Against the Grain 2011 CMWA Officers by Roland Johnsonmore common poker cards. So you will need to...
Transcript of Against the Grain 2011 CMWA Officers by Roland Johnsonmore common poker cards. So you will need to...
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The New Year got off to a good start with
the January meeting. We had 37 mem-
bers attend the meeting and other than
addressing a few business details we
spent the meeting visiting and catching
up with what everyone is working on in
their shops. It’s really nice to have the
occasional meeting without an agenda,
other than enjoying the camaraderie of
fellow woodworkers.
One of the basic reasons for the club’s
existence is to help strengthen the local
woodworking community through edu-
cation, sharing of resources and fellowship. Woodworking tends to be a
pretty solitary hobby and it’s nice to share ideas and experiences with other
folks who share the same passion.
Events and seminars are an important part of our club. In the past we have
run into problems finding presenters or subjects for our meetings. To help
alleviate this problem the CMWA now has a committee in charge of club
meeting seminars and programs. The members of the committee are
Shawn Jarvis, Rollie Johnson, Bill Langen and Charlie Myers. If you would
like to be part of the committee or if you have any suggestions or requests
for specific seminars please let one of us know. Also, if you would like to do
a presentation for the CMWA please let us know.
I think it would be interesting to have a club member shop tour sometime
this year, preferably while the weather is warm and on a Saturday. I realize
that many of us have shops too small to accommodate the entire member-
ship, so we would set up “rally routes” that would send small groups out on
different circuits so we wouldn’t all end up at one shop at the same time.
We can coordinate schedules and locations so groups can start and end
close to their homes so we won’t have to assemble at one location before the
tour. I think six shops would be ideal and we would split the tour into
morning and afternoon tours (three shops each tour) to allow the folks who
open their shops the chance to join one of the tours. Obviously we have
A ga in st t h e Gr ai n b y R o lan d J oh n so n
Vo lu m e 11 I ssue 2 F eb r ua r y 2 01 1
President: Rollie Johnson
Vice President: John Wilson
Treasurer: Kurt Zniewski
Secretary: Bill Riner
Board of Directors: Tom Harlander
John Kenning
Albert Keppers
Denny Myers
Marketing Director: Cy Valerius
Newsletter Editor: Glenn Street
Website Manager: Darren McKeever
2011 CMWA Officers
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Mail to: CMWA
PO Box 1955
St. Cloud, MN 56302-1955
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Card entitling you to discounts at the
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Current Membership: 57
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The CMWA is a group of men and women from around the St. Cloud, Minnesota
area who share a common interest in the art and business of woodworking. We
meet monthly and share information, techniques and topics of interest in the area
of woodworking.
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enough shops in our membership that
we could do this a couple of times a
year or annually for many years. Let
me or one of the committee members
know if you would be interested in let-
ting us tour your shop.
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A ga in st t h e Gr ai n ( c o n t . )
Jack Kelly (CMWA member) has a knack for finding classy little
woodworking gifts that he can make fairly easily and that the re-
cipients appreciate. This article features one of these ideas: a
playing card holder, with fabrication instructions. It holds two
decks of cards as shown in the photograph to the left and ex-
ploded drawing below. The one pictured is made of cherry.
M aki n g a Pl ay i ng C a rd Hol der ( g s )
And now the big news: we will be
discontinuing the print version of
our newsletter starting in May.
We’ve had lengthy discussions con-
cerning this change and have had to
face the hard decision that for the
financial health of the club it has
become a necessity. All of our club
dues are consumed by the printing
and mailing costs of our newsletter.
The newsletter will be electronically
mailed to your email address about
the same time the hard copy of the
newsletter typically arrived in your
postal mailbox. If you don’t have
internet access, please let us know
and we’ll find a solution for you. We
won’t leave anyone out in the cold.
If we don’t have your email address
yet, or if you have changed your ad-
dress recently, please drop us a note
with your correct address. Send it to
http://thecmwa.com/contact
Denny Myers has offered to assem-
ble a member’s profile catalog for
the CMWA. He will be contacting all
of the active members (paid dues)
for a photo and background infor-
mation. We hope to produce a
downloadable CMWA member’s
profile catalog from this informa-
tion.
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STEP 1—Hardwood Preparation
Select your hardwood. Maple and
cherry are nice choices since they
are fine grained and easy to work
with. Plane, joint, and sand the
hardwood to the dimensions in the
material list.
STEP 2— Dado Side Strip
Dado a 1/4” x 1/4” groove the full
length of the 20” x 1-1/4” strip. Start
the dado 1/8” up from the bottom of
the strip as shown below.
Card Dimensions
A deck of cards, bridge or poker, have the same 52 cards, plus a joker or
two. So either type of deck may be used to play your favorite card
games. However, the width of bridge cards is 1/4” narrower than the
more common poker cards. So you will need to decide which type of
holder to make, one for the smaller bridge cards (2-1/4” x 3-1/2”) or lar-
ger poker cards (2-1/2” x 3-1/2”). Another option is to make the large
one which will house either type of deck.
The cards I measured were slightly (~1/32”) undersized in both direc-
tions. So you may be able to get away with making the two compart-
ments to the exact dimensions. If you want to be entirely confident that
all decks will fit, you may want to cheat slightly in excess of the standard
dimensions.
STEP 3—Route Side Strip
Route the top outer edge of the 20” x
1-1/4” strip with a 1/16” or 1/8”
round-over bit as shown below.
STEP 4—Cut Four Sides
Miter (45°) cut the sides to length as
measured to the outside corners.
The 20” long strip will give you two
4-1/2” long sides and two 6-1/2”
long sides.
STEP 5—Cut Floor
Cut the 1/4” plywood floor to the
dimensions listed in the material
list.
1-1/4”
1/4”
1/4”
1/8”
Material List for Larger Poker Card Holder:
1/2” thick hardwood
(1) 6” x 4-1/4” (top)
(1) ~20” x 1-1/4” (sides)
(1) 3-1/2” x 5/8” (dividers)
1/4” thick plywood
(1) 5-3/4” x 3-3/4” (floor)
hardware
(2) 3/4” x 1/2” (brass hinges)
STEP 6—Glue Holder
Glue the four sides and floor to-
gether. The plywood floor has 1/8”
clearance all the way around. Jack
likes to put a few beads of glue in the
dados which act as spacers once
dried. You may also use 1/8” foam
or rubber beads if you prefer.
STEP 7—Cut and Install Dividers
Miter cut (45°) the end of each di-
vider. The bottom of each divider is
1-1/2” long. Glue the two dividers
into the bottom of the holder, leav-
ing 2-1/2” on each side for the cards.
STEP 8—Route Top
Route three or all four sides of the
top with a bit of your choice.
STEP 9—Install Top
Install the top to the back of the
holder. If you want the top to sit
flush with the sides, mortise the
hinges into both the top and back
wall of the holder.
STEP 10—Finish Holder
Stain and seal as desired.
Nice Touch
Laser something on the top.
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Wixe y Di g it al A ngl e Gau ge ( g s )
A few years back, I set the blade angle stops (0 and 45°) on my table saw using a quality carpenter’s square that I had
checked against a 2’ square of plywood whose diagonals were within 1/64”, or better, of each other. So, I was confi-
dent my square was as “square” as needed to set the blade stops to the accuracy required in woodworking. It was the
eyesight that raised doubts about how accurately I had set the stops.
To set the stops (bolts), both bolts were backed off. With the blade vertical, the square was set on the table and
against the blade as shown below. Making sure the square was between carbide teeth, I then tweaked the blade angle
both directions until my 50+ year old eyes, with the assistance of 1.5x “cheaters,” perceived that the gap between the
square and blade had uniformly closed. While I was confident that gravity was doing its job of holding the square
against the table top, the acuity of my visual feedback about the gap between the square and blade was in question.
Eroding my confidence further was having to evaluate the uniformity of the gap over such a short distance. Only
~2.25” of the flat face of the blade was against the square. To supplement my visual assessment, I slid a slip of paper
between the blade and square to get tactile feedback. This helped, but I still wasn’t confident of the stops’ accuracy.
I repeated this for the 45° angle and reset the stops (bolts).
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Still lacking confidence in the accuracy of the stop settings, I ordered a Wixey digital angle gauge. As shown below
(top left picture) the gauge is set on the table top and turned on. You’ll note that it initially read 0.2°. Since the top
surface is our reference, the “ZERO” button is pushed so that it reads 0.0° (top right picture). Once zeroed you sim-
ply set its magnetic base against the blade and read the angle. With the stop properly set, the blade angle with respect
to the table top reads 90° as shown in the bottom left picture. It has three strong permanent magnets on its base as
shown in the bottom right picture. This was repeated for the 45° blade angle.
One thing I appreciate about this gauge is its simplicity. It only has two buttons and a battery that I’ve found needs
replacing about once a year. This seems like a rather short life for how seldom I use it. However, its replacement re-
quires no tools, can be done in seconds and is relatively inexpensive, so it isn’t a major issue.
Being a skeptic, the first thing I did on its arrival was check its accuracy. I did this by using a few machine squares
and found that it was “right on.” It read 90.0°, so it was within 0.05° (89.95-90.05°) since it rounds to the nearest
0.1°.
It costs $30-40. I would recommend it to anyone interested in a digital angle gauge. I have seen other brands on the
market but have no firsthand knowledge about them.
Wixe y G au ge ( c o n t . )
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Ja nu a ry C M WA M eet in g ( g s )
January’s meeting started with show
and tell items from John Wilson
who brought in a small red oak chest
(below), Alex Neussendorfer a
carved mirror frame (far right) and
Lenny Merdan a globe holder (top
left). We have quite the talented
membership.
The business part of the meeting
focused on recognizing the returning
volunteers (see page 1) and nomi-
nating the new leaders (Rollie John-
son as President, John Wilson as
Vice President, and board members
Tom Harlander, John Kenning, Al-
bert Keppers and Denny Myers).
Thanks to all these volunteers for
making CMWA a vibrant club.
The rest of the evening was spent in
enjoyable conversation.
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sponsors by patroniz-
ing their businesses.
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PO Box 1955 St. Cloud, MN 56302-1955
Upcoming Meeting
Wednesday, February 16, 7 pm, at Denny Myers’ shop.
Ron Brown will present on mortising equipment he
has developed. Bring items to auction.
Car poolers meet in the Sauk Rapids Coborn’s
Superstore parking lot at 6:30 pm.
Mississippi
River
Parking
Shop
Denny Myers
7505 Hillton Road
Royalton, MN
320-360-0784
CMWA Board Meeting
Wednesday, February 16, 6 pm, Coborn’s Super-
store, Sauk Rapids.