AWA Meeting Minutes
Nov 8, 2016 – South End Baptist Church, 60 Hastings Drive, Dartmouth
19 members and guests in attendance
Meeting called to order at 7:00.
Business & Reminders
- Our meetings will move to North Woodside Community Centre on Pleasant St starting in Jan
- Reminder that Dec meeting at Lee Valley will begin at 6:30
- The library will have to be moved on a weekday – Gary has list of volunteers that he will contact to coordinate a moving date
Member Presentation
Phil Carter spoke about his son Murray’s knife making history and processes. It was very interesting and left us all wanting one of Murray’s signature knives – I’m partial to the neck knife myself. Learn more at Carter Cutlery on YouTube
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- Phil Carter speaking about his son Murray and Carter Cutlery
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- a custom neck knife
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- Beautiful work… pictures don’t do them justice
Sign up for newsletters or new product on CarterCultery.com and they will send free sharpening material. Books with articles about Murray – Bladesmithing, Blade magazine Guide to Making Knives.
Show and Share
- Our challenge for this month was to use a new tool or technique, or an old tool a new way
- Various contributions this month
- Stephen shared a chess board design and turned pieces dimensions he created in SketchUp
- Walt showed us a series of robots with moving parts. He made them from hardwoods for first time – usually uses soft. The pattern is one he created from a sample that he bought at a yard sale and disassembled
- Don had some chair blanks that he had from Tom and couldn’t decide what to do. He decided to use scrapers with objective of trying to make it look like one block and did some experimenting with new finishes. Polished with 600 grit paper followed by wax for satin finish
- Bill made a fitted box for his planes then did carving on the box top using nail punch for texture then another with background texture. Tip: used blue tape to mark the dovetails and ensure good fit
- Trevor made a ‘gun’ for his daughter’s Halloween costume. Stared with foam but didn’t like the results so cut pieces from Baltic. Trevor also shared a laser-cut geometric dome.
- Gary –tried a new technique with a pattern to turn a strip of wood into a circle. Hasn’t decided what he will do with it yet but wanted to try for experiment – pretty cool effect
- Darrell used auger as an alternative way to set screws.
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- Stephen with image of chess set design
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- Walt showing robot
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- Robot army
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- Don sharing process for chair back
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- Gorgeous
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- Bill used texturing on his box lid
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- Blue tape helps mark dovetails
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- Trevor with gun for his daughter
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- Trevor’s laser cut geo dome
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- pieces snap together
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- Gary used a plan to cut the wood in strips
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- making it flexible
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- Impressive
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- Darrell applied auger in new ways
Other Business
50/50 – Stan won $17.50 and Travis and Doug each one a can of Tried & True in bonus draws.
Next Meeting
Dec. 13 at Lee Valley – 6:30-8:30. Bring items for sharing. Lee Valley will provide coffee/tea. Presentation will be by Kevin Hurst – new products
MONTHLY CHALLENGE – toys for Salvation Army. And remember money for raffle tickets.
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