It’s November already, and our “first Thursday of the month” meeting will be this Thursday, November 5, in the Woodcraft classroom, 7-9 pm. As usual, Woodcraft offers members a 10% discount on most items on the day of the meeting

Curtis Turner and Mark Wells will be teaming up to discuss the goal of sharpening planes and chisels (and other straight sharp things) - things like hollow grind, bevel angles, secondary bevels, and those mysterious terms. Then they will offer two different techniques for honing - getting the final edge - on the properly shaped blade. If you want to see how well they do, bring your own band aids.

Be sure to bring your show and tell.

The December 3 meeting will be on legs, including how to carve legs if you aren’t a skilled carver, and other types of legs that you might incorporate in various furniture projects.

This is the list of potential topics for future meetings… please add to the list, and perhaps offer to do all or part of the program on one of these topics. If you don’t like some of the topics, let me know, and perhaps we will remove it.

• Turning spindles - lathe demo - if you don’t have a lathe, you world is square!
• Sharpening tools other than flat plane irons and chisels, such as turning and carving gouges, including discussion of grinders
• Veneering - at least simple stuff
• Finishing, including water based finishes, and rubbing out a film finish (satin, semi-gloss, gloss, grand piano)
• Staining and dying
• Tuning a bandsaw for curves and resawing
• Turning bowls - another lathe demo. Bowls are fun since many projects can be completed in less than an hour!
• Types of planes, and tuning a hand plane
• Choosing a sander or sanders (the power kind)

See you Thursday evening