Here are the minutes of the Vancouver Island Woodcarvers Club (VIWC) meeting held on May 18, 2019:
https://miwg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/VIWC-Minutes_May2019.pdf
Here are the minutes of the Vancouver Island Woodcarvers Club (VIWC) meeting held on May 18, 2019:
https://miwg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/VIWC-Minutes_May2019.pdf
Hello fellow Woodworkers!
With apologies, this Newsletter is way past due! I will try to summarize events of the past 6 weeks – without tying up too much of your reading time!
Our May meeting was, once again, well-attended with over half of our membership present to see the latest “challenge” – a box. However, since I was unaware of the “challenge” stipulations, I brought a “tool” – one month out of date! Oh well, apparently we could do a box or a tool.
Our presenters for the evening were three members who were given 1/2 hour each to show off projects that they had worked on. Ed Tremblay had a slide presentation and brought equipment as well as the results for his pen-turning skills. (See last Newsletter for a picture of an award he made.)
Next, Mike Donnelly showed slides of the evolution of the Roubo workbench, and showed us the results of the building of his own Roubo workbench.
This was followed by Tom Hedekar’s slide show which walked us through his techniques for roughing out a bowl and turning green wood into bowls.
As usual, the presentations by home-grown talent were extremely well-received and much enjoyed. This meeting was another valuable demonstration of having a Woodworkers’ Guild for folks to enjoy each other’s successes and to learn from their experiences.
Gord Shoquist organized another shop tour which was held on May 4. Here is his report of that day’s events:
“The spring shop tour was a great success based on participation and our shop destinations. Twenty-one members joined in for stops at:
Sincere thanks to all the fellows that allowed us into their shops and were so generous with their knowledge, and thanks to all the members who joined in to make this a fun day. I’ll be organizing another shop tour in the fall so stay tuned.”
Paul McCuish’s Workshop:
Bill Thompson’s Yonderwood Workshop:
Ladysmith Marine Museum:
Brian McLaurin’s Workshop:
Steve Neil’s Workshop:
On Saturday, May 11, I participated with 6 lucky members who had their names drawn for attending Steve Neil’s workshop on hand-cutting dovetails. Gord Shoquist hosted this session at his workshop. Steve did an excellent job of providing instruction for cutting both dovetails, and half-blind dovetails, using a jig for which he provided plans. (And speaking of “half-blind” I guess that I was half-blind myself when I read the plan for constructing the jig prior to the class! I glued one of the ends on the wrong way!)
Ed Tremblay’s Wood Recovery crew has been very busy recently with the collections of a walnut log and a cedar log from Parksville. Yesterday, the volunteers assisted in cutting the wood out at Frost Fields. The need for a larger drying shed has increased, and so plans are now afoot for doubling the length of our drying space as well as adding a bit to the expanse of the roof. We have lots of available wood – including some alder and maple that are fully dry and ready for use. Ed has asked me to remind everyone that our next wood sale will be on Saturday May, 26 commencing at 10 a.m. There will also be a garage sale whereby members can sell and/or exchange equipment or hardware with others. (Ed will be sending out an email to members requesting assistance with the wood sale.)
Glen Smith has received confirmation from Arnim Rodeck of Shamawood that he will be our guest speaker for June 12th. It would be great if we can get a good turn out for him. Please have a look at his website at: www.shamawood.com. Also Glen reminds us that our challenge for this coming month is:
All in all, this has been a busy Spring Time, and I will trust that woodworking keeps us all very busy and happy, if not rich! I hope that you all enjoy the holiday tomorrow!
p.s. Try getting to visit others’ workshops on your own. I just had a wonderful visit to Chris Mannall’s shop last week and was able to see some of the beautiful pieces of work that he has created.