Our club motto is Learning by sharing the art of woodworking. Our February meeting, one week earlier than usual (February 15th) due to the Ash Wednesday celebration at St. James Catholic church, will be a variety of woodworking skills demonstrated by several of our members.

From Milford Lau, our oldest member demonstrating chip carving, to Will Richards, our youngest showing his scroll saw skills, seven members will be doing mini-demonstrations of their special interests. As a non-router using woodworker, I?m especially interested in seeing Al Cheeks? router presentation.

Each of the seven presenters will give two half hour presentation/demonstrations. After the mid-meeting coffee break, members will have the opportunity to choose two of the seven presentations to attend.

Our thanks from the club for the guitar making presentation by John Ressler at our January meeting. We don?t get a lot of presenters who sing in addition to talking about woodworking. His unique guitars, especially the two made from OSB and his pickin? stick drew a lot of interest.

Bud Knoedler, Bird Carver, will present a program on the process he uses to carve various types of birds

Scott Zero will present a program on Festool products, such as the Plunge Circular Saw with the MFT (table) along with the Dust Extractor

At the June 24th meeting of the DuPage Woodworkers Bob Bergstrom, woodturner extraordinaire, will present a program titled Spindle Turning for Furniture Makers. While spindles are arguably considered to be the easiest of the turning skills they afford opportunity to develop turning habits that lend themselves to all forms of turning. Many of us have been desirous of building chairs, tables or cabinets that require spindles, but shy away from it for lack of experience with either the lathe or the process. I?m pleased to say that Bob has been a friend for many many years, an early member of the Chicago Woodturners and a current member of the Windy City Woodturners. He frequently lends his expertise to woodturning and woodworking clubs offering subjects like lathe tool sharpening, spindle turning, faceplate turning and small projects for the wood lathe. For our program, Bob will demonstrate turning a utilitarian paper towel holder which will show all of the cuts required for spindle turning including beads, coves and tenons. I?m very excited to have this talented woodturner present to our club.

he Annual Club auction will be held at St. James Church. Registration for buyers and sellers begins at 8 AM and selling begins at 9 AM. Rules for the auction follow:

• Open to all members and invited guests.
• Space is available for FVWWCers wishing to sell woodworking tools and related items.

  Rules below apply to ALL.

• Items must be of a woodworking nature.
• All items are guaranteed by seller to be in working order, unless specified “As Is”.
• Seller has the right to bid on their items to protect the selling price.
• No large quantities of lumber.
• Cash is the method of payment.
• Low value items may be grouped by auctioneer for the purpose of expediting sale.
• Items will be sold in the order of Registration. If more than one DuPage Non-member is registered we will alternate between DuPage members and non-members.
• A 10% selling fee will be charged on items sold for non-members. (Rounded to the nearest dollar).
• Once an item is sold it becomes the responsibility of the buyer.
• All buyers and sellers must register and have a buyers number to participate.
• If a seller must leave before the auction ends, a check for the sellers proceeds will be issued by the club.
• This is meant to be a fun event. Common sense will prevail.
• At end of the auction it is the responsibility of each seller to remove all their unsold items.

At the August 26th meeting of the DuPage Woodworkers Karl Scogin will demonstrate the tools and procedures that revolve around spray finishing. He?ll talk about the different types of spray gun equipment including the standard type of gun and the somewhat newer technology HVLP spray gun. He?ll explain that while the HVLP gun uses more air, it is more efficient at laying paint on the surface contributing less blowback and less overspray. Karl will point out the benefits and detriments of the different types of guns, the desirable methods of air supply and the best type of regulation and filtration for the smaller woodworking shop. He?ll cover the different materials available for spraying including nitrocellulose lacquers, water-based products, dyes, stains, and even paints. If time permits, information about safe spraying in a small shop and methods to contain and extract fumes will be presented. I know many of us, myself included, balk at the idea of spraying projects from small to large. I hope that this presentation can free us from the concerns we have about this best, easiest and fastest way to complete our work.

At the September 16th meeting of the DuPage Woodworkers, past President Wayne Maier will present a program about hand cut dovetails. We?ve all seen and admired the dovetails in Wayne?s jewelry boxes so here?s your opportunity to see just how he does it. Wayne will discuss designing the layout of the dovetails, how to correctly begin and end dovetails at the top and bottom of the case to balance the appearance and how to correctly saw and chop pins and tails to achieve a perfect fit. Needless to say, this type of work requires razor sharp tools, and I?ve asked Wayne to briefly touch on what he feels is the best method to achieve that goal. While I?m sure we would all agree that none of us ever make a mistake, Wayne will talk about some of the problems you might encounter as you begin to hand cut your own dovetails.

At the October 28th meeting of the DuPage Woodworkers member Dave Reilly will present a program titled Carving Letters of the Alphabet. Belonging to three other woodworking/turning clubs, I have to point out that none of the others have as sturdy or as a well thought out workbench as our members enjoy. And then there is our club name hand carved on the rail stretcher by Dave ? truly an awesome job. During the program Dave will talk about the types of chisels most appropriate to this type of carving, the process used in designing the layout (and just how do you get the dang thing centered?) and how he develops the lettering or pattern for the project. We all know the importance of sharp tools, especially when it comes to carving. Dave will touch on the methods he finds most appropriate to prepare his tools for this type of carving. As many of you are aware, Dave has talked and demonstrated at many venues both locally and nationally. The DuPage Woodworkers are very lucky to have such a talented and respected artist in our midst and are thankful for this opportunity to see him work.

At the November 18 meeting of the DuPage Woodworkers Bill Aitchison will present a program about Faux Finishing and Finish Repair. How many of us have wished we could use an old-time comb to ?grain? a particularly plain piece of wood? How about making a piece of wood look like a piece of marble; He?ll demonstrate this on a piece of cardboard. Bill is an all-around wood person, seemingly with the ability to accomplish most anything when it comes to working wood. His experience ranges from construction to cabinet making, turning bowls from molds made from Bondo shaped over various objects (nothing eccentric about that!) to turning baseball bats, making boxes and all sorts of cabinets; he?s pretty much done it all. Bill will talk about refinishing (at one time he was the proprietor of a refinishing business), and how to handle small surface blemishes on up to dealing with whole pieces of furniture. He?s sprayed most everything you can put through a gun, air brushes to large spraying systems, so he can answer your questions about that as well. A member of the Windy City Woodturners we appreciate Bill taking time from his busy schedule to enhance our understanding of faux finishing and finish repair.

Fred Rizza will present a program on a Mahogany tilt top table he made recently. He used a design from Woodworker?s Journal from 1989 and made changes in assembly and jigs to improve on the original design. Fred will share with us his method of making this table, special jigs, and other secrets. With over 60 years in the woodworking business and hobby, he brings unique ideas and that is what our club is about, sharing ideas.

Artist's Statement: "Every slice of wood hides an image within its grain waiting to be revealed."
Pyrography is a metaphor for life, the creation of art using a natural process and surface is a reflection of the cycle of life itself. The burning of the wood- destruction or death - gives birth to new life - in an image. It is only in working with the natural surface of the wood that true harmony is revealed.
Sharon will discuss Animal "medicine"; Selecting material for the subject; Working through inspiration

Learn how to create exciting DVDs with still photos & movie clips; or maybe, just learn to create a better photo scrapbook. Your "customer" or family will enjoy the story now . . . and again in 30 years. The principles are the same for photo albums, scrapbooks or DVDs for the TV. Let the kids enjoy seeing themselves on TV while helping to sand that table leg.
The presentation will review time-line intensity techniques to keep it interesting -- just like in the comic books; by using: story clues; sequences of composition; fuzzy; quiet; blackness; audio punch; etc.
See some concepts in a variety of short training and travel videos.

• 1 min Jig Saw Puzzle ( small file size for Web/ fewer pixels )
• 1/2 min Ceramics
• 2 min Cooking
• 3 min China tour ( wooden Forbidden City, fire control )
• 5 min Russia tour ( 1730 wood monastery, w/o nails )
• 1 min Tent Camping ( Pig Roaster, propane & 12v motor )

As we saw in the the March workshop, Rich Rossio will detail how he made the multi-axis bottle stopper using only a 4-jaw scroll chuck, a 3/8" spingle gouge, a rouging gouge and a skew. No specialty chuck needed! Rich makes bottle stoppers 6-7 inches tall. RIch's process can also be used to make mult-axis "fly houses", and finials for hollow ornaments. Rich will display several examples of this process.

he Annual Club auction will be held at St. James Church. Registration for buyers and sellers begins at 8 AM and selling begins at 9 AM. Rules for the auction follow:

• Open to all members and invited guests.
• Space is available for FVWWCers wishing to sell woodworking tools and related items.

  Rules below apply to ALL.

• Items must be of a woodworking nature.
• All items are guaranteed by seller to be in working order, unless specified “As Is”.
• Seller has the right to bid on their items to protect the selling price.
• No large quantities of lumber.
• Cash is the method of payment.
• Low value items may be grouped by auctioneer for the purpose of expediting sale.
• Items will be sold in the order of Registration. If more than one DuPage Non-member is registered we will alternate between DuPage members and non-members.
• A 10% selling fee will be charged on items sold for non-members. (Rounded to the nearest dollar).
• Once an item is sold it becomes the responsibility of the buyer.
• All buyers and sellers must register and have a buyers number to participate.
• If a seller must leave before the auction ends, a check for the sellers proceeds will be issued by the club.
• This is meant to be a fun event. Common sense will prevail.
• At end of the auction it is the responsibility of each seller to remove all their unsold items.

Club members will show off their favorite fixtures.

Demo content is to be determined.

Karl Scogin, manager of the Woodcraft store in Woodridge, will give a talk on Hand Planes. Topics include:

• An explanation of the basic types of handplanes and functions of each.
• How to properly set up & tune handplanes.
• Proper techniques, stances & mechanics when using handplanes.
• A brief description of sharpening techniques & angles.
• How handplanes can actually save time & work in the shop.
• A "Rough to Ready" demonstration: turning a rough sawn board into into a ready to finish panel.

(Note the change from the normal meeting date due to the holidays)
Remember the fuzzy feel of those old greeting cards? Or the lining in jewelry boxes that feels so soft? Are you aware that this simple process is so easy and economical that even the home hobbyist/woodworker can create this same soft-to-the-touch finish on their own project? DonJer Products (also know as Flock It! Ltd) has been selling their flocking kits to woodowrkers since 1946. Jill Goldman, onwer of DonJer, will be visiting with the DuPage Woodworkers on Wed., Nov. 17, to demonstrate the ease of working with DonJer's Suede-Tex fibers. She will bring samples of finished projects and share some of the tricks to guaranteeing a professional looking finish. Jill will also be available to answer any questions you may have.

(Note the change from the normal meeting date due to the holidays)

The February 23 meeting will feature Fine Woodworking magazine Associate Editor Steve Scott. He will talk about their outstanding website which includes free ?how to? videos and articles as well as the online subscription service including access to 1,300+ articles from the Fine Woodworking archive and over 300 short videos from woodworking experts. Steve will also answer general questions.

Bosch company representatives will show some new products, including their innovative miter saw and their new router. They will also have someone from their blade division to discuss their saw blades. Come join us and learn about these Bosch products and get all of your Bosch questions answered.

Presented by Rick Ogren, Len Swanson, Whit Anderson and Paul Jablonski.

At the May meeting, Pat Lupori and Lee Braddock will be telling us about scroll sawing. You may remember Pat's fireplace screen that won first prize at the most recent Woodworking Show in Schaumburg. Pat was a founding board member, ran the head office, and did the newsletter for the Scrollsaw Association of the World.
Lee Braddock, now retired, says he has been in woodworking since he was 8 years old. Lee worked for Wurlitzer, then later as a model maker for a toy company. His scroll saw interests include 3D compound cutting. If you attended the Winter Wood Wonders Festival, you may have seen Lee demonstrating

Chris Yonker who, along with his wife Mary, runs CME Handworks. Chris makes reproductions of antique and classic hand tools with modern features of his own design. The tools are handmade in Chris' shop

he Annual Club auction will be held at St. James Church. Registration for buyers and sellers begins at 8 AM and selling begins at 9 AM. Rules for the auction follow:

• Open to all members and invited guests.
• Space is available for FVWWCers wishing to sell woodworking tools and related items.

  Rules below apply to ALL.

• Items must be of a woodworking nature.
• All items are guaranteed by seller to be in working order, unless specified “As Is”.
• Seller has the right to bid on their items to protect the selling price.
• No large quantities of lumber.
• Cash is the method of payment.
• Low value items may be grouped by auctioneer for the purpose of expediting sale.
• Items will be sold in the order of Registration. If more than one DuPage Non-member is registered we will alternate between DuPage members and non-members.
• A 10% selling fee will be charged on items sold for non-members. (Rounded to the nearest dollar).
• Once an item is sold it becomes the responsibility of the buyer.
• All buyers and sellers must register and have a buyers number to participate.
• If a seller must leave before the auction ends, a check for the sellers proceeds will be issued by the club.
• This is meant to be a fun event. Common sense will prevail.
• At end of the auction it is the responsibility of each seller to remove all their unsold items.

Ken will demonstrate frame making, matting.

General Finshes demo

details to follow.

Our program at this meeting will be presented by Steve Zimmerman of Owl Hardwood

our annual Christmas Party

note that there will be a $10 charge for each guest you bring to the party this year.

One of the most graceful forms of woodworking is the creation of musical instruments. Out-going Program Director Wayne Maier has arranged for John Ressler who builds (and teaches how to build) custom guitars, dulcimers, and other folk instruments to be our January presenter.