tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-366202612011-11-27T18:26:42.859-07:00tips, tricks, connections and joinery for the helena woodworker's guild and all interested folksHelena Woodworkers Guildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00035168443459275940noreply@blogger.comBlogger531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-76164451720895155072011-04-04T17:26:00.007-06:002011-04-04T18:08:56.500-06:00

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

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Our 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

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Our 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

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Just 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,

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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,

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Our 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 8

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Our 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, each

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Our 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

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We'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!

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Our 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

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Our 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

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You 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

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Our 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

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Our 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 the

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Our 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.

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At 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 for

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We 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 you

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Our 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

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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

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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

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Guild 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

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Guild 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 see

Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-47748291863780197172008-07-04T14:51:00.002-06:002008-09-10T10:54:21.545-06:00

Guild 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

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Come 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-80555125090655969442008-05-20T00:39:00.004-06:002008-05-20T00:45:26.974-06:00

Hey, 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!

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Hello Woodworkers: I am considering getting a larger planer and thought I would check to see if anyone might be interested in buying my current machine.It is a heavy duty Parks 12" x 4" stationary planer. I purchased it brand new in 1981. Here are the specs: All cast iron construction 2hp, 220v, single phase motor 3.25" x 12" 3 knife head 12" wide x 4" thick max work piece 1/16" min. thickness 1

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Our next Woodworkers Guild meeting will be held Monday May 19th. We will meet at John Barbagello's shop this time. This will probably be the last meeting before summer, although I have heard rumors we might have one more meeting in June (they're such fun, heh!)Joshua, Jonathan and John Barbagello will be showing us mortise and tenon joinery. This will be the last meeting until September, so we

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To see larger versions of these photos, click on the names below:1. Tim Carney 2. Mike Flanagan 3. Bob Zimmer 4. Priscilla Bode 5. Mike Bode, 6. Will Rex 7. who is this? 8. Dan Baugher 9. Bruce Ewals 10. Caleb Coder 11. Bill Brown 12. John Layton 13. who is this? 14. Lance Seaman and Tom Basso 15. Pete Donovan 16. Gary Duval demonstrating his latheIf you would like to see the photos

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Is there such a thing as a woodworker's uniform?Our next Woodworkers Guild meeting will be held Monday April 14th. I guess we're on a roll with second-Monday meetings instead of first-Mondays. We will meet at Gary Duval's shop this time. This will be the next to last meeting before the summer break so we hope you all can make it! Date: Monday, April 14thTime: 5:30 pm til 8:30 or wheneverPlace:

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The Helena Woodworkers Guild March meeting was hosted by Lance Seaman of Seaman Cabinets, at the house he and his wife are building on the east side of Helena. They haven't moved in yet, but that didn't stop us from thoroughly enjoying a delicious potluck set up on saw horses and plywood along with his beautiful woodworking.After jawboning over dinner, Lance showed us the mantel he designed and

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Hi everyone, here's the scoop on our March Guild meeting. Although we generally meet on the first Monday of each month, this month we're meeting on the second Monday. Date: Monday, March 10thTime: 5:30 pm til 8:30 or wheneverPlace: Lance Seaman's new house at 3052 Early Bird in HelenaAgenda: In addition to our usual jawboning and eating, we'll have a look at a mantle and entry door made

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Congratulations to Bill Pratt, one of our Guild members, for the inclusion of his innovative swinging tool rack in Fine Woodworking's Jan/Feb 2008 issue.Bill designed and built the tool rack to utilize shop space that would otherwise be wasted in front of the overhead door in his shop. His design was included in Fine Woodworking's Methods of Work section.To read the entire article online, you

Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-38917349050705545602007-12-20T23:42:00.000-07:002007-12-30T23:07:45.979-07:00

So, hey, Guild members and readers of our blog ... how about sharing stories and photos of your companion animals, especially animals that spend time with you in your woodworking shops? You can share tales of shop companions in the comments of this post, or send an email to helenawoodworkers(at)gmail(dot)com along with photos if you have them, and I will add yours to this post. Let's get some

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Every once in awhile a body needs to just kick back and have fun.To heck with meetings, eh? Well, that's what we did at our December woodworkers' guild meeting: we had way too much delicious food to eat (which caused the more stuffed of us to kick back. uhuh) and -- we all enjoyed visiting with the other woodworkers and a few family members.Mike and Priscilla Bode hosted the party (oops - I mean

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Our December meeting will be a party! Hi all, this month we'll meet on Friday, Dec. 14th at Mike and Priscilla Bode's house and shop. The best parking is behind the Bode's house. Spouses and significant others are most definitely invited. Please bring an appetizer/hors d'oeuvres to share (check out the incredible spread we came up with for our exhibit opening night -- think we can top that?)The

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Our guild members got some great publicity in the Helena Independent Record weekly arts publication, Your Time.Reporter and YT editor, Emily Donahoe, interviewed Dave Carlson and Tim Carney about the history and purpose of the guild and about the large number of talented woodworkers in Helena. Excerpts from the YT article:If a piece of handmade furniture is no less than a work of art, then there

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We now have gift membership cards available.Here is a thoughtful gift for the woodworker in your life: a gift membership in the Helena Woodworkers' Guild. We welcome anyone with an interest in woodworking. It doesn't matter if they are beginners or experts; our guild has all kinds of woodworkers.Guild members participate in our monthly meetings; get a listing and gallery on our website, Sawdust &

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Our Guild had the pleasure and honor of being critiqued by three excellent commentators Tuesday evening, November 12. The three "jurors" this year were Liz Gans, co-director of the Holter Museum of Art, Janeen McCarvel, interior designer at Boxwoods, and Richard Notkin, a ceramics sculptor and former resident of the Archie Bray Foundation. Liz, Janeen and Richard shared their personal responses

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Click on the arrow to start the slideshow. To see larger versions of the photos, click on the photo itself. Thanks for looking!

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Maureen shot some photos while we were setting up the show at the Myrna Loy Center on Friday. Please enjoy this slideshow as a preview of what you can see in person during our exhibit from November 2nd through the 30th.We will add more photos to this slideshow as we process them. There will also be a continuous-loop slideshow at the opening reception the evening of November 9th, with photos from

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Copyright by Maureen ShaughnessyWe would like to invite the public to attend the opening reception of the Helena Woodworkers' Guild Annual Art of Wood exhibit, at the Myrna Loy Center. The reception will be held from 6 to 10 pm during the Fall Downtown Helena Art Walk on November 9th, 2007. Please join us in enjoying delicious appetizers, desserts, wine, punch and live music throughout the

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Since our usual Monday meeting day falls on a holiday weekend, we are holding our October meeting on Thursday instead. Please come Thursday, October 11 at 5:30 pm. Dave Ashley is hosting this month's meeting at his shop, Helena Hardwoods (3290 Centennial Drive just off of Highway 12 on the way to East Helena.) Dave usually provides something from his grill, so come prepared for deliciousness.

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I don't know about you other guild members, but the smoky air and heat made it feel like summer was never going to end, and now that the weather is cooling, I'm wondering why it was so short!I'm looking forward to starting our monthly get togethers again -- our first meeting of fall will be on September 10th around 5:30 pm ... until we're done.We will talk about our upcoming 3rd Annual Show at

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Adirondack Rockers by Matt Vanderwaterphoto copyright 2007 by Native DesignGuild member, Matt Vanderwater, recently built a set of beautiful Adirondack-style rocking chairs, side tables and deck chairs with ottomans for one of my (Maureen's) Helena clients. I was impressed by Matt's craftsmanship and professionalism.Blue Adirondack Rockers on Patiophoto copyright 2007 by NativeDesign Check out

Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-22173231032673579262007-08-02T15:02:00.000-06:002007-08-20T15:06:40.890-06:00

Bungalow Door with Celtic Design in Glassphoto copyright 2007 by Maureen ShaughnessyBungalow Door and Front Porchphoto copyright 2007 by Maureen Shaughnessy Guild member, Tim Carney of Timothy's Fine Woodworking recently installed two mahogany doors in a Helena Craftsman Bungalow. The detailing on the main entry door is Arts & Crafts style, with a Celtic design etched into the door's window. The

Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-84939990557560548542007-04-06T21:22:00.001-06:002007-05-02T20:01:44.337-06:00

Gummi Bears having a meeting .... waiting for Kevin to show them his new stuff.There will be a Helena Woodworkers Guild meeting at All Wood Design on Tuesday, April 10th at 5:30 pm. All Wood is located at 1310 Boulder Avenue. Kevin has some new equipment for us to see and there will be snacks, so bring something to drink.If you missed the last meeting, we have a new Guild website courtesy of

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I would personally, and as a member of the Guild, like to extend my sympathy to Bruce Ewals and his family on the loss of their father. Bruce's father died March 27th, 2007, here in Helena. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family, Bruce.-- Tim Carney

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I learned something today about one of my favorite male actors -- William Macy -- is a fine woodworker as well as being an exceptionally fine actor! Due out in May is a collection from Fine Woodworking of their best woodturning projects, titled Woodturning Basics. William Macy is on the cover -- he turns wood bowls. Check is out on the newstands in May, or for a preview of an interview with Macy,

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Tim and I are bibliophiles. We love books and we love reading. We each have a stack of books in the bedroom (this is Tim's current stack, left) and our an extensive library fills shelves in three rooms of our five-room house.Living in a rural state like Montana, books help us stay connected to the wider world, to inspiration and education through reading about what others in our fields are doing

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I would like to take a moment of your time to tell you that there are many ways to approach a job -- no one being right or wrong. I have attend the International Woodworkers Fair (IWF) in Atlanta, Georgia, for the last two shows. Each one has given me great exposure to new products and ideas. I would strongly recommend attending an IWF show if possible.The next show is in July 2007 in Las Vegas.

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Our hardwood special for the month of March is African MahoganyBotanical Name: Khaya including K. ivorensis, K. anthotheca, K. grandifolia, and K. senegalensis. The family is Meliaceae – the Mahogany family. Other names include: Benin wood, Lagos wood, Khaya, Ivory Coast Mahogany, Nigerian Mahogany, degema, grand bassam.Distribution: The tree grows in all of the timber producing countries of

Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967323387645271468noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36620261.post-19488582607202935432006-11-15T10:32:00.000-07:002007-04-03T21:18:35.352-06:00

2005 Exhibit -Originally uploaded by withthegrain.

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Fun Times Originally uploaded by withthegrain. This is the first post for our Helena Woodworkers Guild blog, Sawdust & Shavings. The name of our blog isn't set in concrete yet (or I should say, carved in wood) so at some point, I'll be soliciting ideas from all of our members for what we should call our website. In the meantime, this is here for your use, all you Helena woodworkers. I'll be

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