tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366202612024-03-25T22:52:36.616-06:00sawdust & shavingstips, tricks, connections and joinery for the helena woodworker's guild and all interested folksTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06141669442529452477noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-76164451720895155072011-04-04T17:26:00.007-06:002011-04-04T18:08:56.500-06:00For Sale: Woodworking Tool -- Grizzly Jointer
Grizzly Jointer 6" x 47" G11822HW 2 Series Machine in very good shape1 hp 4" x 29" fence with 45.90.45 tilt6" movement5000 rpm weighs 205 lbs$300If you're interested in purchasing and/or seeing the jointer, call Doug McDonald at 406. 422-7327
Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-54989918684982178642011-03-04T18:16:00.009-07:002011-03-05T02:09:54.544-07:00March 2011 Guild Meeting hosted by Tim CarneyOur March Guild meeting will be hosted by Tim Carney on Monday, March 7th at Helena Hardwoods. Our meetings begin at 5:30 and usually go til about 8 pm or 8:30. Tim is providing grilled gourmet sausages with buns and all the fixins. Bring a side dish, salad or beverage if you'd like.Tim has arranged for a special guest, professional photographer, Tom Ferris, to present the program on Monday Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-79056264742687801062011-01-24T12:57:00.008-07:002011-01-24T13:53:26.938-07:00January Guild MeetingOur January Guild Meeting will be hosted by Dan McCardle at his shop. Dan hasn't totally decided what specifically to share with us, but he will have one of his carved beds under construction (see photo left.) He says, "Bring your carving questions or projects and we can talk carving. Maybe I'll dust off some of my motorized carving tools in case anyone is curious and wants to try them out."As Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-37242304584217595812010-10-18T11:11:00.005-06:002010-10-21T01:41:00.315-06:00Fall Art Walk: Art of Wood ExhibitJust a quick note that the postcards for the Guild's "Art of Wood" show at the Placer on Nov. 12th, will be ready to pick up next Tuesday evening, Oct. 26. All members who would like to help us promote our exhibit are welcome to come pick up a handful of the cards, to send to your customers, family and friends. We appreciate your help getting out the word.For more info and to pick up the cards, Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-32696497374769214182010-10-18T10:45:00.009-06:002010-10-18T11:10:25.090-06:00October Woodworkers Guild Meeting
Hello Wood Enthusiasts and Professionals Alike,
Paul Anderson has graciously offered to host the next guild meeting, and I've finally succeeded in getting ahold of him to get the details. My apologies for the late notice. We'll meet at his house this Monday the 18th at 5:30.
Paul has restored a circa 1948 scroll saw that should be interesting to check out.
He's providing a Ham main dish, Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-29932222695436078702010-02-26T10:33:00.005-07:002010-02-26T10:59:03.659-07:00March Guild Meeting: Top Secret Horizontal Router SetupOur March meeting will be hosted by Chris Yahvah (those are photos of his shop, left.) The meeting will be at 5:30 pm on Monday March 1st. Chris will share his knowledge of the horizontal router and his top secret and much used router setup.Guild members, please note, Chris Yahvah has a new email address: cyahvah(at)gmail(dot)comMEETING DETAILS:Date: Monday, March 1, 2010Time: 5:30 pm til or 8Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-85184216245621030612010-01-13T20:08:00.008-07:002010-01-13T20:56:58.927-07:00January Guild Meeting: Sharpen Your Mind & Your ToolsOur January meeting will be hosted by Tim Carney. The meeting will be Monday January 18 at 5:30 pm.We will watch a video, Sharpening Simplified on the basics of sharpening hand tools.Everett Ellenwood says of the dvd, "Having trouble getting your carving tools razor sharp? In Sharpening Simplified, I show you simple proven method to get your carving tools properly contoured and sharp, eachMaureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-25061297452545790722009-12-04T08:09:00.005-07:002009-12-04T08:47:15.586-07:00December Guild Meeting: Trolley Car #3 RestorationOur December meeting will be hosted by the Lewis and Clark County Historical Restoration Committee. Not only will be have an opportunity to view the Trolley Car #3 preservation project, but dinner will be provided by the committee, so please join your fellow woodworkers and our host, Rich Palmer, Monday evening. Rich will give a talk about an ongoing committee project, the restoration of Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-64252060277629501742009-11-04T12:20:00.008-07:002009-11-13T14:50:10.885-07:00Art of Wood Annual Exhibit 2009We'd like to invite everyone to attend our 6th annual Art of Wood Exhibit on Friday, November 13th, at The Placer, in Downtown Helena. The exhibit will be open during the 2009 Fall Art Walk from 6 to 10 pm.Guild members, please remember to bring appetizers or dessert between 5 pm and 6 pm, so we can continue our tradition of having the best spread on the ArtWalk.See you all there!Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-12376994091412147982009-09-18T09:30:00.007-06:002009-09-18T12:10:52.165-06:00September Guild Meeting: Sharpening a HandsawOur September meeting will be held September 22nd at Will Rex's shop. This is our first meeting since our summer hiatus and we hope all of our guild members take the time out from your busy schedules to get together at Wills.Please join your fellow woodworkers as Will shows us how to sharpen a hand saw and gives us a tour of his shop.We will also discuss the upcoming Fall Art Walk and our 5th Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-74735087846674593842009-03-11T15:33:00.008-06:002009-03-11T23:34:37.875-06:00March Guild Meeting: Becoming Guild-Website-LiterateOur March guild meeting is scheduled for 5:15 pm, Monday, March 16 at the Lewis and Clark Library. As we did for our February meeting, we have the computer lab scheduled from 6-8 for our evening's presentation, and we'll have dinner in that large conference room from 5:15 to 6:00 pm. The Guild is providing the entire meal, including beverages. We'll eat in the large conference room off of the Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-24586252136651797472009-03-05T23:21:00.000-07:002009-03-11T23:22:06.385-06:00You know you're a woodworker ifYou cut yourself with a chisel and you’re more concerned about not getting blood on your workpiece than you are about the laceration.You inexplicably find sawdust in your drawers. And I’m not talking about furniture.You have dropped to your knees and looked beneath a table in a museum, a gallery, an historic home, or a friend’s house.You cannot resist the temptation to lift the lid on a wooden Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-22460872942276468522009-02-16T18:17:00.016-07:002009-02-18T11:16:20.446-07:00February Guild Meeting: Sketchup & Making Use of our WebsitesOur February guild meeting will be held late in the month this time -- we are scheduled for Monday, February 23 at the Lewis and Clark Library. We have the large conference room scheduled from 5:30-8:30pm and the computer lab scheduled from 6-8 so we'll be in both rooms after our social time and meal.The Guild is providing the entire meal, including beverages. We'll eat in the large conference Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-17387651747967421252009-01-14T12:12:00.002-07:002009-01-14T13:57:42.740-07:00January Guild Meeting: the 32mm System for CabinetryOur January Guild meeting will be held at Tim Carney's shop at 3025 East Bozeman Avenue on Monday, Jan. 19th at 5:30 pm. Tim will provide a main dish.Members, please bring a side dish (salads, garlic bread, dessert) or something to drink.Tim will demonstrate the 32mm system (European system for cabinet making.)He also has a table for members to view and critique. The table will be featured in theMaureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-71796001977825296402008-12-09T22:24:00.007-07:002008-12-09T23:01:43.554-07:00December Guild Meeting: Sharpening DemoOur December Woodoworkers Guild meeting will be held at Mike Flanagan's shop at 2925 Castle Rock Rd, on December 15th at 5:30. Mike will provide a spaghetti main dish. Members, please bring a side dish (salads, garlic bread, dessert) or something to drink.Mike will be giving a sharpening demo. Directions to Mike's: Head east on Canyon Ferry Roadd from Costco about 4 miles to Wylie Drive. Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-29264399128543100802008-11-04T15:37:00.001-07:002008-11-04T16:11:43.253-07:00Woodworkers' Guild Dump PileAt our September meeting our members decided we wanted to have a Dump Pile to use as a way to barter, sell or just get rid of woodworking stuff and materials we no longer want. This might include hand tools, power tools, shop machines, extra wood, cabinet doors and drawers, old woodworking magazines, instructional videos, anything you can think of.The first few items in the Dump Pile are just forAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-83039942013327634632008-11-03T16:14:00.002-07:002008-11-04T16:27:14.092-07:00Handcut Dovetail Template & CalculatorWe recently received a tip from Greg Tarrant of Australia, an online handcut dovetail template & calculator. (screenshot, left)Give it a try and let us know what you think of it by commenting below this post.The Blocklayer website (Greg's site) has a long list of online construction calculators, which might come in handy for any of our members. The site is unfortunately full of ads, but if Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-56458642014399002262008-10-14T12:01:00.004-06:002008-10-14T13:40:45.109-06:00October Woodworkers Guild MeetingOur meeting last night was hosted by Tom Doland in his (very organized and clean) woodshop. Tom had cooked a delicious stew -- reminiscent of chili, but better -- on his shops wood cookstove.As always, our meeting started out with informal chewing the fat, catching up with each other and checking out some of Tom's woodworking.Later, Tom showed us a huge chest-full of tools he had inherited from Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-29988172774104358862008-10-13T22:40:00.000-06:002008-10-14T14:01:18.963-06:00New Guild Officers At our September Meeting, the Helena Woodworkers Guild officially recognized our new and continuing officers. Mike Flanagan (left) is now our Secretary and Bill Pratt(below left) takes over from Priscilla Bode as Guild Treasurer.Thank you to Priscilla and to Lance Seaman, outgoing Secretary, for all of your hard work over the last couple of years.And thanks for sure, to Tim Carney, for agreeing Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-7278770756531615622008-10-12T12:26:00.004-06:002008-10-12T12:39:09.812-06:00October Guild Meeting at Tom Doland's Shop The October Helena Woodworkers Guild meeting will be held at Tom Doland's shop at 140 Fairway Dr. on October 13th at 5:30. Tom will provide a main dish so bring a side dish or something to drink. Tom has some projects he is working on to show us, and we will be talking about the final details of our upcoming show. The show will be just the night of the Art Walk (Nov 14th)and will be in the Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-85059653541875576822008-09-11T20:57:00.004-06:002008-09-11T22:06:14.049-06:00Hands-on Timber Framing Opportunity: Learn More and be of ServiceGuild member, Bill Pratt sent a link and a Missoulian article about a special opportunity for woodworkers to participate in a hands-on timber framing project in Missoula later this month -- on September 22 and 26th.Please consider volunteering for the Silver Park Small Shelter Project. The Timber Framers Guild will host a workshop to build one of the three winning timber and log designs in the Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-78133162426033001962008-09-11T16:20:00.005-06:002008-09-11T20:51:37.575-06:00New Feature: The Dump PileGuild members, we now have an experimental new feature on our website: The Dump Pile.At our September meeting, Dave Ashley suggested starting a barter/sell/dump system for unburdening ourselves and our shops of woodworking-related stuff and tools we no longer need or want. Maureen agreed to try to find some way to allow our members to post articles for give-away or sale online, as well as to seeMaureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-47748291863780197172008-07-04T14:51:00.002-06:002008-09-10T10:54:21.545-06:00Sweetgrass Joinery Timber FramingGuild members visit with Scott Carlson (right) and his wife, Nancy, after Carlson's Timber Framing presentationin Helena, Montana on June 30th.Thank you, Scott, for a wonderful, enlightening and thoroughly enjoyable evening learning about traditional timber frame construction. I'm sure all who attended gained valuable insights not only into the techniques of timber framing and the difference Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-34352929837112675412008-06-24T11:50:00.009-06:002008-06-25T00:14:06.652-06:00Timber Frame Construction PresentationCome Join the Helena Woodworkers Guild for an opportunity to learn about timber framing from a master! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .How many of our woodworkers have woodworking "genes" running in their families? Judging from the photos in this article, it's obvious guild member Dave Carlson's woodworking talents have been passed on. Dave's son, Scott Carlson, an accomplished Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-80555125090655969442008-05-20T00:39:00.004-06:002008-05-20T00:45:26.974-06:00Helena Woodworkers Last Meeting til FallHey, everyone -- that was a great meeting to wrap up the season! Here are just a sampling of the photos I took at the Barbagello's shop on the 19th -- please check our flickr Meetings Album for more photos and for updated photos. I will be adding more pics as I get them processed. One thing I have to say is you are all so photogenic, it's easy taking good shots at our meetings!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0