2020-10-13 Monthly Meeting – going virtual

Call to order at 07:12

Attending
Brad Holley (host/ chair), ME O’Toole (notes) , Trevor Edis, Bill Howe, , Jules, Ted Monk, Stephen Parsons (carving in the workshop), David Schlosberg, Don Shubaly, Mike Winslow

ZOOM Intro

Our default is microphone on mute

If you want to share something or ask question

• It’s a small group so speak up – or wave your hand if you have camera on
• Raise your hand with option found under Participants below the speaker image

AGENDA

• new meeting structure
• some of the plans for the year
• show and tell
• scheduled one hour 7:00-8:00 for now and review

NEW BUSINESS

We will plan for virtual meetings for this calendar year

Focus on continuing to encourage / invite members to do show and tell and presentations

We have opportunity to share videos and pictures and have a few people available to support if members want to share or present but like to have some tech help

Board has started to explore outside presenters including some known YouTube presenters.  Some of these might have a fee for participation with possibility of offering to non-members at higher fee

Meetings will evolve as we look at new options and get feedback.

Plan is that membership fees will remain the same to cover expenses and, hopefully, some extra presentation opportunities.  Memberships are due.  Updates on payment options to follow by next meeting.

Questions?

David – Since we are not paying rent, why are the fees the same?

Response: There are small fees for rent (library) plus things like domain and website fees and membership has been down so hoping to maintain minimum balances.  There will be another chance to discuss after review of financial records and membership numbers.  Meanwhile,  The program committee continuing to reach out and add benefits and engagement opportunities .  Fees have remained same for years without increase so want to keep try to keep adding value to meetings for the year. 

 

UPDATE ON AWA ONLINE

Facebook Page – (@AtlanticWoodworkers) – would like to get more activity  and invite members  to visit and post — Stephen developing YouTube channel as additional optioin

There will continue to be challenges for making

 

YouTube Channel (Stephen)
Waiting for response from Google by mail as required validation plus confirmation of standards for not-for-profit then will be able to look at registering with Tech Soup, which focuses mainly on charitable organizations but has some limited supports for not-for-profit associations

https://www.techsoupcanada.ca/

We’ll start on YouTube with some content including some tips on video and who can help

Stephen willing to come to your shop to record a demo if you want to get some support

We’ll do intro for basic tools and techniques and then another video with more advanced tools

We do have some tools for editing

Have a possibility for recording these meetings for sharing  but probably limited interest in viewing meeting portion so we’d start with recording of any presentations or show and tell with more detail – no recording or sharing without authorization of the presenters in either case.

The plan is to build some content maybe starting with how to prep simple videos for sharing by members

We can do public, private (requiring password) or some combination.  Initially probably members only but potential to make a public channel to use to recruitment

Trevor has some experience and tools to support YouTube conent

Channel is available now for uploading but waiting for the next step in registration from Google – to know when we ill start to have content.

Stephen will coordinate and is willing to record shop tour, demo or any presentations if people want tech support.  Stephen says he is eager to see what other people are doing and more than happy to do shop visits.

Challenges and Program

Don reports that he will be updating challenges and inviting presentations from members and others, perhaps YouTube stars.

We will get challenges on website and social media.

More info at next meeting.

 

Other Woodworking news – Virtual Woodshow in Nov

https://woodshows.com/

Show & Tell

20201013-Show and tell (Pdf)

Don Shubaly

• first photo taken from Pinterest and was inspiration for this project – made from parts of a barrel — last summer dragged a barrel out from underneath my deck – that was used for making ‘swish’ and was still dry and clear – lot of nice oak in it and didn’t want to let it go
• Took it apart and neglected to number so would fit together so took more effort than necessary
• Getting the top flat was the biggest challenge

 

• Have taken a series of photos for a more detailed presentation about the project in the future.
• All the black is all the burnt piece of wood so decided to shellac everything to keep the charcoal from getting on everything.
• Have added round glass top
• Inside of the barrel was light – inside was where the dark wood was because of the roasting
• Chose to leave it unstained on the top.
• used pocket screws on stretchers to attach to the legs – found to be a good way to go – all staves are curved so offers some challenges.

QUESTION: What are the dimensions of the table

Side table – not 24″tall  – probably 20-22′ diameter – had to cut it back a little because not round by they point

Watch for Don’s more detailed presentation at a future meeting.

Bill Howes

• last of a set of 8 of dining table chairs for son
• Had some extra time so decided to make this one an arm chair – which became complicated as hadn’t drilled holes of the chair in advance for the arms
• When made arm chairs before, couldn’t get them symmetrical for comfort so wanted to try something different
• Next pictures you can see:
• Put in temp arm and added the angle to match — any angle can made into an angle and a slack – make a plum then creating a sighting angle – which means you then have only one angle that you need to deal with
• Use a taper angle scraper to refine the hole that you are creating
• Seat is butternut, spindles are ash, legs are birch

 

One of my COVID projects was putting in a paddle switch on table saw – easier to control when you are working on a project  – can see that in one picture – made a big difference for a project like this

QUESTION Where do you get butternut?

Have friend in Ontario has wood lot – can’t cut butternut any more unless dead or dying?

QUESTION Grain orientation of the seat – do you know reasoning for the direction?

Depends largely on the piece of wood that you have  and there are different seat shapes so might see different grain direction on different styles

Brad Holley

• Carver’s mallets – Katalox (Mexican ebony), Bocote w/ teak
  • Both very dense – weigh at least 1lb each
• Jointer restoration 8” Delta DJ-20 jointer (parallelogram)
  • New bushings, pulley, mobile base, spray paint
  • Dust collection needs some work
• Danish Chair Inspired by Thos Moser “Fahmida” chair
• Ash, pinned mortise and tenon
• Still in progress