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Woodworkers Club News October 2022 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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October 11th - Monthly Meeting (2nd Tuesday of each month): Local master woodworker, custom furniture designer and owner of Blackstone Designs will talk about his work and his design process. Join us to see Marks amazing creations in wood. Meet at the AIH training center at 8801 Old Seward Hwy at 5:30. |
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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 SOON AS THE CLASSES ARE FILLING UP. |
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1. Nationally recognized, master woodworker, furniture designer and owner of Blackstone Designs, Mark Wedekind, will be teaching two classes in October on the 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, 29th, and 30th. Mark was recently featured in the Jan/Feb 2022 issue of “Woodworker West” magazine. He has been creating custom furniture in Alaska since moving here in 1994. In the first class we will mill the wood necessary to build the stool pictured below Mark designed just for this class. The second and subsequent classes will involve construction of the stool Mark designed just for us! Sign up on the website for this amazing opportunity to create a beautiful piece of custom furniture. Only 2 openings left so sign up soon! |
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2. Woodworking Mallet: Rescheduled to December 17th and 18th. Instructor: Martin Glaves. Make your own woodworking mallet to use in all the up coming classes! |
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3. John Harvigson, master woodworker, will again offer his shaker box class on November 12th and 13th. Students will construct a set of 5 cherry shaker boxes. This class is full. |
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4. Classes to be scheduled soon: Grizzly bear cutting board with CNC router design, CNC routed cedar sign, hexagonal box, and scroll saw Christmas ornaments. |
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New Program: WOODWORKING WEDNESDAYS, Larry, Holman, Jim Powell, and Sandy Mckinnis have volunteered to staff our shop area each Wednesday 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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Recent Class: Band Saw Jewelry Box |
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Woodworking: the act, process, or occupation of working wood into a beautiful, useful, and desired form |
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SCROLLERS The scrollers had their first meeting of the season in Anchorage on September 17th. We'd like to thank John, Gordon, Ray and Rhonda for attending. We were anticipating a large turnout from all the new people who requested information on the club at the State Fair. Unfortunately none were available this month. We will invite them all again to next month's meeting on the 15th of October at the AIH training Center. October's meeting theme will be Halloween and Thanksgiving. We will have several patterns available for anyone who would like to participate, but please feel free to bring your own. As always we'd love to see some of the projects you have completed. During the Anchorage meeting we discussed the current bank balance for the club. Several suggestions were made on ways to increase our account. One of the ideas was to make items to sell at Artistry in Wood. For this the club members would donate the items to be sold and the proceeds will be going to our club. The scrollers will be domonstaring at Artistry in Wood and we are in need of volunteers. Please contact Ray if you'd like to volunteer and/or are willing to donate items to sell. There was discussion on places that would benefit from the toys and puzzles that have been made. Some of the suggestions included the children's hospital, foster care agencies, nursing homes or elementary schools. We will be discussing this again next month and be making a decision. Please attend and let us know your opinion. There was additional discussion on new patterns for next year's State Fair. We are considering adding a bear or moose puzzle. Any and all suggestions are welcome and appreciated. The Wasilla club had their first meeting on September 24nd at SBS. We had 6 new people and 5 regular members in attendance. The new people were given a practice pattern to get them going. They were offered the choice of a Jack-O-Lantern or Alaska State pattern for their final project. Everyone left with a completed project and lots of smiles. There was a lot of interest in returning next month. Several will be bringing saws and one will be looking to buy a saw for the next meeting. The next meeting will be on the 22nd of October at SBS. It was wonderful to see previous members coming to help teach to new scrollers. Teaching, learning and sharing is what this club is all about. Thank you everyone for your interest and efforts in building our club. We hope to see everyone at the meeting, either in Anchorage or Wasilla. Happy Scrolling, Ray Reynolds, President Dave Vasik Vice President Rhonda Hayhurst, Secretary |
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Yearly State Fair A big thank you to all those that helped out at the State Fair this year. We did have a very good turn out from the public and lots of people interested in Wood Carving. Thank you for the times spent at the Fair. You did a great job. Gino Delfrate Robert Pelno Timber Vavalis Ron Coleman Rindi Patterson John Smith Rodney Evans Callie Ashcraft again next year?? Cindy McDowell |
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Wood Carvers Hello Woodcarvers! The season has started back up again. See picture below for the woodcarvers schedule. We are meeting the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month at the AIH on 8801 Old Seward Hwy, Anchorage, AK 99515. (Insert attachment) With the exception of Oct 8th. Instead of meeting with the club that day we are hosting a Woodcarving Seminar, see information below for details. The Last Frontier Woodcarving Club is hosting its fall woodcarving seminar Saturday, Oct 8th. Space is limited and you can only sign up for 1 class. The event will at Anchorage Baptist Temple, 6401 E. Northern Lights Blvd. Classes start at 10am so come early to register and find your chair. Coffee will be on! The class cost $30.00 you can pay at the door. Please call Cindy McDowell @ 907-696-0725 to pre-register for a class before the seats fill up. Please pick one of the below classes: Wooden Chain Christmas Tree using chip carving Cottonwood Bark Pumpkin (This was on display at the State Fair) Diamond Willow Carving Cottonwood Bark Face Little People Bird Ornament: Cottonwood Bark House
If you have any questions about the above classes and which one to pick please contact Cindy 907-696-0725. |
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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 September 10 starting at 10am September 24 starting at 10am October 8 starting at 10am - Seminar @ Anchorage Baptist Temple October 22 starting at 10am November 12 starting at 10am - Thanksgiving Nov 24 November 26 starting at 10am December 10 starting at 10am - POTLOCK DAY January 14 starting at 10am January 28 starting at 10am February 11 starting at 10am February 18 ----- March 19 - Artistry in Wood March 25 starting at 10am April 8 starting at 10am - April 19th Easter April 22 starting at 10am May 13 starting at 10am May 27 starting at 10am |
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