Most recent meeting minutes:

Paul, Lawrence,Rick, Peter, Mike, Miles,  J Maclean, Chris

Leo has perfected the salad bowl finish container and he showed how it works. We will all do one. We need to turn a top to approximately a diameter of 3 5/8 and height of 2 inches. (Make it a little oversized first.) We need one liter IV bags. The bags can be heated a little and they will stretch to fit this top diameter. (3 5/8). The seal will be done with concrete bond and white cement.

The top should be made by glueing up layers of hardwood. Don’t use plywood.

Leo went over several tips on accurate thickness planer use.

1 Lift the wood as it enters the infeed and again lift the exiting end as it leaves

2 The rollers should be accurately adjusted to be just a hair above the platform so as to grab the wood that enters and leaves

3 Run wood in at an angle to minimize snipe 

4 Use a planing board to plane thin pieces. Make it as wide as the thicknesser will accept and snip off the ends at an angle. Make the board exactly one inch thick ( end stop included) so that the guage on the thicknesser can be used.

Tenons:

Can use a dado on the saw or a tenon jig and fence.

Be accurate.

Use the jig shown in the photos to hand plane a tenon.

For a 3/4 board with a 5/16 tenon, the jig should be made with 17/32 size guides and add a strip of paper under the guides to get an accurate tenon. See photos.

A rabbet plane is uses to plane the tenons. 

Table project