PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE, SEPTEMBER, 2011

Once again September is upon us. We have started our monthly business meetings. Thank you for your attendance.

Welcome to the Northern members that have returned. We are happy to see y'all. Weekly carving workshops are 8:30 to 11:00 am every Tuesday in the Seminole Recreation Center, second floor. Business meetings are the second Tuesday of each month between September and May in the same location.

Our Tampa affiliate meets on Monday evenings, 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Carrollwood Cultural Center.

ADDRESSES:

Seminole Recreation Center, 9100 - 113th St. North, Seminole, FL 33772

Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL. 33618

BOTH LOCATIONS ARE CLOSED ON HOLIDAYS AND THEREFORE THERE ARE NO MEETINGS.

Our website has been updated and in many ways corrected. You can check it out at www.suncoastwoodcarvers.com. Comments and corrections can be addressed to webmaster Richard Samay in writing by clicking on his name under the Contact Us tab on the website.

Glen Fry will be doing a class on intarsia at the Florida Woodcarvers Roundup in March 2012. Enrollment in his class and others will start
December 1, 2011. Check the Florida Woodcarvers Roundup website for more details. http://webspace.webring.com/people/qj/jeodea/
The Roundup will be at the Long Center in Clearwater from Tuesday, March 20 – Friday, March 23, 2012.

We now have a lockable display case on the first floor of the Seminole Rec. Center. In keeping with the upcoming season, please bring in carvings that are Halloween related.

Peace,

Alan Anderson

SUNCOAST WOODCARVERS MEETING MINUTES

September 13, 2011

Seminole Recreation Center

President Alan Anderson opened the meeting with a welcome and gained acceptance for the minutes from the May, 2011 meeting.

Treasurer Judy Wolf had distributed copies of her report covering the months of May, June, July, and August, 2011. The report was accepted by vote.

Vice President Bill Briggs presented an award of a WD-40 pin to ardent supporter of the product, Joe Kane.

New member Glad McCurtain was recognized.

OLD BUSINESS

President Alan has purchased a display case, which is located in the lobby of the Seminole Rec. Center. It will contain displays of the members’ carvings. Alan asked for a volunteer to be responsible for its maintenance. Bob Vinas brought forth a plaque awarded to the Club years ago for donations to Children’s Hospital. It will be shown initially in the Club display case.

NEW BUSINESS

John Roush reported action he took to correct the listing for our January, 2012 Annual Show. CHIP CHATS had reported it incorrectly twice and will correctly report it in the Nov./Dec. issue.

To keep financial issues in perspective, Judy Wolf indicated the costs we must pay up front for 2012 in relation to our current balance.

Bill Briggs announced that the Club storage trailer has a valid Florida license plate installed, permitting transport of the Annual Show equipment to the Rec. Center in January.

Alan reported that King Arthur Tools is expanding into Florida and will set up and demonstrate items in the Craft Room at Workshop on Tuesday morning, October 11, in parallel with our normal carving. Someone will be the lucky winner of one of their tools.

Joe Kane and his Bag of Tricks was next. Included were tips on cleaning rotary tool bits, collets vs. chucks in rotary tools, the use of self healing quilting mats as knife hones, debunking some money saving schemes, and finally, if you break items containing mercury or other hazardous materials, do not clean it up with a vacuum sweeper. Use manual means to avoid spreading the contamination.

PRESIDENT’S CHALLENGE

Two spring clothes pins were made available at the May meeting and subsequently. It was carvers’ choice.

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Alan Anderson explaining the President’s Clothes Pin Challenge

The few entries were provided by Bill Briggs, , Alan Anderson, Carmen Zeoli, and Karl Allison. The items were circulated through the attendees.

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Bill Briggs’ clothes pin alligator

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Alan Anderson’s clothes pin bear

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Karl Allison’s chipmunk with clothes pin teeth

Blanks for next month’s challenge were made available. The design is in the form of a heart, star, or cross shaped pin, painted with elements of the American or Canadian flag. The summer issue of Woodcarving Illustrated is the source.

50/50

Glad McCurtain won the 50/50.

SHOW AND TELL

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Bill Dewald showed 4 items completed during the summer. There were two river otters in a field of underwater grass, a running river otter, a seated raccoon, and a polar bear. All were bass wood, with carved and/or wood burned surfaces, painted with acrylics and dry brushed.

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Bob Marek showed a tableau which included a rodeo clown carved at Doane College, Nebraska and two added characters, a Brahma bull, and a rodeo bull rider.

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Bob Vinas showed a cane consisting of an eight sided taper and a handle of a Tom Wolfe elephant head and a curved cane handle. He also showed a pheasant feather and a curvaceous leaf.

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Mark Daly showed a canvasback duck ready for finishing. He also commented on the hurricane’s effect on him and his property.

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Ray Muncy showed a cane with carved raccoons entering and leaving. He was wearing his striped wooden necktie over his tee shirt.

Karl Allison described how he had taken the springs from the clothes pins from the President’s Challenge, straightened the wire, sharpened them, heat treated them, and made them into 2 miniature tools.

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He then conducted a raffle by selecting a number between 1 and 50. Everyone chose a number, which Karl recorded. His number was 31, and the closest guesses were 32 and 34. The winners were David Watson and Donald McKerrow.

NOTES

Thanks to Richard Samay for the photos included in this edition of CHIPS.

After adjournment, Bill Murphy, acting for El Snyder’s widow, offered a Craftsman scroll saw for $25 and free carving wood.

If you have any changes in your contact information (street address, email address, or phone number), please call me at 727-595-7542 or send updates by email to

suncoast_woodcarvers@comcast.net

The next Business Meeting will be at 7 PM on October 11 in the Seminole Rec. Center.

Bill Dewald, Secretary