June 6, 2024

Attendees: 30

 

  1. Welcome (President) – 1 minute

    1. Some folks ate at Iron Hill at 4 PM, some going over after meeting

    2. Welcome to new folks

    3. Some discussion on what to do with large numbers

  2. Treasurer (Brad) – 7 minutes

    1. Membership at 49 people

    2. Ran out of tags and lanyards. More on order

    3. Treasurer’s report (money in account, number of members) – roughly $3300 in account

  3. New Members; give us your name, home town, woodworking interests, questions/challenges, and what are they looking for? – 10 minutes

    1. Gary Peterson, Elmer, 15 months retired from work, daughter wanted me to be plugged in with other woodworkers

    2. Mike, doing craft shows with wife, wanted to get into woodworking to do stuff at shows, making charcuterie boards, whiskey boards, etc.

    3. Jeff, owns Lucky Nelson’s, a sawmill on Lenola Road in Moorestown, does cutting boards, slabs, etc.

    4. Bob, invited by Mike at local craft show. Builder, carpenter, did craft shows up and down the east coast. Retired now. Craft shows, boxes, etc.

  4. Old Business – 5 minutes

    1. Winterthur Trip in May

      1. Introduced to library for research

      2. Chair making library, both on site and on line

      3. Dominy shop, shop with hand tools in late 18th/early 19th century

      4. Main House, 175 rooms of early American furniture, different rooms, different periods

      5. Accommodating to woodworkers

    2. Next meeting, Thursday July 4th. Do we skip or move the meeting?

      1. Plan is to move meeting to July 11th @6 PM

      2. This was discussed at the last meeting, also, and is already on the web site

    3. Hearne Hardwood (Sat, Oct 5th) Hearne Hardwoods trip

      1. Kevin Drevik will be bringing a large van so folks can purchase wood and bring home

      2. William in the past had set up benches with folks and done demos

      3. Other providers will be there. Look at Hearne hardwood website for updates

  5. Presentation 1: Rockler Services

    1. Slab Flattening, Two sizes, small and large

    2. Smaller one is $199

      1. Allows you to setup on 2’ x 4’ plywood flat surface

      2. Special bits for flattening

      3. 18” capacity

      4. Side rails, router rides along it, goes back and forth to flatten slab

    3. Larger one needs 4x8’ plywood flat surface

      1. 28” width

      2. Same setup, longer rails, wider surfacing

    4. Uses

      1. End grain cutting boards – can’t run through planer

      2. Jointer for wide items

      3. Slab flattening

    5. Demo its use

      1. Fairly quiet router. Shop vac attachment for jig (sold separately)

      2. Don’t try to take more than 1/8” depth. Width of cutter is 1-1/2” and you cut about half cutter width at a time (3/4”)

      3. Using 3-1/4” HP routers for big table

  6. Presentation 2: Lucky Nelson’s slab service

    1. Sawmill on Lenola Road, 5 minutes from Rockler store

    2. Live edge, chainsaw mill. Then bought a Woodmizer, portable bandsaw mill, doing jobs immediately

    3. Makeshift kiln, works well

    4. Offers kiln services, live edge slabs, flattening services, planning, etc.

    5. Sells mostly domestic hardwoods, mills logs and also gets wood from domestic providers

    6. Goes to people’s homes, cuts down logs into lumber. A lot of red oak and soft maple

  7. Break (Coffee, Shopping, etc) – 15 minutes

  8. Members Forum – 20 minutes

    1. Question on Harvey tablesaw, clone of Sawstop. Some people believe they are Chinese knock off, but quality is good

    2. Mike and Tony talked about Peter’s Valley in upstate New Jersey

      1. Nonprofit near Delaware Water gap

      2. Offer instruction of a variety of crafts (textiles, jewelry, blacksmithing, woodworking, etc.)

      3. Extraordinary speakers (Tage Frid, Sam Maloof, etc)

      4. Dovetail classes, etc.

      5. You stay on site

    3. Dave Potts demo’d a square awl. Described the “birdcage awl” used originally to make birdcages. By twisting in hole, it will bore a hole

    4. Traditional small craft association. Meet in union lake in Millville, with nice wooden boats.

    5. Ray said he will be putting up lathe for sale, as he is done turning.

      1. Suggest look online for comparable prices

      2. Possibly share info with the turners’ guild

    6. Wayne brought small hand planes to chamfer edges

      1. Also showed smoothing plane

      2. Lives in Collingswood

      3. Would like for folks to help set them up and try them out

      4. Some discussion on how to setup, is it sharp, etc.

  9. Question on Japanese joinery, Kumiko, etc.: Toshio Idaki

  10. New Business – 5 minutes

    1. Brought in a 10” chop saw from neighbor. Neighbor asking for $25 for it

    2. Next meeting, Thursday, July 11th at 6 PM

  11. Meeting Closed at 7:50 PM