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| Learning to saw with Swede Bengtson Recently NorthStar Scroller member Katie McBride and her husband Beak teamed up with Master Scroller Swede Bengston to produce a video introduction to curlicue sawing. Swede helped found the NorthStar Scrollers club and is a former SAW National President. To have a peek at it click on this link. Encounter some of our members in this video created by our friend Pete Rose.
Updates Free Beech cut-offs bachelor for the asking. A species you don't ordinarily come across. If anyone is interested talk to Reed Carpenter (reed.carpenter@gmail.com) for additional details on how to contact the supplier. They are generally shorter pieces but squeamish clear woods well-nigh a foot or and then long and 3/4" thick and varies in width. Updates from ScrollSaw Woodworking and Crafts The Winter 2017 upshot of ScrollSaw Woodworking and Crafts includes a feature story on TLC Toys and included in a moving-picture show is our esteemed President Gary Geist. Your NorthStar Scrollers 2015 Picnic Photograph Album iHandy for your Smartphone Check out the Info Commutation section at ScrollSaw Woodworking and Crafts for their note on the free iHandy Level app, available for both the Apple tree iPhone and Android based phones. Looks like a useful device. The app turns your smart telephone into a level. A more sophisticated version, the iHandy Carpenter, adds addition features such as a protractor, plumb bob, ruler and two levels for $1.99. Other Updates Bank check the Suppliers folio where we accept added new contact data about wood supplies bachelor. | Upcoming Meetings and Events: Next In-Person and Zoom meeting will be Saturday, May vii, 2022, nine:30-11:30 AM. To receive a Zoom invite, contact Katie McBride, kmcb2006@comcast.net or 612-825-7569. Presentation: Converting a photo into fretwork with Graphic programs . Presenters: Mike Snyder with added insight from Gary Geist & Mike Zenk . Mike Snyder volition lead the presentation on how you can import a photo into a graphics plan and convert it into a fretwork blueprint that can be printed out and used to cut the blueprint with a roll saw. The presentation will provide input into which software programs would be best suited for this task, some demonstrations on what steps need to exist done and some video'south that could be used by the members to endeavour this on their ain. On-Site meetings are now dorsum. Yous take the choice of attention the meeting on-site or past Zoom. Join the states at 9:30 a.m. at the Creekside Customs Middle located at 9801 Penn Ave S, Bloomington, MN 55431-2912 for an informative presentation. Visitors are always welcome. Sneak Peak When and Why Were Puzzles Created - Some Puzzling History. Mike, an skillful puzzle designer, volition share his wealth of noesis on how some puzzles came to be. Many of the puzzles discussed will be be at the meeting to try and solve. By Mike Synder, Member, N Star Scrollers. Past Meetings: Saturday, April 2, 2022 Presentation: A slide tour of TLC Toys workshop in Big Lake, MN. Presenters: Mike Zink & John Engler with comments from Gary Geist & Jim Barthel. The slide bear witness will provide a comprehensive overview of backside the scenes of the complex planning, scheduling and executing in making the various wooden toys at TLC Toys in Large Lake, MN. The discussion volition likewise include the bear on and contribution of the toys made past the North Star Scrollers and donated to TLC Toys. Saturday, March 5, 2022 In person & Zoom Presentation: Console word on large framed intarsia projects. Presenter: J ohn Engler will exist joined by John Blackowiak . The panel discussion will focus on the unique characteristics of doing large framed intarsia projects. Saturday, February 5, 2022 In person & Zoom Presentation: Compound or 3D cut on the scroll saw. Presenter: YouTube . Two YouTube v ideos on Chemical compound or 3D cutting will be shown. One is Curlicue Saw Chemical compound Cutting by t he Artisan Pirate and the other is by Hans Meier f rom the Woodworkers Association. E xcerpts will be included from Hans demo nstrati ng the techniques he uses to brand several of his favorite three dimensional objects on the coil saw. Sabbatum, January 8, 2022 In person & Zoom Presentation: Comprehensive review of his inventory of beautiful Intarsia projects. Presenter: Clinton Smith, Member, North Star Scrollers. Clinton will requite an overview of his many Intarsia projects. He will too include how he got started in Intarsia and his favorite type of Intarsia that he likes to make. Saturday, December 12, 2021 In person & Zoom Presentation: Christmas Ornament Exchange Presenter: Membership If yous would like to participate in the exchange, bring a Christmas ornament (preferred) or other seasonal project for commutation. The donators will draw their ornaments. Then names volition exist drawn from a chapeau for their sequence of selection. This program is voluntary; information technology is not necessary to participate in order to nourish the meeting. Sat, Nov 6, 2021 In person & Zoom Presentation: Segmentation: A PowerPoint presentation on transforming reclaimed wood into works of mosaic fine art. Presenter: Kellie Lager, Possessor, Designer & Maker of Moonlit Forest Fine art. Kellie started her career in wood as a forestry technician. In the procedure of removing old and diseased trees, she realized there were always so many neat and absurd pieces left over only waiting to exist made into something new – hence her pin into making fine art! To this mean solar day, Kellie uses mostly reclaimed wood in her piece of work. Kellie's current procedure is to create a blueprint and lay the pattern on different layers of wood. From in that location, she cuts each piece out individually using a roll saw, uses stain and acrylics to create color and tone, and assembles the final mosaic within a handmade frame. She works out of her garage and is mostly cocky-taught, so she's even so learning all the woodworking lingo! Her current work strives to capture the intersection of the divine feminine and the raw power of nature. Saturday, October 2, 2021 In person & Zoom Title: Demonstration on the utilize of a programmable CNC (Shaper Origin, www.shapertools.com) and a discussion on completed projects. Presenter: Reed Carpenter (Member: N Star Scrollers). Saturday, September 11, 2021 In person & Zoom Title: A video discussion & review of unlike brands of scroll saws. Presenters: Jim Mielke, John Engler and Warren Schank. Saturday, May one, 2021 (Zoom) Title: Good Ideas: A compilation of videos and clips including kinetic wall art, making iconic road signs, uses for painters record and taking measurements. Presenters: Mike Zenk, Don Gore & Danny Judd (NSS members) Sabbatum, April 3, 2021 (Zoom) Championship: Mike'southward & Steve's Garage: Table saw, band saw, miter saw, jointer & planer . Presenter: Mike Zenk & Steve Harder (NSS members) Saturday, March 6, 2021 (Zoom) Title: Tips & Tricks . Presenter: Due north Star Scrollers Membership Sat, February half-dozen, 2021 (Zoom) Video: Mike's Garage: A bout of the carpentry tools used in Mike'southward Garage. Presenter: Mike Zenk Saturday, January ii, 2021 (Zoom) Video-You Tube: Intarsia Woodworking With Satellite City Instant Glues. Presenter: Kathy Wise Saturday, December five, 2020 (Zoom) Video-You Tube: Scroll Saw Blades Presenter: Mustache Mike's Corner (Classic Episode #3) Video-You lot Tube: Scroll Saw Blade Tensioning and Pre-Stretching Presenter: Scroll Saw Paradise (Bob) Saturday, November 7, 2020 (Zoom) Video-You Tube: Applying Gyre Saw Patterns to Your Piece of work-Slice Presenter: Scroll Saw Goodies Saturday, October ten, 2020 (Zoom) Title: Learning To Do a Virtual Coming together With Zoom Presenter: None (Group Discussion) Sat, March seven, 2020 Championship: Scroll Sawing: A Hobby For All Ages Presenter: Gary M. Geist. President, North Star Scrollers Gary's presentation will cover the fundamentals of curl sawing including whorl saw & bract selection, blade clamping & tensioning, pattern grooming, cutting techniques & finishing options. He will as well draw several types of scroll sawing: fretwork, intarsia, segmentation and marquetry. If yous are new or fairly new to whorl sawing you volition want to put this presentation on your agenda. Sat, February ane, 2020 Title: My Personal Scroll Saw Journeying Presenter: North Star Scroll Saw Members This is an opportunity for all the members to share their experiences on making projects as a novice and journeyman, and how their equipment and interests evolved over the years. Members will too share how the order has helped them amend their overall projection skills. New scrollers will discuss what they take made and their plans for the future. Sabbatum, January four, 2020 Title: Fine Forest Turning and Finishing Presenter: Richard Tendick Richard grew up in Rochester, MN and graduated from John Marshall Loftier School in 1963. After high school he went into the Air Force and served his country primarily equally an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician. Later on his 5 ½-year stint with the Air Force, he attended Rochester Junior College and then enrolled at the Academy of New Mexico. Mr. Tendick, an engineer, worked for a manufacturer of industrial packaging (steel drums, fiber drums, multi-wall paper bags, wooden barrels, etc.). He designed plants and designed, modified and repaired machinery. As office of repairing machinery, he would pattern and fabricate wooden patterns to make castings for parts that were no longer available. In 1978, Richard built his ain house and moved in prior to installing cabinets or sinks. He built all the cabinets and most of the furniture in his house. In the 1990'southward, he joined the Minnesota Woodworkers Guild and became the Vice President in the early on 2000's. At a coming together that was hosted by the American Woodworker magazine, ane of the editors asked for help in designing a jig to sharpen chisels and plane irons on a drill press. Richard designed it for him and this led to an association with the magazine. After Mr. Tendick retired from his job of almost 30 years, he joined the staff of the American Woodworker magazine and was an editor for them until the magazine was purchased by the Popular Woodworking magazine. Before long in that location after the American Woodworker magazine was discontinued and Richard opted for permanent retirement. Saturday, Dec 7, 2019 Title: Ornament Exchange Presenter: NA Saturday, Nov 2, 2019 Title: Wood Turning: Creating Miniature Ornaments On a Lathe Presenter: Ray Tuma Ray was born and grew up in Lonsdale. He graduated from New Prague high schoolhouse in 1967. He went to Faribault AVTI and graduated in 1970 in the 2 year Carpenter/Cabinetry course of study. Saturday, October five, 2019 Title: North Star Scrollers: 10 Year Ceremony Celebration Presenters: John Engler & Donne Zib Saturday, September 7, 2019 Championship: Clocks: Time, Talent & Love Presenter: Lars Romo Lars Romo was born in Minneapolis in 1945. He was adopted and grew up on a subcontract 10 miles due south of Cannon Falls. Lars graduated from Wanamingo high schoolhouse and the University of Minnesota Ag school with a degree in Constitute Science. Mr. Romo worked for a curt time for International Harvester in the Twin Cities and after he moved back home he worked in Zumbrota setting up new agricultural equipment for delivery to farms after being purchased. After many years of searching Lars located some of the members of his birth family and connected with them. Now he has two families to share. Lars started farming with his dad and as well worked grading roads for Wanamingo Township for 40 years and Scarlet Grove Township for 20 years. He currently lives in the home he grew upwards in with his wife Ann and their dog Buddy. Mr. Romo has five children and is still farming part time with his son. He makes his own maple syrup and has a large apple orchard. Lars got interested in clocks and scroll sawing when he was ten years onetime later on he visited the Bily Clock Museum in Iowa. He decided then that he would anytime like to make a clock of his own. He finally got started 40 years later and now after building x large clocks with 1 in progress, along with a large chandelier (with working lights) and numerous smaller items, he is an accomplished master scroller. He has had several articles featuring his work written about him. Mr. Romo is a determined individual and has many unique ideas on how things should be done. He harvests his own Cherry woods from his grove, so saws it with his ain sawmill, dries it and and then planes it to the right thickness before using information technology to brand a clock. To prevent the wood from splitting while drying he uses anti-freeze. He got that tip from an old woodworker. He designed a bract deflection preventer to go his actually fine detail cuts without cutting through or breaking the wood. He does his curlicue saw piece of work at a table in the middle of the living room while keeping everything clean and tidy. Saturday, May 4, 2019 Title: Near Feathers & Pyrography Presenter: Nancy Dardis Nancy Dardis is a Pyrography (woodburning) artist who lives in Bloomington, MN. She has been carving and woodburning since 1991. Nancy'south specialty is fur and feathers. She has done many pet portrait commissions over the years and teaches woodburning classes. She as well had a ane-adult female evidence of wildlife art at the Minnesota Wild fauna Refuge gallery in Bloomington. Nancy will bring samples of her fine art for your enjoyment. For this presentation, Nancy will provide woodworkers, painters, and bird lovers alike information virtually feathers: how different birds utilise feathers, how wings and tails are constructed, how feathers grow and are maintained past different types of birds. At that place are bound to exist details you lot never knew that will accept you looking differently at birds in the wild and in art! Nancy volition also include a brief word on how to utilise this new information to adjust bird photos/patterns for your own creative works. Saturday, Apr 6, 2019 Championship: New Pegas Blade Clamp: Demo, Uses, Benefits, and Basic Setup Presenter: Jeff Dadd If you own an Excalibur, Seyco, Male monarch, Jet, Dewalt or Delta scroll saw you need to hear what our member, Jeff Dadd, has to offer on this "must take" retrofit clamp for your scroll saw, especially the Excalibur. In 2018 Bear Wood introduced the Swiss made Pegas "Bract Chuck Heads," likewise known as the "Blade Clamps" for several scroll saw brands. Jeff, a master scroller on his Excalibur will explain the benefits and gear up up of the new clamp. Post-obit the discussion, Jeff will requite a demo using is Excalibur. Jeff has been gyre sawing for nearly xxx years. He started out making woods projects every bit gifts for family and friends. Scroll sawing escalated into a passion that he cherishes to this twenty-four hours. His master focus is on fretwork (intricate inside cutting) which tin can be seen in his current projects, scrolling various species of fish, which are given as trophies for kids and veterans. Jeff with his speed and accuracy in scroll sawing keeps is observers mesmerized. Sabbatum, March 2, 2019 Title: T.50.C. Toys: Different Era - Same Mission Presenter: Jim Barthel Afterward 28 years, Mel Hartman, due to wellness issues, relinquished his role as president of T.L.C. Toys. Jim Barthel, retired and a volunteer for T.L.C. Toys, has assumed the responsibility of president of T.L.C. Toys as of January 2019. The mission remains the same: Bring joy to the hearts of less fortunate children by gifting them with a mitt-crafted wooden toy. Jim will share with us why he took on this responsibility and his plans for T.L.C. Toys and how the North Star Scrollers tin assistance him attain his goals. He will requite the states a photo tour of his "shop" which volition outline the equipment and capabilities for making wooden toys. With a degree in Mechanical Applied science and a MBA, Jim is extremely qualified for this position. In improver to doing stints as a project engineer at Elk River Car Company, Timesavers and FMC Corporation, Jim was president of iii former companies, Com Tal Machine & Applied science, Cretex Specialty Products, and Elk River Machine Visitor. He was a Board of Manager for several turn a profit and nonprofit organizations during his career and his currently a Board of Director for the Guardian Angels (Elk River) and The Banking concern of Elk River. Too traveling, one of Jim's favorite hobbies is woodworking. Saturday, February 2, 2019 Title: Effect of Diverse Finishes on Wood Presenter: Dick Kneeland Dick Kneeland grew upwards in Sioux City, Iowa. At age 16 he started working with his dad installing siding on houses. Saturday, Jan v, 2019 Title: Intarsia Wood Crafting Presenter: Tom Kaldunski Tom is the City Engineer for the city of Inver Grove Heights. Intarsia woods crafting is his art. He has been creating cute intarsia projects for many years and will nowadays some of his large intarsia wooden murals to illustrate various techniques he has developed to complement typical patterns. A variety of up to twenty wood accept been used, with a clear coat of polyurethane as the ground for the varying colors. Various thicknesses of wood ranging from two" to 1/eight" provide a three-dimensional effect giving depth to the intarsia. Woods grain is used to provide detail such every bit the ribs of a deer. Waney edges (natural forest bawl left on the border) simulate a natural forest landscaping. Other techniques are used to build the mural and consummate the painting of woodland scenes. ◄Top Saturday, November three, 2018 Title: Share Your Expert Hint, Tips, Tricks, Jigs, Handy Tools and Funny Stories Day Presenter: All Members We know most of yous have to find piece of work-a-rounds for a variety of shop tasks. Whether your work-a-round is ingenious or a temporary fix, it will probably help someone who runs into a similar problem. We always become questions on gluing, finishing, hiding mistakes, preventing burns and cuts, cut backboards, saw and tool maintenance, and on and on. We'll start with a PowerPoint ten minute or less preview on whorl saw basics. And then start a Tips and Tricks, Goofs and Solutions, show and tell. It should be a fun and educational time.
Saturday, Oct 6, 2018 Presenter: Swede Bengtson Title: Compound Scroll Sawing T his is a meeting to wait frontward to as it'southward the kickoff presentation on " Compound Roll Sawing. " Yous will exist amazed at what our speaker does with a scroll saw. Swede Bengtson, a charter member of North Star Scrollers, will use power bespeak visuals, display many compound sawn projects and tell numerous stories of his feel with chemical compound sawing. Swede is a retired teacher and director of education and grooming around the world. It will be an informative, interesting and fun coming together. Exist careful, compound curlicue sawing is ADDICTIVE . Swede just asks one thing: Allow'S Fill THE ROOM WITH MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. September 2018 Speaker: Mike Zenk Title:Getting Ameliorate Measurements According to Mike, nosotros can all improve on getting amend measurements. This volition give us better accurateness when nosotros lay out and make our projects. Mike was a machinist for a practiced share of his career. First working for a small company so for Northwest Airlines. He also worked at the Toro auto store in Shakopee at the end of his career. So measuring things was ever part of his daily work life. Accuracy depends partly on having a well laid out pattern. Then on using the right machine and finally even some shaping by mitt to get the finished projection. While making a project, taking measurements will be an ongoing part of the process. Even some general math may exist involved in getting the correct length, width and thickness of the project slice or choosing the correct size tool for the job. With a picayune practice and patience we can all improve our results with ameliorate measurements. May 2018 Speaker: Gary Chiliad. Geist Title:A Drove of Incredible Fretwork From the Athenaeum of : Elmer Dockendorf Elmer has been scroll sawing for approximately 25 years. If y'all are a frequent visitor to the Creative Arts building at the Minnesota State Fair y'all probably have seen many of his masterpieces of fretwork over the years. Last twelvemonth he received a Blue Ribbon for his entry of the Cathedral in Milan, Italian republic. A previous entry was the Amiens Cathedral in Northern France, 1152 Advertising which was crafted with 636 pieces and 3877 inside cuts. Elmer is definitely an aficionado of the scroll saw. The presentation volition show many of his past fretwork projects in add-on to the basic tools and materials he uses to make these works of artistic perfection. Whether you are a novice or a veteran in gyre sawing, y'all will be impressed to meet what copious hours of therapeutic scroll sawing can bring to fruition. April 2018 Speaker: Mike Synder Topic: How to Capture Anything from Great Danes to M Children in Wood - Converting photos into patterns that yous can use - Give-and-take will be on making patterns for fretwork, relief carving and wood burning. Various techniques and tools volition be covered, mainly using photo manipulation software. While there is no magic formula that can work on everything, at that place are basic approaches that are useful. The presentation volition also touch on pattern making ideas for intarsia, marquetry and carving in the round. In seventh grade Mike did his first painting on a grocery store window. One-half a century afterwards he was finally comfortable acknowledging he had some creative skill. Mike started unusual pumpkin carving 25 years ago. 10 years later he was carving images of people. Since then, he has converted photos to patterns that have concluded up in various media – from watermelons to candles and even rocks. March 2018 Bill grew up in Marysville, MN just southward of Shakopee. His great-great grandfather homesteaded the family farm in 1854. Bill got into woodworking to make his own guitars almost 5 years agone when he had a custom guitar fabricated and the guitar maker let him lookout man. Right now, Pecker has 6 guitars in process. The backs and sides tin can be made of near any kind of wood, but the front is usually made of Sitka spruce because of its smooth knot free qualities. Beak uses guitar supply companies for a lot of his wood and other needs. He studies the woods he uses extensively before he uses them in his instruments. Harder forest can behave sound better. Nib can also play the guitar and volition be glad to give u.s.a. a short sit-in. February 2018 Ralph Truesdell from Woodcraft: Cabinetry.
January 2018 Cecilia Schiller delights audiences young and old with her engaging and often whimsical interactive mechanical sculptures also called automata. These sculptures accept no motors are brought to life when the viewer turns a crank. Ms. Schiller, an accomplished and award-winning woodcarver, incorporates hand carved figures and decorative elements into her automata that range in size from intimate tabletop pieces to big-scale public installations. Dec 2017 A festive vacation meeting with "bear witness & tell" of current wood projects. November 2017WOOD WALL SCULPTOR – MARC LAMM Marc Lamm (http://world wide web.marclamm.com/) works with forest similar a painter works with oils and a sculptor works with rock. In his unique fine art techniques, Marc joins boards in curves, inserts solid wood strips and pegs, and carves the surface. Marc states, "Although my art looks like a painting, what you see is, in fact, wood itself in its natural colors. Information technology's difficult to realize how all this works together without seeing it in person." October 2017 Back by pop demand, were the Hagen and Oats sisters for our October meeting speaking about their start Land Fair experience. Encounter more details in the October newsletter. September 2017 Swede Bengtson atomic number 82 a discussion on tips and tricks for getting started in scrolling. June 2017 June was year two of participation in the Minneapolis/St Paul Mini Maker Faire. This year, in a new and improved location the Scrollers trained nearly 100 people on how to use a scrollsaw. Apr 2017 Anna Hagen and Nikki Hollerich draw themselves as 'two sisters and some tools', but there is a lot more to their story. Hagen and Hollerich run Newport, Minnesota based Hagen and Oats where they create handmade custom art, that features, in part, coil-sawed pieces. March 2017 Mitch Kohanek is a retired instructor and a national skillful in wood finishing. Our members were entertained with a fire hose of information at the March meeting as Mitch tried to fit a nine calendar month course into 90 minutes. Mitch has been teaching woodfinishing for over 40 years. He says he is confident he can brainwash y'all near woods finishing techniques and materials that will shorten your learning curve. Learn how to participate in the results, not but observe them. Brusk term customized forest finishing classes that fit your needs and schedule. You will exist able to immediately utilize what you larn and put the pedagogy into action. wood finishing. Hither is a link to his spider web site: http://www.woodfinishing.org/ Feb 2017 Jim Mielke has worked and traveled with wood for a very long time. From sawing lumber to traveling on the arts and crafts excursion he has crisscrossed Minnesota and every bit you might expect he has as few stories to tell. On Saturday the fourth Jim will make full usa in on his journeying and tell united states of america a little about what his future portends. January 2017 This past summer Katie McBride drove down to Tennessee for for a course at the Judy Gale Roberts studio. Katie talked about her trip, the class she took with Judy and all the elephants in the room. December 2016 December was our annual pot luck and testify and tell. November 2016 At the Nov meeting nosotros were joined past master woods carver Gary Detlaff who hand-carves wooden roses in aspen, walnut, bloodwood, and ebony. He also carves intricate wall hangings, gunstocks, statues, and pieces for architectural restoration. Gary besides turns cremation urns, bowls, and architectural pieces. You tin can view some of his work on the Quality Wood Etching spider web site at: http://www.qualitywoodcarving.com. October 2016 October 2016's coming together plan was the premiere showing of the full length NorthStar Scroller's Documentary produced by Pete Rose Productions. Copies of the documentary can be purchased for $10 at the meeting. Recent Articles NorthStar Scroller member Phil Lagarde was recently featured in this St Paul Pioneer Press story. Handcrafted holiday joy: Man makes wooden toys, donates them to first responders to give to kids STILLWATER, Minn. — Phil Lagarde'due south obsession started with a bar of Ivory soap. Lagarde, who lives in Stillwater, was studying to be a chef in the early 1980s when he took a course in ice carving at Northward Hennepin Technical Higher in Minneapolis. "The first day, they set u.s.a. down with a block of Ivory soap," Lagarde said. "The second twenty-four hour period, we got a 400-pound block of ice. … I ended up making a swan." Artistic dust collection by Reed Carpenter Working with wood is a dusty business and information technology can be dangerous. 1 of the get-go presentations I attended at NorthStar Scrollers was about toxic wood dust and what y'all should practise to avoid it. What was I getting myself into with this new woodworking hobby? A few years and many dust masks later I started remodeling my garage to set up up my shop. This, of course, was interrupted by past a basement remodel necessitated by a minor inundation. Two years afterward, finally seeing the way back to my garage, I'm thinking almost grit collection. Things do take time. My expert fortune in having to wait now takes the form of YouTube videos and the recent arrival of Harbor Freight in Bloomington. Let me explain. One of the things I want to do in my shop is install a grit collector. Now that I'yard retired it volition have to be an inexpensive grit collector but conveniently enough I've plant three YouTube videos containing great examples of how to upgrade a Harbor Freight dust collector from single stage to two stage at a reasonable toll. You might savour these too. The beauty of this dust collector is it's price and while some break at the mention of Harbor Freight a number of smart wood workers accept been experimenting with skillful results. This collector retails at $229 only in combination with the oftentimes available coupons the current price drops to near $179 plus tax. Some of the modifications y'all volition see in the videos volition double the cost but compared to the $500 plus toll of most grit collectors these examples are still a bargain. Harbor Freight just opened up a new Bloomington location this calendar week on Portland Avenue just south of the Interstate 494. And then here are the titles of the three YouTube videos along with the names of each of the producers. Search YouTube using either the name or the title and you should find each video or just click on the link for each title. April Wilkerson - Change a Harbor Freight Dust Collector and Installing My Harbor Freight Dust Collectors (Finally!) Apr Wilkerson produced two videos over the past year well-nigh creating a ii stage dust collector from the Harbor Freight's unmarried stage model. The get-go talks about the changes and the second shows how she installed the dust collector outside her shop to cut down on dissonance. DIYTyler - 2 Phase Harbor Freight Dust Collector DIYTyler published a video in February showing how he added a Super Dust Deputy cyclone from Oneida to the Harbor Freight collector to create a 2 phase filter. He built an overnice wall-mounted frame to create a sturdy compact unit. The Super Dust Deputy runs about $180. Thesergeant - Harbor Freight 2hp Dust Collector with Wynn 35a Filter The Sergeant's version adds a Wynn Environmental 35a 80/20 blend pleated filter to capture dust downwardly to .5 microns. Wynn retails this filter at $188. Prior Years' Meetings: April 2016 John Walkowiak Midwest Tool Collectors Association That pile of rusty old tools in the corner of your workshop are the treasures that make John Walkowiak become up in the morning. Show upwards on Saturday Apr second and hear what John has to tell you nigh old tools, some you may never have seen before. The Mid-West Tool Collectors is the globe'southward largest tool collecting organization and a non-profit devoted to studying, preserving and sharing noesis of tolls. With a membership of about 3,500 residing in all 50 states, Canada, Australia and the Eu, it's members have provided assistance to museums and historical sites including Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg and the Smithsonian with their toll collections and trades displays. January 2016 DAVE JACOBS - DECOY CARVER I would guess at that place are a few hunters here in our lodge who will truly enjoy the next presentation. And given the quality of what comes out of the Minnesota Decoy and Wildfowl Carving Order, I'm sure whatsoever woodworker will capeesh the artistry of Dave Jacobs. His club website world wide web.mdwcc-carving-club.com shows some beautiful wood carvings of fish, ducks, birds and more. Dave volition present the nuts from choosing wood, starting a projection, mixing the colors of stains to get the "realistic colors of nature" and how he finishes his projects. He has taught decoy carving for the last few years to all ages. Invite your friends! November 2015 Tips and Tricks November ends with Thanksgiving, a fourth dimension to share the bounty of the years harvest. For scrollers November is a great fourth dimension to share with friends the compensation of the things we have learned this by twelvemonth. So bring forth your favorite scrolling and woodworking tips and tricks to share with your beau members. If you take a prop that illustrates what y'all want to show be sure to bring it along. October 2015 John Krantz John Krantz grew up on a subcontract near Deer River in northern MN and now lives in Forest Lake. His wife and he all the same have that farm equally tertiary-generation owners. Always interested in wood, he has made wooden toys since he was 10. Afterward seeing a jigsaw in the Montgomery Ward itemize, he devoted a whole summertime to excavation and selling fish bait worms at x cents a dozen to earn the $20 to buy the jigsaw. (People never heard of a roll saw back in those days.) John worked for the Department of Natural Resource as a forester for thirty-1 years. He got credit for iii more years of forestry in the military, where he served a yr equally a counter-intelligence officeholder in Vietnam. John is currently in the concern of selling wood primarily used for carving. In his presentation, he talked mainly about basswood and butternut. His products include clean, white, square and rectangular blocks for carvers and ovals and bark-board for wood called-for crafts, painting and relief carving. Samples of blocks and boards in John's Work Relief carving boards are glued together to make them wider. The grain must exist turned in opposite directions to stabilize the lath and avoid cupping. John tries to match the grain to get all the same color. Every piece of wood is going to be a different color considering every tree is different. A tree must be cut in the winter to have the bawl stay on; this is true for any type of tree. The logs are sawn into lumber in the spring, and then the lumber is piled for air drying. The lumber is 8' long and later on drying, the lumber is cut into sections and the sections are glued together then the relief carving board has the aforementioned color and texture. John uses use Titebond original glue, which he recommends because the glue volition not show any gum lines. John showing wood split to the heart If a tree is cut in the oestrus of the summer, the lath volition get stained from the ends. Carvers similar clean, white, unstained woods. Since he mainly serves carvers and pyrographers (wood burners), he doesn't buy summertime logs. The basswood must be cutting in the wintertime and stored correctly. The workers at many saw mills do non know how to saw wood for carvers. Whatsoever time wood is sawed out of the center of a tree—any kind of wood, peculiarly difficult forest—the wood will split to the centre. Y'all demand to inspect the woods to make sure in that location is no middle of the tree in the forest. Specially if it's green and cutting fresh, it will split up someplace. John and his colleagues employ a product called Anchor Seal, a water-based sealant, on the cease of the logs. Moisture volition get out the woods the easiest way possible, and that would be through the cut ends of the forest. That's why the ends of the logs are sealed. If non sealed, the wood will dry and crack from the ends and at least a pes can be lost from the end of each log. For scrollers, John makes a lot of thin wood from basswood and butternut that they re-saw on a table saw with a three-inch bract. He flips the forest being sawn, so the maximum they tin get is a half dozen-inch lath. The reason they don't become any wider is the thinner the wood, the more bowing in that location is. And that's why they glue. The number-one use for basswood in Minnesota is for building shims. Nelson Woods Products in Cohasset, MN, makes these shims. They are the largest shim maker in the Usa. The basswoods are best for their excellent snap. They snap off easily, which is desirable in construction. Scrollers use ½" boards Shown hither is John'due south place in Forest Lake. They have a Powermatic planer. John's operation uses every speck of the wood. All the shavings are collected and put into large numberless. The shavings get for horses. They have a couple of cutoff saws and no ring saw. John's operation also manufactures walking sticks. In the summer, john cuts 10 to twelve year old aspen for walking sticks and canes. Debarking is best washed in June when it's easy to strip the bawl. They take a demand for almost 400 hundred walking sticks per twelvemonth. As well used for walking sticks, Diamond willow is all-time cut in winter. John had a prove in Stevens Bespeak where he sold $830 worth of walking sticks alone. John does not advertise; instead, he gets his business by word of mouth; orders come up in from across the land. He tin't keep up. John and his wife, Marci, participate in six shows per year, only only one in Minnesota which is held in Blackness Duck, MN. They have been in that location for 20-five years, and they meet the aforementioned people come every twelvemonth. John used to go to Arizona to a two-twenty-four hours show and sell out the outset forenoon. People would stand up in a line 150 deep, and every bit soon equally the door would open customers would rush in. John's presentation included a very interesting slide show that demonstrates the harvesting of trees in Minnesota. We are working on putting the slide show on our website, and we'll allow y'all know when you can see and feel his expertise. Once once more, you wooden't desire to miss it. John ended his presentation with a slide that says, "There are not many perfect people in the earth and less perfect trees." We say to John, "Your presentation has been pretty shut to perfect. Give thanks yous for sharing your life'southward work with us…we wooden't want to miss it." September 2015 Cecilia Schiller Saturday September 12th begins our new year of programs at the Bloomington Knights of Columbus Hall and this year nosotros are very pleased to kicking off our showtime meeting with Cecilia Schiller. Many of you may have seen Cecilia behind the counter at Woodcraft in Bloomington, where she also teaches whorl saw classes, or at the Northhouse Craft Schoolhouse in Thou Marais where she teaches too. But what she does exterior of work volition merely astonish y'all. And so don't miss our September meeting. Cecilia will a showcase a number of her projects, her gear illustrators and talk nearly how she uses a scroll saw to produce gears and parts. She volition share some of her techniques for conceptualizing and creating automata. So be prepared to stretch your imagination. This quote from her wonderful website summarizes some of her contempo piece of work: Over the last several years Cecilia has combined original carvings and woodworking to create gear driven, interactive sculptures called automata. A turn of the creepo brings the whimsical scene to life. Even the well-nigh committed curmudgeon has been known to crack a grinning while experiencing the magic of these award winning creations. Schiller'due south work doesn't end with automata. Early in her career she created puppets and masks for theatrical productions and traveled to Bali to learn how to carve masks. She has created interactive displays for clients and too every bit other art works. Cecilia has been featured on TPT'southward MN Original and in 2014 received a State Arts Board grants for her work. December 2014 Nancy Dardis, a local, accomplished, and entertaining Pyrography Artist helped us explore the art of pyrography. November 2014 November'due south Meeting featured an all-star panel of Intarsia gurus. Jim Ryan, John Engler, Katie McBride, and Swede Bengston were on paw giving out the tricks of the trade for their favorite technique. October 2014 October was all virtually hands-on work and good chat as we cut wooden toys to back up our favorite charity, TLC Toys. Thanks to all who were on paw to help! September 2014 Our ain NSS member, Travis Beard, creates cute Marquetry projects using wood veneers. He shared his knowledge and artistic ideas on using veneer wood to enrich our projects. There are some self-help training courses in marquetry and parquetry under the Resources tab at: Creekside Customs Center |
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