Diablo Woodworkers, A Club For All Woodworkers

NEXT MEETING DETAIL

Wednesday, October 14th virtual ZOOM meeting, at 7:00 p.m.,

Join us for a discussion with John Spivey about the creative process of designing and building beautiful furniture - from soil through wood into a functional sculpture. Spivey's design inspiration lies in the flow of lines within Zen calligraphy and painting. John will be sharing stories about where he draws design inspiration, such as a 94 -year old Japanese woman calligraphy teacher who was the daughter of Emperor Meiji, or how he had a brief encounter with Sam Maloof that helped get him going on his own work.

John Spivey is a studio furniture maker who lives in Santa Barbara, California. His work is executed in North American hardwoods--primarily walnut, maple, and cherry. Much of the work utilizes flitch cut boards that he buys in sets in order to match color and grain throughout a project.

When people decide to work with John, they’re making a choice to not just buy a piece of furniture but enter into a relationship, a relationship between the tree, maker, and client.

ZOOM Instructions: Keep an eye out for the Zoom meeting link that will be emailed to you by Jeff Traeger.

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

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NEXT SHOP TOUR/SAWDUST SESSION DEMO DETAIL

Saturday, Oct. 17th at 10:00 a.m. - Noon.

This is a Virtual meeting Hosted by Doug Sleeter.

More info coming soon.

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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

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NEXT WOODTURNERS DETAIL

SCHOOL IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

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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
Oct 14, 2020	Speaker is John Spivey. ZOOM MEETING - see instructions above
Oct 17, 2020	Virtual Shop Tour featuring Doug Sleeter at 10 am - 12 noon.

PREVIOUS MEETING

Wednesday, September 9th virtual meeting, at 7:00 p.m.,
speaker: Roy Underhill, of TV's The Woodwright's Shop

Roy Underhill is the host and creator of The Woodwright's Shop TV series focused on traditional American woodworking. After 37 years and over 400 episodes it is one of the longest running "how to" shows on PBS. Using only the hand tools of early America, Roy proves that woodworking doesn’t have to be noisy, dangerous or expensive. His insights into the principles of the craft reveal the enduring relationship between tools, and material between human hands and creations of culture.

Roy has published several books, including six woodworking guidebooks for UNC Press, along with a non-fiction best-practices guide for successful public speaking/performance and his 2014 debut novel Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker!

Additionally, Roy has started The Woodwrightschool.com in the pleasant town of Pittsboro, NC.

Please join us for an evening with Roy Underhill in which he will be discussing a rare artifact of woodworking history that he’s recently become the custodian of - The 1868 tools and day-book of the carpenter-joiner who did all the work on Robert E Lee’s house in Lexington, VA. Aside from the issues around the customer, it is a rare, day by day, account of a woodworker's life. The tools along with the written record tell a wonderful, revealing story. (As an aside, the day-book was discovered in a secret compartment in a travelling desk that belonged to Patrick Henry). Specifically, Roy will discuss the tool set of a woodworker in 1868 by looking at how they were used in constructing windows - one of the most common entries in his day-book.

Diablo Woodworkers was a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Our speaker was Roy Underhill

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SEPTEMBER 2020 SHOW AND TELL PHOTOS

Just a reminder to check out Sam's Safety Tips - updated 02/2020

NEW Show & Tell Cards.

Click on images to see artists page and enlargements

Gregg Langlois - Hayrake Table; Reclaimed redwood 4x4s were used for everything but the curved end cap and the tabletop (had to use lumber yard 2x6s for these). The mismatched colors of the different-aged redwood led me down the path of trying to figure out how to use transtint dyes (for the much lighter end caps and top).

Wayne Shipman - Footed Natural Edge Bowl; For those of you that are interested in natural edge bowl turning, here is an article written by Wayne Shipman. If you have questions or comment, please contact Wayne directly at wayne.shipman@comcast.net

David Traversi - A simple maple Shaker drop leaf table.
The joinery is hand cut mortise and tenon with draw bore pegs. The drop leaf mechanism are traditional shaker spinners.

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