Charlotte Woodworkers Association
The Charlotte Woodworkers Association, is a non-profit organization. It was formed in 1985 for the purpose of promoting excellence in woodworking through teaching, development of individual skills and fostering interest in our craft.
This guitar, made by George Thomas, is made of padauk, mahogany, spanish cedar and has a carbon fiber rod to support the neck. Since he will have finished and given this guitar away before the next meeting he decided to show it in progress.
George, having made a large number of guitars frequency tunes his guitars. Typically he tunes to 200 hz for the basic top with the sound bars installed. Rather than making, he will normally buy the fretboard already cut for the frets.
Well played George!
Bruce got the idea for this carving from a book. It’s made from basswood (8/4) and is a fairly simple carving. The star is chip carved with gold leaf. He used all hand chisels and a couple gouges.
Did you know our club members are entitled to discounts from some of our local stores woodworking / lumber stores?
If you know of any other stores you think would extend discounts to members, please provide the information to Mark Boyer this month. We’re in the process of revisiting all or our sponsors and cleaning up our list of vendors. Your feedback is very important to all of our members.
Once or twice a year we like to feature a tour of members’ workshops. This is an opportunity for members to learn how others organize their spaces, ask questions and generally get to know each other a little better. Tours are limited to members only for safety and security reasons.
This month’s meeting presentation was a collaborative session with member participation and a competition for the best voted on Gadget, Tip or Trick. Congratulations to Phil DeBerry for winning the $25 gift certificate to Woodcraft and to runner up Mark Willingham. Entrants and their entries included:
Bruce Bogust – Use masking tape on ends to cut pins for dovetails. It’s much easier to cut with the tape than to try to see the lines and it helps to easily identify where to remove material.
Stan Howell – Digital Protractor – Set on the table, zero it out, then you can get the exact angle relative to your work surface. It works great on the drill press too!
Charlotte Bortmas– Charlotte is all the time looking for her pencil so she made a pencil holder with a retractable string clip to keep it close to her at all times.
Peter Stoffel – Sometimes it’s difficult to get a miter fence set exactly right. Peter uses an index card to move the fence an eact.— F-clamp to lock down the
Phillip DeBerry (winner) – pack of playing cards – use for shims. Make room for glue – perfect fit using a deck of cards when done play some poker.
Alan Grayson—
Mark Willingham (runner up)- Dealing with Glue squeeze out. Use a straw to clean-up glue squeeze out.
Bob McElfresh – lining up hinges on a box.
Tom Willis
Randy Young – Ebony Plane
Greg Smith
James Garrett—Coat hanger bent to check drill press level
All of our entrants demonstrated tools, tricks and tips that are helpful for the craft. Well done woodworkers!
As part of the wood identification at our March 2018 meeting, Randy recommended the book Identifying Wood by R. Bruce Hoadley. This book is in our library if you would like to check it out. You can read about it here: http://www.librarything.com/work/571503/book/154073256.
Please don’t try this at home or in the shop… But enjoy the video!
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