Making Gifts for Christmas & Wedges – 2nd Nov 2022

Nov 042022
 

Chris began our November meeting with a couple of videos on making wedges and shims as part of this year’s project on Make a Table, followed by a show and tell on wedge jigs.

After a short break and the raffle draw (congratulations Ian!), John chaired a discussion on Christmas Gifts.

This included a couple of presentations by Chris on End Grain Cutting Boards and Gift Ideas, as well as a show and tell of Trivets by John – and lots of discussion.

Cutting board ideas

Gift ideas

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AGM, Round Tenons & Sliding Dovetails – 5th Oct 2022

Oct 102022
 

Our October meeting was our AGM, but we also had the opportunity to look at Round Tenons and Sliding Dovetails.

Many thanks to our committee for their hard work in 2022 and for their willingness to serve us into 2023.

We didn’t get any videos of Chris’ demonstrations, but members may be interested in the article and video Chris found to cover the demonstrations.

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Tenons & Attaching Tabletops – 7th Sep 2022

Sep 142022
 

Our September meeting centred around Tenons and Attaching Tabletops.

Members were given a practical demonstration of making Tenons on the workcentre by Brian. Sadly we weren’t able to video the demonstration, but we do have links to all the follow on videos shown by Chris.

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Mortises – 3rd Aug 2022

Sep 132022
 

Our regular meeting for August centred around mortises.

We began the night with a demonstration by Brian on making mortises on the router table, including breadboard ends.

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Grain Selection & Tapered Legs – 6th Jul 2022

Jul 082022
 

Our July meeting centred around Grain Selection, plus a demonstration by Brian on Tapered Legs, and a great presentation by Chris on restoring a coffee table.

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Lock Mitres, Round Stock & Wood Movement – 1st Jun 2022

Jun 062022
 

At our regular June meeting, Brian demonstrated creating round stock with a router as a follow up to last month. Chris also introduced members to the lock mitre joint with some great handouts, and Brian then gave us a practical demonstration on the router table. And we also saw a great video on the problems of wood movement – A great evening!


Brian shows the lock mitre joint he had just produced on the router table

 
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Mitred Joints with Longitudinal Spline – 4th May 2022

May 112022
 

We learnt so much at our regular meeting for May!

Some essential handouts on Table Design from Chris, and Brian demonstrated many great techniques on the workcentre, including constructing a mitred joint with a longitudinal spline, as well as making a round stock with a hand plane.

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Brian with the completed leg he made with a mitred joint and longitudinal spine

Straight Edges – 2nd Mar 2022

Apr 142022
 

At our regular meeting for March Chris and Brian demonstrated edge straightening on the workcentre.

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