Symposium and swap meet. Doors open at 6:30.

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

DEWALT / PORTER CABLE / DELTA — AMAZING OPPORTUNITY

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

Woodcraft signs on to sponsor Tommy MacDonald’s WGBH woodworking show – Fine Woodworking.