Newsletter May 2024
BAWA Hybrid Zoom Meeting May 19th 2024
The meeting was called to order by Frank Ramsay.
Program Announcements – Paul Krenitsky
June meeting: Box Challenge
October meeting: 2x4 Challenge
December meeting: Ornament Challenge
September meeting will be our Annual Members Picnic
We have a good number of members attending the Moore Newton visit Friday May 24th. and are getting together for lunch afterward.
Jon mentioned that we should consider car pooling to the event.
Laura emphasized that the BAWA Exhibition is coming up in 3 weeks and that while the show is in good shape we still need entries and volunteers. She passed around a sign-up sheet for volunteer positions for the show coming up in June.
Frank brought in a vintage BAWA apron for the Silent Action.
Stan brought in a woodworking vise and a number of woodworking books that he hoped to sell.
Featured Speaker
Jack West of Eggtooth Originals
Paul Krenitsky introduced our speaker via Zoom, Jack West of Eggtooth Originals (eggtoothoriginals.com)
Jack and his wife live in the Klamath Mountains. He retired from the Forest Service after 30 years. He built all the cabinets and vanities in his house, and made his own moldings.
He read James Krenov books and attended the Inside Passage school in British Columbia.
He built a workshop over a span of 3 years that houses his woodworking and his wife's jewelry making.
Mini Trillium Tale w/Slat Shelf
Walnut Winewave Rack
Side Table with live edge, Elm
Trillium table Spalted Maple drawer open
He would buy interesting looking slabs without having a project in mind, figuring that he would eventually use them.
He would make a mockup and then build multiples, often 4 pieces to sell.
From 2010 to 2023 he estimates that he has sold 150 pieces.
He would build what he liked and sell them at shows throughout the West. Jack made very few commission pieces.
He builds mostly tables. He started making live tenons for the joinery, but found that loose tenons were just as strong and quicker to make.
He uses metal clips to hold the table tops to the bases.
Jack mentioned that selling at shows was quite a gamble. At some shows he could make $5000, while at others he might not sell anything.
Recently Jack sold his planer and is selling more power tools while scaling back his operations. He tells us that we should seek out the finest
shows if we intend to sell high end woodworking.
He mentioned Kings Mountain as one of the finer shows in the area.
Jack's wine racks have 4 identical wavy vertical pieces that are laminated one at a time.
Dowel joints are used to attach the horizontal rails to the vertical pieces.
Show and Tell
Burt Rosensweig
The Ship Stand with his Ship Model
Burt brought his Ship Stand .The stand is made from Oak and Birdseye Maple from Frank's workshop lumber collection
Mortise and tenon joints are used.
The Oak is stained with Minwax stain and the Maple is natural.
Finish is Minwax wipe-on poly.
Dominique Charmot
Bruce Powell Showed photos of Dominique's massive curved front file cabinet made from Acacia.
Interior of cabinet with push-to-open draw hardware
Close fitting drawers
Dominique's notes:
I bought this slab of acacia at Global Wood Source in Campbell CA and produced just enough of 1/8th inch veneer for the project.
I built the frame out of Sapele for the front panel, plywood and Poplar for the side panels.
I then veneered all the panels with the Acacia in a vacuum press.
I then proceeded to cut out the openings for drawers and doors.
the construction of the drawers is straightforward, with the exception of the front, made of wiggle plywood sandwiched with Sapele 1/8th inch veneer and
formed in a vacuum press. The Acacia veneer is glued last (but first a label is inserted in the Acacia veneer by marquetry, yes because this is
still a filing cabinet!)
The drawers were assembled by lap joints.
Since I wanted to avoid anything that would interfere with the intrinsic esthetic of acacia, I went for push-to-open latches (hence no handles).
Finished with two coats of Osmo Polyx hard wax oil.
Dominique Charmot, Napa CA
Bruce Powell
Bruce then showed photos of the Display Console he made for a commission job.
Original request
Dennis using his Festool
He thanked Dennis Yamamoto for offering to use his sliding table saw for cutting the miters on the ends of the 6 foot long boards and for
employing his Festool Domino machine to inset dominos to secure the joints.
Dave Burkett
Dave brought in a corn hole board he made. The top surface has Padauk, Maple and Cherry laminated to a plywood base.
Jon Kaplan
Jon showed a photo of the indoor planter box he made. This time it had parsley growing in it.
Lloyd Worthington-Levy
Lloyd in another of his Japanese toolbox style boxes he made. One had a marquetry top.
He noted that all pieces must be carefully aligned in order to avoid having gaps show on the top.
The Oak is stained with Minwax stain and the Maple is natural.
Finish is Minwax wipe-on poly.
Original request
Dennis using his Festool
He thanked Dennis Yamamoto for offering to use his sliding table saw for cutting the miters on the ends of the 6 foot long boards and for employing his Festool Domino machine to inset dominos to secure the joints.
Dave Burkett
Dave brought in a corn hole board he made. The top surface has Padauk, Maple and Cherry laminated to a plywood base.
Jon Kaplan
Jon showed a photo of the indoor planter box he made. This time it had parsley growing in it.
Lloyd Worthington-Levy