Diablo Woodworkers, A Club For All Woodworkers

NEXT MEETING DETAIL Wednesday, July 8th virtual meeting, at 7:00 p.m., speaker: Raymond Kinman, Raymond Kinman is a self-taught, professional woodcarver (and carving instructor) and has been practicing full time for 43 years. Perhaps he is best known for his 27 years working with Walt Disney ImagineerIng and the myriad of woodcarvings he has created for Disneyland and Disney Theme Parks. He is also a contributing artist for Disney Fine Art Galleries worldwide. Raymond will be presenting his portfolio and telling stories about his long career, as well as teaching and demonstrating the basics of his 6 Step system for creating believable relief woodcarvings. For a sneak preview of Raymond’s work, please visit his website: https://www.woodcarverguru.com/. You can also check out his video “The Truth in Advance ” to hear the story about how he got started in the business. You’ll also find on his site a link to the PBS American Woodshop where he was a featured guest. Ray currently lives, works and teaches with his wife Marisa in their Sierra Nevada foothills home in Grass Valley, CA. He also a professional musician, father and grandfather. ZOOM Instructions: Our meeting starts officially at 7 p.m. but if you’d like to sign in early to experiment with the Zoom connection, we will be online at 6:30. A few days before the meeting we will e-mail everyone a clickable link that gets you in to the meeting. Attached is a “cheat sheet” which will help you with the Zoom software. Additional on line links to “helps” are provided below. Don’t let this virtual meeting and the software overwhelm you. It is really pretty simple – • Download the application • Save the link to the meeting that we will provide a few days before the meeting • Click on the link just before the start of the meeting and then you’re all set to enjoy our first on line virtual meeting. By the way, this will probably be our means of meeting for the next several months. Go here to download the Zoom application: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360034967471-Quick-start-guide-for-new-users. In addition to the attachment, here are two links which will help you with Zoom: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ygZ96J_z4AY?rel=0&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=1 https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360034967471-Quick-start-guide-for-new-users ==================================
NEXT SHOP TOUR/SAWDUST SESSION DEMO DETAIL
Saturday, Jul 18th at 10:00 a.m. - Noon. This is a Virtual meeting Hosted by Christine Loehrlein. Christine Loehrlein is a retired biochemist. Soon after moving to Alameda a little over 20 years ago, she decided to pursue a long-time dream of learning woodworking. She took several classes over the course of one summer at The Alameda Woodworker Academy, located in back of The Japan Woodworker, less than a mile down the street from where she lives. But the demands of work at that time pried her away from developing this new interest. Five years ago Christine retired, and immediately took up the fledgling hobby again, this time with DVWW, taking classes at Pleasant Hill. She’s had the great benefit of learning woodworking as a fine craft from the skilled teachers and many of the very experienced students there. One of those instructors, Brian Condran, who is a two year graduate of the Krenov School in Fort Bragg, introduced her to that school – its history, concept, and feel – and encouraged her to pursue it. She applied to and was accepted into the program for this past school year, and got as far as she could before the forces of nature changed the trajectory of everything we know. Before going to the Krenov School, she had been converting her garage into a woodworking shop. She lives in a historic Craftsman style home that is over 100 years old, so creating this shop came with some significant challenges. On the tour, Christine will show you the 1st project she made at the Krenov School, progress on her 2nd project, some of the jigs and fixtures she made at the school, and share with you many of the “charms” of an older home that created some unique features of her shop. ==================================
Saturday, Aug 15th at 10:00 a.m. - Noon. This is a Virtual meeting Hosted by Mike Selser. More info coming soon. Go here to download the Zoom application: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360034967471-Quick-start-guide-for-new-users Here are two links that will help you with Zoom: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ygZ96J_z4AY?rel=0&autoplay=1&cc_load_policy=1 https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360034967471-Quick-start-guide-for-new-users ==================================
NEXT WOODTURNERS DETAIL
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Diablo Woodworkers ACTIVITIES. Club meetings at PHEC are the 2nd Wednesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Shop Tours are the 3rd Saturday of the month, 10 a.m. to Noon. The Mt. Diablo Woodturning Center meets in Room 208 at PHEC, 7pm the first Thursday of each month. Just drop in. There is no need for advanced registration. Just show up and join the fun.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
July 8, 2020	Raymond Kinman, 7:00 pm ZOOM MEETING - see instructions above
Jul 18, 2020	Virtual Shop Tour featuring Christine Loehrlein at 10 am - 12 noon.
Aug 15, 2020	Virtual Shop Tour featuring Mike Selser at 10 am - 12 noon.

PREVIOUS MEETING

Wednesday, June 10th virtual meeting, at 7:00 p.m.,
Featured by Jarrod Dahl.

The speaker showed a slide presentation of sharing his knowledge about the history, tools, and techniques of green woodworking, including wood preparation, spoon carving, shrink pots, and pole lathe turning as well as highlighted his teachers and some of the important and creative green woodworkers working today. He showed and discussed his work and interest in some fairly obscure green woodworking projects. There were lots of inspirational photos that he gathered and curated over the years from research in museums, private collections, online, and through foreign travel plus links for further research and exploring green wood projects on your own.

About Jarrod Dahl:
He is a full-time craftsperson, teacher, and writer who has worked with wood professionally since 1996. With help from his wife and an assistant, he designs, makes, and sells fine domestic woodenware on his website, woodspirithandcraft.com. He specializes in turning green wood into handled cups, bowls, plates, and boxes using a foot-powered lathe, a Japanese-style electric lathe, and a Western electric lathe. He is also an accomplished spoon carver who makes a wide variety of knife-finished cooking and eating utensils. Jarrod teaches handcraft nationally and internationally as well as trains apprentices. He has studied and researched woodenware in museum archives in the US, Sweden, UK, and Japan which has been an influential part of his design inspiration. Jarrod has extensive knowledge of harvesting and processing natural materials, forging and using hand tools, and making a wide variety of craft from basketry to canoes. He takes a philosophical, historical and pragmatic approach to making, teaching, and advocating for handcraft. Jarrod writes a blog, and has written for Popular Woodworking and Mortise & Tenon magazines. He made two DVDs, The Art of Spoon Carving and One Tree about green woodworking recorded in Japan. He also has a forthcoming book with Lost Art Press on spring pole lathe turning.

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JUNE 2020 SHOW AND TELL PHOTOS

Just a reminder to check out Sam's Safety Tips - updated 10/16/2018

NEW Show & Tell Cards.

Click on images to see artists page and enlargements

Joseph Brody - Bee hive he built for his daughter.

Leland Frayseth - 12 foot Skiff, The wood is marine grade Douglas Fir plywood $300 for 2-1/4" sheets and 2-3/8" sheets and the cleats and sheers are Mahogany. After I get the stitches in and tightened the seams will get epoxy putty fillets of resin, hardner, micro balloons and silica plus 2 layers of biaxial fiberglass cloth and the exterior will get completely covered in fiberglass cloth. This is my 3rd wood boat build and I enjoy the build process and look forward to chasing Sacramento and Mokelumne river salmon with her this fall. The plans are the Glen-L RowMe https://www.glen-l.com/.

Harold Mantle - I “carved” these matching cherry wood spoons a few years ago, but never brought them to a show and tell. They were roughed out on the bandsaw followed by lots of sanding and carving of the face side to create a bowl in the spoon end. They can serve as salad tongs or stirring sticks. The notch in the side allows you to rest them on the pot rim.

Bob Barnett - Walnut with Sam Maloof Poly/Oil finish and Clapham’s Bees Wax. See his page for more detail.

George Lucido - Double Rod-Back armchair, circa 1800, New England. Pine seat and ash everywhere else, milk paint finish. This is Windsor chair #39 for me. It is going to a great-niece.

A few cutting boards for my daughter’s first apartment. Through-inlay is with padauk, ebony and purple heart.

FEBRUARY 2020 SAWDUST SESSION PHOTOS
SATURDAY, February 08, 2019 SAWDUST SESSION, 10AM - NOON Wayne Shipman – Construction of bent lamination fixtures. Club member Wayne Shipman is a former college shop class instructor, contractor and architect. For the past 3 years, he has made the rockers for the raffle project Maloof chairs using bent lamination. Wayne shared his knowledge for construction of bent lamination fixtures. He discussed the necessary steps from design to use; what to make sure you do, and what to avoid. Finally we performed a glue-up.
PAPER PATTERN FOR ROCKING CHAIR BENT LAMINATED RUNNER	PAPER PATTERN FOR ROCKING CHAIR RUNNER ON JIG.
SAMPLE BENT LAMINATION OF CHAIR PART.	CONTRUCTION OF GLUE-UP JIG FOR LAMINATED PARTS.
JIG FOR CUTTING LAMINATIONS WITH TABLE SAW.	LAMINATIONS CUT WITH JIG ON TABLE SAW.
ROCKING CHAIR RUNNER JIG PREP.	LAMINTATED ROCKING CHAIR RUNNER.
WAXING THE JIG	GLUING UP THE LAMINATIONS
TEAM CLAMPING	GLUED AND CLAMPED ROCKING CHAIR RUNNER

Memorial Flag Case Project

Since the 9/11 tragedy, the Diablo Woodworkers have channeled some of their woodworking passion into compassion for the families of fallen firefighters and law enforcement officers - the survivors of those who have given their last full measure in protecting others.

We honor those families with memorial flag cases that have been crafted from California (Claro) walnut and accented with silver maple corner splines. Each case is finished with Danish oil and buffed out to a smooth finish.

These memorial flag cases are provided to all law enforcement and firefighting units in the San Francisco Bay area. We are proud to have worked with over 100 families in the past 10 years and will continue to honor the fallen.

Gordon Fry, 925-685-1676 is the Chairperson for this project. Plans for these flag cases are on our club web site.

09/08/2019

As you all know, the Diablo Woodworkers provide a terrific community service program,
The Memorial Flag Case, for fallen first responders. Our program reaches out to the men, and woman, who have died in the line of duty. We have been involved in this program, since 911, when our club and many other wood clubs accross the USA, provided over 3000 memorial
flag cases to those who were killed at that disaster.
Well, our supply of flag cases, that we keep on hand, has been depleted, and as the coordinator of this program, needed to make up more cases. I was able to get a great team together, who I want to thank for their expert support.
We spent 3 1/2 days to build, and, what a great job, they did !!!.

Thanks to;
Joe Arnoth
Butch Brear
Chuck Cottril
Andy Ferguson
Margaret Lyman
Wayne Shipman
David Whittenbrock

Gordon Fry

FLAG CASE PRESENTATION HISTORY

CALENDAR OF EVENTS