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The President’s Corner There has been a lot going on with the CAW recently and we’ve got more to come! The August club meeting was jam-packed between two programs and content filled Show-and-Tell. Ralph Winch recently

hosted an open shop at his sawmill and Roland Folse has an exhibit currently showing at the Hoogland. Just around the corner is our Router and Raised Pan-els class on Oct 1st. Thanks to all who have contrib-uted and participated in all these grate events.

Volume 29 Issue 9 September 2016

WOODSHOP ADVISOR CAPITAL AREA WOODWORKERS

August Meeting Review: New Members, Guests and Visitors

x� Between members, guests, and visitors, we had approximately 25 in attendance at the August meeting.

x� Guests included Les Eastep, who is an award winning chilli chef and Habitat for Humanity volunteer. Les was brought by long time member Joe Link. David Groth brought his grandson Trevor Shue.

x� We had two visitors, Colleen Stone and Shane Squires, from Habitat for Humanity who gave a program presentation on volunteer opportunities at Habitat for Humanity. See p. 3.

New Business

x� Clay Crocker brought up for discussion the need to determine the fee amount for persons attending the upcoming Routers and Raised Panels class being held at Woodhaven Woodworks on October 1st. Clay’s research has revealed that in the recent past, day-long classes

CAW Officers 2016

President Clay Crocker 546-6033 President-Elect Mike Mitchell 416-1819 Past President Bob Jesse 824-2778 Treasurer Norm Koerner 787-8795 Editor Bob Jesse 824-2778 Web Master: Mike Mitchell 416-1819 Website: www.cawspi.org E mail: caw.woodworker@gmail.com

Future Meeting Topics / Events

Routers and Raised Panels Class Saturday, October 1st

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Woodhaven Woodworks

3112 Normandy Road Springfield, Illinois 62703

$30 Members / $45 Non-Members Includes Snacks, Drinks and Lunch

October Meeting Bending Wood Presented by Dr. Roland Folse

See Meeting, p2

Upcoming Meeting: Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Social Time 5:15 to 6:30

Meeting starts promptly at 6:30 MCL Cafeteria, 2151 Wabash Ave

September Program: Electrolysis to Restore Old, Rusty Tools

Presented by: Michael Mitchell

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hosted by the club have charged members between $30 - $35 dollars and non-members between $50 - $55. Typically the class fee included lunch which was provided by the club. Clay floated the idea of breaking for lunch and going to nearby restaurants to eat as opposed to the club providing lunch. Roland Folse raised an objection to this plan. Roland felt that serving lunch to the attendees increased the level of camaraderie generated by the class experience. A show of hands indicated that a majority of members would prefer that the club provide lunch during the class as opposed to going out to lunch.

x� Clay also brought up the issue of liability insurance costs for the class. A one day event policy with $1M/$2M coverage limits was quoted by R. W. Troxell Co. at $403. None of the members present could recall the club having purchased event insurance for classes in the past. The officers will continue to work on the question of insurance and try to get the cost down to a more reasonable amount.

x� Michael Mitchell asked the members if any had brought an old, rusty tool for him to use his electrolysis restoration technique on. Members who wish to participate were asked to bring their tool to Ralph Winch’s opens shop on Saturday, August 6th. Mike will be doing a program presentation on Electrolysis to Restore Old, Rusty Tools at the September meeting.

Old Business

x� Clay Crocker announced that he recently had a

Meeting, Cont. from p1

Knotty Bits…. Our newest and most novice member of CAW walks into a lumber yard and tells the clerk he’d like some 4 X 2’s.

The salesman replies; “Are you sure you don’t mean 2 X 4’s?” Answer: “Nope, the plan says 4 X 2’s.”

The salesman wants to avoid any controversy, so de-cides to agree with the customer but asks, “Okay, so how long do you need them?”

“Oh, I’ll need them quite a while. You see, I’m building a garage addition.”

Submitted by Norm Koerner

conversation with Corrin McWhirter, Gallery Director of the SAA Collective’s H.D. Smith Gallery at the Hoogland Center. Corrin is interested in having the CAW’s members participate in a woodworking exhibit once again at the gallery in October 2017.

Upcoming events

x� Ralph Winch gave a preview of the sawmill demonstration that he is scheduled to give on Saturday, August 6th from 9:00 - 11:00 AM. He plans to saw a walnut log and will demonstrate quarter sawing white oak boards. Ralph also has a shingle sawing attachment for his Wood-Mizer that he plans to demonstrate.

Evening Programs

x� We had two evening programs at the August meeting. First was an introduction to Habitat for Humanity of Sangamon County’s “Chill & Build” program by Colleen Stone and Shane Squires, followed by a presentation by club member David Kalaskie on his stacking shelf system. See page 3 for details of both program presentations.

Show-and-Tell

x� Lon Scott, Roland Folse and Jim Roles brought items for Show-and-Tell, see Page 5 for details.

50-50 Drawing

x� The 50-50 amount of $31 was won by David Groth’s grandson, Trevor Shue, congratulations Trevor!

▲ Member Joe Link and guest Les Eastep.

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Evening Program #1

An Introduction to Habitat for Humanity’s “Chill & Build” Program

Presented by Colleen Stone & Shayne Squires

Colleen Stone, Executive Director of Habitat for Hu-manity of Sangamon County gave an overview of some of the services that Habitat for Humanity offers. Habitat is a nonprofit organization that is most well known for building houses using volunteer labor and donations. Colleen pointed out that Habitat does not “give away free houses ”; instead, partner families invest their own labor into building their house and the houses of others. Once built, Habitat sells the house to the partner family at no profit and they fi-nance the purchase with affordable loans. The owner is responsible for paying the taxes and insurance on the property. Owner’s do not have access to the equi-ty in the house for the first 10 years and if they go to sell the house, Habitat reserves the right to buy the property back.

▲ Shane Squires (L) and Colleen Stone (R)

Habitat for Humanity of Sangamon County has many other offerings as well. They are currently in the pro-cess of raising money to purchase a property to reno-vate in the Enos Park neighborhood. They also build wheelchair ramps for families in need. Currently they have a backlog of seven ramps to build. Habitat also operates the Restore located on South 6th St. where Furrow was located. The Restore sells donated home building materials, furniture and fixtures. Income

See Chill & Build, p4

Evening Program #2

Stacking Shelf System

Presented by David Kalaskie

David Kalaskie gave a slide presentation and showed many templates and finished examples of an elegant stacking shelf system of his own design. David said he “needed a way to store all my books, tapes, vinyl

albums, CD’s, magazines, tools, electronic equip-ment, etc.… but not have a ten ton cabinet that can only be moved by emptying it completely and lug-ging the whole thing from here to there.” Plus he wanted a shelf design that did not permanently attach to the wall since he was living in a rented property at the time.

David’s first iteration of stacking shelves were built

See Stacking Shelves, p4

▲ David Kalaskie’s stacking shelf system.

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generated by the Restore is then used to help fund the construction of new Habitat houses within the local community.

Shane Squires, Habitat’s Procurement Lead, gave an informative talk about Habitat’s “Chill & Build” pro-gram. Chill & Build brings together volunteers to build, repair, rehab, and/or repurpose furniture to be sold through the Restore. Chill & Build is held at the Restore location and is scheduled for the 2nd Satur-day of every month from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM or you can volunteer at other times by appointment. Habitat provides the workspace and some tools, but volunteers can bring their own tools to use as well.

If you are interested in volunteering for Habitat’s Chill & Build or any other program, you can register online at: http://habitatsangamon.volunteerhub.com/events/index or you can call (217) 787-7209 for more information.

Chill & Build, Cont. from p3

using CDX plywood and freehand cuts. These early attempts used simple butt-joints where the shelves attached to the sides. He later refined his design and construction methods by adding dados to increase strength and by using templates to guide a pattern cut-ting router bit. Over the years David has gotten many requests from people who have seen his stacking shelf system and in turn asked him to build them a set too.

Stacking Shelves, Cont. from p3

▲ David’s first attempt at building his stacking shelf.

▲ Design refinements include dados and extended shelves.

▲ Here David is showing one of the router templates used to give more consistent results.

▲ More examples of finished stacking shelves.

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SHOP TIP Submitted by: Jack Tefft

How To Sell What You Make Excerpt from The Woodworkers Journal, Nov-Dec 1985

We frequently ask/hear the questions “How Much?” or “What is a good price?”.

Here are some “Secrets” of a successful woodwork-ing business.

FIRST ----- Know yourself: your skill level, ability and potential. Tailor the business so that you will be able to meet your goals and expectations. Be realistic.

SECOND ----- Sell, Sell, Sell.

No matter how competent and skilled you are, you will labor in obscurity if you do not sell or market your work. Some woodworkers choose the fair or craft show route, others prefer to be there own retail-ers. Still others strictly wholesale production items. Whichever method you choose, know this: you will have to sell, advertise, plan, and keep records, do in-ventory and bookkeeping. You will need to learn about taxes, write-offs, depreciation, deductions, profit and loss and a host of other things that have nothing to do with woodworking. Furthermore, about 80% of new businesses fail within their first five years. Still interested in establishing a woodworking business?

The following four factors are necessary for success:

TIMING - OPPORTUNITY - PRODUCT -

SERVICE

TIMING – Every successful business has at least a little luck, and timing is vital to luck.

Even the best product, if it is presented at the wrong time can fail.

OPPORTUNITY – Tailoring your product to meet a specific need, to respond to local or regional culture, economic reality and available markets is another key to success. Whatever the case, you must both recog-nize and create opportunities,

PRODUCT – As a rule, a product must be practical, serving a purpose and filling a need. A unique and distinctive look or shape may be just the right thing

Special Notes: Show and Tell: Members are encouraged to bring in items or projects to share at our meetings during the Show and Tell session. Show us what you’ve been working on lately! Share What You’ve Learned: If you’ve read an inter-esting article or some other woodworking related source, bring the topic to one of our meetings to share. Your participation is needed. Bring a Friend or Absent Member: And don’t forget to call members you haven’t seen at our meetings lately to ask if they need a ride to our next meeting. You are also encouraged to bring a friend who might be interested in the presentation topic.

Knotty Bits…. One day a woman was watching two men working along the right-of-way in her nice subdivision. One was digging a hole and the other would fill it back in. She watched them repeat this process for about ten times before going outside to ask: “Pardon me, but what in blazes are you two doing?” One answered by saying: “Well there are usually three of us, but the one who plants the trees is off sick today.”

Submitted by Norm Koerner

WANTED The CAW is looking for members to contribute con-tent to the Woodshop Advisor, just like the Shop Tip above! Do you have a “Tip” that you think other members would be interested in? It could be “TIP-OF-THE-MONTH” in our next issue! Do you have a in-teresting or unique jig that you use? It could be “JIG-OF-THE-MONTH” in our next issue. Send Clay Crocker an e-mail if you have an idea for the newslet-ter, it just might get published.

that makes your work attractive.

SERVICE – You must be a salesman to some degree, like it or not. You must believe in your product and this requires dedication, work and perseverance.

SUCCESS = the right person, with the right product, at the right time, in the right place.

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Show and Tell Jim Roles brought in his shop-made drum sander and gave a PowerPoint presentation showing the details of its design and construc-tion. Jim was inspired by a design he found searching the internet and by the high pur-chase price to buy a commercially made drum sander and all its accessories. The sanding drum is constructed of PVC pipe with turned wooden ends and is driven by Jim’s Shopsmith multi-function woodworking machine. Jim said he uses strips of sandpaper purchased from Grizzly Industrial tool compa-ny. The in-feed and out-feed table has adjusta-ble height to accommodate different thick-nesses of work pieces. The workpiece is fed through the sander by hand. The design in-cludes a dust shroud over the drum to catch the fine sanding dust with a dust collector. Jim showing members the details of his ► drum sander’s construction. This photo shows how the drum sander is mounted to the Shopsmith. ▼

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Close up of Jim Roles shop-made drum sander. ▲

Roland Folse showing a bookcase top with a patina ► copper panel that he built for an upcoming exhibit. ▼

Show and Tell

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► Roland Folse partici-pating in the “Art Talks” portion of the exhibition opening.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCMENT Former club President Roland Folse is one of the featured artists at the SAA Collective’s Creative Pathways exhibit on display at the H.D. Smith Gallery located inside the Hoogland Center for the Arts. Roland is exhib-iting his paintings, ceramics and woodwork. The exhibit runs from Aug 19 - Oct 6, 2016. A well attended Art-ists' Reception was held Saturday, August 20, with an Art Talks beforehand inside the Hoogland Club Room, on the 3rd Floor. Please make an effort to come out and see the exhibit and show support for one of our own!

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Ralph Winch hosted an Open Shop event at his sawmill on Saturday, August 6th. Ralph demonstrated his Wood-Mizer portable sawmill for the club members in attendance. We could not have asked for a better day, the weather was beautiful with comfortable temperatures. Ralph started by showing how he cuts shingles us-ing a factory made jig. Later he showed how to quarter saw a white oak log. Lastly, he demonstrated flat saw-ing of a walnut log. Ralph also gave a tour of his lumber drying kiln and workshop for those interested. Many thanks to Ralph for hosting and to all the members who came out.

◄ Ralph Winch explaining the setup of his shingle cutting jig.

▲ Cut shingles piling-up quick. ▼ Ralph in the process of cutting shingles.

Open Shop Event

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▲Ralph explaining the technique of quar-ter sawing white oak to the members.

Freshly quarter sawn white oak showing the sought after medullary rays. ►

Open Shop Event

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Open Shop Event

▲ Ralph explaining the difference between heartwood and sapwood in a walnut log. (Upper Right) Norm getting in on the ac-tion.!

The Wood-Mizer at work. ►