Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Minutes May 10/11

Most recent meeting minutes:

Attendance Naq, Paul, J Hiltz, Miles, Chris, Peter, Mike, Robert, Chris

Leo showed how to repair broken bowl blanks using wood clamp jigs epoxied to the round sides of the wood.
Leo described how wood dries out naturally and by Kiln.
Air drying can get to around 12% moisture but rarely lower.
Kiln dry can go down to 6%.
Moisture content of ambient wood around the shop..ie after years is around 8% on average.

Jim Hiltz demonstrated the McNaughton coring system on a large blank.
May10/11 meeting

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