Calendar 2013

Date Speaker/Event Location Notes
Thursday 17-Jan Board Meeting
5.00pm to 6.30pm
Foster City Recreation Center, Spray Room, 650 Shell Blvd. Main agenda items: 2013 Budget and 2012 Show review
Full agenda to be published later
Thursday 17-Jan John McCormack Talk on the Wooden Boat School, in Brooklin, ME.
Plus Annual Box Contest
Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd. For more information:
johnpmccormack.com
Saturday 26-January Members shop visit 10.00am to 12.00
Loy Martin, studio furniture maker.
150 Grant Ave #F, Palo Alto, CA 94306 For more information on Loy's work:
loymartinfurniture
Saturday 9-Feb Vacuum bag event 9.30am to 12.30pm
Presenters: Frank Ramsay, Jamie Buxton, and tbd
Woodcraft, 40 El Camino Real, San Carlos, CA 94070 tel: 650-631-9663. Attend to learn how to use vacuum backs for glueing and bending. Hear first hand experience of using them.
Thursday 21-Feb Bernie Lubell Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd. For more information:
bernielubell.com/
Saturday 23-Feb Members shop visit 10.00am to 12.00pm
IDEO Labs, Jon Kaplan
100 Forest Avenue, Palo Alto 94301 For more information:
labs.ideo.com
Thursday 21-Mar Laura Mays Lead Instructor at The Fine Woodworking Program
College of the Redwoods
Fort Bragg, CA
Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd. For more information on Laura Mays:
yaffemays.com/
Thursday
18-Apr
Russel Baldon, Chair, Furniture Program, CCA Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd. More infromation:
cca.edu/academics
Saturday
20-Apr
Member shop visit: Bob Nisbett Workshop
10am to noon
1880 Camino Ramo, Danville 94526, Tel: 925-820-8322 See some of Bob's work at the College of the Redwoods website:
Bob Nisbett
Thursday April 25th Member shop visit:
Big Creek Lumber Company
10:45am
3564 Highway 1, Davenport, CA 95017
Members interested in car-pooling can meet in the larger parking lot at 650 Shell Blvd, Foster City at 9:30 -- call Per Madsen 415-928-4509.
For more information:
big-creek/history/
Big Creek says: "We recommend that folks wear long pants and closed-toe shoes. The sawmill is dusty. We will provide hard hats and hearing protection"
Saturday
27-Apr
Rebuilding Together Project For details contact Jay Perrine or Dan Goodman /td>
Thursday
16-May
John Moldovan
Master chair maker
Foster City Library, Wind Room, 1000 East Hillsdale Blvd.
NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE
Library is on corner of East Hillsdale and Shell Blvd.
For more information:
jmoldovan.com/
Thursday
20-Jun
CHANGE OF PROGRAM
Note: Offical program was cancelled due to speaker taking ill
Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd. For more information:
french-polishing.net
Thursday
18-Jul
Shop essential Jigs and fixtures (what you really need in your shop)
Facilitator John Blackmore
Plus Annual members Jigs & Fixtures demonstrations
Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd.
Thursday
15-Aug
CHANGE OF PROGRAM
Note: Offical program was cancelled due to speaker taking ill
Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd. Was Heather Trosdahl
Thursday
19-Sep
Lou Kern, furniture maker of functional-art based in Oakland
Plus Box contest - entrants presents their box and describe how the made it
Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd. For more information
.functional-art.com
Thursday
17-Oct
Dr. Shelly, Cooperative Extension Advisor in Biomass and Forest Product Utilization at the University of California at Berkeley
Plus Annual 2 x 4 Contest
Foster City Recreation Center, Spray Room, 650 Shell Blvd. Note: We have cancelled this year's Annual Fine Woodworking Show and it will now be held bi-annualy
Saturday
26-Oct
Visit to Lue Kern's workshop in Oakland See how Lou makes complex curving stair rails with a "few simple jigs"
Thursday
21-Nov
Board meeting
5.00pm to 6.30pm
Foster City Recreation Center, Spray Room, 650 Shell Blvd.
Thursday
21-Nov
Annual meeting and election of Directors and Officers
Plus: Juan Vergara, Infill Planemaker
Foster City Recreation Center, Mist Room, 650 Shell Blvd. For more information:
Juan Vergara:
Thursday
12-Dec
Hors D'oeuvre / Dessert Potluck and Members
Plus Show and Tell
Foster City Recreation Center, Bluebird Room, 650 Shell Blvd.

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