An Archive of the Club's Meetings and Other Events
After returning from the lumber mill with a rough board, you’re eager to cut those dovetails for your next masterpiece. But, the faces need to be parallel and the edges striaght and square, or your masterpiece may be headed into the fireplace. Using only hand tools, only power tools or a combination of hand and power tools,
Continue reading: Truing Rough Lumber Into A Square Board: Basics and Beyond ...Fellow member John Bridges completed a 5 year cooperative program for “Timber Technology” and continued a career including all the processes after a tree is cut down, in many countries of the world, working with Eucalyptus and many tropical species.
Wood Moisture:
Why is it there ?
Bring in what you have recently made, or what you made in the past but haven’t shown us.
Instruction on upholstery furniture by Moe Farren of Gene Sanes.
Friday evening lecture at Woodcraft and two days of hands-on instruction for those members who have paid the additional workshop tuition. See Posts under Latest News. There will be no usual Sept meeting.
The May 2017 meeting program will be at new Woodcraft store presented by Dan Habjanetz of Woodcraft. For the May 13th meeting at Woodcraft in Canonsburg, store manager Dan Habjanetz will provide demonstrations of several Festool products including the Domino joinery system, track saw, Kapex miter saw and orbital sander.
Continue reading: Festool Tool Review ...The April 2017 meeting program on Windsor Chair, Craig Smith will present. Please join us for our April meeting where the program will be presented by local Windsor chair maker and teacher, Craig Smith.
Craig is excited by the time-tested engineering that goes into the centuries-old Windsor design and will share some of the whys and wherefores of material selection,
Continue reading: Windsor Chairs ...Danny Williams, a native of southern West Virginia, became interested at an early age in the unique history and traditions of the southern Appalachian mountains. This led him to the Appalachain dulcimer, a simple stringed instrument especially suited to hardworking rural people who might not have a lot of time to create music,
Continue reading: Building a Dulcimer ...