A country barn in
intarsia is a gift for Steve Wavro’s daughter and son-in-law who live in
Kansas. Steve found a logo
of the Hudson Cream Flour that he wanted to use on the barn instead of
the tobacco logo that came with the design but the local awards shop
laser just didn’t give Steve the look he wanted.
Steve received considerable help from fellow member Rick Spacek
who used pyrography to duplicate the logo. The barn was created from
about 200 pieces of eight different types of wood in various
thicknesses.
From a Steve Good pattern the puzzle of Steve and his wife was scroll sawed with several 2-aught Flying Dutchman blades.
Mark Bolinger explained
how he built his drum sander that uses a lathe to hold the drum.
With his rig there is no need for a powered feed and gloves
provide sufficient protection, without grabbing, for hand feeding on his
adjustable feeder board. A
wood “log” is first fine “tuned” by passing a board underneath with flat
sandpaper glued to the board. Once tuned a roll of sandpaper can then be
glued to the drum. Mark’s
drum sander works great for sanding veneers.
With old growth pine and
some bird’s eye maple veneer, Dave VanDewerker crafted these two service
trays. Dave said he got good results making splines and cutting grooves
from his table saw. He finished with two coats shellac topped with
polychrome spray.
Rick Spaced scroll sawed
a four-wheeler, fireplace, and sleigh and then hand painted them.
Rick used a #2-aught spiral blade, which cut through very easily,
to create the four-wheeler from machine grade plastic.
From a larger Shane Dennehey design, Norm Nichols crafter this smaller version of his cross from mesquite, black walnut, and pecan on a red oak base. Norm sprayed finished with Varathane.
Denis Muras showed more Jeeps of various woods some of which are Christmas tree ornaments. The rack of letter “X”s is a toilet paper holder with the rolls of toilet paper serving as letter “O”s. Something else to do while holding court from the porcelain throne.
George Graves turned three bowls of Color Ply, spalted maple, and mahogany. George says turning Color Ply creates lots of sawdust and recommended wearing a dust mask. On his bowls George finished with his own blend of 1/3 denatured alcohol, 1/3 boiled linseed oil and 1/3 shellac.
Ron Kirchoff’s cousin asked him to craft a mancala board for his daughter so Ron did so from basswood and some walnut veneer. The challenging part was getting the board to align properly for routing the bowl holes. Ron sprayed with canned lacquer.
Designed with a senior
citizen in mind, Chuck Meeder crafted a shoe bench using simple dado
joints reinforced with dowels.
Chuck finished with two coats of traditional milk paint topped
with two coats of Danish oil (milk paint without a top coat will spot if
water gets on it).
Richard Hash’s son got
married and wanted a Celtic pattern goblet so Richard turned this goblet
from cherry wood taken from the family farm, circa 1840, in Virginia.
Richard had great success turning and cutting the captured rings
using the
Robert Sorby #805H Captive Ring Tool. The adjustable angle tip
worked for him on the first try and every try since.
Kevin Shaw’s wife wanted
a rosary box so Kevin hand carved all but the rough work for this rosary
puzzle box. Kevin crafted
other rosary boxes for church auctions.
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1Wink Wood: Bob Wink lives near a commercial woodworking
facility that gives away what they consider to be scrap pieces of
commercial grade plywood and misc hard woods. Bob rescues this wood
before a Grinch comes and takes the scrap for firewood. Many
woodworkers in WWCH have made good use of these excess pieces by making
jigs, toys, and incorporating them into their projects as you’ve seen in
many Show n Tell projects. This source of wood is what has become known
as “Wink” wood
2CNC -
Computer Numerical Control
Photos: Gary Rowen, Podiums: Mike Hardy