Show & Tell
Compiled by Dave Armstrong, pictures by Chelsea Sanders
Kelly-Robyn Bellamy: Kelly showed us two items. The first was a rose laying on a piece of glass. The second was a wood bowl filled with roses. The bowl was turned of unknown wood. The roses were made of shavings and coloured with ink.
.Trent Watts: Trent showed us two items.
The first was a maple box containing shot glasses also of maple. The maple came form a large beam salvaged from the elevator of the Rumely building. The beam was soaked with oil and grease. In places inches of material need to be removed to expose good wood. Trent has used ebony to spline the corners. It is finished with wipe-on poly and buffed.
The second item is a weed pot turned of a Manitoba maple burl. It has been buffed and had carnauba wax applied. Trent indicated that the pot held his invisible rose!
Mark Noete: Marked showed us two turnings.
The first turning is a hollow vessel. It is turned from a box elder burl with a walnut rim. It is finished with shelac and waxed.
The second item is a box. It contains several woods, white oak, big leaf maple burl, box elder burl and ash. The finial is coloured with India Ink. The box is finished with lacquer, and waxed.
Mel Genge: Mel showed us a vase of mountain ash, finished with oil and buffed.
Mel hollow turned this from the bottom, so the inside is well finished.
Zak Hauser: Zak showed us a serving tray.
It is made of Paduak, maple and brass. The brass elements are inlaid into the wood. It is finished with a hand rubbed oil and varnish. Zak says"sometimes you make a table top and it becomes a tray!".
Steve Kroeger: Steve showed us a turned vase of unidentified wood.
It is finished with Danish oil.
Caleb Ripley: Caleb showed us a "wood rose trio".
Caleb has used maple twigs for stems and fir shavings for petals. The stems have parts of branches left to substitute for thorns. The petals are hot melt glue to the stems.
Gordan Munn: Gord's piece from last month was not presented so here is last month piece as well as this months.
Gord show a bowl made from a burl. It is finished with walnut oil and turners wax.
This month Gord showed us a box.
It is made of yew and 2 other unidentified woods. It has had walnut oil applied but finishing is not complete.
Cathy Bellamy: Cathy showed us a wild rose wood burning.
Cheryl and Nelson Coupland:
The Couplands sent us pictures of rose carvings they have done. They were projected in the screen in the woodshop for all to see.
John Barry: John has been working on restoring a sail boat. It is 11 meters long and was built in 1939. He showed us a book and some pictures of his boat. He has learned a lot about joinery both from the guild and from the work of the boat builders.
Demo
Compiled by Dave Armstrong
Lynn Freistadt demonstrated his method of putting edge banding on shelves.
Melamine shelves often have band banding applied.
The edge banding comes in pre-glued tape in a roll. The banding is applied with an iron.
The banding needs to be trimmed, A file could be used but it may damage the shelf finish.
There are edge trimmers that can trim both sides at once without damaging the shelf.
A closeup of the the trimmer, some of them will even bevel the edges of the tape.
Lynn prefers to apply a solid wood facing on his shelves.
One could use a router with an edge trimming bit, but the wobble may result damage to the shelf.
At this point Lynn showed us a jig, it is based on a jib produced by Ralph Reid, a long time guild member now deceased. It consists of a holder for a weight (tin can) a base and a piece to side on the shelf.
Lynn's version of the jig has a plastic sliding surface (UHMW plastic available at Lee valley ?)
The jig must have a weight to counter balance the router. Here is a 6 pound weight, Lynn also has 4 pound weights. The weights came fro Ralph estate sale.
Here is the jig in position, the router bit should be a flat bottomed bit and depth adjusted ti almost touch the shelf.
Here is the finished product!
Thank you for the Demo Lynn!