March 31, 2026
Rick, Jason, Paul, Miles, Jimmy, Lawrence, Francis
Jason brought a beautiful unique bowl made by his late father, Jim Hiltz.
We each were puzzled as to how Jim did this piece!
Rick brought a spectacular spruce burl bowl, intricately turned to perfection. I noticed that the inside of the bowl was perfectly turned.
Miles demonstrated his solar heating panel, made of an array of tin cans, painted black, with openings cut in the ends. They are joined end to end with silicone bond, The photos explain this better
MAIN EVENT:
Lawrence conducted a workshop on how to prepare boards for a glued panel-specifically a table top.
He stressed choosing the wood carefully, looking for warp, twist, wind, cupping, bowing , grain pattern, knots and defects.
Paul had brought some butternut to restore the top of a small desk/table.
The boards should be cut with adequate extra length and width for proper jointing and matching of grain pattern.
Site down the edge to reveal deformity
Cut strips so that defects are eliminated or minimized
Arrange the boards on a surface in the way that they will be assembled and glued up
Carefully joint the faces. It is often necessary to pass just the end of the board over the blades for a short distance until the surface is flat enough to pass the board fully over the blades
Put a pencil mark down the length of each board in the direction that the grain should travel across the cutting knives
Joint one face of each board
Then use the thickness planer fo finish up
Pass the boards through in the opposite direction from the jointer cuts-i.e flip the jointed surface end to end
As the board passes through, mark a line at the end to indicate which end goes back through the planer
For the next pass mark a double line and for the next a triple line etc
After successive passes use circles or triangles etc to mark the sequence and direction of the cuts
This is important if you have many boards that need to be planes
Once the boards are planed flat, the edges can be jointed:
TO BE CONTINUED!
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| Assembling boards for jointing |
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| Mile's Solar panel |
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| Cross cutting the members |
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