January Guild Meeting: Sharpen Your Mind & Your Tools

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 time you sharpen them."

Tim will also show us a few of the projects available for us to help with the trolley restoration project we visited at our last meeting.

Date: Monday, January 18, 2010
Time: 5:30 pm til or 8 or 8:30 pm
Place: 3025 East Bozeman Avenue at Timothy's Fine Woodworkng
Food: Tim will provide the main dish -- most likely a big pot of homemade soup that'll go warm us up in this cold weather. Members, please bring a side dish and something to drink.

Directions: To get to Tim's shop, take Highway 12 East to Carter Drive (just east of Walmart) Turn north on Carter Drive. Go over the railroad tracks and take a right on Bozeman. His shop is less than 1/4 mile from Carter Drive -- it's on the southwest corner of the tan building.

You know you're a woodworker if

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 box.

You can talk to your partner/spouse/significant other for HOURS about woodworking despite the glazed over look in his/her eyes.

You can spend an entire day in your shop, accomplish little if anything, and thoroughly enjoy it.

You know exactly where everything is in your shop....except for a pencil.

You have built more projects in your head than in actuality.

Your spouse/partner/lovedones/pets know not to bother you, and sometimes choose to run for cover, when you are gluing up a project.

You remove more splinters from your hands in a month than most people do in a lifetime.

You can correctly pronounce Padauk and Lignum Vitae.