Ferntree Gully, Vic, 3156 Newsletter Website

October October 2005 2005

Newsletter of the

45 Glenfern Rd Club Phone (03) 9758 4849 Ferntree Gully, Vic, 3156 Newsletter Website www.alchester.com.au/kdwc Reg Assoc. A001761S ABN 23 621 787 437 First Issued in November 1988 Volume 17 Issue 10

Your Committee for 2004 / 2005

Committee Members President Paddy McCann 9758 3920 Ian Stewart 0431 173 689 Vice President Ron Ralph 9763 9492 Bill Longden 9758 2438 Secretary Charles Bruckner 9801 2197 Hughie Gaynor 9870 6915 Treasurer Frank O’Connor 9879 7512 Peter Horsburgh 9878 5144 Assistant Secretary Ladislav Toman 9758 9146 Max Holt (Safety 9755 6068 Officer) Newsletter Editor Paul Lucas 9790 5659 John O’Rorke 9754 1520 [email protected] (Publicity Officer) [email protected] Members are reminded that only currently financial members are entitled to vote at the election of office OUR PRESIDENT’S REPORT bearers.

There is no report from our revered president this month, as he and his good lady and family have been catching up with their extended family in Ireland. The McCann clan should be nearly home Annual Membership Fees

again and we will see the traveller at our October st meeting. Welcome home Paddy! Your Annual Membership Fee was due on the 1 of September, and for the coming year, remains at $50 per person. Our Treasurer will be available to accept Other Returning Members your fee and issue a receipt before the Annual Meeting so as to enable you to vote in the election of We, (and in particular your “acting editor”) will be Office bearers. very happy to welcome Paul Lucas and his wife back from, their overseas trip. Paul, we, (read “I”) have missed you. Welcome home! Timber or items left at the Club A Club rule is that timber, projects or personal items are not to be left at the Club. This rule is for the Annual General Meeting logical reason that if a number of our 170 members left items we would not be able to move!! If however, for any unavoidable rare reason, items The Annual General Meeting of the Knox and are left then ensure they have your name clearly District Woodworkers Inc. will be held at 7:30 pm visible on them, and when they will be collected, so th on Wednesday October 5 in the Club Rooms, 45 others know to leave them alone. Glenfern Road, Ferntree Gully, 3156. Your committee

The Ken Port Demonstration

Octoberr 2005 Page 1 Forthcoming Visits to our Club This was a great success, and I am sure a full report will be available for next month’s issue. WEDNESDAY October 12

Members of the Peninsula Woodturners’s Guild will pay a visit to the Club. Phillip Island Turnaround 2005 MONDAY October 31 Joyce Brown writes:- Queenscliff & District Woodworkers will also visit Bob Plant, Mick Durrant and I had the pleasure of our club. attending yet another of the fabulous Phillip Island Turnarounds. For only $145 you have the 3 days of These are wonderful opportunities to meet other accommodation with en-suites, full catering of really people with similar interests, and to spread the well cooked delicious meals and numerous morning, “Fellowship of the Wood”. We, as a club, have afternoon teas and supper. With endless supply received hospitality from others, and these visits of tea, coffee and biscuits. allow us to offer hospitality to others. Best of all though is the friendly, helpful atmosphere there. There were 118 people attending and with the On both occasions, it is planned that visitors will top of the field talent such as Vic Wood, Guilio arrive prior to lunch and we have offered to put on a Marcolongo, Eddie and Lois Green, Robert Wilson “Sausage Sizzle” for visitors and Knox members. and especially Terry Scott, David Bremner, Rex Haslip & Colin Mitchell from New Zealand, if Turn up to greet the visitors and help showcase our you had as much help as I did from them your Club turning couldn't but help lift to a new level. It was fantastic, even stayed up until 2.45 a..m. turning first Community support activities night. That night wasn't without it's dramas though, as at 3.am. rain came pouring down the far end wall, being undertaken by the Club right from the very top, in a waterfall at the same time as a river of water rushed in through the door at Description Recipient Status the other end. I had left by then but I believe the (16) Rocking Angliss Hospital Completed few remaining did a marvellous job of lifting all the Horse power cords up out of the path of the river. If you (2) Rocking Stringybark Festival Completed are lucky you could still get in for 2006, or at least Horse Raffle have your name on the waiting list in case of (3) Clock Stringybark Festival Completed cancellations, I made sure and paid in advance. Raffle (4) Show Rocking Club Display Completed Horse (5) “Reach Out Reach Out for Kids In Progress For Kids” Plaque Stringybark Festival (6) Wood turned Stringybark Festival In Progress rd Large Bowl Raffle Sat/Sun 22/23 October (7) Rocking Knox Festival In Progress This is one of our two major fund raisers for the year Horse that help minimise your annual fees. Your help will (8) Toys Disadvantaged Kids In Progress be needed, so mark your diary. Details will be given later on the notice board and at the meetings. (9) Garden Bench Jean White In Progress Hey, it’s a FUN DAY! Make sure you are there (10) Rocking HorseBurch Memorial In Progress Kindergarten (11) Angel Boxes Angliss Hospital Continuously in WILL YOU BE THERE? Progress (12) Kids Corner Stringybark & Knox Continuously in Join with you fellow members and have a Kits Festivals Progress Monday Evening good day out & Tuesday Days (13) Kids Corner Knox Library September 28th 10.30a.m. – 1.30p.m. (14) 4 Small Kallista Kindergarten In Planning Tables (15) Picture Dandenong Tourist In Planning

Octoberr 2005 Page 2 Frames (7) Info Centre Angliss Hospital In Planning (16) Occasional Table Our Club, like any organization needs finance to operate. It provides amenities to the members such as excellent club rooms and facilities such as tea and coffee and a place to meet your friends and talk. The workshop has a mind blowing range of equipment for members to Club Christmas Auction use. The annual sale of raffle tickets at Bunnings ROLL UP ! ROLL UP! ROLL UP (Scoresby) is one of the few times a year that members are asked to pitch in and help. WHEN ?? December Meeting, 7:30 pm. WHERE ?? At the Club rooms Can you spare an hour or two on either the 8th or 9th WHAT ?? Anything you have that you can of October to help man the table and sell tickets? Put your name on the list now on the Club notice board. donate to the Club to help swell funds. WHY ?? To have a fun night, get rid of See you there! unwanted “junk”, bring home “useful things” that will drive your partner wild (I told you NOT to bring home more than you took!!!) Recent concerns in the WHAT DO YOU NEED ?? A pocketful woodturning workshop of unwanted $1 and $2 coins, tattered 1. Tools not being put away. banknotes and a will to help YOUR club! 2. Sandpaper & scrap wood being left on benches. Bring your “pre-loved” bits and pieces 3. Drives, both headstock and tailstock, damaged along ASAP so they can be catalogued including grinding off the points, working with ready for sale chisels too close to the point and damaging them. These drives cost about $40 to replace. 4. Extending chucks beyond their capacity and shearing off lock pins. 5. Turning tools “profiles” being radically Our Newsletter is changed when attempting to sharpen them. Proudly sponsored by 6. Equipment missing, including Pen mandrel. Cr Karin Orpen, Councillor for Dobson Ward If you are in the turning shop and you see someone abusing or misusing equipment challenge them or inform a committee member. Why no pictures (again) Christmas Toy Count I currently have no pictures that can be used, and as this issue (printed version) will be in Black and White, it probably doesn’t matter. With the help and enthusiasm of members, the number of toys for the project is growing, and we hope to exceed last year’s tally. Please bring them in John O’Rorke – Temporary (VERY) Editor as they are progressively completed so we can monitor the tally.

A Cricketing Tale Rocking Horse Raffle at Bunning’s Billy was at school this morning in the outback and th Ferntree Gully, Sat/Sun 8/9 the teacher asked all the children what their fathers October do for a living. Remember to mark your diary for either of these days All the typical answers came out; Fireman, as we need your help to sell tickets. Details will be Policeman, Salesman, Chippy, Captain of Industry given at future meetings and will be on the notice board. Octoberr 2005 BE THERE! Page 3 etc, but Billy was being uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him about his father. "My father is an exotic dancer in a gay club and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes if

the offer is really good, he'll go out with a man, rent a cheap hotel room and let them sleep with him."

The teacher quickly set the other children some work and took little Billy aside to ask him if that Proudly sponsored by was really true. Fern Tree Gully "No" said Billy, "He plays cricket for Australia Community Bank® branch and but I was just too embarrassed to say." Rowville branch of Bendigo Bank. Workshop Hours

Monday (the day session is for 8:30 am - 12:30 pm John Emptage 9758 6103 woodturning) 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Bill Longden 9758 2438 Tuesday 9:30 am - 3:00 pm Peter Horsburgh 9879 5144 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Bruce Allen 9754 5774 Wednesday 9:30am - 3:00 pm Paddy McCann 9758 3920 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Frank O’Connor 9879 7512 Thursday 9:30 am - 3:00 pm Charles Bruckner 9801 2197

Friday 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm Bruce Allen 9754 5774

Saturday Morning Events and the Key Holder 9th July 9:30 am 12:30 noon Brian Douds 9758 2173 16th July 9:30 am 12:30 pm Alistair Green 9754 2727 23rd July 9:30 am 12:30 pm Ladislav Toman 9758 9146 30th July 9:30 am 12:30 pm Ray Norton 9763 5728 Members please note: If no members have arrived by 10:30am the Key Holder has the option of closing the Club rooms

Regular Club Group Activities Day Time Regularity Group Contact Monday Day Each week Woodturners John Emptage 9758 6103 Evening Each week Carvers Willy Schlaf 9762 2206 Festival Kit development Peter Horsburgh 9878 5144 Tuesday Day Each week Festival Kit development Peter Horsburgh 9878 5144 Evening Each week Woodturners Frank O’Connor 9879 7512 Friday Evening Each week Rocking Horse Group Joe Semenow 9758 6024 Allen Brookes 9762 4032

What’s On, Coming Up and For Sale etc.

Our Club Activities Moe Latrobe woodturners at the Pioneer Village

Wednesday 6th October On Sale at the Club Annual General meeting Club Caps $10 Sat/Sun 8/9 October Club polo shirts $20 Bunnings – Raffle Sales Rasps $1 Sat/Sun 22/23 October Screws (packet) $2 Stingy Bark Festival – Our Big Effort! Nails (500gm 2” x 12G) $2 Dowels (packet) $2 In The Big “Woodies” World Contact Bob Plant ph 9754 5920 Also:-

th Pen kits (pack of 5) $15 & $22 7-9 October Velvet covers (pkt of 10) $4.50 “Working with Wood” Show, Melbourne. th Super Glue - thick & thin $14 19-20 November Accelerator $15

Octoberr 2005 Page 4 Pen Blanks - Pack of 6 $5

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