 2 at large board members.

  • Next Meeting, Rockler, March 5th @7 PM

  • Salman closed meeting out at 8:40 PM