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San Fernando Valley Woodworkers since 1988Monthly MeetingsOur meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month
at 7 PM, at the Balboa Park Sports Complex, Gym Build-ing, at 17015 Burbank Blvd, Encino (see page 3 for map).
http://sfvw.org/
April’s ChallengeMake items for the Quilt
Show in early May. Things can be decorative or functional for anything in the house, yard, or anywhere. But for the challenge, they need to be special!
Our President says...by Marc Collins
Greetings Woodnuts!We had a crazy good March meeting, wouldn’t you agree?
We had some amazing show and tell and contest submis-sions and it absolutely blew my mind. It’s so fantastic to see your work and I have to say that we are a very talented group. It was a super competitive contest as so many of you brought in projects and I really enjoyed seeing each and every one of them. I was very impressed.[Editor’s note: we had so many items displayed this month
that we have an extra number of photos for the newsletter! Great work!]And we have another contest this month! Please bring
in your submissions for something to sell at the Quilters Craft Show. These will be items that you are donating to the club. Proceeds from our sales this year will go to fund some badly needed AV upgrades for the club, so thank you in advance. After this contest, we will take a month off. I will come up with another contest, but if any of you have ideas, I am happy to consider them.
Looking so forward to our April meeting and I can’t wait to see you all soon.
Happy Shavings!Marc
El Presidente
Volume 29, Issue #4 April 2019
March Meeting: Steve Sampietro
and Calvin Sov will give a joint presentation on
using the scroll saw. Main points will in-clude saw features, templates, blade se-lection, puzzle strat-egies and materials.
Meeting Minutesby Ginger Gibson
The March 2019 San Fernando Valley Woodworkers Meeting, called to order at 7:09We began the meeting by introducing people new to the
group: Brian, a novice woodworker, Suni, who is making a table project for school, and George, who was a member 25 years ago and is revisiting the group.
AnnouncementsHappy birthday, El Presidente! If anyone needs a name badge, please write your name leg-
ibly and get it to Bill Peplow. It is free with dues-paying membership. There is a sign-up sheet for our club’s polo shirts. List size you want, and whether you want a pocket. It is $35 with a pocket and $30 without.There was a show at Rockler the following Saturday with
20% off on lumber. The group was reminded that if you buy something at Rockler, tell them you’re a member of SFV Woodworkers. It earns us prizes.Chuck asked for a couple more people to join him, Jeff,
and Duncan for a cradle workshop at his place. Jack mentioned the quilters would like a sample cradle for quilt-size measurements.
See “Minutes” on page 2
Jeff let us know he set up the Angel City Lumber tour for April 27, at 10:00 a.m. [See page 3 for de-tails.]Jeff and Stefan
brought several shop items as donations to raise funds for
the group. Mike brought a table saw outfeed table from his grandpa’s workshop.Gary Willough-
by announced he has a Weath-erguard pickup box to sell for $400.00, lockable, in good shape. Sam has a Crafts-man router table top and all acces-sories for $100.00 OBO.
Technical Ques-tions
Mike has a bench oscillating spindle sander and he’s been noticing that the sandpaper cyl-inders no longer fit right (they are slip-ping), cranking the nut down doesn’t help. Ed suggested putting a washer on the top, then the nut. To help
Who We AreThe club was formed in 1988 for the purpose of en-
hancing skills, providing information and sharing the joys of working with wood. The membership reflects a cross section of woodworking interests and skill lev-els - both hobbyist and professionals. Annual dues are $35. Full-time student dues are $15.
Club OfficersPresident: Marc Collins (310) 902-7005
[email protected] President: Jeff Bremer. (310) 740-6892
[email protected]: Ginger Gibson (818) 506-7261
[email protected]: Chuck Nickerson (818) 635-1175 [email protected] Calvin Sov (714) 457-8910
[email protected]: Gary Coyne (626) 799-4196
[email protected]: Open (626) 666-6666
[email protected] Chair: Jeff Bremer. (310) 740-6892
[email protected] Master: Ed Sheanin (818) 346-6732 [email protected] Toy Chair: Jim Kelly (323) 254-0837 [email protected] Club Sec Duncan Valore-Kemmerer (323) 788 8174
[email protected] Distribution: Sheila Rosenthal 818-653-4847
[email protected]: Nina Dusedau (201) 913-6151
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“Minutes” from page 1
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release the sanding cylinder that won’t come off, Gary sug-gested putting it in the freezer.Glenn asked if
there’s any place that sells bases for bell jars to be used as centerpieces. Suggestions were: Cherry Tree Toys and Meisel Hard-ware.
Tips and TricksGary W has been making easels for whiteboard, and he
notices when you crosscut the grooves, it leaves saw marks.
Balboa Recreation Center LocationMap curtesy of Google Maps
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From The Design GroupThe Design Group is where members can come
and discuss their projects in progress or intended and ask help on issues that they face. The March design meeting was at Ed Sheanin’s
home. Among the topics discussed were bandsaw point fences, dealing with bandsaw drift, bandsaw blade sharpening, variations in treasure chest de-sign, dealing with bent stock for a bed frame, and the trade-offs of one complex jig vs a few simple jigs. The next meeting will be April 25 at a location not
yet chosen.
He found that you can take these out on a lathe.Sam said when
working with melamine, when cutting on a table saw, put mask-ing tape on the melamine on the cut line to pre-
vent tear out.Gary Coyne explained how he made a jig for clamping
a three-sided finger jointed item by attaching two cheap boards against each other. One is exactly the inside with of the item, the 2nd is longer. This way you can squeeze the width and compress the height way with no problem.
Club BusinessPrograms: April will
be a scroll saw dem-onstration by Steve & Calvin; May will be Joe Feinblatt carving & turning, and June is TBA. Possibly Rockler.
Future programs #2: the question was asked if anyone would be in-terested in another talk by Brian Miller, and if so, any ideas on topics. Suggestions were: col-
“Minutes” from page 2
From the WebWorld’s largest hand planehttps://tinyurl.com/y4ec3pf8
Battery Powered lathehttps://tinyurl.com/y5zpeghz
SketchUp Bootcamp Roadshow2-day comprehensive training at Loyola Marymount Uni-
versity, $600. For more information go to: http://tinyurl.com/y2nosjqn
Kobeomsuk furniture - Making interlocking joinery wal-nut tablehttps://tinyurl.com/y4tl8qeb
How Russian Dolls are madehttps://tinyurl.com/y5nxrepj
See “Minutes” on page 3
SFVW Tour of Angel City LumberWe have been invited to tour the ACL facility on Saturday,
April 27th beginning at 10:00 am. Their address is 251 S Anderson Street, 90033. Check-out their website: https://www.angelcitylumber.com/home-1
or-blending with an airbrush, wa-ter-based finishes, and touch-ups.
Toy Commit-tee: Please join!
Treasurer’s re-port: We are sol-vent.
The quilt show: will be May 4th and 5th at the
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Upcoming Wood-related EventsJim Kelly
The following events and announcements were found in the March-April 2019 issue of Woodworker West and may be of interest:
1. April 26-28: the Society of Period Furniture Makers will hold its Spring Seminar at Cerritos College in Norwalk. For information and registration contact Bob Ormsby ([email protected]) or Bob Stevenson ([email protected]).
2. May 7-9: National Hardware Show at the Las Vegas Con-vention Center. Early registration free until March 15, then $50, with $125 on-site. More information at: www.national-hardwareshow.com/.
3. May 18: San Diego Woodturners will have a demonstration with Hans Weissflog. More information at: www.sdwt.org/.
4. May 31-July 4: Design in Wood at the San Diego County Fair. Entry deadline is April 26, and delivery deadline is May 22, 2019. All entries must be submitted online at: https://sdfair.com/exhibits/design-in-wood/
5. June 15: Channel Islands Woodturners will have a demon-stration with Hans Weissflog. More information at: www.channelislandswoodturners.org/.
6. July 12 – August 11: Fine Woodworking Competition at the Orange County Fair. May 24, 2019 is the deadline for enter-ing the Fine Woodworking Competition. More information at: https://ocfair.com or (714) 708-1624.
7. July 12-28: California Craft and Fine Arts at the California State Fair. More information about entering the competitions
at: www.castatefair.org.8. July 17-20: Association of Woodworking and Furnishings
Suppliers presents 2019 AWFS Fair in Las Vegas Conven-tion Center. Early bird registration $30 until June 30. More information at www.awfs.org/.
9. The Woodworking Shows: are again skipping the West Coast.
10. The Maloof Foundation: is now offering small hands-on classes. More information at: www.malooffoundation.org or (909) 980-0412.
11. DeWalt: is recalling 3/8-in reversible, variable speed drills (DWD110 and DWD112) with date codes 2017-37-FY through 2018-22-FY. Internal wiring may contact moving parts causing a shock hazard. If the drill is marked with an “X” after the date code, it has been checked and found safe. If not, stop using it and contact DeWalt at: [email protected] or (855) 752-5259.
12. Popular Woodworking: is sponsoring a Workshop Make-over Giveaway with a grand prize of $11,000 worth of power tools and accessories. Entry deadline is May 31, 2019. For details, see: https://www.popularwoodworking.com/win-shop/#//.
13. The Society of Wood Manufacturing: meets every second week of the month in Los Angeles County. For more infor-mation call Saul at (323) 228-0655.
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Airtel hotel by the Van Nuys Airport. Please see Marc if interested in helping out.
Next month’s challenge: will be the craft fair chal-lenge. Make some-thing appropriate for a craft fair, to be sold at quilter’s show.
AV Equipment update and vote
We decided to run the camera through live feed into a projector, and have a portable PA (like what you see at trade shows).The proposed budget is $1300, and we expect to get $600-
$800 of that from quilting show. The life span is expected to be a minimum of 5-7 years (this technology doesn’t change as radically or as quick as computers). Someone suggested buying it used, but the price difference was small enough that there’s no real incentive to do so. A vote was taken and the budget approved nearly unanimously. Hope-
“Minutes” from page 3 fully system will be procured by May.
Show & TellDale showed 4
spinning tops and how he makes them in bulk, plus a cala-bash bowls (a turned bowl that looks like a gourd) made on the lathe. They’re very thin. You have to turn them when the wood is green, so you can’t really control warping.Mike showed some Ironwood and a cutting board that
looked like a Zelda key. Gerry showed a toddler-sized step-stool. Jeff showed his 1798 Moravian Bench reproduction. He demonstrated it by assembling the bench from the in-dividual pieces
The Challenge: 3 or more woodsTom showed a stirring xylophone, Stefan showed a phone
valet made of padouk, maple, bubinga, and cherry. Marc
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A Kitchen Table Part 1 (of 3)by Jerry Burkhardt
showed a spoon/spatula made of bubinga, walnut, and ma-ple. Steve Veenstra showed ring boxes, a cutting board, and a chess board. George showed boxes to hold essential oils with fused glass decorative accents. Cliff showed a cheese-board. Jeff showed a wall cabinet made of sycamore, African mahogany, birch, and walnut. He also showed a picture box made of holly, ebony, and unknown, and another box made
of blood-wood, co-cobolo, and ebony. Ger-ry showed a barrel-s h a p e d b o n g o d r u m . Mark Ash-ley showed a pen made of walnut, blackwood,
and oak.The winner of the challenge was Stefan’s phone valet.
PresentationThe speaker for our March meeting was Barb Noren,
Director of Programming for reDiscover Center, a maker space and creative re-use center.This is a tinkering school intended mostly for kids, locat-
ed on Washington Blvd in Culver City. They are interested in arts integration, creative problem solving, environmental impact, and building maker spaces in schools. Their big-gest program is a summer camp for kids mainly in the 7-12 age group. They also do seasonal camps in additional locations, plus after-school enrichment at 20 schools.The basic tools they
teach and use are: Clamps, drills, hand-saws, jigsaws, and chop saws. Yes, kids are working with power tools. They also
“Minutes” from page 4
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Job Offerby Tracy Ewing
I would like to see if anyone is interested in creating a cus-tom made cabinet for me. If so, I can be reached at or 562-688-0205. We can talk about price, then. I’m open to different styles. My requirements are that my
warming oven fits snugly into it. Also, large cabinets to store some overflow from my kitchen. It will also have a sink in it, but I don’t particularly care about the sink, whether it is drop in or farmhouse, or anything like that.
This is a table for our kitchen that I made 2 or 3 years ago.Image 1: slicing a
juniper log that we re-moved from our front lawn (was drying for ~ 6 years). The odd-shaped log was anchored with spray foam to a sacrifi-cial board and cut with a re-saw blade.
Image 2: the juniper has very pretty end-grain patterns
Image 3: all slices drum-sanded to 3/8” thickness
Image 4: vacuum glu-ing the slices to a ply-
wood carrier board for the table surface, using the dust collector for vacuum. The reed mats are used to distribute the vacuum evenly.
Next month: Final creation of the table top.
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have a tool wall and a crafting center.Barb told us about
the techniques they use to teach kids how to safely work with tools. Kids are at a great age where they want to learn about new things, but you can still scare them into safety, so she comes up with specific protocols for that.
Rules are the 1st thing they talk about. They talk about the “blood bubble,” which is the space around the tool into which, if a body part ventures, there will probably be blood. They teach the kids to check their own energy level, so they’re not coming at the power tools with enough energy to make them careless and use a spotterThey talk about “creative clamping.” Go slow, and think
ahead. They try to teach by asking questions rather than telling. reDiscovery center is looking for facilitators to help the kids learn to use tools and build stuff, and donations of tools and/or materials. To contact to support and/or help, Email: [email protected].
“Minutes” from page 5 Kudos to Jeff and Jimby Sheila Rosenthal
Here is a photo of Jeff with Jacqueline Nederlk of The Healing Cottage in Winnetka. Jacqueline works with chil-dren with terminal cancer, sexual abuse survivors, and more. She received ten treasure chests from Jeff and Jim Cabernoch, for which she was extremely grateful. Jeff de-livered them personally to her last week. Also, the LA County Department of Public Social Ser-
vices has asked for our help. We work with them through the Toy Loan program. The Department is coordinating a volunteer day at the Center to help homeless people on skid row. They would like us to build a community garden planter for them, and I am sure we are happy to help. Their volunteer day is May 11 this year, and they would need for it to be completed before that event day. Anyone interested in helping build the planter boxes can contact me via email at [email protected] or by phone or text at 818-653-4847.This will be discussed further at the April Meeting