January 2003 Newsletter

When: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Where: 110 E. 16^th Street,. Indianapolis (see Map on Page 6 of Newsletter)

Herron Auditorium, Herron Museum Bldg, Herron School of Art

Program: Contemporary Art Furniture presented by Phil Tennant,

Professor of Furniture Design, Herron School of Art/IUPUI

Phil Tennant will give a slide presentation on Contemporary Art Furniture. Contemporary art furniture combines fine craftsmanship with innovative ideas on form and content. The history of the movement from post World War II thru today will be covered. This is an exciting and diverse field that has something for everyone to learn from. Following the presentation, there will be time for discussion and to tour the Herron Furniture Studio.

A bit about our speaker: Phil directs The Herron School of Art, Furniture Design Department, one of the nations finest undergraduate furniture design programs. He has a degree in sculpture from New York State University, Alfred and worked as a studio assistant for Wendell Castle, furniture artist, after graduating. In 1975, he took up teaching. Phil has exhibited his furniture and sculptures both nationally and regionally and is represented in galleries in Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, and Indianapolis. In addition to teaching and exhibiting, Phil has an active calendar of designing, working on commissions, writing, and lecturing.

Plan to attend and expand your horizons in furniture design.

Our February meeting is February 18, 2003 at 7:00. Finishing Techniques with Watco Products. A representative from Watco will give us an overview of their product line with demonstrations. We will be back at our regular meeting location in the Training Room at Environmental Management Institute in Speedway.

Without a doubt, this show attracts more Central Indiana woodworkers than any other event during the year. It is our clubs best opportunity for publicity. HCF will have a booth for displaying examples of our work and attracting prospective members. In addition, on Saturday and Sunday we will be supporting a new program called the Lil' Builders Workshop. The workshop will be located at another booth equipped with three Hawk scroll saws. Our members will collect donations, assist children to choose a design, trace it onto a blank, cut out the simple patterns, and paint the projects. Children attending the workshop donate $3 with all of the proceeds going to benefit a local charity. As a special incentive to help, each Lil' Builders Workshop volunteer will receive a complementary 3-day pass to the show. This is a great way to get kids interested in woodworking, promote our club, and make the Woodworking Show an event for the entire family.

When: January 24, 25, 26, 2003
Show - Friday: 1pm-9pm Lil' Builders Workshop - Friday: 2pm-8pm
Show - Saturday: 10am-6pm Lil' Builders Workshop - Saturday: 11am-5pm
Show - Sunday: 10am-4pm Lil' Builders Workshop - Sunday: 11am-3pm

Where: Indiana State Fairgrounds More Info: 800-826-8257
Marsh South Pavilion www.thewoodworkingshows.com

Here are your opportunities to help with the HCF booth and the Lil' Builders Workshop. Please contact Bob Shaw 849-5223 or PacerBob@aol.com to get on the schedule.

HCF Booth Time Slots to Fill: Lil- Builders Workshop Time Slots to Fill:

Friday: 5pm-7pm & 7pm-9pm Friday: None

Saturday: 4pm-6pm Saturday: 11am-1pm, 1pm-3pm, & 3pm-6pm

Sunday: 10am-12pm & 12pm-2pm Sunday: 11am-1pm & 1pm-3pm

In addition to volunteering for one or more of these time slots we need you to loan some of your projects for display at the HCF booth. Please coordinate with Bob so that we can accommodate as many of your projects as space permits.

- New Member -

Welcome to Larry Buttrum. We hope you enjoy your time with us.

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- Video Tape Library -

The videotape library is available at all meetings. This is a free service to members. You are encouraged to make use of this valuable service but please return any tapes you have borrowed. All borrowed tapes are to be returned at the next month's meeting. This will allow others to enjoy this service too.

A complete list of videotape titles is available on our website. A printed catalogue is available for review at each meeting.

Do you have videos that would be useful for the library? . . . . . Let us know.

If you have questions about the video library, contact Bob at 253-8771 or at rbeckerich@iquest.net.

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- The Club's "Special Thanks to You"-

Bob Shaw - For excellent follow up on those that signed up for more information about our club at our booth at the 2002 Christmas Gift and Hobby Show. Thank you, Bob.

Darrel McConnell - For another excellent year leading our Christmas Toy Project. Thank you, Darrell.

Mike Shebek, Owner of Automatic Pool Covers -For use of the woodworking shop at APC as a group toy building site for our Christmas Toy Project. Mike has given the club much support in our community-oriented efforts. Not only do we use his business wood shop on Tuesday nights, he supplies us with free warehouse space and a large area to sort, package, and from which to delivery the finished toys.

To read a copy of the Thank You speech to Mike from HCF at APCs Christmas party, please go to our website www.homecraftsmenforum.com The speech was delivered by HCF member, Dick Harrold. Lew Lundberg, president, presented Mike with a Thank You plaque from our club in January. Thank you, Mike, for your continued support of our club.

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- Member News -

HCF mourns the death of long time member, John Burke. John was heavily involved with our club for many years. John died December 7, 2002.

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- Christmas Toy Project Results -

1379 Toys made & distributed in 2002

148 Toys left from 2001

135 Toys for Lutheran Home

125 Toys retained by club for display

1787 Toys total

Thank you to all that participated in making 2002 a great toy producing year. The prototypes for box projects for 2003 will be at the May meeting.

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- Looking ahead to 2003 -

Nomination Committee soon to be sought. If you are interested in taking part in this very vital club function of facilitating putting club office nominations before the membership, please contact Lew Lundberg, president. Our club is at a cross roads and our choices of leadership for the next few years will determine the viability of our club in these changing times.

Club Picnic in June - We are planning our annual picnic to be the third Wednesday night in June at Camp Belzer.

Special Projects  The club will be expanding our community service aspect. We will start by doing repairs to furniture at Lutherwood. Look for more details on this in the near future.

Skill Building Competitions - We haven't decided exactly what this will be but the title sounds good. Give us your input on what you would like this to be.

Saturday Hands-On Experiences - Opportunities for more in-depth learning than the 2 hours of our Wednesday night meetings.

Enhancing Our Presence at Shows - With the implementation last year of a feedback mechanism for learning from each years booth at the Christmas Gift and Hobby Show and The Woodworkers Show, we can learn what worked and what didnt and improve each year. If you have ideas, please talk to a member of the Executive Committee who will get our ideas recorded and submitted to the next Show chairman.

Project 2003 - Our annual club competition for member-made projects. Start planning your projects now.

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- Program Committee -

The next Program Committee Meeting is January 8, 2003 at 7:00 at Gibraltar Design conference room. 9102 N. Meridian Street, Suite 300, Indianapolis.

Results from the Program Committee Survey: Results will be printed in the February newsletter.

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- Executive Committee Meeting -

The next meeting is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on January 22, 2003. Location to be determined.

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- Meeting Attendance Sheet -

The attendance sheet is passed at each meeting. This is very important to guide your Executive and Program Committees on what types of programs draw a large attendance. It helps us to plan to serve you better. Please do your part to help us with this and sign the attendance sheet.

Visitors - Please invite visitors to sign in on our attendance sheet. They will receive one free Newsletter by supplying their name and address. They will get two free Newsletters if they give us their e-mail address for sending the Newsletter.

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- Minutes from December 18, 2002 Forum meeting -

Meeting presided over by Lew Lundberg, President.

Members in Attendance: 48

Visitors: 5

Member News:

Dave Houston is recovering from foot surgery. John Burke has passed away. Bob Hammond was hospitalized but is now home and recovering.

Video Library - Bob Beckerich

We recently purchased several new tapes that will be available to members soon.

Toy Project - Darrell McConnell

Toys were packed on December 7, 2002 and distributed the 9, 10, and 11 of December. Thank you to all that came that day to help and to those of your that volunteered to deliver. Final total was 1787 toys. We did well on the box projects (member take home projects) this year. Only one was not returned. Our total toy count was down a bit this year but the quality of the toys was up.

A big thank you to Automatic Pool Covers for again letting us use their warehouse space as a staging location for distributing our toys.

All those that delivered toys, please return the maps and the yellow sheets to Darrell.

Program Committee - Don Melloy

Working on the Shirley, Indiana, trip for this spring to The Door Store.

Newsletter Update - Nan Schulte

New color format, poster style announcements are going out to our business contacts. These posters have color tear off slips at the bottom with a summary of the meeting and how to get to the location.

The Woodworking Show in January - Bob Shaw and Lew Lundberg

Two sign up sheet was passed; one to sign up to work our booth, and the second to sign up to man the Lil Builders Workshop. Youll get a 3 day pass to the show if you sign up to work the Lil Builders Workshop. Nan Schulte added incentive by offering a T-shirt with the club logo on it to anyone that worked the Lil Builders Workshop. See earlier in Newsletter for more information on the Woodworking Show and how you can volunteer.

Special Recognition Award Program - Don Melloy

Executive Committee is wrestling with giving special recognition to members. Don presented a three tiered award system and asked for member feed back on this. Please contact Don with your thoughts on this.

Presidents Gold Award - highest award. For long term service to the club.

Boards Special Recognition Award - Outgoing officers and for special duties preformed for the club.

Club Recognition Award -To be presented to our speakers.

Club Raffle: Raffle of $10 gift certificate from Rocklers at each meeting. $1 per ticket. One gift certificate drawn for each $20 collected. Congratulations to our winner and happy buying.

Finishing Panel Discussion - Tom Meeker, HCF member. Due to illness of the other two panel members, Tom did this presentation alone.

Tom covered various aspects of finishing a wood surface. You can see the outline of Toms presentation on the club website, www.homecraftsmenforum.com

Important take home points; keep a log of your finishing experiments so you can recreate what you did. Budgeting 20% of your project time to finishing is a good rule of thumb. Start thinking about the finish when you are planning the project. Use information resources to learn more: the library, internet, other club members.

New Bosch Tools Available - David Reifsteck, District Sales Manager

Break Resistant cordless drill. - Tested by dropping it from 40 stories to a concrete surface.

Cordless jig saw due out soon.

Cordless router now available.

Bosch Toy Building Competition -

1^St prize of a Bosch 1295 Random Orbit Sander to Chris Vohries for his semi-truck with inlay.

Five Runner Up Awards

10" carbide 60 tooth saw blade

Cletus Meyers

Bob Hammond

Louis Stephan

S. Williams

Dick Ellis

For more pictures of the toys and the winners, please go to the club website www.homecraftsmenforum.com

Bosch Toy Contest Winners

and their projects.

Newsletter editor: Nan Schulte

newslettereditor@homecraftsmenforum.com

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Map to Meeting

110 E. 16^th Street, Indianapolis

Herron Auditorium, Herron Museum Bldg, Herron School of Art

Need a more detailed map, please go to:

Yahoo! Maps - 110 E 16th St, Indianapolis, IN 46202-2402 http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=110+E+16th+St&city=Indianapolis&state=IN&slt=39.788537&sln=-86.155464&zip=46202-2402&country=us&BFKey=&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=9&cs=9&csz=Indianapolis,+IN+46202-2402&name=&desc=&ds=n and expand or zoom map as you need.

The entrance is on the north side of the Museum building which faces 16^th Street. There is parking on the street and in the parking lots surrounding the school.

Home Craftsmen Forum Web Page: www.homecraftsmenforum.com

You can contact our webmaster, John Lundberg, at webmaster@homecraftsmenforum.com

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