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NEWSJune 2006, Vol. 15, Number 6 Classes At Stillwater Fiske Fund News Beginning Scroll Class - Joe Kennedy Tom O'Donnell, Instructor Caution: If you are independently wealthy or already know enough about all aspects of Date: Friday, June 2 , please skip this article. Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm So far this year the Fiske Fund has made grants to ten members for various courses, There will be a Beginning ranging from basic turning, advanced turning, Scroll Class held at the Stillwater carving, making, spoon making shop on Friday June 2 starting at and basic hand expertise. Guess what? 10:00 am with a break at noon There is still plenty of grant money available and then continuing until 3:00 and the Fiske Fund Committee would welcome pm. Class members are encour- your application. aged to bring their own saw but if Remember that the Fiske Fund is not that is not feasible a saw will be meant to cover all your expenses but it will help provided. Tom O’Donnell is the you cover a significant portion. Consider it to be instructor. The cost is $20 plus $5 like receiving a partial scholarship for going to for materials. This class will cover school. Some members may be reluctant to the basic operation and apply for a grant because they don’t enjoy each class member will end the standing up before a crowd to report on their day with several completed proj- class. This should not be a deterrent. If you ects of increasing complexity. receive a grant, you are merely encouraged, but To sign up:Send an e-mail note to: [email protected] or definitely not required, to give a report. call 371-9145 From time to time this space will address some of the schools in our general area. We are fortunate that there are many schools in the Northeast. Closest to us, Woodcraft Latham Hand Cut Dovetails Class offers many courses in a wide variety of sub- John Grossbohlin and Joe Kennedy, Instructors jects that are well known to most members. You don’t have to travel to learn a lot locally. Date: Saturday, June 17 Attending a class here has the obvious advan- tage of keeping your expenses down. Other Time: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm schools not too far way where members have previously taken classes include: On Saturday June 17 John and Joe will teach a class at the Stillwater shop on hand cut dovetails. Class members will make a - The , classic pencil box with craftweb.com/brookfld, is not too far away in empire dovetails. While Brookfield, Connecticut. They offer a wide primarily aimed at dovetail variety of classes for both flat boarders and technique the pencil box is turners. an elegant project and wor- thy of admiration in its own - The Connecticut Valley School of right. The class is scheduled Woodworking, schoolofwoodworking.com, in to start at 10:00 am with a Manchester has two large and well-equipped break at noon and then workshops and has an excellent list of continuing until 3:00 pm. courses. Manchester is the first town east of There is a cost of $20 plus $5 for materials. Hartford. To sign up: Send an e-mail note to: [email protected] or call 371-9145 (Continued on Page 2) (Continued on Page 3) OFFICERS From the President President - Ken Evans 753-7759 [email protected] - Ken Evens Vice President - Position to be Filled A challenge has again been cast before the woodturners by the “FLATBOARD- Secretary -Kitty Scharl 765-3189 ERS of NWA”. As before in Showcase 2004, the FLATBOARDERS of NWA challenged [email protected] the ROUNDERS of AWA to produce the best toy car for the toy factory handout. We Treasurer - Austin Spang 393-2859 ROUNDERS have now been challenged again. [email protected] There has been a FLATBOARDER EVENT called THE RACES at Past President - Pat McCord 439-1232 the NWA picnic for the last few years. Attendees to the picnic have brought their [email protected] strongest tape measures to the event and raced them against other contenders for Historian - the coveted trophy. Tape measures were raced down a long track pulled by the Position to be Filled power of their internal springs and were timed electronically as they crossed the Executive Secretary - Charlie Goddard 370-0388 [email protected] finish line. This year there is rumor some FLATBOARDERS are planning to place their tape CHAIRPERSONS measures in creatively designed cradles “with wheels”. I can see no reason these Mid-Hudson Chapter FLATBOARDERS cannot stay in their own area…“the land of the flat”. But to add Joe Mikesh, President 845-383-1338 wheels is to enter the “land of the round” and this is simply not acceptable. Sacandaga Chapter To reign in the land of the round is the role of the ROUNDERS of AWA. No Co-Presidents FLATBOARDER can be allowed to win the tape measure races of the 2006 NWA Mike Kratky 863-2821 PICNIC with wheels on his (or her) chariot. [email protected] Therefore I call upon every member of the NWA SIG known as the Adirondack Joe Artikuski 883-4036 Woodturners Association to acquire a strong spring tape measure, design and build [email protected] a suitable chariot with wheels, and bring family and friends to the NWA 2006 Education picnic to be held Sunday, July 30 at the Jonesville fire station picnic grounds in Herm Finkbeiner 371-9145 Jonesville (Clifton Park), NY to enter the tape measure races and defend the honor [email protected] Adult Programs of the ROUNDERS. Position To Be Filled As we did with the toy factory cars of Showcase 2004, we will, in these 2006 Youth Programs tape measure races, leave the flatboarders spinning in our woodchips. William Van Brunt 767-3060 [email protected] Fiske Fund Joe Kennedy (845) 473-1598 Thanks to Carvers [email protected] Hospitality - Bill McCormack Al and Emily Stahl 587-2420 [email protected] It was not all round or flat at the May general meeting. Eric Lawrence, Walter Library Le Clar, Alois Eble and Jim Harvey were the carvers that displayed a lot of Wilhelmina Evans 753-7759 talent and time at their craft and shared it at the meeting. A special thanks to Alois [email protected] for his explanation of the Austria style of carving. It was a special treat and talent. Membership Pam Cook 392-5638 [email protected] Programs Ken Evans 753-7759 Fiske Fund [email protected] (Continued from Page 1) Publications Clark Pell 731-2475 - The Windsor Institute, thewindsorinstitute.com, in New Hampshire is run by Mike [email protected] Dunbar and has courses in making different types of chairs. SHOWCASE Larry Zinn 583-1227 [email protected] - The Shelburne Arts Center in Shelburne, Vermont. Tool Crib Position To Be Filled - David Ellsworth School of , ellsworthstudios.com, in Videographers Quakertown, Pa. Dave Ellison 872-0980 [email protected] - The Studio, rosewoodstudio.com, near Toronto, Canada. Hans Kappel 861-8753 [email protected] There are other fine schools farther away that many members feel are definite- Pat Pugsley 634-7144 ly worth the trip. It all depends on your interests. To explore the many classes [email protected] Bob Conahan 355-9032 available, do a search for “woodworking courses” on the Internet. You could also [email protected] explore the education links section of many web sites. Even the technologically Kirk Hardenburg challenged can still find many options in the ads in woodworking magazines. Also, 725-1997 if you talk individually to other members about their experiences, you can get excellent information of what a particular course is all about. UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED, PHONE NUMBERS ARE IN AREA CODE 518 Contact me at [email protected] or 845-473-1598 for an application form.

2 Stillwater classes (Continued from Page 1) WOODWORKERS NEWS is published by the Northeastern Beginning Woodworking Woodworkers Association for its members. The Association’s aim Ed VanWormer, Instuctor • Charlie Goddard, Assistant is to provide a common meeting ground for lovers of woodworking Date(s): Monday, June 5, 12, 19 who want to know more about Time: 6:30-9:30 pm wood and the techniques for forming it. The newsletter is Ed and Charlie will lead a class through building a simple box. Students published monthly. It is assem- will go home with a small tote box. The bled in QuarkXPress 5.0 class will start from scratch beginning on an iMac G5, duplicated by with designing the box and selecting the Shipmates, and mailed to more wood. Woodworking operations will than 1,000 addresses. include cutting pieces to the correct size for the joints to be used, making the joints, methods of making the bottom of a box, designing and making the han- dle(s), selecting and applying the finish. The classes will be held at the Stillwater Your next issue of shop beginning on June 5 and run for three consecutive Monday evenings from Woodworkers News 6:30 to 9:30 pm. There is a charge of $50 plus the cost of materials. will be published To sign up send an e-mail to: [email protected] or call 371-9145 in early July. Copy deadline: June 15 Clark E. Pell, Editor 731-2475 Turning A Carver’s or a Classic [email protected] Wooden Hammer Elizabeth Keays Graphic Artist Jack Teffenhart, Instuctor Designer Date: Saturday, June 10 Time: 9:00-noon

Repeated on WEBSITE(S) www.woodworker.org Date: Tuesday, June 22 www.nwawoodworkingshow.org Time: 6:30-9:30pm Website Editor Jack will teach a lathe class at Clark Pell 731-2475 the Stillwater shop on Saturday, June [email protected] 10 from 9:00 -12:00. The class will be repeated on Tuesday June 22 from 6:30-9:30. This will be an introductory class. No prior experience is needed. Lathes and turning will be provided. The cost NWA maintains two websites, is $20 plus materials (mallet $10), (hammer $5) unless you bring your own wood. the first noted here To sign up: Send an e-mail note to: [email protected] or call operates continuously. 371-9145 We also offer selected links to other sites of interest to our membership. Webmaster - Justin Rohrer CLASSIFIEDS [email protected] FOR SALE : Knapp KFS-T Sliding / Tilting Shaper / Scoring Unit The second site operates from 3 Motors, 3 Phase, built 2001, 98" sliding table. Config includes 2 support tables, January 1 to May 30 telescoping support arm, telescoping cut off , memory shaper fence, mobility base, and carries specific and more. List price over $17,000...Asking $8,900 ! Call Dave Domino @ (518) 369-1462 information about SHOWCASE. or (518) 765-3408.

FOR SALE: Very large quantity of woodworking tools and accessories including miter, table, radial arm, wet, scroll ; press; midi lathe; and planer; compressor and several nailers. Owner can no longer use tools due to medical condition. For a NORTHEASTERN complete list call Ty Tafel at (518) 373-2787 or email [email protected]. WOODWORKERS ASSOCIATION P.O. BOX 246 Rexford, New York 12148

3 CHAPTER NEWS Mid-Hudson Chapter News – Chicken or Egg? - Wally Cook Which comes first, the tail or the pin? We may never pins or tails is 1:8 for and 1:6 for soft- know, as dovetailers still argue which cut to do first. Joe wood. Kennedy and John Grossbohlin cited opposing view- points during the recent dovetail class they jointly taught 2. Laying out the cut marks for pins and tails is best at the Opdahl Barn. done with marking knives and gauges. Using a pencil Either way, on the knife mark to improve visibility of the line. each produced fine dovetail 3. Registering the cut is extremely important. On the joints in the end grain, this can be done by using a razor saw to process of cov- make the initial guide cut touching the outside of ering the entire your mark. Use your thumbnail in the groove as a process of guide to deepen the cut with the dovetail saw. assessing the Finally, angle the dovetail saw to finish the cut. (IDIOT= inside 4. The repeatabil- of drawer is ity of the cut outside of tree), depends upon laying out and keeping wrist registering the John’s fine dovetail joints and forearm cuts, performing stiff, while the cuts and trim- supplying ming to fit. power for the Joe and John will repeat the class on June 17 at the cut from your Stillwater Shop…don’t miss it! shoulder. Take long strokes of Tips from Joe and the saw. John: 5. To register and 1. When measuring clean the tail for pins or tails, cut, the flat Alonzo Lee shows his first dovetails make sure they side of the are proportional- should ly spaced; the be facing the mark; lightly break the surface of the pins at either wood. Form a trough by cleaning toward the registra- end should be tion line with the chisel, and gradually remove waste half the thick- with progressively deeper gouging strokes of the ness of the oth- chisel. When the depth of the chisel cut is half the ers. Generally, depth of the board thickness, turn the board over Joe registering a tail marking the angle of the and complete the cleaning from the opposite side.

NWA Picnic July 30, 2006 - Ken Evans NWA members, families and friends…please remember to mark your calendar and plan to attend the NWA picnic on Sunday, July 30th. We had a great time last year and the same is expected this year. Bring the family and friends for great food, demos, rigged tape races (Chuckie Walker didn’t win the Golden Corkscrew award for nothin’ last year), conversation, super deserts, and above all relaxation with friends. See you there!

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Sacandaga Chapter News with logs that members of our Chapter will bring to the meeting. In the event of rain that evening an indoor pro- - Gary Spencer gram will be planned. The Sacandaga Chapter meetings are open to all, Our May 10 program was devoted to the topic of and light refreshments are served. veneering, a fine program presented by Dale Brown. Remember we have door prizes at every meeting but Dale showed a brief video on how to veneer, then gave you do have to be present to win! us tips using his own experiences with different types of Our regular monthly meetings are the second veneering techniques. He also showed us a gallery of Wednesday of each month and begin at 7:00 P.M. at the major veneered pieces that he has done over the last 25 Mayfield High School woodshop. Come on out! years. They were beautiful examples of Dale’s work. This was an outstanding program. For additional information or directions, contact: Our June 14th presentation will be the final program Joe Artikuski, 883- 4436 before our summer haitis. Mike Kratky will bring his saw Mike Kratky, 863-2821 mill to the June program and will demonstrate its use Gary Spencer, 863- 6433

Kaatskill Wood Turners - May Meeting

Anatomy of a Rose and insert small pockets for adding the thorns (real rose thorns, dyed black). - Wally Cook The blossom is turned from holly. Essentially, the flower is two “Take what you know and build on it”, said Keith nesting hol- Tompkins as he described the evolution of his study of low forms. spiral forms into rose turnings. He grouped the elements The forms of the project into base, stem, and blossom…but his dis- are similar to cussion was as much about creativity and design as it goblet turn- was about woodturning technique. ings, which Keith began by turn- are then cut ing a cube. Turning a in half and cube? This was the first reformed. exercise in thinking out- Keith uses side the box. Actually, a the same cube is easily formed by piece of Off center axis creates lifelike stem shear cutting parallel wood to turn sides of a turning block both hollow between centers – and forms (one at each end of the turning blank), in order to remounting twice more keep the grain constant. A saw is used to cut the on perpendicular to forms in half; they are cut on the form the opposing sides, straight grain, in order to hide the using a skew at 1000 join. The edges are flattened on a rpm. The cube is the bed of plate glass and . base for the rose, simu- Larger and smaller hollow forms lating the earth from are mixed and rejoined to pro- which the plant grows. duce a ‘curl’ or spiral. The leading Keith bores a hole edge of the outer form is cut to through the center of a curved petal. A small the cube to accept a turning for the center bud com- threaded insert for stem pletes the rose. and roots. Keith will take his rose turning The calyx and stem Keith’s rose turning presentation to the 20th Annual are turned next. AAW National Symposium in Keith’s recent work Achieving a dynamic Louisville, Kentucky on June 22- presentation of the rose depends upon curvature in the 24. stem. Keith again employs a multi-axis turning to pro- duce a more lifelike stem. Very light cuts at 500 rpm are Resources: taken with a long handled bowl gouge in order to bridge An Introduction to the Principles of Form & Design the “air space” from the tool rest to the asymmetric turn- by Keith P. Tompkins, Woodturning Design, May, 2006 ing blank. When the stem is completed, working from base to calyx, Keith will carve the roots from the base 5 GENERAL MEETINGS NW AND SPECIAL EVENTS A Picnic, Sunday, July30 Jonesville Fire Station No.1 August, 2006-NOMEETING July 30,2006-NWA Picnic June 12 P Jonesville Fire Station , 2006-NOMEETING .M. (Noon)to 5P.M. F or meetingcancellationinformation, or CharlieGoddard 370-0388 call Ken Evans 753-7759

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS t Contact Tom O'Donnell(518) 581-1167 or at 5:30followed by ageneral meeting at6:15. Spencer, 863-6433. and enterthenearest ofthe(5)doors. Contact Gary the buildingthat protrudes furtherinto theparkinglot School inthewoodworking shop.Park by thesectionof second Wednesday ofeachmonth atMayfield High ot tWocat ahm Beginners month atWoodcraft, Latham. Contact BillMcCormack,233-7260. technique. Noreservations are necessary, justshow up! carving, from beginners to thosewanting to learnanew intended for every NWA memberwhoisinterested in Senior Centerfrom 9:00amto 1:00pm.Sessionsare NW NW CHAPTERS K Scr Carv Contact Ken Evans, 753-7759orK A Contact George Norton, (845)331-1705. each monthat7p.m.theOpdahlproperty inHurley. are alsoscheduled.www gram at6:30pm.Saturday Spa. Beginners Curtis conference room onRoute 67,Ballston when itisthesecondWednesday), andare heldatthe Wednesday ofthemonth(except inJanuaryandJuly active throughout theyear. Meetingsare every first Route 28,Kingston. Contact JoeMikesh, (845) 687-4285 Central HudsonElectricCompany CommunityCenter, the third Thursday, except JulyandAugust, atthe odonne3@n dir aatskill W oller SPECIAL INTERESTGR A Sacandaga A Mid-Hudson ondack W er ’ s Guild ’ s Guild oodturner y cap.rr oodturner ’ - meetse sessionsbeginat6pm;themainpro- - Meetsthethir - Thechaptermeetsat7p.m.on the -The chaptermeetsat7:30p.m. on .com s - MeetsthesecondW very Friday attheClifton Park .adir . s Association “ Learn andTurn ondackw d Wednesday ofeach e v OUPS (SIGs) ans1@n oodturner - TheA ’ sessionstarts ” sessions y ednesday of cap.rr WA is WA s .or g .com