March 2003 Newsletter
March
Meeting
When: Wednesday,
March 19, 2003 Time: 7:00 p.m.
Where: 5610 Crawfordsville Rd., Suite 15, Speedway
(see Map on Page 6 of Newsletter)
Environmental Management Institute, Inc, Training Room.
Program: Wood
Carving Techniques with Dennis Maddox.
“Saturday
Hands On” for Spring 2003
Hand
Skill Techniques with Marc Adams
Date: March 22, 2002, 8:00 am to
5:00 pm
Location: Marc Adams School of
Woodworking, Franklin, Indiana.
Cost: $45 per person, includes all
materials
(Payment due
to Tom Meeker at club meeting on March 19, 2003)
Lunch: A pizza pitch- in. Cost of $5 per person, payable at class, or
bring your own lunch.
Marc will be
teaching a class for Home Craftsmen Forum members only. The class is on hand skills and will include
sharpening, cutting dovetails -- both though and half bind -- and
veneering. By the end of the day,
participants will have the knowledge to sharpen their tools and apply them to
cut dovetails and veneer. A list of
tools that you will be required to bring will be sent to those that sign up
along with a map to the school.
Remember: if you signed up for this class,
your fee of $45 is due at the March meeting.
-
New Members –
Welcome
to Dave Gootee, Kurry Coker, Ron Stubbert, Norman Heckman and Brian
Riddle. 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.
NEW VIDEOS – several new video titles have been added to
the library. See Bob for details. List of new titles will be printed in next
month’s newsletter.
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- The Club’s “Special Thanks to You”–
Ron Stubbert – Donation of wooden wheels to
Christmas Toy Project. Thank you Ron for donating 450 2” wooden wheels to keep our toys
moving.
Kevin Kirkpatrick of Century 21, Group 1 – Donation of a
10 x 10 rental storage unit for club use. This will be used
to reduce the space
strain our lumber piles are exerting on the shop area at
Automatic Pool Covers.
Don Malloy – Arranging for donated storage from
Kevin Kirkpatrick and overseeing the transport and stowage of donated lumber to
fill that unit.
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- Club Storage Unit Access Policy -
The club currently has two storage
units donated for use in storing our historical toy collection, lumber
donations, and materials for the Christmas Toy Project.
Four club members have keys for access
to the storage areas. Dick
Brown, Darrell McConnell, Don Melloy, and Lew Lundberg. If you need access to one of our storage
units, please contact them.
A list of who has keys for storage unit
access will be posted on the club website.
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- Club Election of Officers is Coming - - MAY meeting –
A short editorial from your newsletter editor:
Dear Fellow HCF Members,
Our club is at a crossroads. We need you to get involved to keep us
growing. Bringing the membership bigger
and better programming and learning experiences and wood based social
interactions doesn’t just magically happen.
I wish it did because then I wouldn’t get so tired out. We have started along a great new path for
our club. The trips, programming, and
new events of the last year are a real testament to a creative push by our
outgoing Officers. We need to keep this
force going. Please join me in moving us
forward. I plan to run for Secretary and
bring the same energy to that office as I have brought to the position of
Newsletter editor. What will you do?
- Nan
Schulte
HCF Newsletter Editor
The Nomination Committee is headed by Dick Brown. Please contact him to express your wish to
run or to nominate a fellow member.
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- Call for Judges –
We are looking for judges for Project
Focus 2003 – our annual club wood competition.
Do you know someone who would be willing to judge the competition? Please contact a club officer with their
name.
And start getting those projects
together that you want to enter. The
competition is at the May meeting.
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- Christmas Toy Project –
We are now gearing up for our 2003
Christmas Toy Project. Darrell McConnell
will again be leading our club in this effort.
The Toy Committee needs your help.
Please look through your patterns and files and plans for possible toys
we can produce this year. If you can
make a prototype of the toy for others to see and build, that is even
better.
Toy Committee members: Darrell McConnell, Bob Shaw, and Nan
Schulte.
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- Looking ahead –
Nomination Committee is being formed.
If you can serve on this vital committee or are interested in being an
officer, please contact Lew Lundberg, president.
Club Picnic in June – We are planning our annual picnic
for the third Wednesday night in June at Camp Belzer located on Boy Scout Road
in Indianapolis.
Special Projects – The club will be expanding our
community service aspect. We will start
by doing repairs to furniture at Lutherwood.
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. One will be in March at Marc Adams School of
Woodworking. Another will be this fall
at American Sycamore Woodworkers Retreat.
HCF Project
Focus 2003 – Our annual
club competition for member-made projects.
Judging will be at our May meeting. Prizes are awarded in six categories: Inlayed Item (intarsia or marquetry),
Furniture, Scroll Saw Projects, Toys, Turnings, and Misc. Rules are:
Members may enter as many categories as they wish. Projects must be built after June
1, 2002. Builder must be a member of the club.
Start on your projects now or pick from
your recently completed projects that item or two that will win the judges’
nod.
Winners are asked to display their
winning projects at the club picnic in June and at the club booth at the
Christmas Gift and Hobby Show in November.
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- Program Committee -
The next meeting of the Program
Committee is March 12, 2003 at 7:00 at Gibraltar Design conference
room. 9102 N. Meridian Street, Suite 300, Indianapolis.
Results from the Program Committee Survey: As promised in the February Newsletter, see
last page of the Newsletter for a list of the suggestions for programs
submitted on our survey.
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- Executive Committee Meeting –
The Executive Committee met on March
3, 2003 at Tom
Meeker’s house.
Rental Storage access policy was created so that knowledge of who
has the keys for access is known to the general membership.
Asset List to be
created.
If you are storing an item that belongs to the club, please let an
officer know. This includes wheel
cutters, lumber, tools, signs, pictures, tables, toys, etc. The club is creating an asset list to be kept
by the Secretary. With the passing of
time and officer changes, the knowledge of who has what is easily lost. The asset list will be updated yearly by the Secretary
to address this. PLEASE HELP AND GET
YOUR INFORMATION TO AN OFFICER IN MARCH FOR WHAT CLUB ITEMS YOU ARE FAITHFULLY
MAINTAINING. – Thank you.
The next meeting is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on March 26, 2003.
Location to be determined.
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- Minutes from February
19, 2003 Forum meeting –
No Minutes were available from this meeting.
Home Craftsmen Forum Web Page: www.homecraftsmenforum.com
You can contact our webmaster, John
Lundberg, at webmaster@homecraftsmenforum.com
Member Items For Sale
Delta 10” Contractors Saw. Mobile Base. Dado
blade and insert. Two saw blades. Tenoning jig. 8 years old.
$900.00 Contact
Larry Doty 317-422-5033
HCF AWARDS PROGRAM
(Approved by the Membership, February
19, 2003)
Mission statement:
The purpose of the
awards program of the Home Craftsmen Forum is to recognize contributions to the
purposes of the organization made on an individual and or group basis.
President’s Gold Award:
The President’s Gold
Award is presented by the president with concurrence of the Executive Committee,
to recognize extraordinary contributions to the club over an extended period of
time. Examples would include long time
operation of a member’s shop for building toys or long time contribution to the
overall welfare of the club such as accepting and managing difficult area(s) of
club activity. The award shall consist
of an engraved plaque presented at the annual picnic meeting. Nominations for this award may be made to the
president and voted upon by the Executive Committee.
Executive Committee Special Recognition Award:
The Executive
Committee Special Recognition Award is presented by the president in
recognition of service to the club or a one time extraordinary contribution to
the success of the club. Examples would
include an outgoing president or a long term committee member. The award shall consist of a plaque presented
at the end of the office term year.
Nominations for this award may be made to the president and voted upon
by the Executive Committee.
Club Recognition Award:
The Club Recognition
Award is presented by the president in recognition of a variety of
contributions made to the club. Examples
would include a contribution of supplies for use in the toy building projects,
or a significant contribution of resources for the general purposes of the
club. The award shall consist of a
certificate to be presented at the appropriate time of the activity being
recognized. Nominations for this award
may be made to the president and voted upon by the Executive Committee.
Record Keeping:
The club secretary
shall be responsible for accepting nominations submitted to the president,
recording them in the “Awards record book” and presenting them to the Executive
Committee for consideration. General
guidelines will include the President’s Gold Award being presented only once
each year, the Executive Committee Special Recognition
Award would be presented on a quarterly basis and the Club Recognition Award on
an as needed basis.
ü Designing a workshop
ü Safety in the workshop and safe handling of
tools
ü Electrical safety in the workshop and
refurbishing motors
ü Trip to The Barn
Sign Co in Fortville IN
ü Plan sharing/swap
ü Suggest to members to attend shows and store
open houses. If
demonstrations are being given, approach demonstrators on giving a presentation
to our club.
ü We have a lot of expertise within the
club. How do we get this knowledge to be
shared? (Good question. How do we do this? Any ideas, please contact Don Melloy –
chairman of Program Committee)
ü Project Designing
ü Practical substitutions for expensive
"commercial" project items - made or purchased
ü Log of sources for low cost items (or how to
locate)
ü Specific tool setup & use techniques
(Drill press, table saws, band saw, sanders, etc)
ü Tuning equipment (especially. squaring table
saws)
ü
ü Cutting miters (good miters)
ü Intarsia, inlaying
ü Woodworking hardware and fasteners
ü New woodworking materials
ü Marc Adams
ü Perhaps we could set up a way for us to share
plans with each other. (Idea) - A
picture book showing projects for which copies of plans are available - with
phone numbers
ü Period Furniture
Dennis Maddox is a
Master Woodcarver. He will be
demonstrating wood carving techniques, caring for your carving tools, what
carving tools to use for which project, and how to sharpening your tools. Bring your questions and an open mind to see
how carving can compliment your woodworking skills. Carving can be an end onto itself or an
embellishment that takes a simple piece of wood and transforms it into much
more. 
