AWA Virtual Meeting – Dec 8, 2020

7:00-8:00 (via Zoom)

IN ATTENDANCE

12 members, 1 guest

INTRO

Traditionally our Christmas meeting – with toys and cash donation for Salvation army
Encourage people to make our own donations

BUSINESS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS

Dues – are due – as indicated in the newsletter

Can pay by etransfer which will go to our new bank account –

Payments to  treasurer@atlanticwoodworkers.ca – will be redirected to Phil-  will allow you to make the deposits directly

Can also pay with cheque

 

LAST MONTH – talked about the virtual wood show –

Jean from WoodShows.ca contacted us about ways for local woodworking association trying to get more engaged

Offering access through new location called “Hopin” – through WoodShows.ca – our meeting and then have use to break out rooms that will be woodworking events that will be ongoing on Tues – Wed – Thurs nights

instead of Zoom on a different platform and then would have opportunity for presentations – free to organizations – can get free tickets through org (AWA registration) – there might be sponsorship info

Sounds ‘too good to be true’ – but seems that they want to support local groups.
Expect it to operate as long as COVID prevents in person meeting – if they do stop service we can come back to using zoom

Stephen – re Youtube

YouTube – first video on our channel – safety video based on the presentation that Stephen did last meeting

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdCfC76_wMGZxz6EvGAeU1g

Encourage members to participate  — ex putting on a video with limited tools

Speaker opportunity – related to YouTube

SHOW & TELL

Slide show with pictures sent in advance

December Show and Tell Slide Show

Bill Howes

• Always use Christmas giving for using scraps – daughter and grand daughter asked for charcuterier board
• Read somewhere that if you want to hide a bad join, use light wood and a dark wood and it doesn’t show up as well
• Tried out a bread board end – shown in second slide
• Finished with walnut oil
• Put them in clamps and then drilled pins and pounded them in
  Ques: What type of glue did you use –
• just a little wood glue on the tenons to allow as much movement as possibleBrad – like how it looks like board is smiling

 

Boot jacks – for my older friends – saw one in an antique store and figured I could make from scrap for a lot less $   — have a bunch at the front door and if they  want, give them one to take home

Brad- we appreciate them more as we get older
Stephen – is the cut flat to the surface

Comes in a little bit so works in an uneven surface – other foot on the heel makes the stability

Stephen – did you finish your ‘gout’ stool?  
Bill – didn’t get around to the upholstery

Mike Winslow

• Pasta drier – that can you can take apart to put it away, which was one of the requests
• Super easy to make – made a practice with 2×4
• bottom is an 1 ½ – if I was doing again – would not cut half and half with the dado
• Traditionally trough has to be finished at ?????? doing it again, would make it a little wider  at trough  – dowels are not in to well so won’t stay
• Wood is new guinea walnut – hard wood but relatively soft – really easy to work – sister brought home as trunk when working there
• (Mike has YouTube link)Maskoka chairs (not Adirondack chairs) — idea for displaying business cards
• 3/16 pine
• Paint –blue is the colour of new kitchen the yellow is craft paint
• Found plans on line full size so measured those and did a factor of it then found another with actual inches and scaled from there
• Have made full sized one before and this was probably as much work – actually the full size one maybe easier to assemble because can just screw them together – for these, you need to figure out order of operations and glue up

Brad

• Tea box – from curly red oak from Halifax Speciality –one of those cases when wood just catches your eye (like a puppy in a pet store) about 2 inches thick
• Actually wanted to cut something on my bandsaw
• Played with design on the top
• Put it on my FB page invited someone to make a donation to the Youth Project and someone quickly made a $200 donation and delivered this to them
• Shellac finish – no finish on the kumiko – left raw and put on rice paper background with white glue
• Length 2x width – around 8 x 4 finished – suede leather for base.

Chess Board – friend asked me to make as Christmas gift – wrote it down but forgot about it –

Maple and figured, curvy walnut – from a friend in Ontario who sent a box of off-cuts from his work at company making fancy doors

Sits in rebate in frame so a bit proud of surface – if I would do this again, would make the border wider so you could use it as a sort of shelf
how deep is rebate?     Probably 3/8

Stephen So in terms in process for board – individual squares or cut and mix
Cut and mix – feel too much margin of error for individual squares

Started new one with figured white oak and some zimpale (sp)

Veritas Shooting Plane
bought at seconds sale – this one has blemish but haven’t found it – it is left handed
Swore that I would never buy a shooting plane but was having strain on right arm from repetitive injury so got a left handed shooting plane to remove some of the strain

Stephen – how does it feel doing it left handed
Brad – expected it to be awkward but goes in a track and not too bad at all – has helped my right shoulder
Bill – is that skewed – yes slightly skewed but not sure of the angle – maybe in the order of 20 degrees

Seems to have required less sharpening -but perhaps because using my planes for multiple things

Trevor H – did you make the track – LV does sell veritas plane but I built mine – from Jajoba

Calum – show and tell – tool that just picked up – relatively simple handsaw – Stanley fat max series  – what I especially like is come with one handle – fine, medium and pruing blade – all three Japanese cutting pattern – made in France – simple to change the blades – no English on the – cheap saw that I can use outside – especially love the pruning blade – picked up at silver Sands on Main street  right next to Karen’s recycling– cheapest place to pick up fasteners – selling this saw for $15 and additional blades for $3 each  — still had some in stock when I was in there today – cuts on the push but the grind on the teeth is the Japanese pattern  – slides through easily with out gumming up – put lots of mileage on the pruning blade but haven’t used the fine or med yet

ANNOUNCEMENT – from Jules
Could do a talk on staying free of microbes in any country – so will throw that out there for anyone who would like to learn more – could give you a few tips about the best way to keep

If you are sharing or donating toys or other donations please consider Wholesome play  (contact Jules)

 

Happy Holidays – Merry Christmas

NEXT MEETING
January 12, 2021