New members Richard Salmon, Jim Perry, Wally Kornejey (?) were introduced and welcomed.
Kenneth Blum of Brenham announced a sale of interesting wood at bargain prices. Charlie promised to distribute the list to the members by email.
Peter Clarke, who did a show and tell about segmented turning last meeting, demonstrated (and donated) a table saw jig to enable the cutting of segments for segmented bowl turning, and a brief tutorial on the techniques. Peter also gave the club tutorials with commentary and photographs on how to make the jig and the turnings and suggested that the club could set up a library which could be used for future access by members. Several commented that it would be a good addition to the web site.
Club vice president and program director Terry Hall asked members for ideas and suggestions on future programs for the club.
The members were informed that Curtis Turner will present a class on hand planes on Friday June 5 2009 at the Woodcraft Store from 1:00-4:00 p.m. and a class on turning a mallet on Tuesday June 9th at the same location. Curtis has also volunteered to present a class to the members on wood turning at some future date.
Continuing the program of the last year on the building of a lingerie chest, presentations and demos were made on carcase construction techniques.
- Jerry Davis - The Festool Domino and loose tenon joinery
- Michael Mall - Sliding dovetails>
- John Parkinson - Full-blind multiple spline joint
- Susan Morgan - Stopped dado>
- Terry Hall - Pocket screw hole jig
Bill McCaffrey discussed the pros and cons of various sharpening stones, techniques and jigs that can be used to hone that perfect edge, and offered to share the notes from his inlay and box making class.
Show and tell -
Lee Laird - brought in a Japanese hammer that he’d made a new birds eye maple shaft for.
Brandon Berdoll - presented a slide show chronicling the conversion of a very large pecan tree into workable lumber, including the building a chain saw mill to handle cuts up to 8 feet wide (the chain saw bar is 96 inches long).
