Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7:46PM The OWA now has a Twitter account @OttawaWood. I will be tweeting cool links on woodworking and any OWA news. Follow the OWA and we'll follow you right back. You can also see the last few entries on the right hand bar of the website.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7:41PM 45 people came in out of the rain, thunder and lightning to this month's meeting. To start things off, Vic greeted the 5 new members and guests to the club. Then Karen let us know that next month's meeting is our annual jig night. Bring in your favourite shop made or store bought jig and share it with the rest of us. Also next month is our annual election of the executive. Karen also mentioned the Glengarry Wood Fair, August 25. The OWA will be having a presence at this year's event, more info to come. www.woodfair.ca. Karen talked a little about the OWA Yahoo group. You must be an OWA member to gain access but it can be a great way to find out information, ask a question or just keep up the woodworking conversation groups. See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ottwoodclub/
Once Karen finished with the announcements the topic of the evening, router table joinery, was started off by Ken. Ken gave a demonstration using his router table on how to make sliding dovetails that might be used for joining the aprons to the legs of a table, drawer slides or even making boxes or drawers.
Up next was a book review from Daniel on, not a book, but a DVD, The Joinery Challenge. Brian also did a book review on Woodworking with the Router by Bill Hylton.
A break was called with sales at the sale table, 50/50 tickets, and general chit chat taking place.
The evening then continued with Brian using Karen's router table and giving a demonstration on the miter lock router bit and Karen talking and showing an example of the drawer lock router bit.
Once all the questions on router table joinery finished Glen took us to The Louvre in Paris. More specifically, through photos, we saw some of the furniture from the Louvre as well as some of the other sites from his 8 day trip to Paris.
To finish off the evening Wayne showed off his sled to help in making a cupped or bowed board flat using a thickness planer.
Work safe and we will see you next month.
Monday, May 7, 2012 at 8:43PM Should be of interest to our local woodworkers, see the For Sale page.
Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 12:20PM Joinery on the Router table - sometimes it isn't as quick and simple as the pros make it out to be. Come to May's meeting and find out how to cut a Mitre Lock Joint, a Drawer Lock Joint and a Sliding Dovetail joint on the router table. Before you spend the money one on of these bits you can see if they suit your needs. Do you really need a fancy fence on your router table to do this work? Come this months meeting and find out.
If hand tools are your thing, come to the meeting and travel to Paris, France on Glen Briggs' dime. He will show us his photos of the furniture at the Louvre. Like the rest of the meeting the photos are guaranteed to be stunning and inspiring. Can you afford to stay home?
Location and times on the Next Meeting page.
Monday, April 23, 2012 at 6:14PM Another successful meeting with about 42 people in attendance. April's meeting was all about the jointer, possible one of the trickiest machines in the shop to set up and use. But first after last month's meeting on finishing, Jack has proposed a SIG (Special Interest Group) on finishing both hand applied and spray methods. It wouldn't get going until the fall but if you are interest in learning more about finishing, let Jack know jcschwass@rogers.com. Karen also put forth the idea of a club event where we would do some kind of demonstration at the Glengarry Wood Fair August 25, 2012. If you are interested in helping out, let Karen know kmcsmart@gmail.com.
Karen then got things going with the beginner's class on how a jointer works and why it's good to have one. With the basics out of the way, Alan took over and not only ran some wood over the jointer but also showed us some of the tricks he uses in a production shop as well as how to taper a leg using the machine.
During the break, people where able to take a close looks at the sale table and buy a few things, grab a drink, buy 50/50 tickets and take a close up look at the jointer featured in the second half of the evening.
After the break, Rick gave us a demonstration of Lee Valley's 2010 April fools video. If you haven't seen it yet, here it is, and Vic you have never looked better!
Matthias then talked about his shop made jointer. There where some engineering challenges to overcome to make his latest creation. If you would like to take a good look at it.
To wrap up the evening I showed my curved back bent lamination Birds eye Maple and butternut drawer and gave a brief description on how I did the bent lamination back. Henry showed his recently finished recipe box made using some very old exotic wood.
With all that the evening was done and people headed out. See everyone next month.
