Dedicated to Enjoying the Art of Woodworking

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1 Dedicated to Enjoying the Art of Woodworking Volume 22 Issue No 4 April 2017 Officers Founder Don Shutt President Terry Shears Co V. P. Dean Ray Co V.P. Chuck Morris Treasure: Frank Yanko Librarian: Walt Leimer Board: Wayne McCann Board Stew Hagerty Newsletter Dave Therkildsen This Newsletter is sent to interested people for three months, and sent each month to all paid up club members. Join Now and enjoy the fun! Coming Events The next meeting will be May 2nd, the 1st. Tuesday of the month. The meeting will be held at 7:00pm in the Club House, Lima Rd., Huntertown. Mark your calendar now. Demonstrations Next month Rodney Gruesbeck will be giving a demo on forging tools. All of you engineers dust off your Metallurgy 101 text books and get ready. In June (already?) is Stew Haggerty on Hand cut joinery. Meeting Notes We open the meeting with 41 people in attendance. As we leave winter if you see bad weather coming on the night of our meetings please keep an eye on your s for updates. The club library is expanding so check it out. There are now 83 books on carving alone. The Oak tree is continuing with their monthly classes. Check to the web site to see what is scheduled. Many of these classes are run by our members. The Oak Tree is having their Artisan Fair again this year. It is scheduled for Sept. 9th. This has been very popular and the limited space fills up fast. If you want in you may want to sign up early. Mill Supply customer appreciation day is May 10th mark your calendars. Demonstration So this month was the story of the 2 Terry s on the 2 CNC s. So, what is a CNC? CNC is a acronym for Computer Numerical Control. Basically it is a machine where a router (trim router, etc.) is mounted above a clamping table. The motion of the router / cutter is precisely controlled in the X, Y and Z axes control software program. The finished part is initially designed using a CAD (computer s aided design) program. You can also scan an existing drawing or sketch The digitized part is now converted by a CAM (computer aided manufacturing) program. The CAM software program can then be used to generate a G code which in turn controls the movement of the router / cutter to generate the desired finished part.. While you watch (or, more importantly, don t watch). Terry Shears has a large CNC which he could not bring to the meeting. The workspace on this unit is 3 2 x 3 4 Terry Jones brought in his smaller portable CNC. The workspace on this unit is 12 X 12, although the part can be cut, moved back and, after re-zeroing the router, continue the cut. Measure twice cut once.! This is small, light, shop space friendly and comes complete with little assembly required. Terry Shears has substantial hours in the assembly as well as making several of the parts for his equipment. Obliviously, it is in a dedicated footprint in his shop. Here is the CNC in action. This sign was cut during the demo in just a few minutes! Perfect font. And spelling every time and no hands. OK you got me. I didn t get a picture of the demo ed sign. Close enough for government work. Please keep you r address up to date! Do you have any questions about the Three Rivers Woodworkers Club Call: Terry Shears

2 Demonstration (cont.) One use for the CNC equipment is the manufacturing of a sign, or several signs or several identical signs (really identical signs). Or parts for larger projects made by Terry Shears on his equipment. Remember when making cut out parts that you don t want them to fly loose when they separate from the base. You can design in small tabs that hold the piece tight and that can be easily removed by hand later. One good example of the precision of this machine is the cutouts shown here. Now that is a tight fit I would challenge anyone to accomplish by hand. And you can make your G code using an existing drawing or sketch as seen here. Because there is a z axis control you can give your work a more 3- dimensional look. You also have more versatility because you use a variety of bits for different cuts. All in all these things are cool beans. Everything you need to get started can get expensive, but, once you are comfortable with the equipment I m sure you can visualize many ways to get your investment back and then some. And with a minimal investment of time since most of your projects can run unattended. If you are interested in researching this farther you can get a kit for Terry Shears equipment, the Sidewinder CNC from Dave Gatton Dave can provide the plans or plans with a kit including all of the wood pieces pre-cut. Terry Jones equipment is manufactured by Next Wave Automation and is the Pirahna FX model. You can see what New Wave offers here I was recently at a trade show and saw a CNC that was more affordable. This is offered by Siencil Labs and you can see their product here Show & Tell Projects Projects by Bill Sumney Bill brings us a Unity Cross this month. This is a project for his grand daughter s wedding. The wood used in wenge for the black and hard maple for the white. There are 8 coats of lacquer for the finish. Page 2

3 Projects by Alan Longroy The sycamore box measures 6.5 X 12 1/4 x 3 1/2. When sycamore is quarter sawn it yields a wood which has an intense figure. See AL s blog for details AllanLongroy.wordpress.com This box has a lid which has been rounded slightly and inserted between ends of American black walnut. The box has a shop-made walnut plywood bottom and 5mm brass barrel hinges to hold the lid. The finish is sprayed and hand rubbed precatalyzed lacquer, followed by waxing. Projects by Chuck Morris Walnut Night Lamp This is a stained glass night light for one of Chuck s kids. It uses a 7 watt bulb. This lamp was made out of walnut and glued together with slow set epoxy glue. The pieces were finished with gloss lacquer before they were assembled The beauty of this is that anyone can make a stained glass lamp with no stained glass experience. A great source for stained glass is Hobby Lobby. Maple Night Lamp This lamp is made for maple that was scrap after the production of Bassoons. All of the pieces are, finished and glued together. The lamp is to represent an air traffic control tower in a bedroom where the theme is an airport. In this case Chuck soldered the clear glass on top where the air traffic controllers were glued. It I finished using gloss lacquer. Page 3

4 Projects by Dennis McCann So Dennis has a problem with misplacing his external hard drives. At least he used to have a problem until he made these nifty boxes. These boxes are made of walnut sandwiched between amborsia maple. The finish is wipe on poly. Just in case he still loses his external hard drives and the terabytes of data therein he also made a gun box so he will be able to find his pistol. Just kidding the pistol is for his daughter. Projects by Curtis Rose Curtis The Mobius Man brings us his Wedding Ring XXII. This is made of Tennessee black walnut. Again the base is made from 10 year (or more) old slate Curtis savaged from a roof repair job in the area. Page 4

5 Projects by Steve Moss Don t put all of you eggs in one Basket, as Steve calls this work, comes to us just in time for Easter. The eggs are made of poplar, cherry and walnut. They are turned on the lathe and took about 40 minutes each to make. They have a lacquer finish. Projects by John Gospodarek Shadow Box and engravings Projects by Stew Hagerty Plant Stand Page 5

6 Projects by Dick Dettmer This cherry step stool is a replica of one that was in Thomas Jefferson s library. Initially Dick built one out of pine to get the angles and measurements correct and make sure the step ladder was balanced and sturdy. The measurements on the base and the steps worked out fine. Dick did not make the pine model as a functional folding prototype and thus it took many tries with re-measuring and cutting of the steps before they would fold into the base properly. The hinges for the steps are 1/2 brass rods. The finish is 2 coast of General Finishes gloss Armor Seal and one coat of satin Armor Seal. Projects by Herman Hammer Herman had an ash burl given to him 2 years ago and it was too big for him to turn. He approached Fred Inman with his problem and said he would like to get 2 bowls out of the burl but didn t know how to lay it out. Fred had the right tool and the needed patience. The 2 bowls displayed are from the same piece of burl the smaller scooped out of the larger. Herman turned the smaller bowl and Fred the larger. There are 4 coats of lacquer on both. Herman is returning the bowls to the person that gave him the burl,,,, in much better shape than when the burl was given.

7 Terry Shears Glacier Ridge Ft. Wayne, IN Wood Working Suppliers MSI Mill Supplies 5105 Industrial Road. Fort Wayne, IN Michael Eber Oak Tree Woodworking Supplies Plank St. Huntertown, IN Discount dependent on type of product Farm Building Supply Cuba Road, Grabill, IN Discount dependent on product Makita Tools, Router Bits, Hardwoods Laser Engraving Siege Productions, Chris Johnson owner, Phone: , East Gump Rd., Ft. Wayne, IN Wible s Lumber 7155 S SR3 South Milford, IN Retail Sales Kevin Phone: Hahn Systems 7147 Ricker Road & Rt. 37 East of 469 New Haven, IN Phone: Warfield Creative Engraving Jaqueline Warfield PO Box 84 Leo, IN Phone: Web site: jaquueline_warfleld@msn.com Page 6