Evergreen Woodworkers Guild » George K http://www.ewwg.org developing a community of woodworkers Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:51:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Ukes on Fire http://www.ewwg.org/2010/06/ukes-on-fire/ http://www.ewwg.org/2010/06/ukes-on-fire/#comments Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:51:21 +0000 George K http://www.ewwg.org/?p=830 While teaching a uke building class how to use hot hide glue on June 6th, one student pointed out that it was the anniversary of the great Seattle fire of 1889, which wiped out 120 acres (25 city blocks) of downtown Seattle. The rebuild created what is now the underground Seattle tour. Interestingly, the fire was started by a woodworker whose hide glue, heated on a gasoline fire, boiled over, igniting the turpentine and sawdust on the floor. Here’s a concise article on it from the UW library archives.

http://content.lib.washington.edu/extras/seattle-fire.html

Michael Dresdner

www.michaeldresdner.com

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Michael Boie, Bill Fuchs and Bill Harmon — Product Develop Managers for “STANLEY BLACK AND DECKER INC”, will be talking with us about sanders, routers, planners and vacuums. They will be sharing with us their plans for innovations and new products. They will gather our input on issues with current products and reactions to planned innovations and new products.

It will be necessary for each of us attending their presentations to sign a confidentiality agreement. They need to assure that their innovations and new product concepts are not shared beyond the group attending their presentations.

Signing the confidentiality agreement puts your name in raffle that they will conduct at the end of the meeting for some great items.

Come prepared with your list of tool issues, and ideas for innovations that you would like to see with these product areas.

This is a great opportunity for us all to be involved on the front end of new product development!! And we as a group of woodworkers should take pride in the fact that a major tool manufacturer is asking for our opinions and inputs to their product development ideas.

Dan Haavisto

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From: Thomas Lee [mailto:thomasleetoo@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:32 PM

Subject: Slab Bench Class at Ballard Woodworks

This weekend (May 1 and 2) we are giving the opportunity to build a bench from a single slab of wood. Go Green Design runs a slab furniture business and will teach this workshop. They will have wood
for you to choose from and the tools for you to complete your project. There is still some room in the class. The hours are from 9 until 5 both days and the fee is $350. The slab and any additional lumber is extra. Let me know if you are interested.
-Tom Lee

thomasleetoo@comcast.net

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Klingspor’s Woodworking Shop wants to to give your  Woodworking Club members that may have a blog or a website an opportunity to be featured on our blog and would like for us to us create a blog/website roll on our sidebar. With this we will also include their link on our site www.woodworkingshop.com <http://www.woodworkingshop.com/> . Please forward this email to anyone that may be interested and they can click the link and complete the form.  http://tinyurl.com/y9tzwj8 <http://tinyurl.com/y9tzwj8>

Have a great week!
Receive FREE SHIPPING ($7.99 value) on orders over $25 with coupon code FSKWS10 . Offer good until 4/30/10 .
(feel free to pass this offer along to your members, friends & fellow woodworkers)

Piper Stephens
KLINGSPOR’S
WOODWORKING SHOP
Phone 828-327-7263 Ext 201 Fax 828-327-4634
www.woodworkingshop.com <outbind://55/www.woodworkingshop.com>
VISIT OUR BLOG!!
http://klingsporswoodworkingshop.blogspot.com

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There’s no shortage of offers for FREE woodworking plans on the internet. What there is a shortage of is quality, shop-tested plans. At WOOD magazine we take pride in building every project that appears as a how-to project in our magazines. We use professional woodworking illustrators and editors to create and prove each plan. We currently have dozens of shop-jig plans online for you to view and print at no cost. Every jig from this section has been built at WOOD to guarantee your building success.
See our free jig plans at: woodmagazine.com/freejigplans

Marlen Kemmet
WOOD magazine/WOOD Online Managing Editor
Marlen.kemmet@meredith.com

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