2021-01-09 January 2021 Monthly Meeting Minutes
The January monthly meeting featured Enhanced Show-n-Tell presentation, and was held as a virtual meeting using Zoom technology. You could attend from anywhere using almost any device with an Internet or hi-speed cellular connection, as Mike H1 did using his cell phone as a hot spot and his laptop – video, audio, and screen share included.
++ Our enhanced Show and Tell minutes, with useful links to PDFs and sources of products is inserted below.
++ With our added quantity of videos, we could expand the offering and make it more accessible to our visitors. Do you have a YouTube video Channel? Want to share it with members, and or visitors? Here’s the current (rough) HCWG Video Homepage. Check it out.
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Meeting details with minutes inline:
- Opening and welcome
- New members or guests – Mike H1
- Treasurer’s Report – Manny
- Membership Report – Gene
- Current count
- Revised Dues Payment Options
- No person-to-person
- Pay by personal check via USPS
- New Online Credit Card Payment (145 members used this method as of yesterday).
- One month left, ends Feb 6th. $10 COVID-19 discount, $25 due.
- CHECK YOUR INBOX for notices. If you aren’t receiving our emails, please use this form to notify me: Help -> Fix My Email.
- Announcements – Mike H1
- Repurpose Committee – Matt Radtke
- Monthly meeting feature topic – Mike H1 & Joel
- Presentation Rotation – Enhanced Show-n-Tell, Prime Demonstration, What’s on Your Bench.
- Demonstration Schedule renamed/addressed to Presentation Schedule.
- Rich Ellery
- Beads Of Courage – In 2020 HCWG donated six BoC boxes to the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. Two members participated. This is an ongoing project. The next planned delivery of boxes is the last week of April 2021. If anyone needs help designing or building a box please let me know. I also have wood to share if anyone needs some.
- The Canadian Virtual Wood Club is having its next 3 day IRD show January 19, 20 & 21. Cost $4.95 CDN or $14.95 for the show and 4 months of video access. See WoodShows.com.
- Record Power offers free IRD Turning demos every Friday at 7:30 PM EST. You must register in advance to obtain the Zoom Meeting ID and password. I’ll forward the next invitation as soon as I receive it.
- TIP – A cheap way to connect vacuum hoses to a cyclone dust collector or other tool fitting, is to use a section of white PVC pipe. Heat it up with a heat gun and stretch it over your fitting. When it cools it retains the new shape.
- Demonstration – Joel
Enhanced Show-n-Tell (view Demonstration history)- Keith Frampton
- YouTube video – Tablesaw sled and dust collector, and slide deck, Frampton Wedgie Sled Guard
- Blanket Chest Veneer Repair – Frampton Blanket Chest veneer.
- Keith’s YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTn11M15lHaLMyoclA49ycA
- David Hickson – King Bed conversion project, Home shop slab flattening jig.
- King Bed Summary: David converted a commercially made oak queen-sized bed to a king-sized bed, and also converted it from a rail-and-post bed to a platform bed. The pictures show steps in constructing the plywood boxes for the platform (two lower boxes and two upper boxes), the disassembly of the original headboard and footboard, and fabricating new parts to stretch them 16″ to fit the new bed width.
- Natural Edge Bench Summary: A cherry natural-edge slab was milled flat using a jig (see below) that David constructed. A Sand-O-Flex wheel was used to clean and smooth the natural edges while retaining the natural contours. With newly-acquired welding skills, David fabricated two metal leg assemblies out of 2″ square steel tubing for the bench. Keys made from American Holly were inlaid into the top and bottom of the slab to stabilize a split on each end, and a third, more decorative key was placed in the middle over a central crack. The bench will be finished with a durable finish for institutional use, probably polyurethane.
- Flattening Jig Notes: The flattening jig is constructed mainly from 3/4″ baltic birch plywood for stability. There are oak caps for the runners to provide a smooth, waxable surface. The router box bottom has a melamine upper surface for the router base to glide against. This jig was designed around David’s Bosch router with a 1″ guide collar installed in the router base, which fits the slot in the bottom of the router box beam. The full jig has 48″ wide lateral beams and 100″ long runners. The current jig can handle a slab up to about 38″ wide, but because the jig is modular, longer laterals or runners could be fabricated to increase its capacity without having to remake the whole jig. The jig clamps together and clamps to the workbench with shop clamps, and it disassembles into a more compact form for storage. David used a standard 3/4″ rabbeting bit (1/2″ collet) for this project, but he has since purchased a special-purpose flattening bit that should allow wider cuts and fewer passes.
- Joel LaFerriere – Shop Vac Station
- How to Make a (shop vac) Cyclone Dust Collector, YouTube Vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOfMXvn6A0Y - Hose System, $48.85.
Cen-Tec Systems 94698 10 Ft. Hose for Home and Shop Vacuums with Expanded Multi-Brand Power Tool Adapter Set for Dust Collection, Silver
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0849L76XM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 -
Dust Deputy Anti-Static Cyclone Separator (DD DIY), by Hearthshire, $49.99.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002JP315K/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_4HE-Fb7K69HAF
- How to Make a (shop vac) Cyclone Dust Collector, YouTube Vid.
- Keith Frampton
- NOTE: New Homepage for Guild Videos – to be expanded going forward.
View HCWG Videos homepage - Mike H1 – Next Meeting is February 5th
- Adjourn
From the Zoom chat window:
09:56:44 From Manny and Penny to Everyone : Good morning everyone! Happy New Year…
09:57:04 From David Hickson to Everyone : G’morning and HNY, Manny.
10:03:35 From Keith Frampton to Everyone : If you shop is like mine we could also have a session as “What’s NOT on your bench”
10:04:31 From Jack Spencer to Everyone : Good morning Keith – actually, I have all sorts of things on my bench. Just not any projects.
10:04:52 From Jack Spencer to Everyone : Good morning everyone!
10:07:10 From Tom Rollins to Everyone : Took a short walk this morning and it was cold!
10:16:51 From Dorothy Shannon to Gene Torrey(Direct Message) : Thanks for that Paypal info. I had been using them thinking they were safer than giving my card to individual vendors. Would appreciate your opinion on that. Not necessarily this morning.
10:23:16 From mattradtke to Everyone : Drinking coffee inside no room on the workbench to put a coffee mug.
10:29:04 From Gene Torrey to Joel LaFerriere(Direct Message) : Who are the other two besides Keith
10:34:41 From Joel LaFerriere to Gene Torrey(Direct Message) : david Hickson and me
10:35:00 From Gene Torrey to Joel LaFerriere(Direct Message) : thank you. What is your “topic”?
10:35:22 From Gene Torrey to David Hickson(Direct Message) : For enhanced show n tell. what is your topic?
10:43:32 From Mark Whipple to Everyone : what was the finish oil again?
10:43:45 From Jack Spencer to Everyone : Bush’s Oil
10:44:40 From JP (Jean-Paul) to Everyone : is traditional hide glue not as good as the 3M modern glue?
10:45:42 From Mark Whipple to Everyone : This was very helpful for the veneer work I am doing on old pool tables. Thanks!!
10:46:20 From Mark Whipple to Everyone : What was the thickness of the veneer?
10:46:32 From Jack Spencer to Everyone : Why spray finish rather than a brush on?
10:47:21 From Gene Torrey to Jack Spencer(Direct Message) : Ask out loud JAck
10:47:26 From Gene Torrey to Jack Spencer(Direct Message) : Jack
10:47:44 From Jack Spencer to Gene Torrey(Direct Message) : ok
10:48:34 From Mike Heavner, VP to Everyone : To Mark – Amazon website shows the thickness of the veneer is .024 inches. Page 5 of the slides
10:51:16 From Mark Whipple to Everyone : What is your You Tube channel?
10:52:35 From Gene Torrey to Mark Whipple(Direct Message) : Check the Minutes for the meeting Mark, I’ll add it in addition to the direct link to his VID.
10:53:09 From Mark Whipple to Gene Torrey(Direct Message) : Thanks Gene. This is really good information.
10:54:52 From mattradtke to Everyone : Keiths shop on youtube
10:57:07 From Gene Torrey to Everyone : I’ll put the link to Keith’s YouTube channel in the meeting minutes.
10:57:10 From Gene Torrey to Everyone : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTn11M15lHaLMyoclA49ycA
11:00:46 From Rick M to Everyone : we have a no-melt blade for our table saw
11:01:12 From Jack Spencer to Gene Torrey(Direct Message) : No melt blade?
11:01:22 From Jack Spencer to Everyone : No melt blade?
11:01:31 From Jack Spencer to Gene Torrey(Direct Message) : Sorry Gene
11:04:11 From David Hickson to Everyone : It’s good to have a blade that doesn’t melt!
11:04:52 From Gene Torrey to Everyone : Forest No Melt blade
11:11:06 From Mike H1 to Everyone : Another way to cut plexiglass is to use a straight edge and score the line many times and then snap it
11:11:32 From Jack Spencer to Everyone : Thanks Mike
11:53:55 From David Hickson to Everyone : The Festool hose works well for this purpose, but it’s probably 5x the cost of Joel’s find!
11:55:07 From David Hickson to Everyone : Nice solution, Joel!
11:58:43 From dmeh to Everyone : Yes, I’d like all the information as well. Very cool.
11:58:49 From Keith Frampton to Everyone : Nice Joel. I am interested in the links too.
12:00:10 From Mark Whipple to Everyone : I am very interested in this system as well Joel. Very nice set up. Thanks.
12:06:30 From Jack Spencer to Everyone : Great meeting! Thanks to all the presenters.
12:07:50 From Alecia Sweat to Everyone : Any updates on the recognition committee (Greg missed today’s meeting, no update).
I’d like to sign up for What’s on My Bench for the meeting on the 9th. Gene – how do I do that?
It is easier for me to forward if you use Contact Us form. I’ll go ahead and notify Joel, cc Mike H1.
Thank you for asking Joel.