Howard County Woodworkers Guild
The normal meeting day in July will fall on the July 4th weekend. The Bain Center will be closed. We will not hold the meeting in the parking lot but instead delay the meeting by a week to July 11 at 10:00 am.
The July 11th meeting will feature Steve Dunbar demonstrating the Fitting Built-in Cabinets.
Besides our normal meeting Woodcraft in Towson will be sponsoring a talk by David Savage. at the Black and Decker university
David Savage’s webpage
The Washington Woodworkers Guild is sponsoring a talk by a man named David Savage, who is probably the best known furniture designer and maker in Great Britain. It will be in Towson , MD on Saturday, July 11. It will be at the Black and Decker University. No cost to attend and there will be free pizza for lunch.
The interesting thing about Savage is: he has not only been successful in the woodworking business for decades, but he has has a multi-decade string of people that he has taught to have become successful. A good part of his talk will be about one of the ways he has gotten this to happen. I know a lot of the turners like to make some money on their wares. You might just find this talk interesting.
The Guild shop has reopened for use by Members only on Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning from about 9:00 to about 11:30 when clean-up begins. Don’t expect to start a project late in the morning. And as always, Safety in the shop in paramount.
Dave Knipfer was the featured speaker on March 7th. His topic was Making Small Parts Safely. Those members who were there were well informed and entertained by Dave’s talk. Dave gave out a paper with his guidelines for safety and his list of recommended reading. The list is available under the menu item Books that Dave Kniffer uses.
Though we are always on the lookout for suggestions and volunteers, we do have demonstrators lined up for some of the future meetings:
- July: Steve Dunbar; Fitting Built-in Cabinets
- August: Ed Fischer; Cutting and Installing Crown Molding
- Later in the year demonstrations may include:
- Making unique chairs
- Antique Tools.
The future demonstration schedule looks like:
Some of the demonstrators are tentative, and some of the subjects are subject to change. Stay Tuned.
I’ll keep this page updated when arrangements have been finalized.