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Woodworkers Club News August 2023 Woodworkers Club Officers: President: Sandy McKinnis, Vice President: Jim Powell; Secretary open, Board Members: Bill Poole, Chris Gullet, Bob Lackey, Kaeli Stangl, Alan Peck, Larry Holman and Greg Lyall |
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Summertime schedule: Our last class session was May 29th. We will resume classes and monthly meetings in September. Our first monthly meeting will be on September 12th at 7 p.m. Topics to be determined. We will continue to meet in the training center room at the AIH on Dimond and the Old Seward Hwy until our new shop space is done. Please enter by the door near the Duluth Trading Company. |
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New Shop Space: Construction on our new shop space at the Commercial drive AIH has started. We will most likely be in the new space sometime this November. We are being given approximately 1800 square feet of space in their store. We will have our own entrance and will be able to meet after store hours for classes and meetings. This new space will enable us to have bigger classes, more storage, and hopefully more tools. MANY, MANY THANKS TO AIH!!!!!!!! NEW SHOP SPACE |
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SawStop Demo: The AIH SawStop demonstration on July 11th was amazing. If you’ve never seen the saw blade on the SawStop disappear 10 times faster than a car airbag inflates you’ve missed something incredible. The SawStop representative said he would come after our new shop is open and do another demo for us. Our table saw in the AIH shop area is a Saw Stop and it’s a great tool and certainly safer than an ordinary table saw. 67,000 people are injured per year with regular saws and over 4,000 amputations occur. |
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New Program: The first Sat of every month, resuming in September, will now be open shop/WOODWORKING Saturday. This open shop program will be from 10-4p.m. Larry, Holman, Jim Powell, Alan Peck and Sandy Mckinnis have volunteered to staff our shop area during this time to help folks with projects. If you would like to serve as a shop monitor please call Sandy Mckinnis @ 907-562-3994. We welcome your help. Please Note: If you want to use the shop you need to sign up on the website as we can only have a maximum of 4 students in the shop on each date. |
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Classes The following classes will be offered. More to follow: Rhonda Hayhurst will be teaching a class on September 30th making a really awesome scroll saw clock with student selected design or the eagle design she used for a recent gift to SBS. Marc Brown will teach a class making a C-shaped couch table on Sept. 23rd and 24th. Sandy Mckinnis will be again teaching a bandsaw jewelry box class on Sept. 9th and 10th. Larry Holman will teach a class on October 21st and 22nd. Class to be determined Lisa Lackey and Sandy Mckinnis will offer a grizzly bear cutting board class with CNC router designs chosen by students on October 28th. Greg Lyall will be teaching a class-to be determined- on November 11th, 12th, 18th, and 19th. John Lime will again teach his Christmas tree ornament scroll saw class on Nov. 25th. Marc Brown is offering a votive candle/Menorah class on December 9th. Jim Powell is again offering his kitchen trivet class on December 16th.
Check the website for postings for these classes. |
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Member Spotlight: Greg Lyall Greg Lyall visited Alaska the summer of 1967 with his grandparents. He grew up in San Diego enjoying a great family, spectacular weather, surfing, and a good work ethic. After a couple of summers working at a custom box and cabinet shop, the woodworking bug struck. He returned to Alaska in 1974 after a stint in LA working in a small engineering firm. It wasn’t long before he purchased a Mark V Shopsmith which just fit in his overcrowded 2 car garage. The Shopsmith still survives and was passed down to his son, Steve. After retirement, he finally had some time and space to set up a woodshop in a new home. His wife, Monica, encouraged him to build some furniture for the new place including six new dining chairs. She wanted them to all be different, wow! Since Greg is a self-taught woodworker, he built his first chair using a standard design from Fine Woodworking and began learning by doing. He improved his skills using hand and power tools, steam bending, design, and upholstery. After completing the six chairs, his interest turned to sculpting a chair. Who better to study than Sam Maloof? His current project is a chair based on Maloof’s dining chair. The chair includes a coopered seat, complex joinery and elegant shaped features. See the pictures showing the progress of the chair from a pile of 8/4 cherry. As a new board member for the woodworkers club, he is interested in helping the woodworking community and might find him teaching a woodworking class or two. When Greg is not in the shop, he’s either, cycling, flying to the family’s remote cabin or looking for more tools to buy |
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Woodworking: the act, process, or occupation of working wood into a beautiful, useful, and desired form |
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Alaska State Fair: The Alaska State Fair this year will be Aug 18-Sept 4, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We need volunteers that would like to come and carve. The demonstrating will be in the Irwin building. Those that volunteer will get into the Fair for free and get an extra ticket to give to a friend or use to come in another day. For those volunteering you will also get a parking pass so you can go through the Red Gate and park inside the fair ground next to the woodlot and Irwin building. It is asked you demonstrate for 6 hrs during your time. You can come at what ever time works for you but please expect to stay 6 hrs. Example 11am-5pm or Noon-6pm or 2pm-8pm. Whatever works for you. Please email or call Callie Ashcraft if you are interested in volunteering so I can get you on the schedule and get your free tickets to you. Thank you. My cell is 907-277-3139 or email tiger86_86@hotmail.com For those interested in entering in their artwork into the State Fair the dates for entry are: Aug 4th, Friday 11am-7pm Aug 5th, Saturday 11am-7pm Date to pickup your art work after the Fair is: Sept 5, Tuesday 1pm-6pm Sept 9, Saturday 1pm-6pm |
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Last Frontier Woodcarving Schedule for 2023-2024 Location AIH Alaska Industrial Hardware Inc, 8801 Old Seward Hwy, Anchorage, AK 99515, USA Schedule 2023 August -- State Fair September 9, 10am September 23, 10am October 14, 10am October 28, 10am October 31st Hallowwen November 11, 10am November 23 Thanksgiving November 25, 10am December 9, 10am December 23, 10am December 25 Christmas Schedule 2024 January 13, 10am January 27, 10am February 10, 10am February 17 - March 10 - ARTISTRY IN WOOD March 10, 10am March 31 Easter Sunday April 13, 10am April 27, 10am May 11, 10am May 25, 10am August - State Fair September 14, 10am September 28, 10am October 26, 10am October 31 Halloween November 9, 10am November 23, 10am November 28 Thanksgiving December 14, 10am December 25 Christmas December 28, 10am |
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WOOD COLLECTION SALE Doreen Jenkins is selling all of her collection of hard and softwoods. This is material suitable for all types of carving, turning, and scroll sawing, This is a rare opportunity to purchase a variety of woods suitable for wood artistry endeavors. The collection is located in Eagle River and includes the following wood species as well as some not yet identified: • Basswood • Sapele • Oak • Walnut • Lacewood • Birch • Holly • Diamond Willow • Trim molding stock The pictures on the following page show samples of the extensive collection. All material is clean and top quality. The wood collection is located at 17716 South Juanita Loop in Eagle River, AK. The collection is available for viewing on Saturdays and Sundays from 12noon until 5pm most weekends. Also viewing at other than weekends can be by appointment. Contact Doreen at 907-222-2475 to confirm viewing will be available on Saturday or Sunday and to make an appointment for other than the weekend viewing. |
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Application for Membership Alaska Creative Woodworkers Association P. O. Box 201796, Anchorage, AK 99520-1796 Date: ________________ Family/Individual membership, $40 per year. Please make checks payable to ACWA. Name/s: ____________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________ City: _______________________________________________________ State: __________________________ Zip:________________________ Telephone (Home/cell): ________________________________________ E- mail: ____________________________________________________ Benefits of membership in the Alaska Creative Woodworkers Association include: 1. Entry into all woodworking, carving, and scrolling classes offered by the club for one year following payment of dues. There may be additional material, instructor or shop fees for some classes. 2. Discounts at Alaska Industrial Hardware stores, Hardware Specialties, and Spenard Builders Supply. 3. Monthly informational meetings. 4. Beginning to expert classes in carving, woodworking and scrolling. 5. Periodic classes offered by nationally recognized instructors from out of state. 6. All tools and materials provided for most classes. |
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