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TWA Newsletter Upcoming Meeting www.trianglewoodworkers.com February 2020 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Volume 38, Issue 2 February meeting .................... 1 January meeting minutes ........ 2 Larry Favorite, Ironwood Art .. 3 Membership committee ........... 3 TWA Newsletter Upcoming meeting .................. 4 Treasurer’s report ..................... 4 Next Meeting: Tuesday, February 18, 7:00 pm Facilities / Refreshments Location: Klingspor’s Woodworking Shop committee .......................... 4 Mentors ..................................... 4 MacGregor Village Shopping Center Board and committee members 107 Edinburgh S Dr. Suite 151, Cary NC ............................................ 5 Sponsors ................................... 6 Speakers: Richard Stephenson and Alice Hinman Topic: Woodworking, Collaboration and Innovation Richard Stephenson is of Raleigh's Flitch Furniture (https:// flitchfurniture.com). Flitch Furniture is a Raleigh based company making modular plywood furniture using a 'pressure- fit', no fastener, system of assembly. In the spring of 2019 Flitch held a workshop for children teaching hands-on skill development and wildlife stewardship, building bluebird houses. The event was posted on social media for everyone to enjoy. One of the people who enjoyed it the most, and who saw potential in the production concept was Alice Hinman of 'Apiopolis' (https://www.apiopolis.org), a nonprofit organization in Raleigh promoting bee sustainability through healthy bee habitats. This is OUR story of collaboration and innovation, small business and big ideas. Host: Mark Firley TWA GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING—JANUARY 21, 2020 (meeting minutes: James Sapp) Roy Brookhart opened the committee that he general meeting. Guests chairs. Anyone attending the meeting were: who is interested Jean Thomas and Valerie should have a Melburg. Steve Spear attended as keen interest in a new member. program content and perhaps some Roy asked for volunteers for ideas for future bringing cookies and drinks to meeting and/or future meetings. Jerry Rhoades, courses. who has been doing this for Interested parties many years, is retiring from this may contact Mark function as of this January at email address: meeting. Interested parties [email protected] should contact Roy. Phone (919) or by phone: (919) 303-9402 or email: 929-9509. [email protected] For show-and-tell, Ken Serdar asked the members if Mark Firley there was any interest in presented serving obtaining printed name badges. trays/end-grain He said he is able to make these cutting boards in a couple of shapes (rectangular made as a project and triangular) for a minimal in the charge if the purchaser provides Hillsborough the wood. The wood needs to be Orange 1/8” thick and light colored Woodworking because wood burning of the Club. The serving name and logo produces a dark tray featured coves brown background color. Anyone made with a table- who is interested should email saw, a technique Ken at [email protected]. of interest to his Jim Kroeger highlighted a free club. Mark also website for obtaining presented an woodworking reference explosive box that materials, especially older items he is making into a not available otherwise. The site cremains box. is: Project Gutenberg, located on The drawing to the web at https:// benefit Toys for www.gutenberg.org. The Tots was won by woodworking index page is Sankar Mohan. located at https:// Congratulations! www.gutenberg.org/wiki/ Ken discusses name badges (top), Mohan wins Woodwork. the raffle (middle) and Jerry retires from the Mark Firley asked for prospective refreshments committee (photos: Mark Firley) volunteers to join the program 2 TWA GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING—JANUARY 21, 2020 FUNCTIONAL AND SEMI-FUNCTIONAL IRONWOOD ART —LARRY FAVORITE (meeting minutes: James Sapp) Mark Firley introduced the featured the hardest woods. It dulls cutting speaker Larry Favorite, who edges quickly. Larry harvests the discussed functional and semi- wood from dead trees that are functional art that he has been sparsely found in the desert. He uses creating out of ironwood for more a chain saw (with lots of replacement than 40 years. Desert ironwood is chains) to cut the pieces to sourced from the ironwood tree manageable sizes for transport to his (Olneya Tesota) found in the Sonoran workshop. Back at his studio, he Desert areas of Arizona and Mexico. roughs out the material with a The wood is especially hard and bandsaw (he gets about an hour out usually gnarly. It has a Janka of the blade) and then shapes it with hardness is 3270, making it one of a pneumatic drum sander, starting at 36 grit and going up to 1000 grit. He then polishes the pieces with equipment used to polish precious metals. He uses no finish on the pieces. businesses in the Arizona area. He then added boxes, bowls and other Larry inlays the pieces with sterling interesting pieces to his repertoire. silver, turquoise and other semi- His studio is located in Hillsborough, precious materials. Larry prefers NC at 121 N. Churton St. His website using turquoise of a certain color for is: https:// his inlays. He sources the turquoise www.FavoriteDesigns.com. He can from a supplier in Thailand who, in be reached via email: turn, obtains it from Brazil. He inlays [email protected] or by the material in both naturally phone: 336-264-4060. His work is occurring cracks and in areas he displayed at the Hillsborough Gallery intentionally carves for its of Arts. application. He cements the inlay with cyanoacrylate glue. A detailed description of Larry’s methods was published in Fine Larry Favorite discussing his Larry started out making belt buckles Woodworking Magazine in August ironwood art (photos: Mark and bolo ties, selling them through 1991. Firley) NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTIONS MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Please send newsletter content for future TWA is happy to welcome the following newsletters to Fred Ford new members: (fredford22@ gmail.com) or Karin Pihel (karin.pihel@ gmail.com). • Frank Empie Contributions for each newsletter are due by the • Stephen Spear last day of the previous month. Ken Serdar, Membership Committee 3 UPCOMING MEETING TREASURER’S REPORT Meeting Topic: The Cunningham Tools (DECEMBER 2019) – 1868 Beginning Balance: $8,982.01 Date: Tuesday, March 17 Income: $687.55 Speaker: Roy Underhill Expense: $1,048.84 In January 1868, house joiner William Cunningham began work on the Robert Ending Balance: $8,620.72 E. Lee home in Lexington, VA. Roy will Does not include Petty Cash of $86.00 bring his ledger and tools from that year for an insight into the life of a Virginia house joiner. Roy Underhill was the first master FACILITIES/REFRESHMENTS housewright at the Colonial COMMITTEE Williamsburg reconstruction. From 1979 to 2018, he was the host of the PBS series A new Facilities/Refreshments Committee chairman is The Woodwright's Shop. needed to replace Jerry Rhoades, who is stepping down from his role of coordinating refreshments at the Underhill teaches traditional monthly meeting. Without someone in this role, we may woodworking in a classroom not have refreshments at break time. In this role, you environment he calls "The Woodwright's will be required to have cups, soda, ice, and snacks on School" in Pittsboro, North Carolina. hand. The cost of this is covered by the association. Host: Mark Firley Please help our organization by volunteering to take over this role. Contact Roy Brookhart at [email protected], or Jerry Rhoades if you are interested. MENTORS Mentor Service/Skill Offered Phone Number Email Address Bernie Bogdon Relief Carving (919) 850-0739 [email protected] Chairs, Joinery, Machinery & Power Hugh Fish Tools, Mantles, Routers, Tables and (919) 467-5696 [email protected] TV Cabinets, Turning Baby Furniture, Beds, Bookcase, John Margeson (919) 876-3476 [email protected] Chairs, Chest, Decks, Tables Baby furniture, Beds, Bookcase, Mike Resar Cabinets, Chest, Drafting, Dressers, (919) 876-1664 [email protected] Tables, TV Cabinets Simple inlay, Staining/dyeing, Pen Allen Campbell (919) 772-4551 [email protected] turning, Cabriole legs Cecil Raynor Joinery, Finishing, Tables, Chairs (919) 815-9155 [email protected] Amy Dowden (919) 932-6252 [email protected] Google SketchUp James Sapp (919) 586-7280 [email protected] Ken Serdar CNC woodworking [email protected] 4 BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS POSITION BOARD MEMBER President Roy Brookhart Vice President Mark Firley Secretary James Sapp Treasurer Jack Kite At Large Board Member Leon Harkins At Large Board Member Mike Payst At-Large Board Member Dick Raup COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON / MEMBERS Program Committee Mark Firley - Roger Sanwald & Judy Sanwald, Fred Ford, Terry Ten- house, Allen Campbell, Jeff Leimberger, Terry Brown, Hal Brown, Mike Payst, Bob Nauman, Bob Andrews, Jerry Rhoades Toys-for-Tots Committee Fred Ford/Cecil Raynor — Pete Hodges, Bob Gabor, Terry Tenhouse, Roger and Judy Sanwald, Jim Rhodes, Mark Firley, Les Hall, Bill Schott, Joe Sabo, Alex Knittel, Bill Burton, Antoine Basquiat, Bob Guenther; Bob Andrews, Ken Serdar Nominating Committee Fred Ford Newsletter Publications Committee Karin Pihel — Fred Ford Library Committee Jerry Rhoades Publicity Committee Roy Brookhart Sponsor Committee OPEN Internet Paul Holzworth Mentor Committee Allen Campbell Membership Committee Ken Serdar - Cheryl Serdar, Judy Sanwald, Paul Holzworth, Sue Bunch Audio/Visual Committee Tom Revelle - Leon Abbas, James Chamberlain Photographer Mark Firley Hospitality OPEN Facilities/Refreshments Committee Jerry Rhoades Raffle
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