July 2003 Newsletter
July Meeting
When: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 Time: 7:00
p.m.
Where: Wood-Mizer Products, Inc
8180
West 10th Street,
Indianapolis,
IN
{USE THE CUSTOMER SERVICE ENTRANCE}
(See Map at bottom of Page )
Program: Portable
Sawmills & Products
FROM TO
The
wonder of power tools will once again be on display at the club’s July
meeting. Our gracious hosts will
demonstrate a Wood-Mizer portable saw
mill at their world headquarters in Indianapolis, and tell us more about their
worldwide operations and other products.
Come out and watch the sawdust fly – you may even decide it’s time to
expand your collection of power tools beyond your workshop.
Preview
of August Meeting
Woodworking
Hands-On Session
for
HCF members only
Furniture
Making with Marc Adams
Location: Marc
Adams
School
of Woodworking
Franklin,
Indiana
Time: December 12 – 14, 2003
(Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
Cost: $250 (includes all materials for the table as
well as lunch each day.)
Design and build a sculpted table (Maloof style) in this three-day class. You’ll learn, have fun, and end up with a
perfect Christmas gift for yourself or someone special. The class will focus on design, joinery, understanding wood,
adhesives, and shop safety.
Contact Tom Meeker
to register for this class. Tom must
have your $100 deposit by July 18th (make checks payable to Home
Craftsmen Forum). Your deposit will be
returned if we do not have at least 15 people signed up. This is a special class and value just for
our members, do not delay and miss this great opportunity.
Tom
Meeker, 9038 Pinecreek Way, Indianapolis,
IN 46256
317-578-8300
tjmeeker@comcast.net
NOTE:
The table will be ready for you to take home at the end of the
session. Apply your own finish at home
after the class is over. Also, if you’re
like me and “Maloof style” doesn’t mean a lot, you
can become enlightened by visiting the following web site.
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/maloof/introduction/
We need
a Vice President!
It’s time to for YOU
to step forward and get involved.
Contact Tom Meeker, Nan
Schulte, or Bob Shaw.
- June 18t 
Meeting –
If you were there you know we enjoyed perfect weather,
great fellowship, and lots of fried chicken.
Members brought a wide variety of projects to display their talents.
President Lew provided an interesting recap
of the past year, re-minding us of what we’d accomplished.
A highpoint of the evening was our opportunity to hear from those who
receive our toys. It was truly heart-warming to learn how our
toys touch the lives of children who face a variety of significant challenges.
Special thanks go to:
¬ Steve & Tami Brown of The Door Store
for donating door prizes.
¬ Rockler for donating a door prize gift certificate.
¬ Woods-Work for donating a door prize gift
certificate.
¬ Bosch/Vermont American for don-ating products for door prizes.
¬ Lew Lundberg for donating the cookies.
¬ Nan Schulte and Darrell McConnell for donating
the ice and sodas.
¬ Dick Brown for providing a sound system.
¬ Chris Kammerling for
donating the coffee and bringing the coffee maker.
¬ Lew & Lois Lundberg, Nan Schulte, Darrell
& Shirley McConnell, and Bob & Eric Shaw for the setup and cleanup.
BY THE NUMBERS
66
- Club members & their guests
7
– Special guests (toy recipients)
$687
– Income
$779
- Expenses
-Outstanding
Contributions Honored-
Four members were singled out at
the June meeting for their long-term and significant contributions to the
club. Each received a laser engraved
plaque as a token of our esteem for what they have given. We have a better club thanks to each of these
outstanding individuals. Be sure to congratulate them if you haven’t done
so already.
President’s Gold Award
This Award is presented to recognize extraordinary
and long term contribu-tions of service to the Home
Craftsmen Forum and
to the Community of Cen-tral Indiana.
¬ Dick Brown
¬ Norm Cunningham
¬ Sam Phillips
Special Recognition
Award
This Award is presented by the
Execu-tive Committee to recognize extraordin-ary
contributions and tireless duty to the success of the Home Craftsmen Forum.
¬ Darrell McConnell
***
- Executive Committee Meeting –
The Executive Committee met on June 25, 2003 at Don Melloy’s house. The
next meeting is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
on July 23, 2003. Location to be determined.
***
-
Video Tape Library
-
The
videotape library is available at all meetings. This is a free lending service
for our members. You are encouraged
to make use of this valuable service but please remember that borrowed tapes
are to be returned at the next month's meeting.
This will allow others to also enjoy this benefit.
A
complete list of videotape titles is available on our website. In addition, 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 Beckerich at 253-8771 or at
rbeckerich@iquest.net.
***
- Sound System for our Club –
The search for a sound system for use
at our meetings has come to a successful end!
Having read the June newsletter Chris Kammerling
spoke up and said, “the club already has one – it’s
stored at my place.” Chris fired it
up and reports that it works “just fine.”
Thanks to Chris, we won’t be hearing Sgt. Carter’s favorite line, “I
can’t hear you!,” at future meetings {Pardon the flash back to Gomer
Pyle USMC.}
***
- Tom Meeker’s Visit to August
Home Publishing
–
“When I was
in Des Moines, Iowa this June I paid a visit to August Home Publishing, the publisher of ShopNotes, WORKBENCH and Woodsmith.
Doug Hicks, the Vice President and Executive Editor gave me a tour of their
offices and shop. The projects in their mag-azines
are all designed by the magazine staff and built in their shop. The
shop at August Home is not fancy. They have intentionally designed the
shop to be like a home shop. Their goal is the design and feature
projects that an average home woodworker could build at home.”
“Doug was very interested in our
club and asked me to send him our newsletter. He also provided some
ideas on things we could do with the club. Doug said that some Midwest clubs have come
to visit them, they like to host clubs. Doug also has done presentations
to woodworking clubs around the county. If you find yourself in
Des Moines plan to stop by
August Home for an afternoon tour. Besides meeting some nice folks your
can see all the projects that have been featured in the magazines.”
“Also when in Des Moines a must stop is August
Home's new retail outlet the Woodsmith Store.
The store is located just off the interstate and is the largest woodworking
store I have seen. I recommend you visit their web site and see
what they have to offer.”
WoodsmithStoreSpecials.com
“If
you want to know more about my visit, please ask me at the next meeting I
would happy to tell you more.”
July
Meeting Location
Wood-Mizer Products, Inc
NOTE: Use the customer service entrance.
You can contact our webmaster, John Lundberg,
at webmaster@homecraftsmenforum.com
Home Craftsmen Forum
A membership organization having
as it sole object the presentation of educational programs and demonstrations
of machines, tools, and processes adaptable for use in the home workshop.