WOODCHATTER. Denny. Chips & Splinters. This Months meeting: Tuesday, September 15th the Dewitt Memorial Building at 7pm

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1 WOODCHATTER MMWG.ORG Newsletter of the Mid Michigan Woodworker s Guild September 2015 This Months meeting: Tuesday, September 15th at the Dewitt Memorial Building at 7pm Chips & Splinters The Mid-Michigan Michigan Woodworkers Guild is a non-profit organization. Our goal is to help people become better woodworkers and promote a better understanding and appreciation for woodworking of all types. Skill IS NOT a prerequisite Regular Meetings: Dewitt Memorial Building, 206 W. Washington, Dewitt, MI, on the 3 rd Tuesday of the month at 7:00pm Visit mmwg.org for the latest MMWG news and be sure to Like the Guild s Facebook page Greetings from your MMWG president. I hope everyone had a great summer and made lots of sawdust. We have some great presentations lined up for the remainder of Mark your calendars as you will not want to miss the remaining programs. Don t forget Wood Expo at Johnson s Workbench on September 11 & 12. We will have a large presence at this event with several of our members exhibiting as well as teaching classes. Lots to see and do at this event so come on out. Some great bargains on wood packages as well. We can always use a hand in our booth helping to promote the guild. Thanks to our guild members who came out on August 29 to help build 76 cars for a children s activity that we will be hosting on Saturday at the Expo. Those helping with the car build were Bill Lang, Ed Ludwig, Russ Rogers, Brian Lundy, Karen Mahoney, Chet Kasinski, with a special thank you to Tom Dowling who volunteered his beautiful shop for the location of the build. And thanks go out to all our members who worked the Dewitt Ox Roast on August 21. A special thanks to Ed Ludwig and his wife Bridget who stepped in at the last minute to manage the group when Terry Kirk had a scheduling conflict. We provide workers for this event as a way of saying thank you to the Dewitt Memorial Building Committee who provide us with our meeting space at no cost to the guild elections will be coming up in November. If you would like to serve on the board please talk to me or one of the board members. We are starting to put together the program schedule for If you have any ideas or if there is something you would like to see let us know. Our program for this month will be a presentation on wood glues presented by Bob Behnke of Titebond. If you were at Bob s presentation last year you know that this will be a very interesting and informative program. Hope to see everyone there. Denny

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3 Woodchatter odchatter Page 3 Member Services: The Home Shop: John Wilson & Eric Pintar, LLC. Ph or visit ShakerOvalBox.com 2015 Officers President: Denny Rueter d.rueter@comcast.net Secretary: Ed Ludwig Ludwig.edwardm@gmail.com The internet.. what a valuable woodworking resource. Just a few Woodworking Video Sites you may want to check out: The Woodwisperer The Woodwrights Shop Wood Treks New Yankee Workshop Stu's Shed Stumpy Nubs The Source e for materials to make Shaker Oval Boxes Weekend Classes: Shaker Oval Boxes Wood Planes and other tools Hand Cut Dovetails New Book release: Making Wood Tools Raven Farm LLC air-dr dried and kiln-dried hardwood 7535 Clark Rd. Bath, MI Ph: 517/ kelvinpot@yahoo.com. Treasurer: Terry Kirk tdkirk1@msn.com Program Director: Keith July keith@julyswoodworks.com Public Relations Director: Bill Lang upwilly@sbc.net Membership Director Carl Lawson carlllawson@yahoo.com Librarian: Dick Work rworktwork@aol.com Woodworking Forums LumberJocks Saw Mill Creek Fine WoodWorking (Knots) Woodtalk Online FYI: Keith July, ie. July s Woodworks, llc offers Router classes at Johnson s Workbench in Charlotte. See Keith or call him at for details Member Services continued on page 4 If you want to be included in Member Services, see Chet Kasinski at the meeting or him at: che.kap2@gmail.com or Webmaster: Steve Lewin lewins@comcast.net Newsletter Editor: Chet Kasinski che.kap2@gmail.com

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