August 1, 2024

  1. Welcome (President)

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

    2. Welcome to new folks

  2. Treasurer (Brad)

    1. Brad not here, taking care of sister’s estate

  3. New Members (Give us your name, home town, woodworking interests, questions/challenges, and what are they looking for?

    1. Carl Kraven:

      1. Moved to NJ 9 years ago

      2. Make a little bit of everything. Tools in storage got wet, so rebuilding

  4. 4.    Old Business – 5 Min

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

      1. Trip will be Saturday

      2. Intent is to rent a van/bus. Will meet at Rockler at 8:00 AM

      3. Cost is roughly $40 a person for bus and driver to go out and bring back

      4. Steve will take money up front at September meeting for those intending to go.

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

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

  5. Presentation 1/Act 1: Hand Planes

    1. Survival and Extinction

    2. Plane is a blade of some sort, held in place by a carriage of some sort to create a repeatable cut

    3. Wood planes shown. They aren’t garbage, they are often better than the metal Stanley planes for doing specific work (like scrub plane, etc.)

    4. Showed transition planes next – the step between wood planes and all-metal planes

    5. Showed infill planes with metal bodies but wood interior. Quality is very good for these.

    6. Stanley was main producer at the turn of the century of all-metal planes.

    7. In 1919 Stanley tools merged with Stanley tool and die, and started creating “Sweetheart Planes” – highest quality they produced

    8. During/after World War 2 – steel was in high demand, workers were drafted, so quality went down and stayed down

    9. Big manufacturers did product molding planes, but Stanleys #45 and #55 were big ones they tried to use to supersede the wooden ones.

    10. Showed metal rebate planes

    11. Explained the Stanley numbering system

  6. Break (Coffee, Shopping, etc)

  7. Presentation 1/Act 2:

    1. Also showed a variety of other planes, often not useful (block plane, rebate plane, etc.)

    2. Some planes have different angles for the blades (50 degrees, 55 degrees) for difficult grain. Don’t really need these, in his opinion. Just learn how to sharpen

    3. More discussion on various hand planes and hand tools, and how to use them

    4. Discussion of Lie Nielsen, Lee valley and Clifton plane makers. High quality. He prefers Lie Nielsen.

    5. Some discussion on Japanese “pull style” planes. Extremely sharp.

    6. He sharpens from 600 up to 1500

  8. Members Forum

    1. Bob brought in some samples of his work

    2. Inlay carving with tools, including shaper origin

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

  9. New Business

    1. Next meeting, Thursday, September 5th at 6 PM. Doug will do a handle turning demo

  10. Meeting Closed at 7:40 PM