October 2002 Newsletter

When: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 Time: 7:00 p.m.

Where: 5610 Crawfordsville Rd., Speedway (see Map on Page 6 of Newsletter)

Environmental Management Institute, Inc, Training Room.

Christmas Gift and Hobby Show - sign up and booth organization.

Speaker: Terry Collins of 3M Corporation.

Sandpapers for the Woodworker.

Terry Collins is National Accounts Executive for 3M Corporation. He has been an employee of 3M for 28 years. His presentation will be "Sandpapers for the Woodworker." There will be products to examine and an opportunity for questions and answers. Terry has previously made this informative presentation to the Ft. Wayne woodworking club. If you want to learn more about 3M abrasive products for woodworking, you can visit the following website: http://wwwcanada.mmm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/CategoryDisplay?cgrfnbr=177021&cgmenbr=86453

If you know someone that is interested in checking out our organization, you are encouraged to invite them to this program.

Our November meeting will be on the 20^th at 7:00 at EMI. The presentation will be on Home Inspections. Our speaker will be Tim Tucker. Tim is a past president of American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) and works for Guardian Inspection Services.

A little about ASHI from their website (www.ashi.com).

In 1976, a group of visionary home inspectors established the American Society of Home Inspectors, a not-for-profit membership organization. Their goal was to build consumer awareness of home inspection and to enhance professionalism by developing high Standards of Practice and a Code of Ethics.

Today, ASHI is the largest and most respected professional association for home inspectors in North America, with more than 5,800 members. ASHI's Standards of Practice, covering all of a home's major systems, are specifically noted in state and federal legislation and recognized by consumers as the definitive standard for professional home inspection.

- Proposed Policy for Lumber Donated for HCF Christmas Toy Projects -

Please review the following proposal and be prepared to discuss and vote on it at the October 16, 2002 meeting.

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- The 53^rd Christmas Gift and Hobby Show -

The Gift and Hobby show is scheduled for November 13-17, 2002 in the West Pavilion of the Indiana State Fairgrounds. HCF is a long time exhibitor at this show.

Please check your calendar in advance of the October meeting and come prepared to sign up for a time slot to man our booth or to set up/take down the booth and transport displays items.

In the past, HCF has exhibited toys from our Christmas Toy Project at our booth. We plan to continue doing this as it represents our commitment to our community. Our club represents much more to us than our toy effort and we need to show the community more of who we are. Please bring your ideas and suggestions to the next meeting to help us achieve this.

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- New Members -

Welcome to our new HCF members, Bill Jones and Bill Dickinson.

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- Lost -

At the September meeting, a Palm Pilot was lost by Sonny Woods. If you found it, please contact Sonny or a member of the executive committee.

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- Meeting Room Costs -

Environmental Management Institute, Inc. rents us their Training Room at the very reasonable cost of $45 a meeting. For this amount, we receive use of the meeting room, their electronic equipment, and the liquid refreshments. They also clean up our coffee cups and lemonade glasses.

To help us pay our rent, we pass the "hat" at each meeting. OK, usually it is just a box that we pass around because no one has a hat available. Please, donate to help the club offset the cost of our excellent meeting facility.

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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.

The club added Tod Herrlis video on "Plane Making" to our library. Tod was our speaker at our September meeting.

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, contact Bob at 253-8771 or at rbeckerich@iquest.net.

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- Bosch Toy Contest -

A special edition for HCF members only of the Bosch Toy Contest will be judged at our December 2002 meeting. Best toy from an HCF member will receive a Bosch L295 DVSK Random Orbit sander. All those that enter will receive a prize. Toys entered in the contest will become the property of Bosch and will be given to charity. The HCF winner will advance to national competition.

1 - The entry must be a toy.

2 - The toy must be made of wood.

3 - No kit toys or pre-cut toys.

4 - All entries become the property of Bosch.

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- Membership Dues is due (OVER DUE) -

Thank you to all members that paid their membership dues at the September meeting. According to our bylaws, membership fee is $20 a year and "payable at the September meeting." (Article III section 3)

If you have not yet paid your membership dues, please pay Tom Meeker, Treasurer, at the October meeting or mail your check made out to Home Craftsmen Forum to:

HCF

c/o Tom Meeker

9038 Pinecreek Way

Indianapolis, IN 46256

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- Program Committee -

The first meeting of the Program Committee was September 11, 2002. Don Melloy was elected chairman of the committee. Nan Schulte will be responsible for minutes and communications. A list of possible meeting topics was assembled. This list is at the end of your newsletter in the form of a survey. Please take the time to review it, rate the topics, and make suggests. You can turn in your survey at the October meeting or send it by mail to Nan Schulte, 6140 Roberts Place, Indianapolis, IN 46220. Please have your surveys turned in by October 21, 2002. Additional copies of the survey will be available at the meeting if you forgot to bring yours.

Members of Program Committee: Joe Brickler, Don Claffey, Dick Ellis, Glenn Jable, Harold Matthews, Tom Meeker, Don Melloy, Joe Miller, Clet Meyers, Joe Schmidlin, Nan Schulte, and Chuck Stouse.

If you have an idea for a club program or know a person who would be a good speaker, please contact one of the committee members.

The next Program Committee Meeting is October 9, 2002 at 7:00 at Nan Schultes house.

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- October Executive Committee Meeting -

The next Executive Committee is October 23, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. Location is yet to be determined. Committee members will be contacted with location information.

Herman DeHart, past President of HCF, has agreed to accept President Lew Lundbergs invitation to attend Executive Committee meetings. This will help the present committee to work more smoothly and efficiently by having Hermans experience available. Herman was in attendance at our September Executive Committee meeting. Thank you, Herman.

Members of the Executive Committee:

Lew Lundberg, President

Don Melloy, Vice-President

Bob Taylor, Secretary

Tom Meeker, Treasurer

Darrell McConnell,

Toy Project Chairman

Nan Schulte, Newsletter

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- Christmas Toy Project -

Reminder: The Toy Project toys must be turned in on or before the November meeting. If you have completed a "Box Project" - a take home toy project - it can be turned in to Darrell McConnell or Nan Schulte. Call to make arrangements if you will not be doing it at the October or November club meetings.

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- Color Members Directory and Tri-fold flyer -

Thank you to Dick Brown for arranging for the printing of our color directory and club fliers.

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-Website-

Our new website is up and running. We are now www.homecraftsmenforum.com Current and past newsletters plus various other information can be found on our site.

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- Minutes from September 18, 2002 Forum meeting -

Meeting presided over by Lew Lundberg, President.

Visitors: 4

Video Library - Bob Beckerich

All videotapes are present and accounted for.

Program Committee - Don Melloy

First meeting was held.

Upcoming programs are

Oct 16 -Terry Collins of 3M on sandpaper

Nov 20 -Home Inspections

Dec 18 - Bosch Christmas Toy Contest

(See write up earlier in Newsletter for rules of Toy Contest.)

Treasurer's report for September

Tom Meeker

Your membership dues is due. $20 for 2003.

In the future, a summary report of club monthly Income and Expenses will be included in the Newsletter.

Please contribute to the "pass the hat" to help us offset rental of the meeting room.

To help us reduce our expenses, please get your monthly newsletters by e-mail if you have an e-mail account. All members that the club has an e-mail address for will be receiving a notice from the Newsletter Editor asking for their preference in how they will receive their future Newsletters.

If you have your box project done, please bring in your toys and deliver them to Darrell.

Secretary's Report - Bob Taylor

Nan Schulte is now writing and sending the newsletter. Club Thank you to Nan for taking this on.

Extra copies of Bylaws available.

New website is up and operational. www.homecraftsmenforum.com If you go to our old website, it will now transfer you to the new site. John Lundberg has agreed to be Webmaster for the club. The members of the Program Committee will be listed on the website.

Woodworking Show - Bill Stillman

The Indianapolis Woodworking Show is the last weekend in January. HCF will have a booth there. Contact Bill for more information and if you would like to be involved with planning our booth.

Bylaw changes - Lew Lundberg

Submitted to Executive Committee to update bylaws to reflect our current practice of separate secretary and treasurer positions. Copies of current bylaws and proposed changes were sent to all members for review before the August meeting.

Secretary verified that greater than 40% of the membership was present so a quorum vote could take place. There was a unanimous voice vote in favor of adopting the changes. The bylaws are amended to separate the secretary and treasurer positions. A copy of the bylaws can be found on our website or request it from the Secretary, Bob Taylor.

American Sycamore Woodworkers Retreat tour for HCF members on October 5, 2002. 10  2. Hand count taken for number that will be attending. Only members who have paid their 2003 dues will be eligible for the drawing for tuition to a class.

Executive Committee - Lew Lundberg

Nan Schulte has been named as Newsletter editor and invited to join Executive Committee

Program Committee members have received their letters from the President making them official members of the committee.

Dick Brown reported that John Burke, Sr. says thank you for the cards and flowers from club members. He is home now and would welcome visitors.

Speaker - Tod Herrli, The Making of Wooden Hand Planes.

Tod is the instructor and owner of Mississinewa Workshop in Marion, Indiana. He presented an intense two hour demonstration and lecture on the making of hollows and rounds wooden hand planes.

Samples were passed around the room for examination as the demonstration progressed. All steps in the plane making process were covered in word or example.

For those interested in learning more, HCF purchased a copy of Tods video on Plane Making that members can borrow from our library. For those wanting more in-depth direction in plane making or other woodworking techniques, Tod does teach classes. He can be contacted through his website at http://www.comteck.com/~therrli/ or by calling 765-664-3325.

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Newsletter editor: Nan Schulte

newslettereditor@homecraftsmenforum.com

Do you have woodworking tools or lumber or other home improvement or woodworking related materials that you would like to sell? You can get the word out to club members by having it listed in the club newsletter. Information needed is description of item, price, your phone number. Send this by an e-mail by the first Wednesday of the month to the Newsletter editor at newslettereditor@homecraftsmenform.com or submit it in writing at the monthly meeting to Nan Schulte or by mail to

HCF Newsletter

C/O Nan Schulte

6140 Roberts Place

Indianapolis, IN 46220.

Map to Meeting

5610 Crawfordsville Rd, Speedway

Environmental Management Institute

Home Craftsmen Forum Web Page: www.homecraftsmenforum.com

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.

Program Committee Survey

Please Turn In this Survey at the October Meeting. There will be a box to put your surveys in located near the door to our meeting room. Or you can Mail your completed survey by October 21 to: Nan Schulte

6140 Roberts Place

Indianapolis, IN 46220

Thank you for your help in determining what type of quality programs will interest our membership.

- The HCF Program Committee -

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Please mark each topic below with the level of interest you have in a club meeting on this. Please circle your answer.

0 = No interest 1 = some interest

2 = Very interested 3 - Yes, Yes, Yes I want this program now

Fiberglass repairs in woodworking 1 2 3 4

Portable Sawmill 1 2 3 4

MidWest Tool Collectors Assoc 1 2 3 4

Early American Trades and Techniques 1 2 3 4

By Connor Prairie Personnel

Paints and Solvents 1 2 3 4

Tool Swap Meet among members 1 2 3 4

Tuning up and using a metal hand plane 1 2 3 4

IUPUI director of Woodworking Arts 1 2 3 4

Trouble shooting computers 1 2 3 4

Computers and woodworking 1 2 3 4

Finishing techniques - outside speaker 1 2 3 4

Finishing techniques - member panel discussion 1 2 3 4

Chain saw carving 1 2 3 4

Member show and tell day 1 2 3 4

Wood carving 1 2 3 4

Timber frame homes 1 2 3 4

Band Sawn Boxes 1 2 3 4

Vendor demonstrations (such as Bosch, 1 2 3 4

DeWalt, American Vermont)

Woodworking related trips 1 2 3 4

Your suggestions for Program topics or persons we could have do a presentation:

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Your Name (Optional)__________________________________________________________