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Woodworkers Club News March 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, and Larry Holman |
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NEW TIME: Our monthly meetings will now start at 7 p.m. on the second Tues. of the month from Sept. to May. We continue to meet in the training center room at the AIH on Dimond and the Old Seward Hwy. Please enter by the door near the Duluth Trading Company. |
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The speaker for our March 14th meeting will be Marc Brown. Marc will talk about his experiences building Fine Woodworking's "The Coolest Woodworking Cutting Board Ever?" (March 2013, https://www.finewoodworking.com/2013/03/26/the-coolest-cutting-board-ever). He will talk through the steps required to build the board and will provide a slew of tips learned the hard way. Marc recently relocated from Silicon Valley to Anchorage to be close to his granddaughters. After a career in high tech, Marc began taking woodworking classes at the local adult schools, and has been teaching woodworking at the Palo Alto Adult School for the past 7 years. His email is: marc@chezbrown.org |
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ARTISTRY IN WOOD. If you haven’t visited this years’ AIW you are really missing an awesome exhibit. It’s in the Metro Mall. We have over 150 entries from carvers, scrollers, turners and woodworkers. In addition, the AK Woodturning Association has lathes set up at the rear of our space and members have been doing live demos. Joe Paluba has been demoing scroll sawing and Dohn Wood has demoed using hand tools. Several carvers have been doing demonstrations on caricatures and diamond willow. THIS EVENT RUNS FROM FEBRUARY 18TH TO MARCH 20TH and is open every day except Tues and Weds. from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. WE still do NEED VOLUNTEERS TO SET UP/TAKE DOWN AND TO WORK THE DESKS. SEE INFORMATION PROVIDED ABOVE. Some of the Artistry in Wood Entries and Demonstrations |
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Woodworking: the act, process, or occupation of working wood into a beautiful, useful, and desired form |
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Classes Held Saturdays, and some Sundays, from 10-4p.m. at the Alaska Industrial Hardware Store at 5655 Old Seward Hwy. in Anchorage Weekend Classes Scheduled to Date: SIGN UP on the Website |
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1. March 25th from 1-4 p.m. Chain Saw Milling. Instructor: Larry Holman. This class will be held at the instructor’s home. 2. April 8th and 9th. Outdoor bench. Instructor: Larry Holman. 3. April 22,23,29 and 30th. Steam Bent chair, Instructor: Greg Lyall 4. Cedar Planter: May 13th and 14th. Instructor: Marc Brown 5. Make a Moose Lawn Ornament: May 27 & 28. Instructor: Sandy Mckinnis We will have more classes posted soon on the Website for sign up. |
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New Program: Woodworking Wednesdays are no longer available. Starting January 7th the first Sat of every month will now be open shop/WOODWORKING Saturday. This open shop program will be from 10-4p.m. Larry, Holman, Jim Powell, and Sandy Mckinnis have volunteered to staff our shop area during this time to help folks with projects. We are planning to continue it through next year. If you would like to serve as a shop monitor please call Sandy Mckinnis @ 907-562-3994. We welcome your help. 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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Scrollers Thank you Note The club received this thank you note from Special Santa for the donation of wooden puzzles. The group received 25 puzzles made by the club members. |
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Carvers Attention all Carvers! Artistry in Wood is underway. If you haven’t stopped by you should come say hello to all your fellow carvers and woodworkers. If you entered some of your works come see your ribbons. And as always if you have a few hours to spare come meet the public and spell those that have been there nearly every day. A big thanks to all who helped this show happen. And please set aside March 19 to help take down. We all will meet there at noon to begin that process of taking down and storing all our materials till next year. Carving Seminar. We have had some passionate people request that we hold our spring carving seminar. Currently we have tentatively set Saturday, April 15 as the date to hold the seminar. In order for this to happen we need carvers to take the classes and instructors to help others. If we don’t get enough interest we will cancel. If you are at Artistry there is a sign up sheet. I am off to work at Artistry now so hope to see you soon. Gino Del Frate |
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Additional Note from Cindy - April 15 at the Baptist Church/School. Instructors, please email me and let me know if you are interested in teaching and what you would like to teach. Also would like someone to step up and be the "lead" person in this Seminar. Thank You Cindy McDowell (ccmcd38@hotmail.com) |
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Last Frontier Woodcarving Schedule for 2022-2023 Location AIH Alaska Industrial Hardware Inc, 8801 Old Seward Hwy, Anchorage, AK 99515, USA Schedule March 25 starting at 10am April 8 starting at 10am - April 19th Easter April 15 Carving Seminar April 22 starting at 10am May 13 starting at 10am May 27 starting at 10am |
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