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NEWSLETTER Volume 24, Issue 5 May 2018
Calendar of Events
April 3 Program - Page 2
Library Notes - Page 2
Mike Brady is Leaving Us- Page 3
Big Raffle - Page 4
Show and Tell Guidelines - Page 4
Shop Tours - Page 5-6
President’s Sawdust - Page 7
Editor’s Woodfiller - Page 8-9
Show and Tell - Pages 10-12
Officers and Committees - Page 13
Special Interest Groups – Page 14
June 2018
Date Time Event
June 5
(Tues)
6:30PM
Hand Tool SIG
WW Fundamentals SIG
Scroll Saw SIG
ShopSmith SIG
June 5
(Tues)
7:30PM
General Meeting
June 20
(Wed)
9:00AM FVWWC Breakfast Club
Red Apple Restaurant
414 S. Schmale Rd
Next Meeting
May 1
SCROLL SAW TECHNIQUES
Dave Dockstader and the Scroll Saw SIG will present a program giving us some good tips on scroll sawing and
show us examples of what you can do on your scroll saw.
May 2018
Date Time Event
May 1
(Tues)
6:30PM
Hand Tool SIG
WW Fundamentals SIG
Scroll Saw SIG
ShopSmith SIG
May 1
(Tues)
7:30PM
General Meeting
May 16
(Wed)
9:00AM FVWWC Breakfast Club
Red Apple Restaurant
414 S. Schmale Rd
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April 3
April Fools Program
Tom Sharp and Arnie Bandstra were the brave souls who revealed some of their woodworking
foibles at the April meeting. Arnie described some of his challenges in designing a globe stand
from scratch and the joinery problems he overcame. Tom also explained the unplanned design
changes he made to a desk cubby for his grandson. In the process, he revealed the neat secret
compartment but was scorned by the peanut gallery for only hiding a $1 bill for his grandson in-
stead of a twenty! In spite of the humor of the presentations, both Tom and Arnie gave us some
good ideas for hiding and overcoming woodworking mistakes.
Save your nickels and dimes for the Library Sale in June. The library will be selling all the hard-
copy magazines that we have currently have on DVD. Those magazines include Fine Wood-
working, Woodsmith, and Shopnotes. There will be single issues of Fine Woodworking, but
some Woodsmith and Shopnotes will be sold with appropriate binders. There are also a number
of books we will be selling. A complete listing will be in next month’s newsletter.
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Mike Brady is Leaving Us
You may have noticed some changes to our FVWWC officers list - notably Dave Burk is now
our VP and Tom Zillman is the new member at large. While he may be around for awhile yet,
Mike Brady is moving to Indiana to be closer to his family. Mike has been a very active mem-
ber of FVWWC since 1984. He has been the program guy for a number of years in the past
and started the popular Hand Tool SIG with Mike Bridger about 10 years ago. Not to worry
about the SIG - he is leaving it in the capable hands of Arnie Bandstra. Mike has been our VP
since 2012. If you are an
attendee of the hand tool
SIG, then you know how
knowledgeable Mike is
about all sorts of tradition-
al woodworking hand
tools. And he does a
great job explaining their
use as he did for us last
November, presenting a
great demo on hand cut
dovetails. We wish you
well Mike - thanks for all
you have done for
FVWWC.
The photos, courtesy of the DuPage Woodworkers,
were taken in April when Mike gave his dovetail talk to
that club.
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Da Big Raffle!
The current BIG RAFFLE item is a DeWalt 20 volt combo kit. It consists of a drill driver, an im-pact driver and a compact jobsite radio. The radio doubles as a battery charger for the two 20 volt lithium ion battery packs. It comes with a canvas contractor bag for the two drivers, two batteries and separate charger. Here is a chance to upgrade your drilling and driving tools. Tickets will be available and the tools will be on display at the May 1 meet-ing. So go cash that income tax refund check and gamble a few bucks on some new tools. Tickets are $5 each or 3 for $10. The drawing will be at the June meeting and for members only.
Norm Musur & Jeff Beck
Raffle and Silent Auction Committee
Show and Tell Guidelines
For many of us, Show and Tell time is our favorite part of the monthly meetings. It’s great to see
and hear what our fellow woodworkers have been up to. The skill involved, the time spent, and
the pride people have while talking about their work makes everyone smile. However, the in-
creased number of items is taking more time. Sometimes, show and tell time goes long and we
end up curtailing the program time which is unfair to our speakers. As a result, we would like to
provide a bit of a regimen to ensure we can provide equal time to each person’s bragging rights.
Here are the guidelines:
1. Bring all you want to show, but talk only about one. Feel free to describe the others be-
fore the meeting, during the break, or after the meeting.
2. Let us know why you made it, what kind of wood you used, any special joinery that you uti-
lized, the finish applied, and any other favorite aspect you like about your piece.
3. We would like you to be brief and complete your remarks within 3 minutes. For more
detailed attributes or stories about the article, save them for the break time. In this way every-
one can have sufficient time to talk, we can use the Show and Tell time more efficiently, and we
can enjoy everyone’s handiwork.
4. Is your project too big to bring to Show and Tell ?
For projects just too large to bring in, you can bring a jpeg photo file (.jpg) instead. One or two
photos will do, in keeping with our need for brevity. You could also make a short slideshow using
MS Power-point. Again, please keep it to a couple of slides. The best way to give us your photo
or Power-point files would be on a USB flash drive. Bring it in early so we can load it into the lap-
top before the meeting starts. Thanks.
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Current Event: Saturday, 05 May 2018 – Arnie Bandstra’s Shop – 10:00 am You have seen Arnie’s work at almost every monthly meeting, now you can tour the shop where Arnie puts his talent to work Location: 2670 E. 1545
th Rd.
Ottawa, IL 61350
Lunch following the tour: Lone Buffalo 812 La Salle Rd. Ottawa, IL www.thelonebuffalo.com - (815) 324-9549 (Future Events—Next Page) Shop Tours Coordinator Bill Knudsen [email protected]
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Future Events Please note that the tour of the Chicago School of Guitar Making originally planned for June is cancelled. There wasn’t enough interest to make this a club sponsored tour. However, for any-one who is interested you can contact them directly and I believe they will give an individual tour. Saturday, 09 June 2018 – Lee Nye’s Shop – 10:00 am Lee’s expertise is crafting period furniture so it will be a learning experience to see the tools he uses to build his projects. Location: 828 Glenmore Ct. Naperville, IL Lunch following the tour: The Country House 2799 Maple Ave. Lisle, IL 60532 www.burgerone.com/country-restaurant-lisle (630) 983-0545 Recap of April 2018 Tour of Norm Musur’s Shop The description of Norm’s shop by Tom Sharp at the April meeting as well organized was proba-bly understated. I suspect all who toured were impressed how Norm was able to make every inch of space be as functional possible – a place for everything, and everything in its place. Shop Tours Coordinator Bill Knudsen [email protected]
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President’s Sawdust
Tom Sharp, President FVWWC The editorial musings of your president which maybe serious, funny, technical, or philosophical, but hopefully
always entertaining.
Pen Making Investment
How much would you pay to make a pen for your mother-in-law? Consider this is a
sweet old lady that really appreciates when she gets gifts. Consider this is for a Mother’s
Day gift. Remember too that you are new to pen making and you are learning a whole
new woodworking niche of using a wood lathe. The investment made is also part of a
learning process that provides good experience with inlays for pens.
Normally a pen kit cost around $10 and a blank is maybe $5. Put those together and you
have a grand total of $15. Not bad for cost. You could go really fancy and double the
pen kit and blank cost for $30. That’s a nice pen. You could also go to Office Depot and
get a really nice pen for $30. However, it would not have the magic of a pen made-just-by-you-for-her.
I decided to go the custom route. I wanted to make something special so I bought the inlay rose barrel from Rockler.
This barrel is $24.99. This is a fine piece with multiple pieces made up of a rose, stem and a number of leaves cut with a
laser. The Manhattan pen kit that goes with the barrel is about $7. So, in the end the pen will cost $32. This total is a
fine sum. You can make the pen and it still won’t be more than a big bouquet of flowers.
But things happen along the way. I managed to get the inlays in place. But when I was squaring the end of the barrel on
the drill press a big chink broke out the end ruining the barrel. This is what makes woodworking frustrating. This is why
old men curse in their workshop. Why walking away and turning out the lights to the shop and taking a nap seems per-
fectly appropriate.
Bea is a sweet mother-in-law. It’s not her fault I broke out the end of the barrel. I’ll buy another barrel and be more
careful. Another $24.99 please.
I put the inlays in place. I square the end. This time I use a disc sander instead of the drill press. It’s perfect so far. I
mount the barrel on the lathe. As soon as I start to turn it and I touch it with the gouge, a quarter of one of the leaves
pops out and disappears down the vacuum. Now there’s a hole in the barrel. Stronger language at a high volume has
never been emitted in my shop. You can’t buy individual leaves. You have to buy a whole new barrel kit. However, this
time there is an alternative. If I can remove the same leaf out of the original barrel I ruined I may be able to use it in
place of the missing one.
Using a Dremel rotary tool proves to be less than worthless. It chews the wood and gives no precision to the cut. In-
stead, I use my scroll saw and manage to take out a section that contains the part of the leaf I need to replace. I man-
age to get the right piece carved out and put in place of the missing leaf portion.
Lots of superglue later, the leaf portion is in place and the barrel is turned, lacquered, and assembled with the pen kit. I
figure getting the leaf in place saved me $24.99. Never mind that I had to buy two barrels for that amount.
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The Fence Alignment System Tool (FAST)
Carter makes some very good bandsaw accessories and a while back I bought a FAST, their bandsaw fence alignment tool at the Indy Woodworking Show. I think the tool is simple but very clever. The tool works great to align bandsaw fences for resawing. The photos below will help explain how it works.
The tool thickness estab-lishes the resaw spacing to the fence. This one is 3/16 “. There is a notch to allow space for the set of the blade teeth. The rare earth magnet holds the tool to the bandsaw blade.
You position the tool at about the midpoint of the board height you are resawing. Ad-just the fence parallel to just kiss the tool. I have had very good results resawing with the FAST and even use it when the thick-ness I want is more than 3/16 inch. I just eyeball the fence to be parallel at the spac-ing needed. If the cut is narrower than 3/16, I put the tool on the opposite side of the blade and just sight along the fence for parallel. Preset widths of the target thick-nesses would be better, though.
For resawing, I use a lot of blade tension and of course, a sharp blade. I am careful to use my 4/5 tpi 1/2 inch blades for resawing only and avoid any other use that would possibly kink or deform the blade in any way. Otherwise, I keep a slow steady feed rate to allow the blade to clear the chips and do not pause in the cut.
Recently I was explaining the FAST tool to a friend and went looking on Carter and Amazon web-sites to see how much it cost. I was miffed to find out that it is now only sold as part of a 5 piece set of varying thicknesses for $55 !!! Somehow I was able to just buy the one piece at the woodwork-ing show. I sure didn’t spend anything like $55. Taking a page from our friend Dave Dockstader, the Frugal Woodworker, I was sure I could make my own FAST’s much cheaper. While the Carter FAST is a pretty piece of blue anodized aluminum, a shop made wood tool will work just fine. And, you don’t really need the scale engraving. You too can make one in just a few minutes.
Lee
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The Fence Alignment System Tool (FAST)
I used scrap 1/4 inch oak for my shopmade FAST tools and found some 1/2 inch magnets to hold them in place. Add a bit deeper kerf for the bandsaw teeth set. Thickness the blade area to the desired resaw thickness and recess the magnet. While my markings say 1/4 and 1/8, I actually made them about 1/32 or so thicker. This allows enough thickness to plane or sand the material to remove saw marks. Your results may vary.
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Al John
Project: Work Bench
Wood: Ash
Finish: Polyurethane
Notes: Combined two plans modified
to accept Moxon Vixe
SHOW AND TELL
March 6, 2018 Meeting
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Gary Hauser
Project: Trains & Trucks
Wood: Pine & Poplar
Finish: none
SHOW AND TELL
March 6, 2018 Meeting
Howard Van Valzah
Project: Bracelet
Wood: Spalted Maple stabilized
Finish: Wax
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Arnie Bandstra
Project: Norman Gothic Hearth Stool
Wood: Catalpa
SHOW AND TELL
March 6, 2018 Meeting
Keith Rosche
Project: Wobble Boards
Wood: Scrap Pine & Plywood
Note: Rehab equipment
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Special Interest Groups ShopSmith Al John SIG Chair: [email protected]
Scrollsaw Dave Dockstader SIG Chair: [email protected] Hand Tool Arnie Bandstra SIG Chair: [email protected]
Woodworking Tom Zillman
Fundamentals SIG Bill Schwartz
2018 Membership Dues Dues for 2018 can be paid at the general meetings - just see Ed Schalk at his table before the meeting or during break. Dues are still $30 per individual which includes the whole family. Please note that family members must reside at the same address. Our by-laws require payment of dues by Febru-ary 15. Members unpaid after that time are re-moved from membership rolls and mailing lists.
If you are unable to pay in person, or forgot your checkbook, mail in your dues. Print out the mem-bership form from our website:
http://www.foxvalleywoodworkers.com/Documents/MemCard_11_Online.pdf
Mail it in:
FVWWC Membership Chair
PO Box 1041
Batavia, IL 60510-1041
2018
FVWWC Officers & Staff
President: Tom Sharp
Vice President: Dave Burk
Treasurer: Doug Pfaff
Secretary: Steve Fox
Programs: Dan Jarodsky
Membership: Ed Schalk
Website Director John Gesiakowski
Resources: Dave Dockstader
Member-at-Large: Tom Zillman
Communications Lee Nye
Director: [email protected]
Raffles: Norm Musur
Show & Tell MC: Rich Russel
Audio/Visual Tech: Dave Burk
Shop Tour Chair Bill Knudsen
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ShopSmith SIG
May 1, 2018
The next ShopSmith SIG meeting will be May 1st @ 6:30 in the downstairs
room adjacent to the scroll saw SIG. Discussion topic will be the SS mortising
attachment as well as the cost advantage for a beginner in buying a used SS
versus individual machines.
Al John
Hand Tool SIG
May 1, 2018
The Hand Tool SIG meets, January through November, at 6:30 pm, before the regular meeting at
Bethany Lutheran in Room M111 of the Ministry Center (Church annex). Remember this location
changed last year from the main building. Anyone interested in the use of hand tools is welcome
to join us for discussion of this fascinating area of woodworking. Hope to see you there!
Arnie Bandstra
Woodworking Fundamentals SIG May 1, 2018
The fundamentals or novice woodworkers SIG will meet at 6:30pm in the main building upstairs in the Adult Lounge. Follow the signs from the main meeting room. Hope to see you there.
Tom Zillman Bill Schwartz [email protected]
Scroll Saw SIG May 1, 2018
The next Scroll Saw SIG next meeting will be Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at 6:30 pri-
or to the club meeting. If you have a scroll saw or are interested, this group is an
excellent resource for expanding your knowledge and picking up tips and pat-
terns. If you have some scroll saw projects that you are especially proud of,
bring them along and we will work them into the presentation.
Dave Dockstader
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Fox Valley Woodworkers Club
General Meetings held at:
Bethany Lutheran Church
8 S Lincoln St. - Batavia, IL
On the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm
Doors Open at 6:30 p.m.
Visitors Always Welcome!
FVWWC Website http://www.fvwwc.org Email [email protected]
Next Meeting – May 1, 2018
SCROLL SAW TECHNIQUES
Dave Dockstader and the
Scroll Saw SIG
